Latest Fact-Checks By Meghan Ashford-Grooms

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Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on January 14, 2010 in a Republican gubernatorial debate:
"We lowered the business tax from 4 percent down to 1 percent."
Half-True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • January 22, 2010
Kay Bailey Hutchison
Kay Bailey Hutchison
stated on January 14, 2010 in in a Republican gubernatorial debate:
"The largest tax increase that we have ever had in our state is yours – it is the business margins tax that you signed, governor."
False
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • January 22, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on January 14, 2010 in a campaign blog entry during the GOP gubernatorial debate:
"The Trans-Texas Corridor is dead."
Mostly True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • January 18, 2010
Bill White
Bill White
stated on December 28, 2009 in the biography on his campaign Web site:
During his tenure as mayor, he "saw Houston’s crime rates drop to the lowest levels in more than 25 years."
True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • January 13, 2010
Barbara Ann Radnofsky
Barbara Ann Radnofsky
stated on October 22, 2009 in in a Web site video:
"The attorney general requires that rape victims pay for the rape kit."
Pants on Fire!
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • January 12, 2010
Lamar Smith
Lamar Smith
stated on December 15, 2009 in in a press release:
"Illegal immigrants currently occupy 8 million jobs."
Mostly True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • January 12, 2010
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