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Alex Wilts

Alex Wilts

Staff writer

Alex Wilts is a spring 2015 reporting intern for the Austin American-Statesman's state desk and PolitiFact Texas.

awilts@statesman.com

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Texas Organizing Project
Texas Organizing Project
stated on March 5, 2015 a press release
"The unemployment rate among blacks in Texas is 9.5% -- far more than double white unemployment -- and wages have fallen for black workers in Texas since 2000."
True
By Alex Wilts • April 23, 2015
Tim Cook
Tim Cook
stated on March 29, 2015 an oped column
"Legislation being considered in Texas would strip the salaries and pensions of clerks who issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples — even if the Supreme Court strikes down Texas’ marriage ban later this year."
Mostly True
By Alex Wilts • April 15, 2015
Jerry Falwell Jr.
Jerry Falwell Jr.
stated on March 23, 2015 a speech introducing Ted Cruz at Liberty University
Ted Cruz was "the longest-serving solicitor general in the history of Texas."
True
By Alex Wilts • March 25, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on February 27, 2015 a web ad
"At this particular point in time, looking at the field, there’s only one individual that’s ever had the uniform of his country on—and that’s me."
Half-True
By Alex Wilts, W. Gardner Selby • March 4, 2015
Dave Claunch
Dave Claunch
stated on January 14, 2015 a meeting of the West Lake Hills City Council
"Austin has more lobbyists working for it than any other municipality in Texas."
Mostly True
By Alex Wilts • February 16, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on January 20, 2015 an interview with Fox News
"Today the top 1 percent earn a higher share of our national income than any year since 1928."
Mostly True
By Alex Wilts • January 30, 2015
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