Fact Check Posts – Page 40

David Alameel
stated on June 28, 2014 his speech at the Texas Democratic Party convention:

Says John Cornyn dodged the draft during the Vietnam War.

By W. Gardner Selby • July 31, 2014

Greg Abbott
stated on July 22, 2014 an interview on Fox News.:

"We’ve had about 3,000 murders" in connection with lax border security.

By W. Gardner Selby • July 29, 2014

Dan Patrick
stated on June 7, 2014 his speech at the state convention of the Republican Party of Texas:

"We have a 40 to 50 percent dropout rate in our inner-city schools."

By W. Gardner Selby • July 27, 2014

Glenn Beck
stated on July 17, 2014 an interview of Gov. Rick Perry:

Says a 9-year-old girl was recently raped in Austin, Texas, by a guy previously "caught four times and released."

By W. Gardner Selby • July 25, 2014

Rick Perry
stated on July 17, 2014 an interview with Glenn Beck:

More than 3,000 homicides were committed by "illegal aliens" over the past six years.

By W. Gardner Selby • July 23, 2014

Rick Perry
stated on June 17, 2014 an interview on Fox & Friends:

Says the Obama administration never responded to his 2012 letter flagging the uptick in unaccompanied children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.

By W. Gardner Selby • July 18, 2014

Roberto Alonzo
stated on July 16, 2014 a press release:

"Latinos now make up the majority population in Texas."

By W. Gardner Selby • July 17, 2014

Ted Cruz
stated on June 23, 2014 a press conference at Lackland Air Force Base:

Says children are coming into the U.S. in "staggering numbers" because President Barack Obama "has been promising amnesty."

By W. Gardner Selby • July 7, 2014

Wendy Davis
stated on June 27, 2014 her speech to the Texas Democratic Party state convention:

Says Greg Abbott "has lost" in court "four times in just the past few days."

By W. Gardner Selby • July 6, 2014

Leticia Van de Putte
stated on June 27, 2014 her speech to the Texas Democratic Party state convention:

Dan Patrick was the only state senator "who voted against the Veteran Entrepreneurship Program, a program that assists veterans in successfully starting up their own businesses."

By W. Gardner Selby • July 3, 2014

David Alameel
stated on June 28, 2014 his speech at the state convention of the Texas Democratic Party:

Says he lived in a colonia while working as a farm worker.

By W. Gardner Selby • July 2, 2014

Gilberto Hinojosa
stated on June 26, 2014 an interview with KERA News:

"The platform of the Republican Party says deport everybody and to hell with it."

By W. Gardner Selby • June 30, 2014

Ted Cruz
stated on June 23, 2014 a press conference :

Says 95 percent of people caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border said in a survey "we are coming because we’ve been promised amnesty."

By W. Gardner Selby • June 29, 2014

Greg Abbott
stated on June 26, 2014 a billboard message:

"Wendy Davis’ legal work is currently under FBI investigation."

By W. Gardner Selby • June 27, 2014

Austin Water Utility
stated on May 27, 2014 as quoted in a StateImpact Texas news story:

Says Central Texas river water sent to downstream rice farmers in 2011 equaled about three years’ worth of Austin’s water use.

By W. Gardner Selby • June 24, 2014

Texas Future
stated on May 8, 2014 a web video:

"One thousand people a day are moving to Texas, which means there will be 15 million more people over the next 25 years."

By W. Gardner Selby • June 22, 2014

Rick Perry
stated on June 17, 2014 an interview on Fox & Friends:

Says of flood of non-Mexicans being apprehended at the border: "These are people that are coming from states like Syria that have substantial connections back to terrorist regimes and terrorist operations."

By W. Gardner Selby • June 22, 2014

Battleground Texas
stated on June 10, 2014 an interview on Bloomberg TV:

Says Dan Patrick has "called immigration into Texas an invasion" and "said immigrants coming into Texas bring ‘third-world diseases.’"

By W. Gardner Selby • June 20, 2014

Rick Perry
stated on June 17, 2014 an interview on Fox & Friends:

A record number of immigrants not from Mexico are "being apprehended at the border."

By W. Gardner Selby • June 18, 2014

Ken Paxton
stated on June 6, 2014 a speech at the Republican Party of Texas convention:

"At the beginning of World War II, we had a relatively small army, smaller than Portugal’s."

By W. Gardner Selby • June 13, 2014

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