Fact Check Posts – Page 9

Ted Cruz
stated on September 24, 2016 in responding to an audience member's question at the Texas Tribune Festival.:

Hillary Clinton "supports unlimited abortion on demand up until the moment of birth, including partial-birth abortion, with taxpayer funding."

By W. Gardner Selby • October 9, 2016

Pete Gallego
stated on October 4, 2016 in a TV ad pointed out to PolitiFact Texas:

Says Will Hurd said a border-long U.S.-Mexico wall "absolutely makes sense."

By W. Gardner Selby • October 7, 2016

Dan Flynn
stated on September 13, 2016 in a letter to state health officials:

"Not one illness has been reported from raw milk in" Texas "in more than four years. A total of six illnesses have occurred in the last 20 years."

By W. Gardner Selby • September 29, 2016

Greg Abbott
stated on August 30, 2016 in a tweet:

"If Texas were a country our economy would rank # 10...in the WORLD."

By W. Gardner Selby • September 15, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on September 8, 2016 in Senate floor remarks:

"If Congress fails to act, the Obama administration intends to give away control of the internet to an international body akin to the United Nations."

By W. Gardner Selby • September 14, 2016

Donna Howard
stated on August 23, 2016 in a press conference by Austin Democrats:

Child care costs "in some states now exceed the average price tag for college tuition."

By W. Gardner Selby • September 2, 2016

Sean Hannity
stated on August 23, 2016 in a slide presented on Hannity’s show during an Austin interview of Donald Trump:

Says that in 2015, "illegal" immigrants accounted for 75 percent of federal drug possession convictions and 5 percent to 30 percent of convictions for murder and kidnapping plus two other crimes.

By W. Gardner Selby • September 2, 2016

James Woods
stated on August 27, 2016 in a tweet:

"The Dallas Cowboys can’t put a sticker on their helmets for the 5 police officers who were killed."

By W. Gardner Selby • September 1, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on September 1, 2016 in x:

Says Alex Jones "said that the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre were child actors and no one was actually killed there."

By Dylan Baddour, W. Gardner Selby • September 1, 2016

Sean Hannity
stated on August 23, 2016 in while interviewing Donald Trump in Austin:

"All of Texas is conservative, except a little bit of Austin."

By W. Gardner Selby • August 26, 2016

Lisa Moore
stated on August 7, 2016 in an interview for NPR's "All Things Considered":

Says there are "concrete examples" of University of Texas job applicants or prospective applicants and students as well as invited speakers changing their minds because of handguns being allowed in campus buildings and classrooms.

By Eleanor Dearman, W. Gardner Selby • August 26, 2016

Lamar Smith
stated on July 19, 2016 in remarks to the Texas delegation to the Republican National Convention:

"One third of all federal prisoners today are illegal immigrants."

By W. Gardner Selby • August 25, 2016

Celia Israel
stated on August 23, 2016 in a press conference by Austin Democrats:

Says Donald Trump’s "Make America Great Again" caps are "made in China."

By W. Gardner Selby • August 24, 2016

Joaquin Castro
stated on August 10, 2016 in a tweet about Carol Everett of the Heidi Group:

Says the director of an anti-abortion group receiving a Texas grant to provide women’s health services "believes HIV can be spread through the sewer system."

By W. Gardner Selby • August 17, 2016

Julián Castro
stated on June 17, 2016 in comments at Texas Democratic Party convention:

"Today California is kicking our butt, creating more jobs and more economic growth than Texas."

By Emma Hinchliffe, W. Gardner Selby • August 17, 2016

Baker Harrell
stated on August 15, 2016 in an interview with the Texas Tribune:

"Seventy percent of all Texans are overweight or obese."

By W. Gardner Selby • August 17, 2016

Sid Miller
stated on July 9, 2016 in as quoted in a commentary by Ken Herman of the Austin American-Statesman:

Says that since lawmakers acted, "we have 130 new businesses across Texas doing helicopter hog hunts."

By W. Gardner Selby • August 12, 2016

Cecile Richards
stated on July 26, 2016 in remarks to the Texas delegation at the Democratic National Convention as webcast by the Texas Tribun:

Barack Obama "ended up getting re-elected by the largest gender gap in the history of American elections."

By W. Gardner Selby • July 29, 2016

Drew Brees
stated on June 12, 2016 in as quoted in an interview with Kirk Bohls of the Austin American-Statesman:

"Do you know what the second sport with the most concussions is? Women’s soccer… And the third most dangerous sport? Cheerleading."

By W. Gardner Selby • July 15, 2016

Jonathan Jarvis
stated on June 14, 2016 in testimony before a U.S. House committee:

The National Park Service has "an annual budget that is less than the city of Austin."

By W. Gardner Selby • June 24, 2016

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