Latest Fact-Checks By W. Gardner Selby

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Raymond Frank
Raymond Frank
stated on October 7, 2012 in an advertisement.:
Says Travis County Sheriff Greg Hamilton has accepted $42,000 from strip-club interests and $10,000 from local alcohol distributors.
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • October 11, 2012
Bill Powers
Bill Powers
stated on September 27, 2012 in his "State of the University" address.:
"We confer more PhDs each year than any other university in America except Berkeley."  
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • October 10, 2012
Joe Straus
Joe Straus
stated on September 23, 2012 in a breakfast at the Texas Tribune Festival.:
Says Texas lawmakers last year expanded public education’s share of state spending.
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • October 8, 2012
Paul Sadler
Paul Sadler
stated on October 2, 2012 in the U.S. Senate candidate debate at WFAA-TV in Dallas.:
"I never supported" a state income tax for Texas.  
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • October 5, 2012
Lee Leffingwell
Lee Leffingwell
stated on August 31, 2012 in a UNITY PAC press release.:
Says Austin voters can approve seven bond propositions "without raising taxes."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • October 4, 2012
Paul Sadler
Paul Sadler
stated on September 26, 2012 in a press release.:
Says Ted Cruz "has pledged to eliminate" the U.S. Department of Education, which would end federal aid to college students.
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • September 27, 2012
Joaquin Castro
Joaquin Castro
stated on September 22, 2012 in a panel at the Texas Tribune Festival.:
Texas is "the state that has now gone the longest without electing a Democrat statewide."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • September 26, 2012
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on September 21, 2012 in a tweet.:
Says Barack Obama has added $16 trillion to the national debt.
False
By W. Gardner Selby • September 25, 2012
Progress Texas
Progress Texas
stated on September 7, 2012 in a newsletter update:
Says a voter-adopted constitutional amendment "instructed" a state board headed by Jerry Patterson to put $300 million in investment earnings into a fund supporting public school operations.  
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • September 21, 2012
Gary Johnson
Gary Johnson
stated on August 17, 2012 in an interview with Evan Smith on “Overheard,” premiered Sept. 6, 2012:
"I am going to be on the ballot in all 50 states. There is no other third-party candidate that’s going to come close to achieving that."  
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • September 20, 2012
Bill Hammond
Bill Hammond
stated on August 21, 2012 in an opinion article in the Houston Chronicle.:
Says "if current trends continue, by 2040, one out of three Texas workers will not have a high school diploma."  
True
By W. Gardner Selby • September 14, 2012
Mark Strama
Mark Strama
stated on September 5, 2012 in remarks to Texas delegates to the Democratic National Convention.:
Says Rush Limbaugh made it clear he’d rather see the country fail than President Barack Obama succeed.
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • September 13, 2012
Gilberto Hinojosa
Gilberto Hinojosa
stated on September 6, 2012 in a comment while attending the Democratic National Convention.:
Says that if Texas, California and New York all voted for Democratic presidential nominees, "it would be mathematically impossible for Republicans to elect a president."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • September 12, 2012
Julián Castro
Julián Castro
stated on September 9, 2012 in an interview on "Meet the Press.":
"We’re seeing now 30 straight months of private-sector job growth, 4.6 million jobs created."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • September 10, 2012
Julián Castro
Julián Castro
stated on September 4, 2012 in keynote address to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.:
Says Mitt Romney told university students in Ohio that to start a business, they should "borrow money if you have to from your parents."  
True
By W. Gardner Selby • September 5, 2012
Julián Castro
Julián Castro
stated on September 4, 2012 in keynote address at Democratic National Convention.:
Says Milken Institute rated San Antonio as nation’s top-performing local economy.
True
By Sue Owen, W. Gardner Selby • September 5, 2012
Hank Williams Jr.
Hank Williams Jr.
stated on September 2, 2012 in a concert in Fort Worth.:
Says Barack Obama is a Muslim.  
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • September 4, 2012
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on August 21, 2012 in a Facebook post.:
Says that when Democrats controlled Congress and the White House, federal spending as a share of the Gross Domestic Product leapt from 18.2 percent in 2001 to 25.2 percent in 2009 -- the largest such increase in any eight-year period since World War II. 
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • August 31, 2012
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on August 28, 2012 in his speech to the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida.:
Says our national debt is greater than our gross domestic product.
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • August 29, 2012
Jerry Patterson
Jerry Patterson
stated on August 22, 2012 in a letter.:
Says a portfolio managed by the Texas General Land Office earned 22 percent last year while the state’s emergency reserve account experienced a 1 percent gain.  
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • August 28, 2012
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