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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
Gary Painter
Gary Painter
stated on May 10, 2015 as quoted in a Midland Reporter-Telegram news story:
"We’re the only nation in the world that does not use the military to secure our border."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • June 5, 2015
Don Zimmerman
Don Zimmerman
stated on April 27, 2015 an Austin City Council briefing:
"You don't have to be as smart as a fifth-grader to know what causes the climate is the sun. The sun.  I have people tell me, ‘Carbon dioxide warms the Earth.’  No, it doesn't.  The sun warms the Earth."
Mostly False
By Asher Price • June 5, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on May 16, 2015 a speech in Iowa:
"One out of five of our children live in a family that’s on food stamps."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 3, 2015
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 22, 2015 a meme on a Facebook page:
Says Ted Cruz said: "While there may have been an age difference, Josh Duggar’s transgressions are far less an affront to God than what gays do to each other."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • May 28, 2015
Gina Hinojosa
Gina Hinojosa
stated on May 6, 2015 an interview with Kiah Collier, Austin American-Statesman reporter:
Austin school district "teachers are the lowest paid of any urban" Texas district and the "lowest paid of any surrounding school district."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • May 27, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on July 12, 2014 a roundtable with Texas businesses:
"Every year we spend roughly $500 billion on tax compliance. That is roughly the budget of our entire military, entirely wasted on tax compliance."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • May 20, 2015
Sharlene Leurig
Sharlene Leurig
stated on February 9, 2015 an Austin City Council workshop:
"Austin is the only city in an arid landscape in the western United States dependent on a single source of water."
Half-True
By Andra Lim • May 18, 2015
Children's Defense Fund-Texas
Children's Defense Fund-Texas
stated on April 28, 2015 a press release:
"In the last 24 months, 10 rural Texas hospitals have been forced to shut their doors because state leaders" chose not to expand Medicaid.
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • May 15, 2015
Garnet Coleman
Garnet Coleman
stated on May 6, 2015 a committee hearing:
"Transgender individuals in the U.S. have a 1-in-12 chance of being murdered."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • May 13, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on May 5, 2015 an oped column:
On reauthorization of Export-Import Bank.
Full Flop
By W. Gardner Selby • May 7, 2015
Van Taylor
Van Taylor
stated on March 25, 2015 a press release:
I "helped pass what, if enacted, would be the largest tax cut in Texas history through the State Senate."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • May 5, 2015
Sid Miller
Sid Miller
stated on March 10, 2015 a symposium on water hosted by the Texas Tribune:
Texas agriculture is "at 98 percent efficiency" in water use and "just about maxed out as to what we can do on the conservation end of it."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • May 4, 2015
Steve Adler
Steve Adler
stated on April 1, 2015 a speech:
Austin has "gone from being the 24th most congested city just about 10 years ago to being the fourth most congested — more congested than NYC."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • April 28, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on April 18, 2015 remarks in New Hampshire:
"About half of the presidents have been governors; half of them, senators."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • April 27, 2015
Sabino
Sabino "Pio" Renteria
stated on April 10, 2015 a cover story in the Austin Chronicle:
"Fifteen years ago, you couldn't even get a pizza delivered in that neighborhood."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • April 24, 2015
Texas Organizing Project
Texas Organizing Project
stated on March 5, 2015 a press release:
"The unemployment rate among blacks in Texas is 9.5% -- far more than double white unemployment -- and wages have fallen for black workers in Texas since 2000."
True
By Alex Wilts • April 23, 2015
Judicial Watch
Judicial Watch
stated on April 14, 2015 a web item:
"ISIS camp a few miles from Texas, Mexican authorities confirm."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • April 17, 2015
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