Latest Fact-Checks By W. Gardner Selby

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Steve Adler
Steve Adler
stated on July 26, 2017 in a tweet:
"Austin is the safest big city in Texas."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • August 24, 2017
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on July 14, 2017 in his speech kicking off his re-election campaign:
"More Texans have jobs today than ever before in the history of our state."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • August 3, 2017
Ashley Smith
Ashley Smith
stated on July 19, 2017 in a San Antonio Express-News story:
Says transgender residents make up "about 1-in-300 people, we're all over the place, we're your friends and your neighbors."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • August 3, 2017
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on August 1, 2017 in a tweet:
Says Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones told players: "Stand for the Anthem or you’re off team."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • August 2, 2017
Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick
stated on July 13, 2017 in a press conference:
"Of all the money we spend on education, less than 32 percent goes to teachers."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • July 27, 2017
Mark Cuban
Mark Cuban
stated on June 30, 2017 in a tweet:
"Twitter reaches only 15 percent of the population."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • July 26, 2017
Joe Straus
Joe Straus
stated on July 16, 2017 in an email blast:
"One" Texas school "district alone -- Austin ISD -- is expected to lose more than $530 million in local property taxes to Robin Hood this year."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • July 19, 2017
Evan Smith
Evan Smith
stated on July 10, 2017 in as quoted in a story in The New Yorker:
"The last majority-Anglo high school class in Texas graduated in 2014."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • July 19, 2017
Paul Workman
Paul Workman
stated on June 15, 2017 in an oped commentary in the Austin American-Statesman:
Says it’s documented that City of Austin fees for building an apartment complex are nearly 10 times what Dallas levies.
Mostly True
By Shonda Novak, W. Gardner Selby • July 13, 2017
Pete Olson
Pete Olson
stated on June 9, 2017 in a radio interview brought to light June 20, 2017:
Says that Bill Clinton "basically" told then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch in 2016 that "we killed Vince Foster."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • July 5, 2017
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 27, 2017 in a White House briefing:
France "wouldn’t buy Texas beef for some reason, yet 76 percent of their energy comes from nuclear power."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 30, 2017
Shawn Thierry
Shawn Thierry
stated on June 7, 2017 in a press release:
"Texas mothers are dying during childbirth at the highest rates in the nation."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 29, 2017
Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick
stated on June 8, 2017 in an oped commentary in newspapers including the San Antonio Express-News:
"When colleges and universities are added, education spending is the biggest item in the state budget — about 52 percent of all state dollars."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 23, 2017
Ken Paxton
Ken Paxton
stated on June 16, 2017 in a press release:
Says Barack Obama "acknowledged over 20 times" that his administration’s Deferred Action for Parents of Americans "immigration edict was a violation of law and the separation of powers."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • June 21, 2017
Derrick Crowe
Derrick Crowe
stated on June 3, 2017 in as quoted in an Austin American-Statesman news story:
Says each of the past three years "has been the hottest on record."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 15, 2017
Maram Museitif
Maram Museitif
stated on May 24, 2017 in as quoted in a Central Health press release:
Says Arabic "is the third most-common language in Austin."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • June 5, 2017
Ann Hudspeth
Ann Hudspeth
stated on April 26, 2017 in A letter to the editor of the Austin American-Statesman:
"Texas leads the country in animal deaths by sodium cyanide M-44s."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 2, 2017
Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick
stated on May 17, 2017 in remarks to reporters:
Says Texas tax legislation would "save the average homeowner in Texas $20,000 a year over the next 20 years or so."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • May 23, 2017
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on April 28, 2017 in a speech to the National Rifle Association:
"The first Congress passed a law mandating that every able-bodied man must own a musket."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • May 19, 2017
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on May 7, 2017 in a statement before signing Senate Bill 4 into law over a Facebook Live:
Says Travis County Sheriff Sally Hernandez "declared that she would not detain known criminals accused of violent crimes."  
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • May 18, 2017
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