Fact Check Posts – Page 15

Rick Perry
stated on April 7, 2015 in an interview with the Texas Tribune:

On in-state tuition for unauthorized immigrants.

By W. Gardner Selby • April 15, 2015

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

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

By W. Gardner Selby • April 9, 2015

Facebook posts
stated on March 25, 2015 in an online meme:

Says Ted Cruz said, "There is no place for gays or atheists in my America. None. Our Constitution makes that clear."

By W. Gardner Selby • April 8, 2015

Sid Miller
stated on March 10, 2015 in a symposium on water hosted by the Texas Tribune:

"We have towns in West Texas that are out of water, that are having to truck in water."

By W. Gardner Selby • April 8, 2015

Pete Gallego
stated on April 2, 2015 in 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."

By W. Gardner Selby • April 7, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on March 23, 2015 in :

"Today roughly half of born-again Christians aren’t voting. They’re staying home."

By W. Gardner Selby • March 30, 2015

Facebook posts
stated on March 26, 2015 in an online meme:

Says Ted Cruz just flip-flopped about the president needing to be U.S.-born.

By W. Gardner Selby • March 27, 2015

Greg Abbott
stated on February 17, 2015 in 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."

By W. Gardner Selby • March 26, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on March 11, 2015 in an interview with Hugh Hewitt:

"Here, we have Thanksgiving, we have Christmas, we have the 4th of July. Every year in Iran, they celebrate Death to America day."

By W. Gardner Selby • March 13, 2015

George P. Bush
stated on January 30, 2015 in remarks at a "school choice" rally outside the Texas Capitol:

A "majority of our students are trapped in" underperforming schools.

By W. Gardner Selby • March 12, 2015

Dan Patrick
stated on February 25, 2015 in an interview on KLBJ AM in Austin:

Texas this fiscal year will "have more money in reserve than the other 49 states combined."

By W. Gardner Selby • March 5, 2015

Rick Perry
stated on February 27, 2015 in 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."

By Alex Wilts, W. Gardner Selby • March 4, 2015

Greg Abbott
stated on February 22, 2015 in an interview on CBS's "Face the Nation":

"Already this calendar year, since January 1, we have had more than 20,000 people come across the border, apprehended, unauthorized."

By W. Gardner Selby • March 3, 2015

Texas Democratic Party
stated on February 12, 2015 in 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

Facebook posts
stated on February 7, 2015 in a meme supposedly quoting Sheila Jackson Lee:

Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas said: ‘Hey, all you wrinkly, white-aged has-beens: It’s time for you to die and let the next generation have your spot on the planet.’

By W. Gardner Selby • February 24, 2015

Greg Abbott
stated on February 17, 2015 in 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

Greg Abbott
stated on February 17, 2014 in his State of the State address:

"Texas has more full-time state employees per capita than California and Illinois."

By W. Gardner Selby • February 20, 2015

Lloyd Doggett
stated on January 26, 2015 in oped commentary:

The Department of Homeland Security is "the only federal department not funded for this entire fiscal year" by Congress.

By W. Gardner Selby • February 18, 2015

Rick Perry
stated on February 5, 2014 in an interview with the Texas Tribune and Washington Post.:

"When I came into office, our vaccination rate in Texas was 65 percent. When I left two weeks ago, it was 95 percent."

By W. Gardner Selby • February 12, 2015

Alcee Hastings
stated on February 5, 2015 in a telephone interview with CNN:

A Texas law says "that you can’t shoot bears out of the second floor of a window."

By W. Gardner Selby • February 12, 2015

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