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Republican from Texas
Jeff Wentworth was re-elected to his seventh term in the Texas Senate in 2010.
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Says Jeff Wentworth was the only Republican to vote against the Texas measure requiring women to have a sonogram before receiving an abortion.
"We have over 25 million people who live in Texas and less than 2 percent of them have" concealed handgun licenses.
"We don’t have bars on campus in Texas. It’s against the law... no alcohol allowed."
Recent stories featuring Jeff Wentworth
State Sen. Leticia Van de Putte, D-San Antonio, recently wrote that the map of 36 Texas U.S. House districts advanced to Gov. Rick Perry by the Republican-controlled Legislature "diminishes the voting strength of the growing Hispanic electorate." Republican colleagues charged her with race-baiting.
We rated Mostly True an earlier claim like Van de Putte’s...
Leo Berman claim about Obama topped our charts:
During the 140-day Texas legislative session that ended May 30, we tested claims from floor debates, press releases and advertising. But by far, our most-read article proved to be a check of state Rep. Leo Berman's statement about Barack Obama’s birthplace.
Presenting the top 10 PolitiFact Texas articles from January through May...
Fact-checking claims about concealed handguns:
Textbooks? Check. Handgun? That prospect’s being debated at the Texas Capitol as lawmakers consider legislation allowing guns on campus--plus, we now read, a proposal letting legislators and others tote concealed weapons anywhere.
Check, please? Our tab on alcohol-related claims:
When San Antonio state Rep. Mike Villarreal recently piped up about the growth of the craft beer industry, he stepped into familiar Truth-O-Meter terrain.
We checked statements about guns and the rainy day fund last week, as well as a claim about Jim Crow in the Texas Constitution.
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