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Latest Fact-Checks By Meghan Ashford-Grooms

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Bill Flores
Bill Flores
stated on September 28, 2010 a TV ad.
PolitiFact Texas says "Congressman Edwards' attacks on Bill Flores are false."
Mostly False
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • October 2, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on September 7, 2010 a press release
Says Bill White "didn't pay taxes while earning $133,600 annual salary as deputy secretary of energy."
False
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • September 21, 2010
Larry Gonzales
Larry Gonzales
stated on August 31, 2010 an e-mail to supporters
Says state Rep. Diana Maldonado of Round Rock uses Craigslist to hire campaign block walkers.
True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • September 10, 2010
Bill White
Bill White
stated on September 1, 2010 a press release
Says Rick Perry is a 25-year incumbent.
Mostly False
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • September 3, 2010
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on August 26, 2010 an interview
Says a highway was closed in El Paso because of bullets flying across the border.
True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • September 1, 2010
Bill White
Bill White
stated on August 14, 2010 a speech
Says most of Perry's chiefs of staff have been lobbyists.
True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • August 30, 2010
Back to Basics
Back to Basics
stated on August 24, 2010 a newspaper ad
Gov. Rick Perry "has overseen the highest Texas unemployment in 22 years."
Half-True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • August 28, 2010
Debbie Riddle
Debbie Riddle
stated on August 10, 2010 a television interview
"Over 81 percent of the babies that are born at LBJ Hospital right here in Houston are born of women who are not here legally."
False
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms, W. Gardner Selby • August 23, 2010
Rebecca Bell-Metereau
Rebecca Bell-Metereau
stated on August 9, 2010 a campaign flier
Ken Mercer "wants Sean Hannity and James Dobson included in social studies texts."
Mostly False
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • August 14, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on July 19, 2010 a Perry website
Says Bill White "profiteered in the aftermath of Hurricane Rita."
False
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • August 9, 2010
Leticia Van de Putte
Leticia Van de Putte
stated on June 25, 2010 a speech at the Texas Democratic Party convention
Says Bill White's program to bring dropouts back to school was "so successful that almost every city in our state has replicated" it.
Half-True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • July 27, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on April 26, 2010 a press release
On debating.
Full Flop
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • July 24, 2010
Bill White
Bill White
stated on June 25, 2010 a speech to the Texas Democratic Party convention in Corpus Christi
"Rick Perry accepted more stimulus funds than any other governor except the governors of California and New York."
Mostly True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • July 18, 2010
Bill White
Bill White
stated on June 25, 2010 a speech at the Texas Democratic Party convention
"In Rick Perry’s Texas, we import nurses ... from other countries."
Half-True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • July 14, 2010
Bill White
Bill White
stated on June 17, 2010 a press conference
Gov. Rick Perry broke his promise that he would not accept a $40,000 pay increase.
Mostly True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • June 27, 2010
Jerry Patterson
Jerry Patterson
stated on June 11, 2010 a speech at the Texas Republican Party Convention
"We have a director of homeland security who cannot use and will not use the term 'terrorist attack' but instead substitutes 'man-made disaster.' "
False
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • June 21, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 15, 2010 a press release
Since 2000, "the Texas clean air program achieved a 22 percent reduction in ozone and a 46 percent decrease in NOx emissions."
Half-True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • June 16, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 4, 2010 an interview
Says an estimate that Texas will face an $18 billion budget gap is "a number that somebody just reached up in the air and grabbed."
False
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • June 10, 2010
Kathy Miller
Kathy Miller
stated on May 18, 2010 an op-ed article
"A Houston school district analysis found that the (State Board of Education) more than quadrupled the number of historical figures students must learn about."
Half-True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • June 3, 2010
Lamar Smith
Lamar Smith
stated on May 20, 2010 an interview with the Fox News Network
Mexican government officials "hand out brochures showing individuals how they can avoid our Border Patrol, how they can get into our country."
Mostly False
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • May 30, 2010
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