Statements we say are Mostly True
Says "we brought crime rate down by 30 percent" when he was mayor of Dallas.
Says Texas does not regulate the appearance of some kinds of imitation firearms sold in Texas.
Says up to a quarter of African Americans don’t have government photo ID.
Says taking millionaires off food stamps and unemployment would save $20 million.
Says Mitt Romney raised business taxes 20 percent in Massachusetts.
More Hispanics "have been elected statewide (in Texas) on the Republican ticket than on the Democratic ticket."
"A part-time Congress with half the pay would still make $38,000 a year more than the average American family."
Says the main Central Texas food bank is delivering 50 percent more food to the poor than three years ago.
"My son had to resign his job because of federal regulations that Washington has put on us."
Says Rick Perry "supported a guest worker program to help people who would otherwise be illegal aliens."
"Every month, another 50,000 U.S.-born Hispanics turn 18 and become eligible to vote."
Says David Dewhurst skipped nine candidate forums after announcing his U.S. Senate candidacy.
Says that illegal immigrants get a $100,000 break on University of Texas tuition over four years.
Says Texas has "the fourth-lowest debt per capita of any state in the nation, and we are the lowest of any of the big states."
Says recent polls show Americans agree with Republicans that the federal debt ceiling should not be raised and the debt and deficit should be dealt with mostly by cutting spending.
Says a Republican-drawn map of proposed U.S. House districts for Texas "gerrymanders more than nine million Latinos in Texas to make sure that we have no more electoral opportunity than we did in 1991."
Says 11 percent of the nation’s fatal car crashes in 2009 were attributed to distracted driving.
Says the Austin City Council "may give $4 million a year to subsidize a race track."
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