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Joaquin Castro
stated on August 10, 2016 a tweet about Carol Everett of the Heidi Group:

Says the director of an anti-abortion group receiving a Texas grant to provide women’s health services "believes HIV can be spread through the sewer system."

Mostly True

By W. Gardner Selby • August 17, 2016

Julián Castro
stated on June 17, 2016 comments at Texas Democratic Party convention:

"Today California is kicking our butt, creating more jobs and more economic growth than Texas."

True

By Emma Hinchliffe, W. Gardner Selby • August 17, 2016

Baker Harrell
stated on August 15, 2016 an interview with the Texas Tribune:

"Seventy percent of all Texans are overweight or obese."

Mostly True

By W. Gardner Selby • August 17, 2016

Ruben Hinojosa
stated on July 16, 2016 a tweet:

"50% of Hispanic students count on Pell Grants to pay for college."

True

By Rye Druzin • August 15, 2016

Sid Miller
stated on July 9, 2016 as quoted in a commentary by Ken Herman of the Austin American-Statesman:

Says that since lawmakers acted, "we have 130 new businesses across Texas doing helicopter hog hunts."

False

By W. Gardner Selby • August 12, 2016

Bike Austin
stated on June 8, 2016 a press release:

"Bike lanes and sidewalks have been proven to reduce crashes by up to 38 percent on Austin’s streets."

Mostly False

By Jane Wester • July 29, 2016

Cecile Richards
stated on July 26, 2016 remarks to the Texas delegation at the Democratic National Convention as webcast by the Texas Tribun:

Barack Obama "ended up getting re-elected by the largest gender gap in the history of American elections."

Half-True

By W. Gardner Selby • July 29, 2016

Jeannette Vaught
stated on May 4, 2016 an op-ed published in the Austin American-Statesman:

"Only five Texas counties account for almost 90 percent of the (state’s) cattle industry."

False

By Fauzeya Rahman • July 29, 2016

Matt Mackowiak
stated on July 1, 2016 a commentary in the Austin American-Statesman:

"In 2009, his first year as mayor," Julián Castro "received a seven-figure referral fee" that smells like a dirty financial gift "from notorious personal injury lawyer Mikal Watts, a major Obama donor."

Mostly False

By Eleanor Dearman • July 28, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on June 16, 2016 Dallas fundraiser:

The U.S. has to go to "plane graveyards" and museums to get parts for its 20-year-old jet fighters while it sells new jets to other countries.

Mostly True

By Filipa Ioannou • July 23, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on June 22, 2016 a campaign rally in Cleveland:

Says Ted Cruz "never denied" his father was photographed with Lee Harvey Oswald.

Pants on Fire!

By Dylan Baddour • July 22, 2016

Drew Brees
stated on June 12, 2016 as quoted in an interview with Kirk Bohls of the Austin American-Statesman:

"Do you know what the second sport with the most concussions is? Women’s soccer… And the third most dangerous sport? Cheerleading."

Half-True

By W. Gardner Selby • July 15, 2016

Rodney Ellis
stated on May 19, 2016 a press release in response to a lawsuit:

Harris County, Texas has "some of the highest jailing and incarceration rates in the U.S. and the world."

Mostly True

By Fauzeya Rahman • July 8, 2016

Kevin Brady
stated on June 24, 2016 a press conference for Republican tax reform:

The United States "is the only major country that taxes its own exports."

Mostly False

By Neelesh Moorthy • June 28, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on May 14, 2016 his speech at the Republican Party of Texas convention:

Barack Obama issued a decree "demanding that every public school now allow grown men and boys into the little girls’ bathroom."

Mostly False

By Eleanor Dearman • June 26, 2016

Jonathan Jarvis
stated on June 14, 2016 testimony before a U.S. House committee:

The National Park Service has "an annual budget that is less than the city of Austin."

True

By W. Gardner Selby • June 24, 2016

Steve Adler
stated on June 14, 2016 an interview with Bob Cole on Austin's KOKE-FM:

Austin was the "site of the first mass shooting in the country."

False

By W. Gardner Selby • June 23, 2016

Barack Obama
stated on March 11, 2016 keynoting South by Southwest Interactive:

"We’re the only advanced democracy in the world that makes it harder for people to vote."

Half-True

By W. Gardner Selby • June 20, 2016

Joaquin Castro
stated on June 6, 2016 a tweet:

"@realDonaldTrump is coming to San Antonio, which is 60% Mexican-AMERICAN."

Mostly True

By Filipa Ioannou • June 17, 2016

Greg Abbott
stated on May 12, 2016 addressing the Republican Party of Texas state convention:

"ISIS is running through a border made porous by Barack Obama’s policies."

Pants on Fire!

By Dylan Baddour • June 17, 2016

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