Fact Check Posts – Page 5

Rick Perry
stated on January 26, 2015 a breakfast talk in Iowa

The U.S. unemployment rate has "been massaged, it’s been doctored."

By W. Gardner Selby • January 26, 2015

Wallace Hall
stated on December 6, 2014 a speech

Texas House Speaker Joe Straus said, ‘I do not care if Wallace Hall swings from a tree.’

By W. Gardner Selby • December 17, 2014

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."

By W. Gardner Selby • November 20, 2014

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."

By Dylan Baddour • October 19, 2014

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."

By W. Gardner Selby • October 17, 2014

Duncan Hunter
stated on October 7, 2014 an interview with Greta Van Susteren of Fox News

"At least 10 ISIS fighters have been caught coming across the Mexican border in Texas" and there are "dozens more that did not get caught by the Border Patrol."

By Dylan Baddour, W. Gardner Selby • October 10, 2014

Wendy Davis
stated on September 23, 2014 speaking to reporters

"Greg Abbott and his surrogates have referred to women who have been the victims of rape or incest as though somehow what they are confronting is a minor issue."

By W. Gardner Selby • September 25, 2014

Todd Staples
stated on September 8, 2014 oped commentary

"To deprive" underprivileged children "of a meat-based protein during school lunch is most likely depriving them of their only source of protein for the day."

By Dylan Baddour • September 21, 2014

Dan Patrick
stated on August 28, 2014 a press release

"As chair of the Senate Education Committee, I led the charge to restore most of the education cuts from last session."

By W. Gardner Selby • September 15, 2014

Occupy Democrats
stated on July 11, 2014 a Facebook photo post

Says Ted Cruz "was just bribed by the Kochs to introduce a bill that would give them and their allies America’s national forests, parks, and other public lands and open them for mining, drilling, fracking and logging."

By W. Gardner Selby • August 17, 2014

Eugene Sepulveda
stated on July 29, 2014 a Facebook post

Austin mayoral candidate "Mike Martinez takes corporate money."

By W. Gardner Selby • August 7, 2014

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

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 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

David Dewhurst
stated on May 7, 2014 a roundtable debate with state Sen. Dan Patrick

Wendy Davis "was just doing a fund-raiser in Chicago with the international socialists organization."

By W. Gardner Selby • May 9, 2014

Greg Abbott
stated on May 6, 2014 a press release

Wendy Davis raised money for a U.S. House Democrat who is a member of a Democratic socialists group.

By W. Gardner Selby • May 9, 2014

David Dewhurst
stated on April 16, 2014 a video ad

Dan Patrick "changed his name from Danny Goeb to hide from" his "debts."

By W. Gardner Selby • April 18, 2014

Facebook posts
stated on February 3, 2014 a photo-quotation posted to Facebook

Says Michele Bachmann said "English was good enough for Jesus when he wrote the Bible."

By Sue Owen • February 12, 2014

Steve Stockman
stated on January 31, 2014 a campaign email blast

John Cornyn "voted twice in 2013 to back Obama’s amnesty plan."

By W. Gardner Selby • February 10, 2014

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