Latest Fact-Checks By W. Gardner Selby

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Bryant Gumbel
Bryant Gumbel
stated on July 21, 2014 in an episode of HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel:
"A golf course closes somewhere in America every 48 hours."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • December 5, 2014
Jim Skaggs
Jim Skaggs
stated on November 5, 2014 in as quoted in a news story:
Austin is "burdened by the fastest-growing tax increases of any major city in the nation."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • November 28, 2014
Brad Rockwell
Brad Rockwell
stated on November 12, 2014 in a press conference including mayoral candidate Mike Martinez:
Austin mayoral candidate Steve Adler opposed an injunction to stop a "company from dumping petrochemicals directly into the Barton Springs aquifer."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • November 21, 2014
Mike Martinez
Mike Martinez
stated on November 11, 2014 in an interview for a news story:
Austin mayoral candidate Steve Adler has "never been active in anything that has to do with City Hall."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • November 20, 2014
Mike Martinez
Mike Martinez
stated on November 12, 2014 in a press conference:
Austin mayoral candidate "Steve Adler admitted his law firm worked with Koch Industries for nearly a decade."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • November 14, 2014
Lynda Rife
Lynda Rife
stated on November 4, 2014 in as quoted in a news story:
110 people a day move to Austin.
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • November 14, 2014
Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick
stated on October 22, 2014 in a TV ad, "Better Schools":
Leticia Van de Putte "voted to stop schools from removing teachers convicted of a felony."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • October 29, 2014
Lloyd Doggett
Lloyd Doggett
stated on October 25, 2014 in a Let's Go Austin mailer:
"The Austin Tea Party and an ultra-conservative millionaire are behind the" campaign against the city’s light-rail proposition.
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • October 29, 2014
Citizens Against Rail Taxes
Citizens Against Rail Taxes
stated on October 8, 2014 in a radio ad:
None of $400 million the City of Austin proposes to spend on road projects "will be used to add new lanes to congested roadways."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • October 23, 2014
Sheryl Cole
Sheryl Cole
stated on October 15, 2014 in a "Ballot Boxing" candidate forum:
"This year," the Austin City Council "granted a small homestead" property tax "exemption of $5,000... applied equally to everyone. And we also granted an exemption for the elderly and the disabled members of the community."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • October 21, 2014
Leticia Van de Putte
Leticia Van de Putte
stated on October 15, 2014 in a video ad:
"In 2013," Dan Patrick voted "against funding to test the backlog of rape kits, allowing rapists to walk free."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • October 17, 2014
Wendy Davis
Wendy Davis
stated on September 17, 2014 in a TV ad:
"Weeks after accepting a quarter-million-dollar campaign contribution" from a hospital board chairman, Greg Abbott went to court against victims of a drug-taking neurosurgeon.
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • October 15, 2014
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on September 7, 2014 in an interview for "Inside Texas Politics" on WFAA-TV, Channel 8, in Dallas:
My office sends federal "money back every year."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • October 14, 2014
Duncan Hunter
Duncan Hunter
stated on October 7, 2014 in an interview with Greta Van Susteren of Fox News:
"At least 10 ISIS fighters have been caught coming across the Mexican border in Texas" and there are "dozens more that did not get caught by the Border Patrol."
Pants on Fire!
By Dylan Baddour, W. Gardner Selby • October 10, 2014
Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick
stated on October 8, 2014 in a TV ad:
Leticia Van de Putte "opposed putting National Guard troops on the border, would send millions to Central American governments instead and wrote the law giving in-state tuition to illegal immigrants."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • October 8, 2014
Leticia Van de Putte
Leticia Van de Putte
stated on September 29, 2014 in a debate in Austin:
Dan Patrick said that if women "get paid less than a man for the same job, that that’s not a problem."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • October 2, 2014
Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick
stated on September 29, 2014 in a debate in Austin:
Leticia Van de Putte "voted to give illegal immigrants in this country free health care--not emergency health care but total free health care."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • October 2, 2014
Leticia Van de Putte
Leticia Van de Putte
stated on September 29, 2014 in a debate:
The state-hired company that evaluates state-mandated student exams "goes on Craigslist to get examiners to read our students’ essays."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • October 2, 2014
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on September 19, 2014 in a debate in the Rio Grande Valley.:
A 2011 measure passed into law with Wendy Davis’ support "removes from the attorney general the ability to settle lawsuits just like" the school funding case.
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • September 30, 2014
Wendy Davis
Wendy Davis
stated on September 23, 2014 in speaking to reporters:
"Greg Abbott and his surrogates have referred to women who have been the victims of rape or incest as though somehow what they are confronting is a minor issue."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • September 25, 2014
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