Latest Fact Checks By W. Gardner Selby

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Challenger to GOP chair says Democrats have 20 field agents, Republicans have none

By W. Gardner Selby
June 4, 2010
"The Democrats have over 20 field agents to our zero."
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La bonne vie? Democratic chairman says Perry is living large, a la Louis XIV

By W. Gardner Selby
May 26, 2010
Says Gov. Rick Perry is "spending Texans’ hard-earned money to live like Louie XIV."
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State senator thrice filed proposals to offer pre-kindergarten to all Texas 4-year-olds and thrice they stalled

By W. Gardner Selby
May 25, 2010
Says that in three legislative sessions, his proposals opening pre-kindergarten to all Texas 4-year-olds never got heard or voted out of committee.
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White says taxpayers paid for Perry to fly Texas delivering checks in five communities

By W. Gardner Selby
May 23, 2010
"In three days last week, (Gov. Rick) Perry flew to five cities at taxpayers’ expense, holding press conferences, delivering $2,325,000 in checks."
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Democrat Lainey Melnick says Rep. Lamar Smith, friend to Wall Street, backed 2008 bailout but opposes vital financial reforms

By W. Gardner Selby
May 19, 2010
Says U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith supported the $700 billion Wall Street bailout in 2008, "but now he is standing in the way of reforms that…
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Democratic group credits Hispanic and African American population growth with pending leap in U.S. House seats for Texas

By W. Gardner Selby
May 17, 2010
Says state's expected "increase in federal political clout is almost entirely due to the growth of the African American and Hispanic populations in Texas in…
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Sen. John Cornyn questions Elena Kagan’s absence of judicial experience, but celebrated 2005 nominee’s lack of bench time

By W. Gardner Selby
May 11, 2010
On the importance of judicial experience for Supreme Court nominees.
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Attorney General Abbott says EPA’s endangerment finding based on outsourced science from scandal-plagued group

By W. Gardner Selby
May 11, 2010
Says the EPA "outsourced the scientific basis for its greenhouse gas regulation to a scandal-plagued international organization that cannot be considered objective or trustworthy."
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Land commissioner says state getting most ever in oil and gas proceeds though oil production topped out in 1970s

By W. Gardner Selby
May 2, 2010
"We’re making more than ever off oil and gas right now, but it’s no secret that oil production in Texas peaked in the 1970s."
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Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson says wind leases have earned nearly $500,000 despite delayed electricity production

By W. Gardner Selby
April 30, 2010
Says Texas General Land Office "has earned the school children of Texas $451,932.89 on wind leases that haven't produced a watt of energy."
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Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison says Democrats passed health care plan despite overwhelming public opposition

By W. Gardner Selby
April 30, 2010
Says the American public "overwhelmingly opposed" Democratic-steered health care plan.
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U.S. Rep. Chet Edwards says GOP challenger has never voted in a general election in the congressional district

By W. Gardner Selby
April 27, 2010
Republican challenger Bill Flores "has never once voted in a general election in our district."
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