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Latest Fact-Checks In Texas

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Sid Miller
Sid Miller
stated on August 16, 2015 a meme posted on his Facebook page
"To vote in Mexico every eligible Mexican citizen has to have a tamper-proof photo-ID card with a thumbprint and an embossed hologram."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • August 26, 2015
Bruce Elfant
Bruce Elfant
stated on August 5, 2015 an interview with Dick Ellis, KOKE FM, Austin
"The United States is about 100th in voter turnout among the industrialized nations, and Texas is near the bottom in terms of voter registration and voter turnout."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • August 21, 2015
Julián Castro
Julián Castro
stated on July 27, 2015 his year-in-review speech
"Less than half of the poorest American households have a home Internet subscription."
True
By Bradley Saacks • August 20, 2015
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on August 3, 2015 a tweet
"In FY 2014 Planned Parenthood performed 327,653 abortions while receiving $528 million from taxpayers, in violation" of "the Hyde amendment."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • August 7, 2015
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on July 28, 2015 an episode of The Rush Limbaugh Show
Austin is "effectively" imposing "a ban on barbecue restaurants."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • August 4, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on June 28, 2015 an interview with NPR News
Says states not directly involved in the gay marriage lawsuits that reached the Supreme Court "are not bound" by the court’s ruling.
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • July 31, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 4, 2015 his speech declaring his candidacy for president
"I deployed the Texas National Guard" to the Texas-Mexico border. "And the policy worked; apprehensions at the border declined 74 percent."
Mostly False
By Bradley Saacks • July 26, 2015
Robert Henneke
Robert Henneke
stated on June 23, 2015 an oped column
"Obama’s Clean Power Plan ... eliminates coal-fired power plants."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • July 24, 2015
Christine Gilbert
Christine Gilbert
stated on July 11, 2015 a letter to the editor of the Austin American-Statesman
The Texas Capitol faces South toward Goliad, in memory of the most horrific battle of the Texas Revolution.
False
By W. Gardner Selby • July 24, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on July 2, 2015 a speech at the National Press Club
"Texas’ high school graduation rate went from 27th in the country in 2002, to second highest in the country in 2013."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • July 20, 2015
Glenn Hegar
Glenn Hegar
stated on June 24, 2015 a tweet
"Texas still owns all of its public lands. If the federal gov't wants to create a park, they must ask permission!"
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • July 17, 2015
Chain email
Chain email
stated on June 29, 2015 a chain email
Muslims "attempted to establish the first Islamic Sharia court inside the United States in the town of Irving, Texas."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • July 16, 2015
Ron Paul
Ron Paul
stated on June 14, 2015 an opinion column
"Jasper County in Texas raised property taxes by 7 percent in order to pay for one death penalty case."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • July 9, 2015
Donna Howard
Donna Howard
stated on June 25, 2015 a press release
Texas has "the nation's highest rate and highest number of uninsured."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • July 1, 2015
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on June 12, 2015 a press release
A Texas law "will repatriate $1 billion of gold bullion from the Federal Reserve in New York to Texas."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • June 26, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 4, 2015 a speech in Houston
"If you want to vote in" Texas, "you can use a concealed-weapon permit as a valid form of identification, but a valid student ID isn’t good enough."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 26, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 4, 2015 his declaration for president
"Texas now has the second-highest high school graduation rate in the country. And it has the highest graduation rate for African Americans and Hispanics."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 19, 2015
Doonesbury
Doonesbury
stated on June 14, 2015 the strip about Greg Abbott and the Jade Helm military exercise
Greg Abbott "activated the state guard to monitor" Jade Helm 15 "in case the troops try to impose martial law, disarm innocent Texans, and detain them in tunnels beneath closed Walmart stores."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 19, 2015
Anonymous Activist
Anonymous Activist
stated on May 19, 2015 yard signs posted anonymously opposing a proposed office park redevelopment in Northwest Austin
"500 percent more traffic here?"
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 9, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 4, 2015 his speech declaring his candidacy for president
"In the last seven years of my tenure, Texas created 1.5 million new jobs. As a matter of fact, without Texas, America would have lost 400,000 jobs."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 8, 2015
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