Fact Check Posts – Page 36

Wendy Davis overstates how much full-time working women make in Texas compared to men

By W. Gardner Selby

March 20, 2014

Women "are still paid 82 cents for every dollar a man earns in Texas."

Dan Patrick once called for regular gas tax increases and consistently advocated higher sales taxes to pay for lower property taxes

By W. Gardner Selby

March 17, 2014

Dan Patrick "called for increasing the gas tax and the state sales tax."

Dan Patrick suggested every family get $5,000 voucher toward buying a car instead of Uncle Sam bailing out auto manufacturers

By W. Gardner Selby

March 14, 2014

Says Dan Patrick "supported giving a $5,000 taxpayer-funded voucher to every family to buy a car."

Rick Perry correct that trucks cost half as much to rent going from Austin to San Francisco than the other way around

By W. Gardner Selby

March 12, 2014

"If you rent a U-Haul to move your company, it costs twice as much to go from San Francisco to Austin than the other way…

Austin’s population has doubled every 25 years or so since its founding

By W. Gardner Selby

March 7, 2014

Austin is "a city that has basically doubled in size every 25 years or so since it was founded."

Sarah Eckhardt twice declined pay raises as county commissioner and twice accepted percentage raises that did not bring her salary to highest possible level

By W. Gardner Selby

March 6, 2014

Sarah Eckhardt "refused to take her own pay increases repeatedly."

Texas among top slice of states with women in poverty, though 14 states had a greater estimated share of women in poverty in 2012

By W. Gardner Selby

February 27, 2014

"We have more women living in poverty in this state than almost anywhere else."

Legislative gambit to continue government spending involved Lamar Smith proposal having nothing to do with Obamacare funding

By W. Gardner Selby

February 27, 2014

Says Lamar Smith "sponsored the bill that funded Obamacare."

Travis County’s tax rate ranks among the very highest among urban counties, but that’s not new

By W. Gardner Selby

February 26, 2014

"Travis County now has the highest urban county tax rate in Texas."

Dan Branch worked for a pro-Reagan Texas committee, though he wasn’t a Reagan aide

By W. Gardner Selby

February 21, 2014

"Worked with Ronald Reagan and helped re-elect him."

David Alameel airs outdated count of U.S. troops in Afghanistan and incomplete information on possible reductions

By W. Gardner Selby

February 21, 2014

"More than 40,000 troops are still stationed in Afghanistan with no clear objective. Even in the best case, by the end of the year at…

Cookie-hawking Girl Scouts not teaching girls to emulate pro-abortion icons

By W. Gardner Selby

February 13, 2014

Girl Scouts USA’s curriculum "promotes Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, Betty Friedan, founder of NARAL Prochoice, and other pro-abortion women as icons for our…

Latest Fact Checks By W. Gardner Selby

Wendy Davis overstates how much full-time working women make in Texas compared to men

Dan Patrick once called for regular gas tax increases and consistently advocated higher sales taxes to pay for lower property taxes

Dan Patrick suggested every family get $5,000 voucher toward buying a car instead of Uncle Sam bailing out auto manufacturers

Rick Perry correct that trucks cost half as much to rent going from Austin to San Francisco than the other way around

Austin’s population has doubled every 25 years or so since its founding

Sarah Eckhardt twice declined pay raises as county commissioner and twice accepted percentage raises that did not bring her salary to highest possible level

Texas among top slice of states with women in poverty, though 14 states had a greater estimated share of women in poverty in 2012

Legislative gambit to continue government spending involved Lamar Smith proposal having nothing to do with Obamacare funding

Travis County’s tax rate ranks among the very highest among urban counties, but that’s not new

Dan Branch worked for a pro-Reagan Texas committee, though he wasn’t a Reagan aide

David Alameel airs outdated count of U.S. troops in Afghanistan and incomplete information on possible reductions

Cookie-hawking Girl Scouts not teaching girls to emulate pro-abortion icons