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Latest Fact-Checks By W. Gardner Selby

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Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on April 7, 2015 an interview with the Texas Tribune:
On in-state tuition for unauthorized immigrants.
Half Flip
By W. Gardner Selby • April 15, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 31, 2015 a talk in Austin:
"Half of all Americans have less than $10,000 in their savings account."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • April 9, 2015
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 25, 2015 an online meme:
Says Ted Cruz said, "There is no place for gays or atheists in my America. None. Our Constitution makes that clear."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • April 8, 2015
Sid Miller
Sid Miller
stated on March 10, 2015 a symposium on water hosted by the Texas Tribune:
"We have towns in West Texas that are out of water, that are having to truck in water."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • April 8, 2015
Pete Gallego
Pete Gallego
stated on April 2, 2015 an email blast:
"Just two weeks ago, Congressman Hurd quit his post on the House Committee on Small Business saying that he was unable to find the time to serve."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • April 7, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on March 23, 2015:
"Today roughly half of born-again Christians aren’t voting. They’re staying home."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • March 30, 2015
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 26, 2015 an online meme:
Says Ted Cruz just flip-flopped about the president needing to be U.S.-born.
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • March 27, 2015
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on February 17, 2015 his State of the State address:
Dallas "African-American and Hispanic students pass AP exams at a higher rate than any other place in America."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • March 26, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on March 11, 2015 an interview with Hugh Hewitt:
"Here, we have Thanksgiving, we have Christmas, we have the 4th of July. Every year in Iran, they celebrate Death to America day."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • March 13, 2015
George P. Bush
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.
False
By W. Gardner Selby • March 12, 2015
Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick
stated on February 25, 2015 an interview on KLBJ AM in Austin:
Texas this fiscal year will "have more money in reserve than the other 49 states combined."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • March 5, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on February 27, 2015 a web ad:
"At this particular point in time, looking at the field, there’s only one individual that’s ever had the uniform of his country on—and that’s me."
Half-True
By Alex Wilts, W. Gardner Selby • March 4, 2015
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on February 22, 2015 an interview on CBS's "Face the Nation":
"Already this calendar year, since January 1, we have had more than 20,000 people come across the border, apprehended, unauthorized."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • March 3, 2015
Texas Democratic Party
Texas Democratic Party
stated on February 12, 2015 a press release:
More than 1 million Texans live without affordable health care because Rick Perry failed to "partner with the Legislature to find a Texas solution to closing the coverage gap."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • March 1, 2015
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on February 7, 2015 a meme supposedly quoting Sheila Jackson Lee:
Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas said: ‘Hey, all you wrinkly, white-aged has-beens: It’s time for you to die and let the next generation have your spot on the planet.’
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • February 24, 2015
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on February 17, 2015 an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News:
"22 times Barack Obama said he did not have the authority to implement this type of" anti-deportation "measure. And then the day after he signed this into law, he said, quote, ‘I just changed the law.’"
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • February 23, 2015
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on February 17, 2014 his State of the State address:
"Texas has more full-time state employees per capita than California and Illinois."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • February 20, 2015
Lloyd Doggett
Lloyd Doggett
stated on January 26, 2015 oped commentary:
The Department of Homeland Security is "the only federal department not funded for this entire fiscal year" by Congress.
True
By W. Gardner Selby • February 18, 2015
Rick Perry
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."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • February 12, 2015
Alcee Hastings
Alcee Hastings
stated on February 5, 2015 a telephone interview with CNN:
A Texas law says "that you can’t shoot bears out of the second floor of a window."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • February 12, 2015
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