Latest Fact-Checks By W. Gardner Selby

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League of Women Voters of the Austin Area
League of Women Voters of the Austin Area
stated on April 28, 2013 in a Voters Guide.:
Says proponents of a bond package for the Austin school district say the district has the second-lowest bond tax rate "among the Central Texas area school districts."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • May 3, 2013
League of Women Voters of the Austin Area
League of Women Voters of the Austin Area
stated on April 28, 2013 in a voters guide.:
Says opponents of proposed Austin school district bonds say the district’s "debt load doubles with these new bonds."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • May 3, 2013
Wayne Smith
Wayne Smith
stated on April 17, 2013 in an interview.:
"Science has not shown greenhouse gases to be a problem."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • May 2, 2013
Jack Ohman
Jack Ohman
stated on April 25, 2013 in a column on an editorial cartoon.:
Says the fertilizer plant that exploded in West, Texas,"had not been inspected by the state of Texas since 2006."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • May 1, 2013
Bee Moorhead
Bee Moorhead
stated on April 23, 2013 in a civic summit.:
Says more Austinites voted in the city’s 1973 election featuring a mayor’s race than in the city’s most recent mayoral election.
True
By W. Gardner Selby • April 30, 2013
Texas State Employees Union
Texas State Employees Union
stated on April 1, 2013 in an organization web page.:
"Most state employees did not receive any pay raise from 2009 to 2012."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • April 29, 2013
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on April 5, 2013 in an interview on CNN.:
Says he has "yet to get a response" from Barack Obama to his August 2010 letter making border security requests.
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • April 25, 2013
Texas Association of School Boards
Texas Association of School Boards
stated on April 24, 2013 in an advertisement.:
"Texas ranks 49th in per-pupil funding among the states."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • April 24, 2013
Louie Gohmert
Louie Gohmert
stated on April 17, 2013 in an interview on C-SPAN.:
Says al Qaeda has camps with the drug cartels in Mexico.
False
By W. Gardner Selby • April 23, 2013
Wendy Davis
Wendy Davis
stated on April 9, 2013 in a Senate Education Committee meeting.:
Says Texas ranks 49th nationally in "what we are doing to support our per-pupil investment in education in the state."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • April 18, 2013
Nelson Wolff
Nelson Wolff
stated on April 1, 2013 in a Texas Capitol press conference.:
Says uncompensated health care costs absorbed by Texas hospitals are adding $1,800 a year to Texas private insurance rates.
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • April 17, 2013
Mike Villarreal
Mike Villarreal
stated on April 4, 2013 in Texas House debate on state budget.:
Says Texas lawmakers in 2011 ordered school districts to test every student on their respiratory system and weight.
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • April 16, 2013
Jodie Laubenberg
Jodie Laubenberg
stated on April 4, 2013 in a Texas House floor debate.:
Says Texas state funds were spent on "a TV series on spouses cheating on their wives, kind of glorifying the act of cheating."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • April 15, 2013
Lee Leffingwell
Lee Leffingwell
stated on March 28, 2013 in a press conference.:
Says 90 percent of Americans and 74 percent of National Rifle Association members support background checks of gun purchasers.
True
By W. Gardner Selby • April 4, 2013
Kirk Watson
Kirk Watson
stated on March 19, 2013 in a news article.:
Says carbon monoxide is still employed to euthanize dogs and cats in 29 Texas animal shelters.
True
By W. Gardner Selby • April 3, 2013
Matt Mackowiak
Matt Mackowiak
stated on April 1, 2013 in an opinion colulmn.:
Says the president of the University of Texas has raised four-year student graduation rates to 75 percent.
False
By W. Gardner Selby • April 2, 2013
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on April 1, 2013 in a press release jointly issued with U.S. Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz.:
"Only three in 10 Texas doctors are currently accepting new Medicaid patients."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • April 1, 2013
Joe Barton
Joe Barton
stated on February 12, 2013 in in reaction to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address.:
Says U.S. greenhouse gas "emissions are at 20-year lows."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • April 1, 2013
Jim Jordan
Jim Jordan
stated on March 19, 2013 in a congressional hearing:
The national debt is "larger than our entire annual economy."
Mostly True
By Molly Moorhead, Sabrina Eaton, W. Gardner Selby • March 28, 2013
Scott Henson
Scott Henson
stated on February 25, 2013 in an interview.:
Says Texas has "11 different felonies you can commit with an oyster."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • March 27, 2013
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