Latest Fact-Checks By W. Gardner Selby

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Uber
stated on November 7, 2015 in a web post:

"Recent news reports indicate DWI crashes in Austin dropped 23 percent since ridesharing entered the market."

Mostly True

By W. Gardner Selby • December 16, 2015

Marco Rubio
stated on December 15, 2015 in the CNN debate in Las Vegas:

Says Ted Cruz supports "legalizing people who are in this country illegally."

Mostly False

By Amy Sherman, W. Gardner Selby • December 16, 2015

Bryan Hughes
stated on December 1, 2015 in a campaign press release:

"David Simpson actually voted for driver's licenses for illegal immigrants."

Mostly False

By W. Gardner Selby • December 11, 2015

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

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

Mostly True

By W. Gardner Selby • December 11, 2015

Kevin Russell
stated on October 28, 2015 in 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."

Mostly True

By W. Gardner Selby • December 7, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on November 19, 2015 in an interview with Steven Crowder:

The "federal government is going after school districts, trying to force them to let boys shower with little girls."

False

By W. Gardner Selby • December 4, 2015

Facebook posts
stated on November 10, 2015 in a Facebook comment:

"Illegal immigrants mow the grass around the (Texas) Capitol."

False

By W. Gardner Selby • November 27, 2015

Marco Rubio
stated on November 12, 2015 in remarks to reporters in South Carolina:

Says Ted Cruz "is a supporter of legalizing people that are in this country illegally" and "proposed giving them work permits."

False

By W. Gardner Selby • November 18, 2015

Courageous Conservatives PAC
stated on November 6, 2015 in a video ad posted online:

"After Sandy Hook, Ted Cruz stopped Obama’s push for new gun control laws."

Mostly False

By W. Gardner Selby • November 13, 2015

Greg Abbott
stated on October 28, 2015 in a tweet:

"Texas #2 in nation for new gun purchases, behind California."

False

By W. Gardner Selby • November 6, 2015

Facebook posts
stated on August 6, 2015 in 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."

True

By W. Gardner Selby • October 30, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on October 26, 2015 in 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."

Mostly True

By W. Gardner Selby • October 30, 2015

Dan Patrick
stated on October 19, 2015 in an interview with Neil Cavuto of Fox News:

Planned Parenthood is "nothing more than a referral service. … They don’t do anything except profit from killing babies and then selling body parts of those aborted babies."

Pants on Fire!

By W. Gardner Selby • October 22, 2015

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

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

Mostly True

By W. Gardner Selby • October 21, 2015

Bill O'Reilly
stated on October 7, 2015 in a commentary:

From 2014 to 2015, Austin’s "murder rate is up a whopping 83 percent."

Mostly False

By Philip Jankowski, W. Gardner Selby • October 16, 2015

Jason Villalba
stated on October 13, 2015 in a tweet:

"Bernie Sanders admits he is a Democratic Socialist. … Nazis were Democratic Socialists."

Pants on Fire!

By W. Gardner Selby • October 16, 2015

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

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

Mostly True

By W. Gardner Selby • October 12, 2015

Dan Patrick
stated on September 3, 2015 in an interview by David Brown, host of the Texas Standard:

"100 percent of the crime is committed, in estimate, by about 15 percent of the population."

Pants on Fire!

By W. Gardner Selby • October 6, 2015

Jeremy Bird
stated on October 2, 2015 in a tweet after the shootings at an Oregon community college:

"90% of Americans want national background checks that close loopholes."

True

By W. Gardner Selby • October 5, 2015

Michael McCaul
stated on September 12, 2015 in 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."

Mostly True

By W. Gardner Selby • October 5, 2015

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