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Latest Fact-Checks By W. Gardner Selby

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Uber
Uber
stated on November 7, 2015 a web post
"Recent news reports indicate DWI crashes in Austin dropped 23 percent since ridesharing entered the market."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • December 16, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on December 15, 2015 the CNN debate in Las Vegas
Says Ted Cruz supports "legalizing people who are in this country illegally."  
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman, W. Gardner Selby • December 16, 2015
Bryan Hughes
Bryan Hughes
stated on December 1, 2015 a campaign press release
"David Simpson actually voted for driver's licenses for illegal immigrants."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • December 11, 2015
David Simpson
David Simpson
stated on November 30, 2015 a campaign press release
"I have always opposed driver's licenses for illegal aliens."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • December 11, 2015
Kevin Russell
Kevin Russell
stated on October 28, 2015 an opinion column
"In almost every other country in the world, artists and musicians are paid when their music is played on the radio. In fact, the only countries besides the U.S. who do not have a radio-performance right are China, Iran and North Korea."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • December 7, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on November 19, 2015 an interview with Steven Crowder
The "federal government is going after school districts, trying to force them to let boys shower with little girls."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • December 4, 2015
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on November 10, 2015 a Facebook comment
"Illegal immigrants mow the grass around the (Texas) Capitol."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • November 27, 2015
Marco Rubio
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."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • November 18, 2015
Courageous Conservatives PAC
Courageous Conservatives PAC
stated on November 6, 2015 a video ad posted online
"After Sandy Hook, Ted Cruz stopped Obama’s push for new gun control laws."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • November 13, 2015
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on October 28, 2015 a tweet
"Texas #2 in nation for new gun purchases, behind California."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • November 6, 2015
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 6, 2015 a Snopes.com tweet recapping a Facebook post
A Texas police department bought an ad telling drug dealers, "We can take your competition off the streets for FREE."  
True
By W. Gardner Selby • October 30, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on October 26, 2015 a Houston press conference
My campaign "finished the last quarter reporting the most cash on hand of any Republican in the field … $13.8 million in the bank, $3.5 million more than the Jeb Bush campaign."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • October 30, 2015
Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick
stated on October 19, 2015 an interview with Neil Cavuto of Fox News
Planned Parenthood is "nothing more than a referral service. … They don’t do anything except profit from killing babies and then selling body parts of those aborted babies."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • October 22, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 15, 2015 a speech in San Antonio
"We lose an average of 90 Americans every day because of guns."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • October 21, 2015
Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly
stated on October 7, 2015 a commentary
From 2014 to 2015, Austin’s "murder rate is up a whopping 83 percent."
Mostly False
By Philip Jankowski, W. Gardner Selby • October 16, 2015
Jason Villalba
Jason Villalba
stated on October 13, 2015 a tweet
"Bernie Sanders admits he is a Democratic Socialist. … Nazis were Democratic Socialists."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • October 16, 2015
Bee Moorhead
Bee Moorhead
stated on September 29, 2015 an oped article in the Austin American-Statesman
Texas has "outstripped the national poverty rate" since "at least 1959."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • October 12, 2015
Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick
stated on September 3, 2015 an interview by David Brown, host of the Texas Standard
"100 percent of the crime is committed, in estimate, by about 15 percent of the population."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • October 6, 2015
Jeremy Bird
Jeremy Bird
stated on October 2, 2015 a tweet after the shootings at an Oregon community college
"90% of Americans want national background checks that close loopholes."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • October 5, 2015
Michael McCaul
Michael McCaul
stated on September 12, 2015 the Republican weekly radio/TV address
Iran’s "regime is responsible for more than 1,000 American casualties during the Iraq war" and "has plotted a terrorist attack here in our nation's capital."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • October 5, 2015
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