Fact Check Posts – Page 44

Rick Perry
stated on July 13, 2010 in an interview:

"We don't get a lot of calls from this White House… I have, frankly, never had a call from them."

By W. Gardner Selby • July 19, 2010

Jeff Weems
stated on June 25, 2010 in a speech:

Says Texas has one state inspector for every 4,500 oil and gas wells.

By W. Gardner Selby • July 15, 2010

Bill White
stated on June 17, 2010 in a press conference.:

Says Gov. Rick Perry is "by far and away the highest-paid state employee on an hourly basis."

By W. Gardner Selby • July 12, 2010

Bill White
stated on June 25, 2010 in a speech:

"In Rick Perry's Texas, the governor threatens to leave, to secede from the greatest country in the" world.

By W. Gardner Selby • July 7, 2010

Jeff Weems
stated on June 26, 2010 in a speech:

"I’m running against a groundhog. He saw his shadow on the primary day, and no one has seen him since."

By W. Gardner Selby • July 6, 2010

David Barton
stated on June 12, 2010 in an open letter:

Texas state Reps. Dan Branch and Jim Pitts, lieutenants to House Speaker Joe Straus, "are helping Democrat Ellen Cohen against her Republican challenger, doing events with her in her district."

By W. Gardner Selby • July 5, 2010

David Barton
stated on June 12, 2010 in an open letter:

Says state Rep. Jim Keffer, a GOP lieutenant to House Speaker Joe Straus, "did mail pieces for Democrat Mark Strama to help him defeat" a Republican.

By W. Gardner Selby • July 5, 2010

David Barton
stated on June 12, 2010 in an open letter:

"Powerful Houston Democrats Sylvia Garcia (Democrat county commissioner in Harris County) and Elyse Lanie(r) (wife of the former liberal Democrat mayor Bob Lanier) sponsored a Democrat fundraiser for Speaker (Joe) Straus with numerous Democrat officials and high-ranking union officials."

By W. Gardner Selby • July 5, 2010

David Barton
stated on June 12, 2010 in an open letter:

Says Republican lieutenants to House Speaker Joe Straus "aired radio ads supporting Democrat(ic state Rep.) Mark Homer... helping the Democrat to a narrow win."

By W. Gardner Selby • July 5, 2010

John Faulk
stated on June 12, 2010 in a speech:

Says Houston’s 18th congressional district has been "gentrified" and is home to "more Anglos than African Americans."

By W. Gardner Selby • June 30, 2010

Donna Campbell
stated on June 12, 2010 in a speech:

U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett is "the most liberal man in the United States Congress."

By W. Gardner Selby • June 20, 2010

Libertarian Party of Texas
stated on June 7, 2010 in a press release:

"The Republican Party lost 1.1 million registered voters since 2008. The Democratic Party lost 1.2 million registered voters… (while) voter registration in the Libertarian Party rose 8 percent."

By W. Gardner Selby • June 19, 2010

David Dewhurst
stated on June 9, 2010 in a campaign video:

Says the Republican "state convention is actually larger than the Republican National Convention."

By W. Gardner Selby • June 17, 2010

Thomas Melsheimer
stated on June 7, 2010 in an op-ed article:

"Across the country, more than half of the U.S. attorney seats remain without a prosecutor chosen by Obama."

By W. Gardner Selby • June 10, 2010

Rick Perry
stated on May 19, 2010 in a speech:

"My opponent in November of 2008 sent a missive to the White House, to President Obama-elect, and said, 'Here's how you need to sell cap-and-trade to the American people.' "

By W. Gardner Selby • June 8, 2010

Todd Staples
stated on May 25, 2010 in a campaign Web post:

Says EPA regulation of greenhouse gases will endanger 575 Texas dairy facilities, 58 swine operations, 1,300 corn farms and 28,000 beef cattle operations.

By W. Gardner Selby • June 7, 2010

Tom Mechler
stated on May 27, 2010 in a press release:

"The Democrats have over 20 field agents to our zero."

By W. Gardner Selby • June 4, 2010

Boyd Richie
stated on May 20, 2010 in an e-mail blast.:

Says Gov. Rick Perry is "spending Texans’ hard-earned money to live like Louie XIV."

By W. Gardner Selby • May 26, 2010

Rodney Ellis
stated on May 14, 2010 in an interview.:

Says that in three legislative sessions, his proposals opening pre-kindergarten to all Texas 4-year-olds never got heard or voted out of committee.

By W. Gardner Selby • May 25, 2010

Bill White
stated on May 19, 2010 in a Facebook post:

"In three days last week, (Gov. Rick) Perry flew to five cities at taxpayers’ expense, holding press conferences, delivering $2,325,000 in checks."

By W. Gardner Selby • May 23, 2010

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