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Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on November 6, 2017 an interview with Shannon Bream of Fox News
"In 2010, 48,000 felons and fugitives lied and illegally tried to purchase guns. They [The Obama administration] prosecuted only 44 of them."
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By W. Gardner Selby • November 10, 2017
Colin Jost
Colin Jost
stated on October 7, 2017 a Weekend Update report on NBC-TV's "Saturday Night Live"
"There is a real law in Texas that says it’s illegal to own more than six dildos."
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By W. Gardner Selby • October 13, 2017
Committee of Austin's Children PAC
Committee of Austin's Children PAC
stated on September 24, 2017 a handout in advance of November 2017 vote on a bond proposition
Says a proposed $1.05 billion Austin school district bond proposition "will require no tax rate increase."
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By W. Gardner Selby • October 12, 2017
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on September 22, 2017 a letter to a constituent
Says that under the Obamacare law, health insurance "premiums have increased by more than 105 percent since" 2013.
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By W. Gardner Selby • October 4, 2017
John Thomaides
John Thomaides
stated on June 27, 2017 a tweet
Says the Austin metro region "will lead" the nation "with population growth over 50%" over the next 30 years.
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By W. Gardner Selby • September 20, 2017
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on July 14, 2017 his speech kicking off his re-election campaign
"More Texans have jobs today than ever before in the history of our state."
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By W. Gardner Selby • August 3, 2017
Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick
stated on July 13, 2017 a press conference
"Of all the money we spend on education, less than 32 percent goes to teachers."
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By W. Gardner Selby • July 27, 2017
Mark Cuban
Mark Cuban
stated on June 30, 2017 a tweet
"Twitter reaches only 15 percent of the population."
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By W. Gardner Selby • July 26, 2017
Paul Workman
Paul Workman
stated on June 15, 2017 an oped commentary in the Austin American-Statesman
Says it’s documented that City of Austin fees for building an apartment complex are nearly 10 times what Dallas levies.
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By Shonda Novak, W. Gardner Selby • July 13, 2017
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 27, 2017 a White House briefing
France "wouldn’t buy Texas beef for some reason, yet 76 percent of their energy comes from nuclear power."
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By W. Gardner Selby • June 30, 2017
Shawn Thierry
Shawn Thierry
stated on June 7, 2017 a press release
"Texas mothers are dying during childbirth at the highest rates in the nation."
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By W. Gardner Selby • June 29, 2017
Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick
stated on June 8, 2017 an oped commentary in newspapers including the San Antonio Express-News
"When colleges and universities are added, education spending is the biggest item in the state budget — about 52 percent of all state dollars."
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By W. Gardner Selby • June 23, 2017
Mary González
Mary González
stated on May 11, 2017 House debate of House Bill 2962
An "abortion procedure is actually safer than a vasectomy."
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By W. Gardner Selby • May 17, 2017
Charlie Geren
Charlie Geren
stated on April 11, 2017 a letter to WFAA-TV in Dallas
Says Texas House rules authorized by the Texas Constitution supersede the state law permitting anyone to record a public government meeting.
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By W. Gardner Selby • April 27, 2017
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on March 9, 2017 a U.S. Senate floor speech
Texas "spent close to a third of its budget on Medicaid last year, a third of all state spending."
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By W. Gardner Selby • March 28, 2017
Will Herring
Will Herring
stated on March 6, 2017 a San Antonio Express-News news story
"There’s not one public study, and by public study I mean a study available to the public, that has looked at using the product Kaput to poison feral hogs."
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By W. Gardner Selby • March 16, 2017
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on January 31, 2017 his State-of-the-State address
"Midland, Texas, now beats the San Francisco area in the percentage of jobs created by startups."
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By W. Gardner Selby • February 24, 2017
Steve Adler
Steve Adler
stated on February 14, 2017 an open letter to Austin residents
"Local authorities in 43 states refused to honor more than 16,000 detainer requests from ICE from October 2013 to December 2015. Only in Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, Vermont and Wyoming did local officials honor all requests, and detainers are relatively rare in those states."
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By W. Gardner Selby • February 23, 2017
John Patrick
John Patrick
stated on January 12, 2017 a Texas Capitol press conference
"If you have a family, the current minimum wage easily qualifies you for food stamps."
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By W. Gardner Selby • February 11, 2017
Don Willett
Don Willett
stated on January 12, 2017 a speech at a Texas Public Policy Foundation event
"The overwhelming majority of America’s elite universities, they no longer require history majors to take a single course in American history."
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By W. Gardner Selby • January 30, 2017
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