Latest Fact-Checks By Sue Owen

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Shaun Ireland
Shaun Ireland
stated on March 30, 2012 in a campaign video on the city's website:
Says no Austin City Council "member lives south of" Lady Bird Lake "or north of 45th Street."
Mostly True
By Sue Owen • May 9, 2012
Lee Leffingwell
Lee Leffingwell
stated on April 16, 2012 in an Austin mayoral candidate debate:
Says "Austin has the lowest property tax rate by far of the five major cities in Texas."
Half-True
By Sue Owen • May 1, 2012
Clay Dafoe
Clay Dafoe
stated on April 16, 2012 in a mayoral candidate debate on KXAN-TV:
Says bus riders subsidize the "expensive, romanticized" Leander-to-Austin train.
False
By Ben Wear, Sue Owen • April 25, 2012
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on March 12, 2012 in a press release:
Says his Texas election fraud investigations have resulted in 50 convictions.
Half-True
By Sue Owen • April 17, 2012
Michelle Malkin
Michelle Malkin
stated on March 7, 2012 in her column.:
Says Gloria Steinem once called Kay Bailey Hutchison a "female impersonator."
True
By Sue Owen • March 29, 2012
Chain email
Chain email
stated on March 2, 2012 in a chain email.:
Says a Barack Obama "black imposter" joke got a standing ovation at San Angelo rodeo.
Mostly False
By Sue Owen, W. Gardner Selby • March 28, 2012
Paul Sadler
Paul Sadler
stated on March 1, 2012 in a Travis County Democratic Party candidate forum:
Says there are four super PACs on the Republican side of the Texas U.S. Senate race.
True
By Sue Owen • March 13, 2012
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on December 18, 2011 in a presidential campaign stop in Decorah, Iowa:
Says there’s no proven instance where hydraulic fracking has polluted groundwater.
Mostly True
By Sue Owen • February 29, 2012
Paul Sadler
Paul Sadler
stated on January 27, 2012 in a post on his campaign's Facebook page:
Says in his years as a Texas legislator, "we passed three pay increases for teachers and provided them with health insurance."
Mostly True
By Sue Owen • February 17, 2012
Tom Leppert
Tom Leppert
stated on January 12, 2012 in a U.S. Senate debate hosted by Empower Texans and the Texas Public Policy Foundation:
Says "we brought crime rate down by 30 percent" when he was mayor of Dallas.
Mostly True
By Sue Owen • February 3, 2012
Steny Hoyer
Steny Hoyer
stated on December 13, 2011 in an opinion column.:
Says up to a quarter of African Americans don’t have government photo ID.
Mostly True
By Sue Owen • January 14, 2012
Kay Bailey Hutchison
Kay Bailey Hutchison
stated on December 12, 2011 in an interview on CNN’s ‘Out Front’:
Says taking millionaires off food stamps and unemployment would save $20 million.
Mostly True
By Sue Owen • January 6, 2012
Ron Paul
Ron Paul
stated on December 29, 2011 in a radio interview:
Says there were only "about eight or 10" inflammatory sentences in his newsletters.
False
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms, Sue Owen • December 31, 2011
Richard Franklin III
Richard Franklin III
stated on November 29, 2011 in an address to the Central Texas Democratic Forum:
Says a trash mound on U.S. 290 is 800 feet tall.
Mostly False
By Sue Owen • December 22, 2011
Lloyd Doggett
Lloyd Doggett
stated on December 8, 2011 in an opinion article at HuffingtonPost.com:
Says that according to one economist, $1 of unemployment benefits boosts the economy by $1.61.
Mostly False
By Sue Owen • December 15, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on November 5, 2011 in the Texas Patriots PAC debate in The Woodlands, Texas:
Says IBM leader told Obama that using IBM technology to cut fraud could "pay for" health care reform.
Half-True
By Sue Owen • December 9, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on October 1, 2011 in remarks at a campaign stop October 1, 2011, in New Hampshire:
"I have sent over $400 million to the border of Mexico in the form of Texas Ranger recon teams."
Mostly False
By Sue Owen, W. Gardner Selby • November 22, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on September 29, 2011 in a campaign video.:
President Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid support Rick Perry’s "decision to give in-state tuition to illegal immigrants."
Mostly False
By Sue Owen • November 10, 2011
Lloyd Doggett
Lloyd Doggett
stated on September 21, 2011 in a speech delivered to U.S. House of Representatives.:
Says the main Central Texas food bank is delivering 50 percent more food to the poor than three years ago.
Mostly True
By Sue Owen • November 1, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on October 18, 2011 in a campaign video.:
Says more than 1 million Texans are jobless, the state has its highest unemployment rate in more than 20 years and joblessness doubled on Rick Perry’s watch.
Half-True
By Sue Owen • October 20, 2011
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