Fact Check Posts – Page 6

David Simpson
stated on November 30, 2015 a campaign press release:

"I have always opposed driver's licenses for illegal aliens."

By W. Gardner Selby • December 11, 2015

Kevin Russell
stated on October 28, 2015 an opinion column:

"In almost every other country in the world, artists and musicians are paid when their music is played on the radio. In fact, the only countries besides the U.S. who do not have a radio-performance right are China, Iran and North Korea."

By W. Gardner Selby • December 7, 2015

Greg Abbott
stated on October 19, 2015 op-ed in Austin American-Statesman:

"Road congestion costs rush hour drivers in Austin and Dallas more than $1,000 a year. And in Houston, it’s even more -- almost $1,500 a year."

By Fauzeya Rahman • November 24, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on October 26, 2015 a Houston press conference:

My campaign "finished the last quarter reporting the most cash on hand of any Republican in the field … $13.8 million in the bank, $3.5 million more than the Jeb Bush campaign."

By W. Gardner Selby • October 30, 2015

Hillary Clinton
stated on October 15, 2015 a speech in San Antonio:

"We lose an average of 90 Americans every day because of guns."

By W. Gardner Selby • October 21, 2015

Bee Moorhead
stated on September 29, 2015 an oped article in the Austin American-Statesman:

Texas has "outstripped the national poverty rate" since "at least 1959."

By W. Gardner Selby • October 12, 2015

Michael McCaul
stated on September 12, 2015 the Republican weekly radio/TV address:

Iran’s "regime is responsible for more than 1,000 American casualties during the Iraq war" and "has plotted a terrorist attack here in our nation's capital."

By W. Gardner Selby • October 5, 2015

Don Zimmerman
stated on September 1, 2015 an Austin City Council meeting:

Salaries of Austin residents who don't work for city government "have not been going up 3 percent a year for the last several years."

By W. Gardner Selby • September 25, 2015

Lloyd Doggett
stated on September 3, 2015 remarks in San Antonio:

As many as six federal department budget bills have been delayed because of opposition to amendments that would ban Confederate battle flag sales at federal building gift shops.

By W. Gardner Selby • September 11, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on August 21, 2015 speaking to reporters in Iowa:

"It has been the law since the beginning of the country that the children of American citizens born ... abroad are American citizens by birth."

By W. Gardner Selby • September 4, 2015

Bruce Elfant
stated on August 5, 2015 an interview with Dick Ellis, KOKE FM, Austin:

"The United States is about 100th in voter turnout among the industrialized nations, and Texas is near the bottom in terms of voter registration and voter turnout."

By W. Gardner Selby • August 21, 2015

Donna Howard
stated on June 25, 2015 a press release:

Texas has "the nation's highest rate and highest number of uninsured."

By W. Gardner Selby • July 1, 2015

Rick Perry
stated on June 4, 2015 his declaration for president:

"Texas now has the second-highest high school graduation rate in the country. And it has the highest graduation rate for African Americans and Hispanics."

By W. Gardner Selby • June 19, 2015

Anonymous Activist
stated on May 19, 2015 yard signs posted anonymously opposing a proposed office park redevelopment in Northwest Austin:

"500 percent more traffic here?"

By W. Gardner Selby • June 9, 2015

Rick Perry
stated on June 4, 2015 his speech declaring his candidacy for president:

"In the last seven years of my tenure, Texas created 1.5 million new jobs. As a matter of fact, without Texas, America would have lost 400,000 jobs."

By W. Gardner Selby • June 8, 2015

Tim Cook
stated on March 29, 2015 an oped column:

"Legislation being considered in Texas would strip the salaries and pensions of clerks who issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples — even if the Supreme Court strikes down Texas’ marriage ban later this year."

By Alex Wilts • April 15, 2015

Bernie Sanders
stated on March 31, 2015 a talk in Austin:

"Half of all Americans have less than $10,000 in their savings account."

By W. Gardner Selby • April 9, 2015

Texas Democratic Party
stated on February 12, 2015 a press release:

More than 1 million Texans live without affordable health care because Rick Perry failed to "partner with the Legislature to find a Texas solution to closing the coverage gap."

By W. Gardner Selby • March 1, 2015

Greg Abbott
stated on February 17, 2015 an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News:

"22 times Barack Obama said he did not have the authority to implement this type of" anti-deportation "measure. And then the day after he signed this into law, he said, quote, ‘I just changed the law.’"

By W. Gardner Selby • February 23, 2015

Dave Claunch
stated on January 14, 2015 a meeting of the West Lake Hills City Council:

"Austin has more lobbyists working for it than any other municipality in Texas."

By Alex Wilts • February 16, 2015

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