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League of Women Voters of the Austin Area
League of Women Voters of the Austin Area
stated on April 28, 2013 a Voters Guide.
Says proponents of a bond package for the Austin school district say the district has the second-lowest bond tax rate "among the Central Texas area school districts."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • May 3, 2013
League of Women Voters of the Austin Area
League of Women Voters of the Austin Area
stated on April 28, 2013 a voters guide.
Says opponents of proposed Austin school district bonds say the district’s "debt load doubles with these new bonds."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • May 3, 2013
Wayne Smith
Wayne Smith
stated on April 17, 2013 an interview.
"Science has not shown greenhouse gases to be a problem."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • May 2, 2013
Jack Ohman
Jack Ohman
stated on April 25, 2013 a column on an editorial cartoon.
Says the fertilizer plant that exploded in West, Texas,"had not been inspected by the state of Texas since 2006."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • May 1, 2013
Bee Moorhead
Bee Moorhead
stated on April 23, 2013 a civic summit.
Says more Austinites voted in the city’s 1973 election featuring a mayor’s race than in the city’s most recent mayoral election.
True
By W. Gardner Selby • April 30, 2013
Texas State Employees Union
Texas State Employees Union
stated on April 1, 2013 an organization web page.
"Most state employees did not receive any pay raise from 2009 to 2012."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • April 29, 2013
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on April 5, 2013 an interview on CNN.
Says he has "yet to get a response" from Barack Obama to his August 2010 letter making border security requests.
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • April 25, 2013
Texas Association of School Boards
Texas Association of School Boards
stated on April 24, 2013 an advertisement.
"Texas ranks 49th in per-pupil funding among the states."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • April 24, 2013
Louie Gohmert
Louie Gohmert
stated on April 17, 2013 an interview on C-SPAN.
Says al Qaeda has camps with the drug cartels in Mexico.
False
By W. Gardner Selby • April 23, 2013
Wendy Davis
Wendy Davis
stated on April 9, 2013 a Senate Education Committee meeting.
Says Texas ranks 49th nationally in "what we are doing to support our per-pupil investment in education in the state."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • April 18, 2013
Nelson Wolff
Nelson Wolff
stated on April 1, 2013 a Texas Capitol press conference.
Says uncompensated health care costs absorbed by Texas hospitals are adding $1,800 a year to Texas private insurance rates.
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • April 17, 2013
Mike Villarreal
Mike Villarreal
stated on April 4, 2013 Texas House debate on state budget.
Says Texas lawmakers in 2011 ordered school districts to test every student on their respiratory system and weight.
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • April 16, 2013
Jodie Laubenberg
Jodie Laubenberg
stated on April 4, 2013 a Texas House floor debate.
Says Texas state funds were spent on "a TV series on spouses cheating on their wives, kind of glorifying the act of cheating."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • April 15, 2013
Lee Leffingwell
Lee Leffingwell
stated on March 28, 2013 a press conference.
Says 90 percent of Americans and 74 percent of National Rifle Association members support background checks of gun purchasers.
True
By W. Gardner Selby • April 4, 2013
Kirk Watson
Kirk Watson
stated on March 19, 2013 a news article.
Says carbon monoxide is still employed to euthanize dogs and cats in 29 Texas animal shelters.
True
By W. Gardner Selby • April 3, 2013
Matt Mackowiak
Matt Mackowiak
stated on April 1, 2013 an opinion colulmn.
Says the president of the University of Texas has raised four-year student graduation rates to 75 percent.
False
By W. Gardner Selby • April 2, 2013
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on April 1, 2013 a press release jointly issued with U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz.
"Only three in 10 Texas doctors are currently accepting new Medicaid patients."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • April 1, 2013
Joe Barton
Joe Barton
stated on February 12, 2013 in reaction to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address.
Says U.S. greenhouse gas "emissions are at 20-year lows."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • April 1, 2013
Jim Jordan
Jim Jordan
stated on March 19, 2013 a congressional hearing
The national debt is "larger than our entire annual economy."
Mostly True
By Molly Moorhead, Sabrina Eaton, W. Gardner Selby • March 28, 2013
Scott Henson
Scott Henson
stated on February 25, 2013 an interview.
Says Texas has "11 different felonies you can commit with an oyster."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • March 27, 2013
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