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Latest Fact-Checks By W. Gardner Selby

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Wendy Davis
Wendy Davis
stated on March 10, 2014 a tweet
Women "are still paid 82 cents for every dollar a man earns in Texas."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • March 20, 2014
David Dewhurst
David Dewhurst
stated on March 2, 2014
Dan Patrick "called for increasing the gas tax and the state sales tax."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • March 17, 2014
David Dewhurst
David Dewhurst
stated on March 2, 2014 a TV ad
Says Dan Patrick "supported giving a $5,000 taxpayer-funded voucher to every family to buy a car."  
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • March 14, 2014
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on March 7, 2014 a speech
"If you rent a U-Haul to move your company, it costs twice as much to go from San Francisco to Austin than the other way around, because you can’t find enough trucks to flee the Golden State."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • March 12, 2014
Lee Leffingwell
Lee Leffingwell
stated on February 25, 2014 his "State of the City" address
Austin is "a city that has basically doubled in size every 25 years or so since it was founded."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • March 7, 2014
ChangeAustin.org
ChangeAustin.org
stated on February 26, 2014 an email blast
Sarah Eckhardt "refused to take her own pay increases repeatedly."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • March 6, 2014
Maxey Scherr
Maxey Scherr
stated on January 23, 2014 an interview
"We have more women living in poverty in this state than almost anywhere else."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • February 27, 2014
Texas Liberty PAC
Texas Liberty PAC
stated on February 22, 2014 a sign spotted outside a polling place in Austin
Says Lamar Smith "sponsored the bill that funded Obamacare."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • February 27, 2014
Andy Brown
Andy Brown
stated on February 17, 2014 a mailer to voters
"Travis County now has the highest urban county tax rate in Texas."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • February 26, 2014
Dan Branch
Dan Branch
stated on February 4, 2014 a video ad
"Worked with Ronald Reagan and helped re-elect him."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • February 21, 2014
David Alameel
David Alameel
stated on February 7, 2014 an email blast
"More than 40,000 troops are still stationed in Afghanistan with no clear objective. Even in the best case, by the end of the year at least 10,000 American soldiers will still be on the ground."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • February 21, 2014
American Life League
American Life League
stated on February 4, 2014 an email blast
Girl Scouts USA’s curriculum "promotes Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, Betty Friedan, founder of NARAL Prochoice, and other pro-abortion women as icons for our children to emulate."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • February 13, 2014
Steve Stockman
Steve Stockman
stated on January 31, 2014 a campaign email blast
John Cornyn "voted twice in 2013 to back Obama’s amnesty plan."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • February 10, 2014
Cecile Richards
Cecile Richards
stated on December 6, 2013 an interview with Texas Monthly
The "U.S. has the highest unintended pregnancy rate of any Western industrialized country."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • February 10, 2014
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on December 12, 2013 as quoted during a school visit
Says 85 percent of IDEA charter-school students come from low-income families and about 99 percent of its graduates go to college.
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • February 5, 2014
Todd Staples
Todd Staples
stated on January 27, 2014 the Texas Debate hosted by KERA-TV, Channel 13, in Dallas
David Dewhurst is "the first lieutenant governor in history to have a personal security detail."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 31, 2014
Wendy Davis
Wendy Davis
stated on January 28, 2014 a speech
"I never gave up custody of my children. I never lost custody of my children."  
Mostly True
By Sue Owen, W. Gardner Selby • January 30, 2014
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on January 10, 2014 an online commentary
"25% of human trafficking victims are located in Texas."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • January 29, 2014
Steve Stockman
Steve Stockman
stated on January 24, 2014 a Stockman campaign web page
"John Cornyn backed his pal David Dewhurst" for the U.S. Senate over Ted Cruz.
False
By W. Gardner Selby • January 28, 2014
Ron Paul
Ron Paul
stated on January 14, 2014 an email blast
For "the past year, I was censored" and muzzled.
False
By W. Gardner Selby • January 24, 2014
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