Fact Check Posts – Page 10

Facebook posts
stated on November 10, 2015 a Facebook comment:

"Illegal immigrants mow the grass around the (Texas) Capitol."

By W. Gardner Selby • November 27, 2015

Marco Rubio
stated on November 12, 2015 remarks to reporters in South Carolina:

Says Ted Cruz "is a supporter of legalizing people that are in this country illegally" and "proposed giving them work permits."

By W. Gardner Selby • November 18, 2015

Greg Abbott
stated on October 28, 2015 a tweet:

"Texas #2 in nation for new gun purchases, behind California."

By W. Gardner Selby • November 6, 2015

Ora Houston
stated on September 8, 2015 an Austin City Council meeting about the city budget:

"HIV/AIDS among women is skyrocketing in Austin."

By Mary Ann Roser • October 2, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on September 1, 2015 a speech to the Greater Houston Partnership:

The Iran deal "trusts the Iranians to inspect themselves."

By W. Gardner Selby • September 18, 2015

Christine Gilbert
stated on July 11, 2015 a letter to the editor of the Austin American-Statesman:

The Texas Capitol faces South toward Goliad, in memory of the most horrific battle of the Texas Revolution.

By W. Gardner Selby • July 24, 2015

Chain email
stated on June 29, 2015 a chain email:

Muslims "attempted to establish the first Islamic Sharia court inside the United States in the town of Irving, Texas."

By W. Gardner Selby • July 16, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on July 12, 2014 a roundtable with Texas businesses:

"Every year we spend roughly $500 billion on tax compliance. That is roughly the budget of our entire military, entirely wasted on tax compliance."

By W. Gardner Selby • May 20, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on April 18, 2015 remarks in New Hampshire:

"About half of the presidents have been governors; half of them, senators."

By W. Gardner Selby • April 27, 2015

Judicial Watch
stated on April 14, 2015 a web item:

"ISIS camp a few miles from Texas, Mexican authorities confirm."

By W. Gardner Selby • April 17, 2015

George P. Bush
stated on January 30, 2015 remarks at a "school choice" rally outside the Texas Capitol:

A "majority of our students are trapped in" underperforming schools.

By W. Gardner Selby • March 12, 2015

Rick Perry
stated on February 5, 2014 an interview with the Texas Tribune and Washington Post.:

"When I came into office, our vaccination rate in Texas was 65 percent. When I left two weeks ago, it was 95 percent."

By W. Gardner Selby • February 12, 2015

John Cornyn
stated on January 20, 2015 a post on his U.S. Senate website:

The Texas leg of the Keystone pipeline "has already created 4,800 jobs in just the year it's been up and running."

By W. Gardner Selby • January 23, 2015

Jerry Jones
stated on January 9, 2015 an interview with ESPN aired Jan. 9, 2015:

The cheerleaders for the Dallas Cowboys have "entertained more troops in the world than Bob Hope."

By W. Gardner Selby • January 9, 2015

Jim Skaggs
stated on November 5, 2014 as quoted in a news story:

Austin is "burdened by the fastest-growing tax increases of any major city in the nation."

By W. Gardner Selby • November 28, 2014

Delia Garza
stated on October 21, 2014 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."

By Dylan Baddour • November 6, 2014

Citizens Against Rail Taxes
stated on October 8, 2014 a radio ad:

None of $400 million the City of Austin proposes to spend on road projects "will be used to add new lanes to congested roadways."

By W. Gardner Selby • October 23, 2014

Greg Abbott
stated on September 19, 2014 a debate in the Rio Grande Valley.:

"I’ve been involved in prosecuting a terrorist member of ISIS."

By Dylan Baddour • October 3, 2014

Dan Patrick
stated on September 29, 2014 a debate in Austin:

Leticia Van de Putte "voted to give illegal immigrants in this country free health care--not emergency health care but total free health care."

By W. Gardner Selby • October 2, 2014

Leticia Van de Putte
stated on August 29, 2014 a press release:

"Our men and women of the Guard have been forced to contact food banks to feed themselves."

By W. Gardner Selby • September 19, 2014

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