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Texas Association of School Boards

Texas Association of School Boards

Mostly True

Counts D.C. as a state

"Texas ranks 49th in per-pupil funding among the states."

Wendy Davis

Wendy Davis

Mostly True

Only if Washington, D.C. gets compared

Says Texas ranks 49th nationally in "what we are doing to support our per-pupil investment in education in the state."

Larry Kilgore

Larry Kilgore

False

Kangaroo outweighs armadillo

Says Texas economy is about 30 percent larger than Australia’s.

Texas secession petition

Texas secession petition

True

Presuming California doesn't peel off

Says Texas has the 15th largest economy in the world.

Thomas Ratliff

Thomas Ratliff

Half-True

Finnish finish with at least four tests

Says Massachusetts has three state-mandated student tests and Finland just one.

Ron Paul

Ron Paul

False

Cut in half, then subtract

"Just on Jan. 1 of this year, there were 40,000 new laws put on the books in one day."

Progress Texas

Progress Texas

Mostly False

Two spots shy of No. 1

Without U.S. Senate action, Texas will have more federal judicial vacancies this year than any other state.

Rick Perry

Rick Perry

True

Five is close enough

Says only four Texas legislators voted against a law giving in-state tuition rates to certain illegal immigrants.

Jay Carney

Jay Carney

False

Never said giddyap, let's go

Says Rick Perry "wanted to secede from the union."

Mitch Daniels

Mitch Daniels

False

Cited analysis assumes every job's the same

Says that in 41 states, government workers "are better paid than the taxpayers who support them."  

Warren Chisum

Warren Chisum

Full Flop

Caucus vote on speaker OK ... now

On choosing a Texas House speaker

Rick Perry

Rick Perry

Pants on Fire!

It was False once. Repeating claim sets meter aflame

Says the state's Medicaid waiver proposal "has languished in a file cabinet at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for more than two years."

Joe Straus

Joe Straus

Half-True

On the mark for Republicans but not for entire House

Says the Texas House has "a record number of new members joining our ranks."

Back to Basics

Back to Basics

Mostly True

Numbers check, but different time periods yield different results

Says "the Texas unemployment rate has even grown more than the nation's as a whole."

Bill White

Bill White

Mostly True

Population among factors behind stimulus allocation

"Rick Perry accepted more stimulus funds than any other governor except the governors of California and New York."

Bill White

Bill White

False

Speculation, no threat

"In Rick Perry's Texas, the governor threatens to leave, to secede from the greatest country in the" world.

Rick Perry

Rick Perry

False

Feds say ball is in state's court

Says Texas has been waiting for two years for the federal government to act on a proposal to allow the state to "create insurance opportunities for those that are uninsured today."

Rick Perry

Rick Perry

Mostly True

Recap lacks Perry's 2009 claim that Texas can quit USA

Says he said last year there's "absolutely no reason" for Texas to secede.

Debra Lehrmann

Debra Lehrmann

False

Not in year with a governor's race

“This race will be the Democrats’ top target this November.”

Rick Perry

Rick Perry

Pants on Fire!

Reduction by at least 300,000 is not "about the same"

"The number of uninsured people in Massachusetts is about the same as it was when the mandates were passed in 2006."

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