Latest Fact Checks By W. Gardner Selby

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Derailed train 2018

Roman McAllen correct that Texas Railroad Commission has nothing to do with railroads

July 19, 2018
"The Railroad Commission of Texas has nothing to do with railroads."
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Greg Abbott, June 2018

Greg Abbott says Houston is home to more brothels than Starbucks stores

July 13, 2018
"In Houston, Texas, there are more brothels than there are Starbucks."
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Texas Sen. Bob Hall, 2017

Kendall Scudder says Bob Hall hasn’t passed a bill into law

July 12, 2018
"Bob Hall never successfully passed a bill." 
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2011 Texas drought photo

Jim Spencer: May 2018 marked 401st month of global temperature exceeding 20th-century average

June 20, 2018
Says May 2018 marked the 401st straight month of global temperatures exceeding the 20th century average.
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Ted Cruz with Donald Trump 2018

Ted Cruz says child-parent separations at border tied to a court order

June 18, 2018
"There’s actually a court order that prevents keeping the kids with the parents when you put the parents in jail."  
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cagedboyphoto2

Tweeted photo inaccurately indicates boy ‘caged’ by federal government

June 15, 2018
Say a boy was 'caged' in a wire enclosure.
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Lupe Valdez smiling May 2018

Lupe Valdez says 1 in 4 Texas clinics closed after lawmakers cut family planning aid

June 14, 2018
"After Texas cut" its "two-year family planning budget by $73 million, one in four clinics closed their doors."
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Zilker Park, Austin, kitefest

Most Austin city parks lack recycling though donations funded bins in biggest parks

June 8, 2018
Says most of Austin’s biggest parks have recycling though as "many as 293 out of 300" Austin city "parks have no recycling, including almost every…
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Hurricane Harvey satellite

Donald Trump says people went out on their boats to watch Hurricane Harvey

June 7, 2018
Says that people "went out in their boats to watch" Hurricane Harvey.
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Ken Paxton 2018

Justin Nelson tags Ken Paxton, Texas attorney general, as nation’s sole indicted statewide official

June 7, 2018
Says "our indicted Attorney General Ken Paxton is back to being the only statewide official in the country under indictment."  
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Lupe Valdez May 2018

Lupe Valdez says 1 in 6 Texans ‘don’t have health care’ and Texas is the most uninsured state

May 31, 2018
"One in six Texans don’t have health care. We’re the most uninsured state in the U.S."
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Greg Casar formal 2018

Greg Casar says Austin ‘ranked repeatedly’ high for economic segregation–even No. 1 nationally

May 31, 2018
Says Austin has "been ranked repeatedly as one of the most, if not the most, economically segregated cities in the country."
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