Latest Fact-Checks By W. Gardner Selby

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Greg Abbott
stated on June 12, 2015 in a press release:

A Texas law "will repatriate $1 billion of gold bullion from the Federal Reserve in New York to Texas."

Mostly False

By W. Gardner Selby • June 26, 2015

Hillary Clinton
stated on June 4, 2015 in 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."

True

By W. Gardner Selby • June 26, 2015

Rick Perry
stated on June 4, 2015 in 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."

Mostly True

By W. Gardner Selby • June 19, 2015

Doonesbury
stated on June 14, 2015 in the strip about Greg Abbott and the Jade Helm military exercise:

Greg Abbott "activated the state guard to monitor" Jade Helm 15 "in case the troops try to impose martial law, disarm innocent Texans, and detain them in tunnels beneath closed Walmart stores."

Half-True

By W. Gardner Selby • June 19, 2015

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

"500 percent more traffic here?"

Mostly True

By W. Gardner Selby • June 9, 2015

Rick Perry
stated on June 4, 2015 in 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."

Mostly True

By W. Gardner Selby • June 8, 2015

Gary Painter
stated on May 10, 2015 in as quoted in a Midland Reporter-Telegram news story:

"We’re the only nation in the world that does not use the military to secure our border."

Pants on Fire!

By W. Gardner Selby • June 5, 2015

Rick Perry
stated on May 16, 2015 in a speech in Iowa:

"One out of five of our children live in a family that’s on food stamps."

True

By W. Gardner Selby • June 3, 2015

Facebook posts
stated on May 22, 2015 in a meme on a Facebook page:

Says Ted Cruz said: "While there may have been an age difference, Josh Duggar’s transgressions are far less an affront to God than what gays do to each other."

Pants on Fire!

By W. Gardner Selby • May 28, 2015

Gina Hinojosa
stated on May 6, 2015 in an interview with Kiah Collier, Austin American-Statesman reporter:

Austin school district "teachers are the lowest paid of any urban" Texas district and the "lowest paid of any surrounding school district."

Half-True

By W. Gardner Selby • May 27, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on July 12, 2014 in a roundtable with Texas businesses:

"Every year we spend roughly $500 billion on tax compliance. That is roughly the budget of our entire military, entirely wasted on tax compliance."

False

By W. Gardner Selby • May 20, 2015

Children's Defense Fund-Texas
stated on April 28, 2015 in a press release:

"In the last 24 months, 10 rural Texas hospitals have been forced to shut their doors because state leaders" chose not to expand Medicaid.

Mostly False

By W. Gardner Selby • May 15, 2015

Garnet Coleman
stated on May 6, 2015 in a committee hearing:

"Transgender individuals in the U.S. have a 1-in-12 chance of being murdered."

Pants on Fire!

By W. Gardner Selby • May 13, 2015

Rick Perry
stated on May 5, 2015 in an oped column:

On reauthorization of Export-Import Bank.

Full Flop

By W. Gardner Selby • May 7, 2015

Van Taylor
stated on March 25, 2015 in a press release:

I "helped pass what, if enacted, would be the largest tax cut in Texas history through the State Senate."

Mostly False

By W. Gardner Selby • May 5, 2015

Sid Miller
stated on March 10, 2015 in 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
stated on April 1, 2015 in 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

Ted Cruz
stated on April 18, 2015 in remarks in New Hampshire:

"About half of the presidents have been governors; half of them, senators."

False

By W. Gardner Selby • April 27, 2015

Sabino "Pio" Renteria
stated on April 10, 2015 in a cover story in the Austin Chronicle:

"Fifteen years ago, you couldn't even get a pizza delivered in that neighborhood."

Mostly False

By W. Gardner Selby • April 24, 2015

Judicial Watch
stated on April 14, 2015 in a web item:

"ISIS camp a few miles from Texas, Mexican authorities confirm."

False

By W. Gardner Selby • April 17, 2015

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