Latest Fact Checks By Meghan Ashford-Grooms

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Perry: State has cut ozone 22%, nitrogen oxide emissions 46%

June 16, 2010
Since 2000, "the Texas clean air program achieved a 22 percent reduction in ozone and a 46 percent decrease in NOx emissions."
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Perry says $18 billion budget gap estimate is plucked from air

June 10, 2010
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."
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Miller: State Board of Education ‘more than quadrupled’ the number of historical figures students must learn about

June 3, 2010
"A Houston school district analysis found that the (State Board of Education) more than quadrupled the number of historical figures students must learn about."
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Smith says Mexico hands out brochures showing migrants how to avoid Border Patrol, enter U.S.

May 30, 2010
Mexican government officials "hand out brochures showing individuals how they can avoid our Border Patrol, how they can get into our country."
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Dewhurst says NYPD force ‘almost twice’ the size of Border Patrol

May 21, 2010
"You’ve got almost twice as many cops in New York City as you do on our entire border. That’s nuts."
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Perry: White used D.C. connections to form firm that worked in Middle East and defaulted on $60 million loan

May 16, 2010
"Bill White used D.C. connections from his job in the Clinton administration to form a company that did business in the Middle East and defaulted…
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Perry says 90% of students graduate, get a GED or continue schooling

May 9, 2010
"The percent of students who enter high school and eventually earn a diploma or equivalent, or who remain in pursuit of a diploma or equivalent,…
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Perry says state waiting on feds to act on health care proposal

May 1, 2010
Says Texas has been waiting for two years for the federal government to act on a proposal to allow the state to "create insurance opportunities…
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White says Perry’s rental home will cost taxpayers more than $360,000

April 25, 2010
"By the end of Governor Rick Perry's term, he will have drained Texas taxpayers ... of more than $360,000 to pay for the rental mansion…
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Rick Green says more than half of past justices on Texas Supreme Court lacked prior time on bench

April 16, 2010
"When you look at the nearly 150 men and women who have served us on the Texas Supreme Court, more than half of them had…
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High court hopeful Lehrmann: Race will be Dems’ ‘top target’

April 11, 2010
"This race will be the Democrats’ top target this November."
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