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Dave Claunch
Dave Claunch
stated on January 14, 2015 a meeting of the West Lake Hills City Council:
"Austin has more lobbyists working for it than any other municipality in Texas."
Mostly True
By Alex Wilts • February 16, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on February 5, 2014 an interview with the Texas Tribune and Washington Post.:
"When I came into office, our vaccination rate in Texas was 65 percent. When I left two weeks ago, it was 95 percent."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • February 12, 2015
Alcee Hastings
Alcee Hastings
stated on February 5, 2015 a telephone interview with CNN:
A Texas law says "that you can’t shoot bears out of the second floor of a window."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • February 12, 2015
Paul Stekler
Paul Stekler
stated on January 24, 2015 an oped column:
Louisiana’s film incentives program is so big "they actually shot an upcoming film initially titled ‘Don’t Mess With Texas’ in New Orleans!"
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • February 7, 2015
Molly White
Molly White
stated on February 3, 2015 an online statement:
The group that organized Texas Muslim Capitol Day in Austin "was recently listed as one of 82 organizations designated as a terrorist group by the United Arab Emirates."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • February 6, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on January 15, 2015 valedictory speech as governor to the Texas Legislature:
Texas has "the lowest crime rate in this state since 1968" because of changes in law regarding nonviolent drug offenders.
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • February 3, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on January 20, 2015 an interview with Fox News:
"Today the top 1 percent earn a higher share of our national income than any year since 1928."
Mostly True
By Alex Wilts • January 30, 2015
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on January 27, 2015 a Senate floor speech:
More "than 80 percent of sex trafficking victims in America are U.S. citizens."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 30, 2015
Democratic National Committee
Democratic National Committee
stated on January 15, 2015 an email blast:
"College tuition rates in Texas jumped by 55% since 2003."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 28, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on January 26, 2015 a breakfast talk in Iowa:
The U.S. unemployment rate has "been massaged, it’s been doctored."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • January 26, 2015
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on January 20, 2015 a post on his U.S. Senate website:
The Texas leg of the Keystone pipeline "has already created 4,800 jobs in just the year it's been up and running."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • January 23, 2015
Democratic National Committee
Democratic National Committee
stated on January 15, 2015 an email blast:
Since Rick Perry became governor, "poverty rates in Texas increased from 15.1% to 17.5% — which is higher than the national average."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 22, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on January 15, 2015 valedictory speech as governor to the Texas Legislature:
Starting in December 2007, "1.4 million jobs were created in Texas. In that same period, the rest of the country lost 400,000 jobs."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 22, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on January 9, 2015 Texas Public Policy Foundation policy orientation:
"I belong to the AFL-CIO."  
True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 13, 2015
Glenn Hegar
Glenn Hegar
stated on January 2, 2015 speaking to reporters:
The "average taxpayer will see the equivalent of a 2 percent pay raise as a result of low fuel prices."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 10, 2015
Jerry Jones
Jerry Jones
stated on January 9, 2015 an interview with ESPN aired Jan. 9, 2015:
The cheerleaders for the Dallas Cowboys have "entertained more troops in the world than Bob Hope."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • January 9, 2015
Chuck Todd
Chuck Todd
stated on December 7, 2014 an interview of Greg Abbott, Texas governor-elect:
"There have been some estimates that if you deported everybody who is in Texas illegally," it "would create an economic recession for the state."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 9, 2015
Kevin Brady
Kevin Brady
stated on December 17, 2014 a press release:
"Texas families have kept more than $10 billion in their family budgets since we successfully fought to restore Texas' sales tax deduction a decade ago."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • December 23, 2014
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on December 7, 2014 an interview on Meet the Press:
"My wife is going to be the first Hispanic first lady in the history of Texas."
True
By Dylan Baddour • December 22, 2014
Pete Gallego
Pete Gallego
stated on December 10, 2014 his farewell U.S. House speech:
"This Congress made history as the least productive, most unpopular Congress in the history of this proud nation."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • December 18, 2014
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