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Sharlene Leurig
Sharlene Leurig
stated on February 9, 2015 an Austin City Council workshop:
"Austin is the only city in an arid landscape in the western United States dependent on a single source of water."
Half-True
By Andra Lim • May 18, 2015
Sid Miller
Sid Miller
stated on March 10, 2015 a symposium on water hosted by the Texas Tribune:
Texas agriculture is "at 98 percent efficiency" in water use and "just about maxed out as to what we can do on the conservation end of it."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • May 4, 2015
Steve Adler
Steve Adler
stated on April 1, 2015 a speech:
Austin has "gone from being the 24th most congested city just about 10 years ago to being the fourth most congested — more congested than NYC."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • April 28, 2015
Pete Gallego
Pete Gallego
stated on April 2, 2015 an email blast:
"Just two weeks ago, Congressman Hurd quit his post on the House Committee on Small Business saying that he was unable to find the time to serve."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • April 7, 2015
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on February 17, 2015 his State of the State address:
Dallas "African-American and Hispanic students pass AP exams at a higher rate than any other place in America."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • March 26, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on February 27, 2015 a web ad:
"At this particular point in time, looking at the field, there’s only one individual that’s ever had the uniform of his country on—and that’s me."
Half-True
By Alex Wilts, W. Gardner Selby • March 4, 2015
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on February 17, 2014 his State of the State address:
"Texas has more full-time state employees per capita than California and Illinois."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • February 20, 2015
Paul Stekler
Paul Stekler
stated on January 24, 2015 an oped column:
Louisiana’s film incentives program is so big "they actually shot an upcoming film initially titled ‘Don’t Mess With Texas’ in New Orleans!"
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • February 7, 2015
Molly White
Molly White
stated on February 3, 2015 an online statement:
The group that organized Texas Muslim Capitol Day in Austin "was recently listed as one of 82 organizations designated as a terrorist group by the United Arab Emirates."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • February 6, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on January 15, 2015 valedictory speech as governor to the Texas Legislature:
Texas has "the lowest crime rate in this state since 1968" because of changes in law regarding nonviolent drug offenders.
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • February 3, 2015
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on January 27, 2015 a Senate floor speech:
More "than 80 percent of sex trafficking victims in America are U.S. citizens."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 30, 2015
Democratic National Committee
Democratic National Committee
stated on January 15, 2015 an email blast:
Since Rick Perry became governor, "poverty rates in Texas increased from 15.1% to 17.5% — which is higher than the national average."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 22, 2015
Chuck Todd
Chuck Todd
stated on December 7, 2014 an interview of Greg Abbott, Texas governor-elect:
"There have been some estimates that if you deported everybody who is in Texas illegally," it "would create an economic recession for the state."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 9, 2015
Texas Right to Life
Texas Right to Life
stated on December 5, 2014 an email blast:
University of Texas students "signed a petition seeking the legal right to abort newborn babies up to five-years-old."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • December 10, 2014
Bryant Gumbel
Bryant Gumbel
stated on July 21, 2014 an episode of HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel:
"A golf course closes somewhere in America every 48 hours."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • December 5, 2014
Brad Rockwell
Brad Rockwell
stated on November 12, 2014 a press conference including mayoral candidate Mike Martinez:
Austin mayoral candidate Steve Adler opposed an injunction to stop a "company from dumping petrochemicals directly into the Barton Springs aquifer."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • November 21, 2014
Lloyd Doggett
Lloyd Doggett
stated on October 25, 2014 a Let's Go Austin mailer:
"The Austin Tea Party and an ultra-conservative millionaire are behind the" campaign against the city’s light-rail proposition.
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • October 29, 2014
Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick
stated on October 8, 2014 a TV ad:
Leticia Van de Putte "opposed putting National Guard troops on the border, would send millions to Central American governments instead and wrote the law giving in-state tuition to illegal immigrants."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • October 8, 2014
Leticia Van de Putte
Leticia Van de Putte
stated on September 29, 2014 a debate in Austin:
Dan Patrick said that if women "get paid less than a man for the same job, that that’s not a problem."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • October 2, 2014
Wendy Davis
Wendy Davis
stated on September 19, 2014 a debate in the Rio Grande Valley.:
Greg Abbott "has campaigned with a sexual predator who has bragged about having sex with underage girls."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • September 25, 2014
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