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Latest Fact-Checks In State Budget

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Mike Villarreal
Mike Villarreal
stated on September 7, 2010 a press release
Says Gov. Rick Perry's administration has proposed ending immunizations for 113,000 kids.
Mostly False
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • November 20, 2010
Rick Boucher
Rick Boucher
stated on October 25, 2010 a TV ad
"Morgan Griffith fought for a plan that would have taken money away from our schools and given it to Northern Virginia schools instead." 
Mostly False
By Warren Fiske • October 28, 2010
Jim Sullivan
Jim Sullivan
stated on October 22, 2010 campaign literature distributed to district residents
Says he "stood up to his own party by voting against the budget to stop runaway government spending."
Mostly False
October 23, 2010
Jason Isaac
Jason Isaac
stated on October 7, 2010 a video ad.
Says state Rep. Patrick Rose votes 90 percent with liberals, backed the state's largest tax increase, proposed nearly $15 billion in government spending and supported "Obama-style government-run health care system for Texas."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • October 15, 2010
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on September 14, 2010 a debate
State government spending will be increase 10.7 percent this year.
Mostly False
By Aaron Marshall • September 24, 2010
Let's Get To Work
Let's Get To Work
stated on July 14, 2010 in a TV ad.
Bill McCollum "diverted a state plane to his home 53 times. A state auditor called it: likely a misuse of state resources."
Mostly False
By Aaron Sharockman • July 16, 2010
Clay Cox
Clay Cox
stated on June 21, 2010 a campaign mailer.
"For six years, I served our community as a conservative state legislator. In every one of those years, I helped balance the state's budget."
Mostly False
By Willoughby Mariano • June 22, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on April 15, 2010 an interview with The Texas Tribune and Newsweek
Says in 2003 Texas cut "$10 billion out of the entire budget, yet we put $1.8 billion more into public education. We put $800 million more into health and human services."
Mostly False
May 5, 2010
David Dewhurst
David Dewhurst
stated on March 21, 2010 a press release
The federal health care plan "costs Texas taxpayers $2.4 billion per year."
Mostly False
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • March 27, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on February 8, 2010 a TV advertisement
"We have billions in surplus."
Mostly False
February 13, 2010
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on October 16, 2009 radio advertisement for U.S. Senate campaign
"Here in Florida, I’ve slashed government by 10 percent. That's $7 billion."
Mostly False
By Janet Zink • October 26, 2009
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