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Pat Carlson
Pat Carlson
stated on March 11, 2010 an e-mail
"In Texas, schools do not even have to teach sex education."
True
March 20, 2010
Bill White
Bill White
stated on March 2, 2010 a speech
"There's almost 1 million Texans who are unemployed and that's an all-time record number in our state."
True
March 7, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on February 16, 2010 a press release
"Texas has installed more wind power than any other state, and all but four countries."
True
March 6, 2010
Bill White
Bill White
stated on March 4, 2010 a speech
"Debt has almost doubled in Austin under Gov. Perry."
True
March 4, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on March 2, 2010 a speech
"Washington cannot hide from the fact that Congress hiked the national debt ceiling to $14.3 trillion. They cannot hide from the fact . . . that the budget that they’re going forward with has more than a $5 trillion in debt in it over the next five years."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • March 4, 2010
Jan Patterson
Jan Patterson
stated on January 20, 2010 a TV ad
"Her opponent: zero times a judge, zero rulings, zero experience on the bench."
True
February 28, 2010
Holly Turner
Holly Turner
stated on February 25, 2010 a radio ad
Says Paul Workman "voted in the Democrat primary, supporting Democrats with his vote."
True
February 26, 2010
David Dewhurst
David Dewhurst
stated on February 16, 2010 an e-mail blast.
During "the recent global warming summit in Copenhagen, Nancy Pelosi and others stayed at a five-star hotel on a trip costing nearly $10,000 per person."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • February 17, 2010
Farouk Shami
Farouk Shami
stated on February 8, 2010 a debate.
Houston is "the third-most toxic city in the United States of America."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • February 9, 2010
Bill White
Bill White
stated on February 1, 2010 in a TV ad
"Our (Texas) graduation rate ranks 43rd out of 50 states."
True
February 5, 2010
Kay Bailey Hutchison
Kay Bailey Hutchison
stated on January 14, 2010 a debate.
"The State of Texas does not even use the E-Verify system to determine if someone is legally in our country when they apply for a job."
True
February 1, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on November 30, 2009 a press release
U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison "has voted nine separate times to raise the national debt ceiling."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 27, 2010
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on January 20, 2010 a televised interview
"The No. 1 issue that the American people care about is getting America back to work."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 20, 2010
Linda Chavez-Thompson
Linda Chavez-Thompson
stated on January 4, 2010 a speech
"Most Texans aren't millionaires."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 20, 2010
Kay Bailey Hutchison
Kay Bailey Hutchison
stated on January 14, 2010 a debate.
"We definitely lost way more jobs in Texas this year than we gained — we lost 300,000 jobs in Texas alone this year."
True
January 15, 2010
Bill White
Bill White
stated on December 28, 2009 the biography on his campaign Web site
During his tenure as mayor, he "saw Houston’s crime rates drop to the lowest levels in more than 25 years."
True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • January 13, 2010
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