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Latest Fact-Checks On Steve Adler

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Steve Adler
Steve Adler
stated on May 8, 2018 in an interview on KLBJ-AM:
Says Austin is "creating more jobs than any other city in the country."  
False
By W. Gardner Selby • May 16, 2018
Steve Adler
Steve Adler
stated on April 25, 2018 in a tweet:
Says Austin is the "safest big city in Texas with an unemployment rate under 3% that has been named the best place to live in the entire United States two years running."    
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • April 26, 2018
Steve Adler
Steve Adler
stated on July 26, 2017 in a tweet:
"Austin is the safest big city in Texas."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • August 24, 2017
Steve Adler
Steve Adler
stated on February 14, 2017 in an open letter to Austin residents:
"Local authorities in 43 states refused to honor more than 16,000 detainer requests from ICE from October 2013 to December 2015. Only in Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, Vermont and Wyoming did local officials honor all requests, and detainers are relatively rare in those states."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • February 23, 2017
Steve Adler
Steve Adler
stated on June 14, 2016 in an interview with Bob Cole on Austin's KOKE-FM:
Austin was the "site of the first mass shooting in the country."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • June 23, 2016
Steve Adler
Steve Adler
stated on May 17, 2016 in a panel discussion in Austin:
"The first tweet was sent from Austin."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • May 20, 2016
Steve Adler
Steve Adler
stated on April 25, 2016 in speaking against Proposition 1 on Austin's May 7, 2016 ballot:
"Austin is number one in Texas in startups, venture capital and patents."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • May 13, 2016
Steve Adler
Steve Adler
stated on April 1, 2015 in a speech:
Austin has "gone from being the 24th most congested city just about 10 years ago to being the fourth most congested — more congested than NYC."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • April 28, 2015
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
Steve Adler
Steve Adler
stated on December 2, 2014 in a TV ad:
Mike "Martinez has voted to raise taxes and utility rates while ending free bus service for seniors."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • December 11, 2014
Steve Adler
Steve Adler
stated on September 3, 2014 in a campaign web page:
"57% of the jobs created" in Austin "from 2009 to 2013 do not pay families a living wage."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • September 17, 2014