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stated on August 6, 2015 a Snopes.com tweet recapping a Facebook post:
A Texas police department bought an ad telling drug dealers, "We can take your competition off the streets for FREE."  
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By W. Gardner Selby • October 30, 2015
Jeremy Bird
Jeremy Bird
stated on October 2, 2015 a tweet after the shootings at an Oregon community college:
"90% of Americans want national background checks that close loopholes."
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By W. Gardner Selby • October 5, 2015
Glenn Hegar
Glenn Hegar
stated on September 10, 2015 a speech in Georgetown, Texas:
"We have 650 people who move to Texas every day."
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By W. Gardner Selby • October 1, 2015
Joe Pojman
Joe Pojman
stated on July 28, 2015 addressing a rally outside the Texas Capitol:
"The State of Texas is funding … women’s health services at historically high levels; they just increased their level another $50 million for the next two years."
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By W. Gardner Selby • September 4, 2015
Sid Miller
Sid Miller
stated on August 16, 2015 a meme posted on his Facebook page:
"To vote in Mexico every eligible Mexican citizen has to have a tamper-proof photo-ID card with a thumbprint and an embossed hologram."
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By W. Gardner Selby • August 26, 2015
Julián Castro
Julián Castro
stated on July 27, 2015 his year-in-review speech:
"Less than half of the poorest American households have a home Internet subscription."
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By Bradley Saacks • August 20, 2015
Ron Paul
Ron Paul
stated on June 14, 2015 an opinion column:
"Jasper County in Texas raised property taxes by 7 percent in order to pay for one death penalty case."
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By W. Gardner Selby • July 9, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 4, 2015 a speech in Houston:
"If you want to vote in" Texas, "you can use a concealed-weapon permit as a valid form of identification, but a valid student ID isn’t good enough."
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By W. Gardner Selby • June 26, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on May 16, 2015 a speech in Iowa:
"One out of five of our children live in a family that’s on food stamps."
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By W. Gardner Selby • June 3, 2015
Texas Organizing Project
Texas Organizing Project
stated on March 5, 2015 a press release:
"The unemployment rate among blacks in Texas is 9.5% -- far more than double white unemployment -- and wages have fallen for black workers in Texas since 2000."
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By Alex Wilts • April 23, 2015
Jerry Falwell Jr.
Jerry Falwell Jr.
stated on March 23, 2015 a speech introducing Ted Cruz at Liberty University:
Ted Cruz was "the longest-serving solicitor general in the history of Texas."
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By Alex Wilts • March 25, 2015
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on February 22, 2015 an interview on CBS's "Face the Nation":
"Already this calendar year, since January 1, we have had more than 20,000 people come across the border, apprehended, unauthorized."
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By W. Gardner Selby • March 3, 2015
Lloyd Doggett
Lloyd Doggett
stated on January 26, 2015 oped commentary:
The Department of Homeland Security is "the only federal department not funded for this entire fiscal year" by Congress.
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By W. Gardner Selby • February 18, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on January 9, 2015 Texas Public Policy Foundation policy orientation:
"I belong to the AFL-CIO."  
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By W. Gardner Selby • January 13, 2015
Kevin Brady
Kevin Brady
stated on December 17, 2014 a press release:
"Texas families have kept more than $10 billion in their family budgets since we successfully fought to restore Texas' sales tax deduction a decade ago."
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By W. Gardner Selby • December 23, 2014
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on December 7, 2014 an interview on Meet the Press:
"My wife is going to be the first Hispanic first lady in the history of Texas."
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By Dylan Baddour • December 22, 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."
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By W. Gardner Selby • December 10, 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."
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By Dylan Baddour • October 23, 2014
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on September 7, 2014 an interview for "Inside Texas Politics" on WFAA-TV, Channel 8, in Dallas:
My office sends federal "money back every year."
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By W. Gardner Selby • October 14, 2014
Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick
stated on July 21, 2014 an interview with Laura Ingraham:
More people are apprehended after illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border a week "than are born in Texas each week."
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By Philip Jankowski • September 12, 2014
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