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Texas Right to Life
Texas Right to Life
stated on December 5, 2014 an email blast
University of Texas students "signed a petition seeking the legal right to abort newborn babies up to five-years-old."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • December 10, 2014
Progress for Austin PAC
Progress for Austin PAC
stated on December 3, 2014 a mailer to voters
"Mike Martinez cut a deal with prosecutors to avoid facing possible jail time and stuck us with his $24,657.50 legal bill."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • December 10, 2014
Michael McCaul
Michael McCaul
stated on December 2, 2014 a committee hearing
President Barack Obama "said over 20 times he did not have the legal authority" to act as he did on immigration.
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • December 5, 2014
Bryant Gumbel
Bryant Gumbel
stated on July 21, 2014 an episode of HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel
"A golf course closes somewhere in America every 48 hours."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • December 5, 2014
Jim Skaggs
Jim Skaggs
stated on November 5, 2014 as quoted in a news story
Austin is "burdened by the fastest-growing tax increases of any major city in the nation."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • November 28, 2014
Jason Stanford
Jason Stanford
stated on November 17, 2014 a commentary
"Texas had the worst voter participation in the country" in the November 2014 elections.
Mostly True
By Dylan Baddour • November 25, 2014
Brad Rockwell
Brad Rockwell
stated on November 12, 2014 a press conference including mayoral candidate Mike Martinez
Austin mayoral candidate Steve Adler opposed an injunction to stop a "company from dumping petrochemicals directly into the Barton Springs aquifer."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • November 21, 2014
Mike Martinez
Mike Martinez
stated on November 11, 2014 an interview for a news story
Austin mayoral candidate Steve Adler has "never been active in anything that has to do with City Hall."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • November 20, 2014
Mike Martinez
Mike Martinez
stated on November 12, 2014 a press conference
Austin mayoral candidate "Steve Adler admitted his law firm worked with Koch Industries for nearly a decade."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • November 14, 2014
Lynda Rife
Lynda Rife
stated on November 4, 2014 as quoted in a news story
110 people a day move to Austin.
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • November 14, 2014
Delia Garza
Delia Garza
stated on October 21, 2014 as quoted in a news story
"Families in Del Valle, who are City of Austin residents, have to drive to Bastrop to go to the closest grocery store."
False
By Dylan Baddour • November 6, 2014
Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick
stated on October 22, 2014 a TV ad, "Better Schools"
Leticia Van de Putte "voted to stop schools from removing teachers convicted of a felony."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • October 29, 2014
Lloyd Doggett
Lloyd Doggett
stated on October 25, 2014 a Let's Go Austin mailer
"The Austin Tea Party and an ultra-conservative millionaire are behind the" campaign against the city’s light-rail proposition.
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • October 29, 2014
Wendy Davis
Wendy Davis
stated on September 30, 2014 a debate
Greg Abbott has benefitted from "payday lenders who have given him $300,000 and then received a ruling from him that they can operate in a loophole in the law that allows them to charge unlimited rates and fees."
Mostly True
By Dylan Baddour • October 29, 2014
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on October 15, 2014 a letter to David Feldman, Houston's city attorney
A lawyer demanded "several Houston pastors hand over to the city government many of their private papers, including their sermons."
True
By Dylan Baddour • October 23, 2014
Citizens Against Rail Taxes
Citizens Against Rail Taxes
stated on October 8, 2014 a radio ad
None of $400 million the City of Austin proposes to spend on road projects "will be used to add new lanes to congested roadways."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • October 23, 2014
Sheryl Cole
Sheryl Cole
stated on October 15, 2014 a "Ballot Boxing" candidate forum
"This year," the Austin City Council "granted a small homestead" property tax "exemption of $5,000... applied equally to everyone. And we also granted an exemption for the elderly and the disabled members of the community."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • October 21, 2014
David Dewhurst
David Dewhurst
stated on September 26, 2014 a speech in Washington, D.C.
"Prayer rugs have recently been found on the Texas side of the border in the brush."
Pants on Fire!
By Dylan Baddour • October 19, 2014
Leticia Van de Putte
Leticia Van de Putte
stated on October 15, 2014 a video ad
"In 2013," Dan Patrick voted "against funding to test the backlog of rape kits, allowing rapists to walk free."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • October 17, 2014
Wendy Davis
Wendy Davis
stated on September 17, 2014 a TV ad
"Weeks after accepting a quarter-million-dollar campaign contribution" from a hospital board chairman, Greg Abbott went to court against victims of a drug-taking neurosurgeon.
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • October 15, 2014
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