Latest Fact Checks By Meghan Ashford-Grooms

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Perry: State has cut ozone 22%, nitrogen oxide emissions 46%

By Meghan Ashford-Grooms
June 16, 2010
Since 2000, "the Texas clean air program achieved a 22 percent reduction in ozone and a 46 percent decrease in NOx emissions."
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Perry says $18 billion budget gap estimate is plucked from air

By Meghan Ashford-Grooms
June 10, 2010
Says an estimate that Texas will face an $18 billion budget gap is "a number that somebody just reached up in the air and grabbed."
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Miller: State Board of Education ‘more than quadrupled’ the number of historical figures students must learn about

By Meghan Ashford-Grooms
June 3, 2010
"A Houston school district analysis found that the (State Board of Education) more than quadrupled the number of historical figures students must learn about."
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Smith says Mexico hands out brochures showing migrants how to avoid Border Patrol, enter U.S.

By Meghan Ashford-Grooms
May 30, 2010
Mexican government officials "hand out brochures showing individuals how they can avoid our Border Patrol, how they can get into our country."
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Dewhurst says NYPD force ‘almost twice’ the size of Border Patrol

By Meghan Ashford-Grooms
May 21, 2010
"You’ve got almost twice as many cops in New York City as you do on our entire border. That’s nuts."
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Perry: White used D.C. connections to form firm that worked in Middle East and defaulted on $60 million loan

By Meghan Ashford-Grooms
May 16, 2010
"Bill White used D.C. connections from his job in the Clinton administration to form a company that did business in the Middle East and defaulted…
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Perry says 90% of students graduate, get a GED or continue schooling

By Meghan Ashford-Grooms
May 9, 2010
"The percent of students who enter high school and eventually earn a diploma or equivalent, or who remain in pursuit of a diploma or equivalent,…
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Perry says state waiting on feds to act on health care proposal

By Meghan Ashford-Grooms
May 1, 2010
Says Texas has been waiting for two years for the federal government to act on a proposal to allow the state to "create insurance opportunities…
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White says Perry’s rental home will cost taxpayers more than $360,000

By Meghan Ashford-Grooms
April 25, 2010
"By the end of Governor Rick Perry's term, he will have drained Texas taxpayers ... of more than $360,000 to pay for the rental mansion…
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Rick Green says more than half of past justices on Texas Supreme Court lacked prior time on bench

By Meghan Ashford-Grooms
April 16, 2010
"When you look at the nearly 150 men and women who have served us on the Texas Supreme Court, more than half of them had…
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High court hopeful Lehrmann: Race will be Dems’ ‘top target’

By Meghan Ashford-Grooms
April 11, 2010
"This race will be the Democrats’ top target this November."
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