Latest Fact-Checks By W. Gardner Selby

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Charles Reed
stated on March 11, 2011 in an oped column.:

The Texas Constitution "still contains Jim Crow provisions about the poll tax and restrictions on women having the right to vote."

False

By W. Gardner Selby • March 19, 2011

Rick Perry
stated on March 14, 2011 in a conference call.:

Says the state’s rainy day fund is "our insurance policy against a major natural disaster."

Mostly False

By W. Gardner Selby • March 18, 2011

Paul Krugman
stated on February 28, 2011 in an op-ed column.:

Says taxes paid by the poorest residents of Texas are above the national average.

True

By W. Gardner Selby • March 14, 2011

Lee Leffingwell
stated on February 25, 2011 in State of the City address.:

Says four-year terms for City Council members are "the norm in most cities of our size."

True

By W. Gardner Selby • March 13, 2011

Glenn Hegar
stated on February 26, 2011 in an oped column.:

Texans eat more catfish than residents of all other states combined.

False

By W. Gardner Selby • March 12, 2011

Dan Patrick
stated on February 25, 2011 in a Texas Tribune article.:

Says Texas school districts are the fifth largest employers in the world.

Mostly False

By W. Gardner Selby • March 11, 2011

Andy Brown
stated on February 22, 2011 in a web post.:

Says nobody in higher education believes Gov. Rick Perry’s proposal to "serve up $10,000 college degrees" is possible.

False

By W. Gardner Selby • March 8, 2011

Scott McCown
stated on February 1, 2011 in a letter.:

Texas would have to increase current state spending by 28 percent just to reach the national average for spending per resident.

True

By W. Gardner Selby • March 6, 2011

Phyllis Schlafly
stated on February 2, 2011 in an e-mail blast.:

Says broken compact fluorescent light bulbs "allegedly cause migraines and epilepsy attacks."

False

By W. Gardner Selby • March 5, 2011

Rick Perry
stated on March 2, 2011 in an interview.:

Says neither President Barack Obama nor Mexico President Felipe Calderon "have been on the border to see what's happening to the citizens of Mexico, and for that matter the citizens of Texas."

Half-True

By W. Gardner Selby • March 4, 2011

Rick Perry
stated on February 8, 2011 in his State of the State address.:

Says the state share of Texas public education spending increased 82 percent over the past decade, reaching $20 billion in 2009.

Half-True

By W. Gardner Selby • March 3, 2011

Garnet Coleman
stated on February 15, 2011 in a press conference.:

Says that in some Texas communities, "our unemployment rate is still at 10 and 20 percent."

Half-True

By W. Gardner Selby • February 23, 2011

Phil King
stated on January 13, 2011 in a newspaper article.:

Says families now pay out 40 percent of their income to taxes.

Mostly False

By W. Gardner Selby • February 22, 2011

Lloyd Doggett
stated on February 16, 2011 in comment quoted in a column.:

"In Austin, I’ve got half-a-dozen or more schools on a list to be closed — one of which I presented a federal blue-ribbon award to for excellence. And several hundred school personnel on the list for possible terminations."

Mostly True

By W. Gardner Selby • February 19, 2011

Tom DeLay
stated on January 13, 2011 in an interview.:

Says Travis County, home to Austin, is the most liberal county in the United States.

Pants on Fire!

By W. Gardner Selby • February 16, 2011

Get EQUAL Texas
stated on February 9, 2011 in a press release.:

"Between Austin, San Antonio, Houston and Dallas over 8,000 same-sex couples are raising children."

Half-True

By W. Gardner Selby • February 14, 2011

Janet Mitchell
stated on January 20, 2011 in an interview.:

Says 25 percent of Austin's public school buildings are "underutilized."

Half-True

By W. Gardner Selby • February 13, 2011

Tom DeLay
stated on January 13, 2011 in an interview.:

Says the foreman of the jury that convicted him was a Greenpeace activist.

Mostly True

By W. Gardner Selby • February 10, 2011

Michael Sullivan
stated on February 3, 2011 in a Twitter post.:

Says the Texas Forest Service planted 6,000 trees in the Dallas/Fort Worth area before the Super Bowl for unknown reasons at an unknown cost.

Half-True

By W. Gardner Selby • February 6, 2011

Mike Villarreal
stated on January 7, 2011 in an op-ed column.:

Says that over the last decade, the state's population grew three times faster than the Texas state tax system.

Mostly True

By W. Gardner Selby • February 2, 2011

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