To walk us through two of their claims, Emily Donahue turned to Gardner Selby of the Austin American Statesman’s PolitiFact Texas for a pair of fact checks....
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Voters will choose a nominees to succeed Texas U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison in Tuesday’s primaries. On the Republican side, those aspirants include a former ESPN analyst who fired off a claim about President Obama. KUT’s Nathan Bernier spoke with Gardener Selby, of the Austin-American...
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KUT’s Emily Donahue explores the nuances involved in separating political rhetoric from fact with Gardner Selby of PolitiFact Texas....
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Ron Paul recently claimed that 40,000 new laws landed on the books in one day, and KUT’s Emily Donahue turned to Gardner Selby of PolitiFact Texas for a fact check....
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Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott says he has won 50 convictions for election fraud. In this week’s PolitiFact Texas, that’s what we’re checking. KUT’s Emily Donahue spoke...
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Texas Comptroller Susan Combs appeared in Bryan-College Station the other day and assured a group that lawmakers did not cut education spending last year....
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In a new web video, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst takes aim at President Barack Obama on two fronts....
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Democrats vying to become Travis County District Attorney aired a couple of flawed claims, according to the Austin American-Statesman’s PolitiFact Texas...
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Gov. Rick Perry and opposing Democrats traded statistical claims this month over Planned Parenthood clinics and the services they provide under a women’s health program. Were any of the claims on the money? PolitiFact Texas weighs in....
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It’s become a routine each election year: Parties try to show they’re a better fit for the vast bloc of Latino voters. This year in Texas, Democrats and Republicans are arguing the numbers to show they’re a better fit; one claim stated that elected Democrats of Latino heritage far...
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Gov. Rick Perry once vowed to create a $100 million scholarship fund. How did it turn out? KUT’s Emily Donahue spoke with Gardner Selby of the Austin American-Statesman and PolitiFact Texas....
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Lawmakers ponied up a bit for public schools in the late 1990s; did they do it again in 2011? KUT’s Nathan Bernier spoke with Gardner Selby of the Austin American-Statesman PolitiFact Texas....
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A Texas judge figured into a recent Newt Gingrich victory speech. KUT’s Nathan Bernier spoke with Gardner Selby of the Austin American-Statesman's PolitiFact Texas about Gingrich’s assertion that the federal government's legislative and executive branches should remove judges who are believed...
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Giant numbers are thrown around in Congress all the time. Do they always hold true? KUT’s Nathan Bernier spoke with Gardner Selby of the Austin American-Statesman's PolitiFact Texas about U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith’s claim that online piracy costs the U.S. economy $100 billion a year that would...
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