PolitiFact Texas staff writer
Meghan Ashford-Grooms is a PolitiFact Texas staff writer and a student at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas. Before this year, she worked for five years as a copy editor and wire editor on the Austin American-Statesman's news desk, where she edited stories, wrote headlines and scoured the wires for stories about government. She previously worked as a features reporter and designer at the Gazette in Prince George's County, Maryland, and started her career in 2001 on the news desk at The Tennessean in Nashville.
The latest Truth-O-Meter items from Meghan Ashford-Grooms
Mitt Romney "says the Arizona immigration law should be a model for the nation."
Says he "passed" eight measures, including ones to prevent groping at airport security checks and to bar "sanctuary" cities in Texas.
Says a national Coca-Cola study showed Texans love Texas more than residents of any other state love their state; Wisconsinites ranked second.
Says he "restored prayer and the pledge in our schools."
Says Williamson County Attorney Jana Duty "has never prosecuted a single adult felony case."
Says "over 40 percent of recent county bonds are for Precinct One, northeast Travis County," because he "is quick to identify projects that help make the East Side a desirable place to live."
Says Lee Leffingwell "raised property taxes 20 percent in three years."
The congressional district for Miami-Dade and Broward counties has a "staggering drop-out rate of almost 61 percent."
Recent stories from Meghan Ashford-Grooms
MLK, Romney and the GOPThe Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has been central to two fact checks.
PolitiFact Texas turns 3The Austin American-Statesman's Texas-centric venture in fact-checking political figures just turned three.
UPDATED: Ron Paul claim about popularity of gold standard No. 7 reader favoriteRon Paul's flawed claim about a poll and the gold standard landed him in our top 10 reader favorite fact-checks of 2012 for a second time.
Obama’s flawed claim about Romney and Arizona’s immigration lawWhat twice we rated False in Texas remained so when Barack Obama said it (again) in New York.
Checking claims about “cocaine constable” and his “incarcerated” challengerA Travis County runoff features competing the-other-guy-was-a-crook claims.
Dewhurst revisits “apples to carburetors”Dewhurst, comparing Border Patrol agents and New York cops, reminds us of a previous time he did so -- which one observer likened to comparing apples and carburetors.
No rating reached on claim about Adan Ballesteros and "cocaine blood money"An Austin political action committee says Adan Ballesteros, seeking re-election as a constable, accepted "cocaine blood money." We decided this claim cannot be rated.
Perry, Dewhurst and Barack Obama on the linksRick Perry echoes a Dewhurst claim about Obama's golf outings.
Texas runoffs mean two more months of fact-checksThe top two vote-getters in the Republican U.S. Senate primary — David Dewhurst and Ted Cruz — are headed to a July 31 runoff. And theirs is not the only unsettled contest. That means about 60 additional days for the Truth-O-Meter to weigh candidate claims.
PolitiFact checked more than 30 candidate claims before Texas party primariesWe poked into more than 30 claims by, or about, candidates on the Texas party primary ballots, extending from remarks by U.S. Senate candidates through those by hopefuls for Travis County and Williamson County posts. Reminders dead ahead.
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