Latest Fact-Checks By Sue Owen

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Texas Right to Life
Texas Right to Life
stated on March 21, 2014 in an email blast:
"In 2005, Dan Branch tried to expand third-trimester abortions in Texas."
False
By Sue Owen • April 24, 2014
Bob Cole
Bob Cole
stated on March 31, 2014 in morning radio show on KOKE-FM:
Capital Metro originally said MetroRail's yearly operating costs would be "about $2.5 million. Last year ... it cost $13 million to operate."
Half-True
By Sue Owen • April 24, 2014
Wendy Davis
Wendy Davis
stated on March 31, 2014 in an online petition:
"Greg Abbott said it would be a ‘waste’ to expand pre-k to all Texas children."
Mostly False
By Sue Owen, W. Gardner Selby • April 7, 2014
Mike Collier
Mike Collier
stated on March 18, 2014 in a campaign email blast:
"Glenn Hegar promised to eliminate the property tax."
False
By Sue Owen • April 3, 2014
CATPAC
CATPAC
stated on March 10, 2014 in a campaign mail flier:
"Ralph Hall has never voted to raise the debt ceiling."
False
By Sue Owen • March 31, 2014
Linda Koop
Linda Koop
stated on February 25, 2014 in a campaign mail flier:
Says Stefani Carter "repeatedly used her campaign contributors’ donations to rent margarita machines for our state house office."
Mostly True
By Sue Owen • March 21, 2014
Kesha Rogers
Kesha Rogers
stated on March 19, 2014 in statements on her campaign website:
Says President Barack Obama was responsible for "the assassination of at least four American citizens" in drone strikes.
Half-True
By Sue Owen • March 19, 2014
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on February 10, 2014 in an opinion article in The (McAllen) Monitor:
"As attorney general, I have prosecuted judges, district attorneys and other public officials across Texas who violated that (public) trust, who have been corrupted."
True
By Sue Owen • March 11, 2014
Ken Paxton
Ken Paxton
stated on January 24, 2014 in a radio interview:
Barry Smitherman "doesn’t have enough legal experience to apply for most of the jobs at the attorney general’s office."
Mostly True
By Sue Owen • February 26, 2014
Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick
stated on January 20, 2014 in a debate:
On repealing the 17th Amendment
Full Flop
By Sue Owen • February 13, 2014
David Dewhurst
David Dewhurst
stated on January 20, 2014 in a debate:
On repealing the 17th Amendment
Full Flop
By Sue Owen • February 13, 2014
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on February 3, 2014 in a photo-quotation posted to Facebook:
Says Michele Bachmann said "English was good enough for Jesus when he wrote the Bible."
Pants on Fire!
By Sue Owen • February 12, 2014
Hugh Fitzsimons
Hugh Fitzsimons
stated on January 19, 2014 in a blog post on campaign website:
Female buffalo lead the herd.
Mostly True
By Sue Owen • February 11, 2014
Todd Staples
Todd Staples
stated on January 13, 2014 in a campaign email blast:
"Savings that I achieved" helped fund cameras on the border. "As a result, more than 21,500 arrests have been made and 46 tons of narcotics confiscated."
Half-True
By Sue Owen • February 6, 2014
Wendy Davis
Wendy Davis
stated on January 28, 2014 in a speech:
"I never gave up custody of my children. I never lost custody of my children."  
Mostly True
By Sue Owen, W. Gardner Selby • January 30, 2014
Wayne Thorburn
Wayne Thorburn
stated on January 8, 2014 in an opinion column in the Austin American-Statesman:
Nearly 90% of Travis County government races will be settled by the time of the Democratic primary.
Mostly True
By Sue Owen • January 30, 2014
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on January 7, 2014 in a tweet:
Texas added 6,600 miles of highway from 2001-2012, more than any other state.
Half-True
By Sue Owen • January 28, 2014
Robert Puente
Robert Puente
stated on September 20, 2013 in a Texas Tribune Festival panel discussion:
San Antonio has seen "67% growth" in water customers "in the last 25 years, 0% more water used."
False
By Sue Owen • January 17, 2014
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on January 10, 2014 in a speech at a Texas Public Policy Foundation forum:
Obama unilaterally announced he was delaying employer mandate "through a blog post by a mid-level bureaucrat at the Department of Treasury."
Mostly True
By Sue Owen • January 16, 2014
Eddie Lucio, Jr.
Eddie Lucio, Jr.
stated on November 18, 2013 in remarks at Southern Obesity Summit:
Nearly 40 percent of his McAllen-area constituents suffer from obesity.
True
By Sue Owen • January 7, 2014
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