Latest Fact Checks By W. Gardner Selby

Austin yard signs suggest office tower project could drive up traffic 500 percent

By W. Gardner Selby

June 9, 2015

"500 percent more traffic here?"

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UPDATED: Rick Perry says Texas created 1.5 million jobs in seven years, rest of country down 400,000

By W. Gardner Selby

June 8, 2015

"In the last seven years of my tenure, Texas created 1.5 million new jobs. As a matter of fact, without Texas, America would have lost…

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West Texas sheriff says U.S. only nation not to use military to secure ‘our border’

By W. Gardner Selby

June 5, 2015

"We’re the only nation in the world that does not use the military to secure our border."

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Rick Perry says 1 in 5 U.S. children live in a family ‘on food stamps’

By W. Gardner Selby

June 3, 2015

"One out of five of our children live in a family that’s on food stamps."

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Made-up Ted Cruz quotation has Texan comparing child molesting and gay relations

By W. Gardner Selby

May 28, 2015

Says Ted Cruz said: "While there may have been an age difference, Josh Duggar’s transgressions are far less an affront to God than what gays…

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Gina Hinojosa says Austin teachers “lowest paid” of any urban Texas district and any district nearby

By W. Gardner Selby

May 27, 2015

Austin school district "teachers are the lowest paid of any urban" Texas district and the "lowest paid of any surrounding school district."

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Ted Cruz: Americans spend $500 billion complying with tax laws, about same as entire military budget

By W. Gardner Selby

May 20, 2015

"Every year we spend roughly $500 billion on tax compliance. That is roughly the budget of our entire military, entirely wasted on tax compliance."

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Children’s Defense Fund-Texas says Texas failure to expand Medicaid caused rural hospital closings

By W. Gardner Selby

May 15, 2015

"In the last 24 months, 10 rural Texas hospitals have been forced to shut their doors because state leaders" chose not to expand Medicaid.

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Garnet Coleman said transgender individuals have a 1 in 12 chance of getting murdered

By W. Gardner Selby

May 13, 2015

"Transgender individuals in the U.S. have a 1-in-12 chance of being murdered."

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Rick Perry flip-flops on support for Export-Import Bank

By W. Gardner Selby

May 7, 2015

On reauthorization of Export-Import Bank.

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Van Taylor says Texas Senate sent largest tax cut in Texas history to House

By W. Gardner Selby

May 5, 2015

I "helped pass what, if enacted, would be the largest tax cut in Texas history through the State Senate."

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Sid Miller says Texas farmers ‘just about maxed out’ in water conservation

By W. Gardner Selby

May 4, 2015

Texas agriculture is "at 98 percent efficiency" in water use and "just about maxed out as to what we can do on the conservation end…

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