Fact Check Posts – Page 27

Chuck Todd says there are estimates of a Texas recession if all unauthorized immigrants deported

By W. Gardner Selby

January 9, 2015

"There have been some estimates that if you deported everybody who is in Texas illegally," it "would create an economic recession for the state."

Kevin Brady says sales tax deduction has saved Texas families more than $10 billion

By W. Gardner Selby

December 23, 2014

"Texas families have kept more than $10 billion in their family budgets since we successfully fought to restore Texas' sales tax deduction a decade ago."

Pete Gallego says this Congress least productive, popular in U.S. history

By W. Gardner Selby

December 18, 2014

"This Congress made history as the least productive, most unpopular Congress in the history of this proud nation."

Appointee Wallace Hall says Joe Straus said he didn’t care if Hall was strung from a tree

By W. Gardner Selby

December 17, 2014

Texas House Speaker Joe Straus said, ‘I do not care if Wallace Hall swings from a tree.’

Adler says Mike Martinez voted to raise taxes and utility rates, also ending free buses for seniors

By W. Gardner Selby

December 11, 2014

Mike "Martinez has voted to raise taxes and utility rates while ending free bus service for seniors."

Texas Right to Life says UT students signed petition to abort babies, children up to age 5

By W. Gardner Selby

December 10, 2014

University of Texas students "signed a petition seeking the legal right to abort newborn babies up to five-years-old."

Mike Martinez, PAC says, cut a deal to avoid possible jail time, sticking taxpayers with legal bill

By W. Gardner Selby

December 10, 2014

"Mike Martinez cut a deal with prosecutors to avoid facing possible jail time and stuck us with his $24,657.50 legal bill."

Michael McCaul says Obama said ‘over 20 times’ he lacked authority to act alone on immigration

By W. Gardner Selby

December 5, 2014

President Barack Obama "said over 20 times he did not have the legal authority" to act as he did on immigration.

Bryant Gumbel says a golf course closes somewhere in America every 48 hours

By W. Gardner Selby

December 5, 2014

"A golf course closes somewhere in America every 48 hours."

Austin-area activist says Austin has fastest-growing taxes of any major U.S. city

By W. Gardner Selby

November 28, 2014

Austin is "burdened by the fastest-growing tax increases of any major city in the nation."

Steve Adler represented store trying to build over aquifer; fight didn’t begin over dumping oil

By W. Gardner Selby

November 21, 2014

Austin mayoral candidate Steve Adler opposed an injunction to stop a "company from dumping petrochemicals directly into the Barton Springs aquifer."

Martinez says Steve Adler hasn’t been active in anything that has to do with Austin’s City Hall

By W. Gardner Selby

November 20, 2014

Austin mayoral candidate Steve Adler has "never been active in anything that has to do with City Hall."

Latest Fact Checks By W. Gardner Selby

Chuck Todd says there are estimates of a Texas recession if all unauthorized immigrants deported

Kevin Brady says sales tax deduction has saved Texas families more than $10 billion

Pete Gallego says this Congress least productive, popular in U.S. history

Appointee Wallace Hall says Joe Straus said he didn’t care if Hall was strung from a tree

Adler says Mike Martinez voted to raise taxes and utility rates, also ending free buses for seniors

Texas Right to Life says UT students signed petition to abort babies, children up to age 5

Mike Martinez, PAC says, cut a deal to avoid possible jail time, sticking taxpayers with legal bill

Michael McCaul says Obama said ‘over 20 times’ he lacked authority to act alone on immigration

Bryant Gumbel says a golf course closes somewhere in America every 48 hours

Austin-area activist says Austin has fastest-growing taxes of any major U.S. city

Steve Adler represented store trying to build over aquifer; fight didn’t begin over dumping oil

Martinez says Steve Adler hasn’t been active in anything that has to do with Austin’s City Hall