Latest Fact-Checks By W. Gardner Selby

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Mary González
Mary González
stated on May 11, 2017 in House debate of House Bill 2962:
An "abortion procedure is actually safer than a vasectomy."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • May 17, 2017
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on May 13, 2017 in a web post:
Say Lance Armstrong is dead.
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • May 15, 2017
Bill Zedler
Bill Zedler
stated on April 25, 2017 in his responses to a physician testifying before the Texas House Committee on Public Health:
Says a federal program that collects reported side-effects of vaccinations doesn’t accept possible outcomes extending to road accidents, heart attacks or suicides.
False
By W. Gardner Selby • May 11, 2017
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on May 2, 2017 in a web post on ihavethetruth.com:
A University of Texas "student pulled out a concealed handgun" on a knife-wielding suspect "and made him back down."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • May 10, 2017
Sally Hernandez
Sally Hernandez
stated on April 18, 2017 in an oped commentary co-authored by four other Texas sheriffs:
"FBI crime statistics have found that labeled ‘sanctuary’ cities experience lower rates of all crime types, including homicides."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • May 10, 2017
Charlie Geren
Charlie Geren
stated on April 11, 2017 in a letter to WFAA-TV in Dallas:
Says Texas House rules authorized by the Texas Constitution supersede the state law permitting anyone to record a public government meeting.
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • April 27, 2017
Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on March 31, 2017 in a U.S. Senate campaign speech:
El Paso is the "safest city in the state of Texas, safest city in the United States."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • April 14, 2017
Sara Stevenson
Sara Stevenson
stated on April 3, 2017 in to the editor of the Austin American-Statesman:
Says a Texas Senate committee considering "private school voucher" legislation randomly called people to testify regardless of when the people submitted requests to testify.
True
By W. Gardner Selby • April 14, 2017
Donna Campbell
Donna Campbell
stated on March 22, 2017 in an email blast after meeting with President Trump:
"Seven out of ten doctors are not taking any new Medicaid patients as lower reimbursement rates make it cost-prohibitive."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • April 7, 2017
Ellen Troxclair
Ellen Troxclair
stated on February 23, 2017 in an interview with Austin’s Fox 7 about her proposed affordability plan:
"Since 2012," city of Austin "property taxes have gone up almost 30 percent while incomes have only risen 4 percent."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • April 7, 2017
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on March 27, 2017 in a web post flagged by Facebook:
Says extras are needed to portray aliens in a Star Wars movie being shot near Rosenberg, Texas.
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • April 2, 2017
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on March 9, 2017 in a U.S. Senate floor speech:
Texas "spent close to a third of its budget on Medicaid last year, a third of all state spending."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • March 28, 2017
Will Herring
Will Herring
stated on March 6, 2017 in a San Antonio Express-News news story:
"There’s not one public study, and by public study I mean a study available to the public, that has looked at using the product Kaput to poison feral hogs."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • March 16, 2017
Donna Howard
Donna Howard
stated on February 27, 2017 in a Facebook Live interview with Austin bureau reporters for the Dallas Morning News:
Says condoms "used to be tax-exempt here in Texas."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • March 10, 2017
Lois Kolkhorst
Lois Kolkhorst
stated on February 6, 2017 in a Texas Capitol press conference:
Says the proposed Texas Privacy Act "is very different from" North Carolina’s law "in that theirs covers a whole list of things that the Texas Privacy Act does not."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • March 2, 2017
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on February 6, 2017 in a tweet:
Says Travis County’s sheriff refuses to enforce 8 USC 1373.
False
By W. Gardner Selby • March 1, 2017
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on January 31, 2017 in his State-of-the-State address:
"Midland, Texas, now beats the San Francisco area in the percentage of jobs created by startups."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • February 24, 2017
Steve Adler
Steve Adler
stated on February 14, 2017 in an open letter to Austin residents:
"Local authorities in 43 states refused to honor more than 16,000 detainer requests from ICE from October 2013 to December 2015. Only in Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, Vermont and Wyoming did local officials honor all requests, and detainers are relatively rare in those states."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • February 23, 2017
Liberal Blogger
Liberal Blogger
stated on February 11, 2017 in a web post:
Says a Republican U.S. House member from Texas, Rob McCaskill, tweeted that he "can’t wait for the next 9/11."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • February 15, 2017
John Patrick
John Patrick
stated on January 12, 2017 in a Texas Capitol press conference:
"If you have a family, the current minimum wage easily qualifies you for food stamps."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • February 11, 2017
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