Latest Fact-Checks By Dylan Baddour

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Sam Johnson
Sam Johnson
stated on December 10, 2016 in a Facebook post:
"Social Security is in trouble (it’s going bankrupt by 2034)."
Half-True
By Dylan Baddour • January 17, 2017
Jill Stein
Jill Stein
stated on October 17, 2016 in a forum at Huston-Tillotson University:
Says climate scientist James Hansen says "we have until perhaps 50 years from now," or maybe a little longer "and at that point, we are looking at 10, 20, 30 feet of sea-level rise."
False
By Dylan Baddour • November 23, 2016
Sid Miller
Sid Miller
stated on November 10, 2016 in a Facebook post:
Texas A&M University - Commerce "offers counseling, safe spaces for students who are afraid of President-elect Trump."
Half-True
By Dylan Baddour • November 17, 2016
Cocks Not Glocks
Cocks Not Glocks
stated on August 24, 2016 in a Cocks not Glocks call to protest on Facebook:
"You would receive a citation for taking a dildo to class" at the University of Texas.
Half-True
By Dylan Baddour • October 7, 2016
Tom DeLay
Tom DeLay
stated on September 1, 2016 in an interview on MSNBC:
Says most illegal immigrants draw "welfare benefits, they’re sending their kids to school, they’re using the public services."
Half-True
By Dylan Baddour • September 28, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on September 1, 2016 in x:
Says Alex Jones "said that the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre were child actors and no one was actually killed there."
True
By Dylan Baddour, W. Gardner Selby • September 1, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 22, 2016 in a campaign rally in Cleveland:
Says Ted Cruz "never denied" his father was photographed with Lee Harvey Oswald.    
Pants on Fire!
By Dylan Baddour • July 22, 2016
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on May 12, 2016 in addressing the Republican Party of Texas state convention:
"ISIS is running through a border made porous by Barack Obama’s policies."
Pants on Fire!
By Dylan Baddour • June 17, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on April 21, 2016 in an online campaign ad:
Says Donald Trump "has the second-highest disapproval ratings of anyone running for president."
False
By Dylan Baddour • May 27, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on February 28, 2016 in on CNN's "State of the Union.":
Donald Trump has "described Hillary Clinton as one of the best secretaries of state in history."
Mostly False
By Dylan Baddour, W. Gardner Selby • March 8, 2016
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on January 8, 2016 in a 90-page manifesto decrying federal overreach:
"While states used to have regulatory power over fishing, federal law now regulates down to the tenth of the inch the minimum size of fish that anglers can keep."  
Pants on Fire!
By Dylan Baddour • February 10, 2016
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on November 18, 2015 in a tweet:
"8 Syrians caught at Texas border in Laredo."
Mostly False
By Dylan Baddour • November 20, 2015
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on December 7, 2014 in an interview on Meet the Press:
"My wife is going to be the first Hispanic first lady in the history of Texas."
True
By Dylan Baddour • December 22, 2014
Steve Adler
Steve Adler
stated on November 19, 2014 in a TWC News debate:
"The city of San Antonio reuses almost 40 percent of its water. You know how much the city of Austin reuses? About 5 percent. And that's not right. We can do better."
Mostly False
By Dylan Baddour • December 11, 2014
Jason Stanford
Jason Stanford
stated on November 17, 2014 in a commentary:
"Texas had the worst voter participation in the country" in the November 2014 elections.
Mostly True
By Dylan Baddour • November 25, 2014
Delia Garza
Delia Garza
stated on October 21, 2014 in as quoted in a news story:
"Families in Del Valle, who are City of Austin residents, have to drive to Bastrop to go to the closest grocery store."
False
By Dylan Baddour • November 6, 2014
Wendy Davis
Wendy Davis
stated on September 30, 2014 in a debate:
Greg Abbott has benefitted from "payday lenders who have given him $300,000 and then received a ruling from him that they can operate in a loophole in the law that allows them to charge unlimited rates and fees."
Mostly True
By Dylan Baddour • October 29, 2014
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on October 15, 2014 in a letter to David Feldman, Houston's city attorney:
A lawyer demanded "several Houston pastors hand over to the city government many of their private papers, including their sermons."
True
By Dylan Baddour • October 23, 2014
David Dewhurst
David Dewhurst
stated on September 26, 2014 in a speech in Washington, D.C.:
"Prayer rugs have recently been found on the Texas side of the border in the brush."
Pants on Fire!
By Dylan Baddour • October 19, 2014
Duncan Hunter
Duncan Hunter
stated on October 7, 2014 in an interview with Greta Van Susteren of Fox News:
"At least 10 ISIS fighters have been caught coming across the Mexican border in Texas" and there are "dozens more that did not get caught by the Border Patrol."
Pants on Fire!
By Dylan Baddour, W. Gardner Selby • October 10, 2014
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