Latest Fact-Checks By W. Gardner Selby

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Wendy Davis
stated on March 10, 2014 in a tweet:

Women "are still paid 82 cents for every dollar a man earns in Texas."

Mostly True

By W. Gardner Selby • March 20, 2014

David Dewhurst
stated on March 2, 2014 in :

Dan Patrick "called for increasing the gas tax and the state sales tax."

Mostly True

By W. Gardner Selby • March 17, 2014

David Dewhurst
stated on March 2, 2014 in a TV ad:

Says Dan Patrick "supported giving a $5,000 taxpayer-funded voucher to every family to buy a car."

Mostly True

By W. Gardner Selby • March 14, 2014

Rick Perry
stated on March 7, 2014 in a speech:

"If you rent a U-Haul to move your company, it costs twice as much to go from San Francisco to Austin than the other way around, because you can’t find enough trucks to flee the Golden State."

True

By W. Gardner Selby • March 12, 2014

Lee Leffingwell
stated on February 25, 2014 in his "State of the City" address:

Austin is "a city that has basically doubled in size every 25 years or so since it was founded."

True

By W. Gardner Selby • March 7, 2014

ChangeAustin.org
stated on February 26, 2014 in an email blast:

Sarah Eckhardt "refused to take her own pay increases repeatedly."

Half-True

By W. Gardner Selby • March 6, 2014

Maxey Scherr
stated on January 23, 2014 in an interview:

"We have more women living in poverty in this state than almost anywhere else."

Mostly True

By W. Gardner Selby • February 27, 2014

Texas Liberty PAC
stated on February 22, 2014 in a sign spotted outside a polling place in Austin:

Says Lamar Smith "sponsored the bill that funded Obamacare."

False

By W. Gardner Selby • February 27, 2014

Andy Brown
stated on February 17, 2014 in a mailer to voters:

"Travis County now has the highest urban county tax rate in Texas."

Mostly True

By W. Gardner Selby • February 26, 2014

Dan Branch
stated on February 4, 2014 in a video ad:

"Worked with Ronald Reagan and helped re-elect him."

Half-True

By W. Gardner Selby • February 21, 2014

David Alameel
stated on February 7, 2014 in an email blast:

"More than 40,000 troops are still stationed in Afghanistan with no clear objective. Even in the best case, by the end of the year at least 10,000 American soldiers will still be on the ground."

Half-True

By W. Gardner Selby • February 21, 2014

American Life League
stated on February 4, 2014 in an email blast:

Girl Scouts USA’s curriculum "promotes Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, Betty Friedan, founder of NARAL Prochoice, and other pro-abortion women as icons for our children to emulate."

False

By W. Gardner Selby • February 13, 2014

Steve Stockman
stated on January 31, 2014 in a campaign email blast:

John Cornyn "voted twice in 2013 to back Obama’s amnesty plan."

Pants on Fire!

By W. Gardner Selby • February 10, 2014

Cecile Richards
stated on December 6, 2013 in an interview with Texas Monthly:

The "U.S. has the highest unintended pregnancy rate of any Western industrialized country."

Mostly True

By W. Gardner Selby • February 10, 2014

Greg Abbott
stated on December 12, 2013 in as quoted during a school visit:

Says 85 percent of IDEA charter-school students come from low-income families and about 99 percent of its graduates go to college.

Mostly True

By W. Gardner Selby • February 5, 2014

Todd Staples
stated on January 27, 2014 in the Texas Debate hosted by KERA-TV, Channel 13, in Dallas:

David Dewhurst is "the first lieutenant governor in history to have a personal security detail."

Mostly True

By W. Gardner Selby • January 31, 2014

Wendy Davis
stated on January 28, 2014 in a speech:

"I never gave up custody of my children. I never lost custody of my children."

Mostly True

By Sue Owen, W. Gardner Selby • January 30, 2014

John Cornyn
stated on January 10, 2014 in an online commentary:

"25% of human trafficking victims are located in Texas."

Pants on Fire!

By W. Gardner Selby • January 29, 2014

Steve Stockman
stated on January 24, 2014 in a Stockman campaign web page:

"John Cornyn backed his pal David Dewhurst" for the U.S. Senate over Ted Cruz.

False

By W. Gardner Selby • January 28, 2014

Ron Paul
stated on January 14, 2014 in an email blast:

For "the past year, I was censored" and muzzled.

False

By W. Gardner Selby • January 24, 2014

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