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Latest Fact-Checks In Texas

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Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on September 22, 2011 newspaper article
Says Texas’ unemployment rate has doubled on Rick Perry’s watch.
Half-True
By Sue Owen • September 23, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on September 22, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Orlando.
Says he "got lobbied" by a woman with late-stage cancer about vaccinating Texas girls against a virus that can cause cervical cancer.
False
By W. Gardner Selby • September 23, 2011
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on September 1, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Tampa, Florida.
Says Rick Perry "provided in-state tuition... for illegal immigrants."
True
By Sue Owen • September 23, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on September 12, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Tampa, Florida.
Says Mitt Romney wrote that if Social Security was done "in the private sector, it would be called criminal."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • September 22, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on September 16, 2011 answer to questions.
Says he did not support the October 2008 legislation to rescue Wall Street firms.
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • September 21, 2011
Save Our Springs Alliance
Save Our Springs Alliance
stated on August 16, 2011 a newsletter post.
"Ten years ago the Austin Water Utility used a total of 240.3 million gallons. Every summer since then our peak day of water use has been lower."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • September 17, 2011
Keep Conservatives United
Keep Conservatives United
stated on September 1, 2011 a video advertisement.
Says "Rick Perry doubled spending in a decade."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • September 14, 2011
Jim Hightower
Jim Hightower
stated on September 6, 2011 an interview.
Says Rick Perry and the Republican-controlled Texas Legislature "managed to slash the budget of the volunteer fire departments in our state by 75 percent in the last legislative session," reducing their abilities to fight recent wildfires.
False
By W. Gardner Selby • September 13, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on September 7, 2011 a Republican presidential debate.
"When you look at what we have done over the last decade, we created 1 million jobs in the state of Texas. At the same time, (the rest of) America lost 2.5 million."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • September 11, 2011
Ron Paul
Ron Paul
stated on August 10, 2011 an Iowa campaign stop.
Rick Perry "was the (campaign) chairman for Al Gore at one time, not too many years ago."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • September 7, 2011
Debra Medina
Debra Medina
stated on January 14, 2010 the Republican gubernatorial debate in Denton
"Governor (Perry), you were a Democrat, having worked for Al Gore as his campaign manager..."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • September 7, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on August 30, 2011 a radio interview
"I became a Republican sooner in my life than" Ronald Reagan did in his.
True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • September 6, 2011
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on August 12, 2011 on web pages.
Say Texas U.S. Reps. Eddie Bernice Johnson and Sheila Jackson Lee are among open Socialists in Congress.
Pants on Fire!
By Charles Pope, W. Gardner Selby • September 5, 2011
Kinky Friedman
Kinky Friedman
stated on August 24, 2011 an opinion column.
Says Barack Obama’s "favorability rating in Israel once clocked in at 4 percent."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • September 4, 2011
Maureen Dowd
Maureen Dowd
stated on August 30, 2011 an oped column.
Says Ron Paul insisted FEMA should be shut down.
True
By W. Gardner Selby • September 3, 2011
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on August 24, 2011 a Twitter message.
Congressional Budget Office "says 8 (percent) unemployment till 2014!"
True
By W. Gardner Selby • August 31, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on August 13, 2011 a campaign video on his website
Says the national debt and President Barack Obama's "refusal to control spending led to our nation's credit rating being downgraded for the first time in history."
Half-True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • August 30, 2011
Margaret Carlson
Margaret Carlson
stated on August 9, 2011 a politics column.
Rick Perry "has advocated abandoning Social Security, scuttling Medicaid and ending the federal income tax."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • August 28, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on August 14, 2011
Says his hometown of Paint Creek, Texas, "doesn’t even have a ZIP code."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • August 27, 2011
Mike Villarreal
Mike Villarreal
stated on August 6, 2011 a Texas Capitol rally.
Says that before Rick Perry became governor, "only 4 percent of our total labor force was a minimum wage job ... Today, that number has more than doubled (to) 9.5 percent."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • August 24, 2011
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