Latest Fact-Checks By Meghan Ashford-Grooms

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Bill Flores
Bill Flores
stated on September 28, 2010 in a TV ad.:
PolitiFact Texas says "Congressman Edwards' attacks on Bill Flores are false."
Mostly False
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • October 2, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on September 7, 2010 in a press release:
Says Bill White "didn't pay taxes while earning $133,600 annual salary as deputy secretary of energy."
False
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • September 21, 2010
Larry Gonzales
Larry Gonzales
stated on August 31, 2010 in an e-mail to supporters:
Says state Rep. Diana Maldonado of Round Rock uses Craigslist to hire campaign block walkers.
True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • September 10, 2010
Bill White
Bill White
stated on September 1, 2010 in a press release:
Says Rick Perry is a 25-year incumbent.
Mostly False
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • September 3, 2010
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on August 26, 2010 in an interview:
Says a highway was closed in El Paso because of bullets flying across the border.
True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • September 1, 2010
Bill White
Bill White
stated on August 14, 2010 in a speech:
Says most of Perry's chiefs of staff have been lobbyists.
True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • August 30, 2010
Back to Basics
Back to Basics
stated on August 24, 2010 in a newspaper ad:
Gov. Rick Perry "has overseen the highest Texas unemployment in 22 years."
Half-True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • August 28, 2010
Debbie Riddle
Debbie Riddle
stated on August 10, 2010 in a television interview:
"Over 81 percent of the babies that are born at LBJ Hospital right here in Houston are born of women who are not here legally."
False
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms, W. Gardner Selby • August 23, 2010
Rebecca Bell-Metereau
Rebecca Bell-Metereau
stated on August 9, 2010 in a campaign flier:
Ken Mercer "wants Sean Hannity and James Dobson included in social studies texts."
Mostly False
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • August 14, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on July 19, 2010 in a Perry website:
Says Bill White "profiteered in the aftermath of Hurricane Rita."
False
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • August 9, 2010
Leticia Van de Putte
Leticia Van de Putte
stated on June 25, 2010 in a speech at the Texas Democratic Party convention:
Says Bill White's program to bring dropouts back to school was "so successful that almost every city in our state has replicated" it.
Half-True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • July 27, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on April 26, 2010 in a press release:
On debating.
Full Flop
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • July 24, 2010
Bill White
Bill White
stated on June 25, 2010 in a speech to the Texas Democratic Party convention in Corpus Christi:
"Rick Perry accepted more stimulus funds than any other governor except the governors of California and New York."
Mostly True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • July 18, 2010
Bill White
Bill White
stated on June 25, 2010 in a speech at the Texas Democratic Party convention:
"In Rick Perry’s Texas, we import nurses ... from other countries."
Half-True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • July 14, 2010
Bill White
Bill White
stated on June 17, 2010 in a press conference:
Gov. Rick Perry broke his promise that he would not accept a $40,000 pay increase.
Mostly True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • June 27, 2010
Jerry Patterson
Jerry Patterson
stated on June 11, 2010 in a speech at the Texas Republican Party Convention:
"We have a director of homeland security who cannot use and will not use the term 'terrorist attack' but instead substitutes 'man-made disaster.' "
False
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • June 21, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 15, 2010 in a press release:
Since 2000, "the Texas clean air program achieved a 22 percent reduction in ozone and a 46 percent decrease in NOx emissions."
Half-True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • June 16, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 4, 2010 in an interview:
Says an estimate that Texas will face an $18 billion budget gap is "a number that somebody just reached up in the air and grabbed."
False
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • June 10, 2010
Kathy Miller
Kathy Miller
stated on May 18, 2010 in an op-ed article:
"A Houston school district analysis found that the (State Board of Education) more than quadrupled the number of historical figures students must learn about."
Half-True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • June 3, 2010
Lamar Smith
Lamar Smith
stated on May 20, 2010 in an interview with the Fox News Network:
Mexican government officials "hand out brochures showing individuals how they can avoid our Border Patrol, how they can get into our country."
Mostly False
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • May 30, 2010
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