Latest Fact-checksDan Patrick Clear Any Rating True Mostly True Half True Mostly False False Pants on Fire Full Flop Half Flip No Flip Any Speaker Any Date Range Last 3 Months Last 6 Months Last 12 Months 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 Any Category Mike Collier stated on October 31, 2017 in an email blast: "Earlier this year, Dan Patrick and Republican leadership snatched millions of dollars in benefits from retired teachers." Leticia Van de Putte stated on October 15, 2014 in a video ad: "In 2013," Dan Patrick voted "against funding to test the backlog of rape kits, allowing rapists to walk free." Leticia Van de Putte stated on September 29, 2014 in a debate in Austin: Dan Patrick said that if women "get paid less than a man for the same job, that that’s not a problem." Leticia Van de Putte stated on June 27, 2014 in her speech to the Texas Democratic Party state convention: Dan Patrick was the only state senator "who voted against the Veteran Entrepreneurship Program, a program that assists veterans in successfully starting up their own businesses." Battleground Texas stated on June 10, 2014 in an interview on Bloomberg TV: Says Dan Patrick has "called immigration into Texas an invasion" and "said immigrants coming into Texas bring ‘third-world diseases.’" Leticia Van de Putte stated on June 1, 2014 in an interview: Our "trade with Mexico is $720 million a day; that’s our No. 1 trading partner." David Dewhurst stated on April 16, 2014 in a video ad: Dan Patrick "got caught not paying his taxes" and "pocketed his employees’ payroll taxes." Julián Castro stated on April 15, 2014 in a debate over immigration issues with state Sen. Dan Patrick: Up "to 45 percent" of illegal immigrants "are not people that physically crossed the southern border or northern border. They are visa overstayers." David Dewhurst stated on April 16, 2014 in a video ad: Dan Patrick "changed his name from Danny Goeb to hide from" his "debts." David Dewhurst stated on March 2, 2014: Dan Patrick "called for increasing the gas tax and the state sales tax." David Dewhurst stated on March 2, 2014 in a TV ad: Says Dan Patrick "supported giving a $5,000 taxpayer-funded voucher to every family to buy a car."
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Mike Collier stated on October 31, 2017 in an email blast: "Earlier this year, Dan Patrick and Republican leadership snatched millions of dollars in benefits from retired teachers." Leticia Van de Putte stated on October 15, 2014 in a video ad: "In 2013," Dan Patrick voted "against funding to test the backlog of rape kits, allowing rapists to walk free." Leticia Van de Putte stated on September 29, 2014 in a debate in Austin: Dan Patrick said that if women "get paid less than a man for the same job, that that’s not a problem." Leticia Van de Putte stated on June 27, 2014 in her speech to the Texas Democratic Party state convention: Dan Patrick was the only state senator "who voted against the Veteran Entrepreneurship Program, a program that assists veterans in successfully starting up their own businesses." Battleground Texas stated on June 10, 2014 in an interview on Bloomberg TV: Says Dan Patrick has "called immigration into Texas an invasion" and "said immigrants coming into Texas bring ‘third-world diseases.’" Leticia Van de Putte stated on June 1, 2014 in an interview: Our "trade with Mexico is $720 million a day; that’s our No. 1 trading partner." David Dewhurst stated on April 16, 2014 in a video ad: Dan Patrick "got caught not paying his taxes" and "pocketed his employees’ payroll taxes." Julián Castro stated on April 15, 2014 in a debate over immigration issues with state Sen. Dan Patrick: Up "to 45 percent" of illegal immigrants "are not people that physically crossed the southern border or northern border. They are visa overstayers." David Dewhurst stated on April 16, 2014 in a video ad: Dan Patrick "changed his name from Danny Goeb to hide from" his "debts." David Dewhurst stated on March 2, 2014: Dan Patrick "called for increasing the gas tax and the state sales tax." David Dewhurst stated on March 2, 2014 in a TV ad: Says Dan Patrick "supported giving a $5,000 taxpayer-funded voucher to every family to buy a car."
Mike Collier stated on October 31, 2017 in an email blast: "Earlier this year, Dan Patrick and Republican leadership snatched millions of dollars in benefits from retired teachers."
Leticia Van de Putte stated on October 15, 2014 in a video ad: "In 2013," Dan Patrick voted "against funding to test the backlog of rape kits, allowing rapists to walk free."
Leticia Van de Putte stated on September 29, 2014 in a debate in Austin: Dan Patrick said that if women "get paid less than a man for the same job, that that’s not a problem."
Leticia Van de Putte stated on June 27, 2014 in her speech to the Texas Democratic Party state convention: Dan Patrick was the only state senator "who voted against the Veteran Entrepreneurship Program, a program that assists veterans in successfully starting up their own businesses."
Battleground Texas stated on June 10, 2014 in an interview on Bloomberg TV: Says Dan Patrick has "called immigration into Texas an invasion" and "said immigrants coming into Texas bring ‘third-world diseases.’"
Leticia Van de Putte stated on June 1, 2014 in an interview: Our "trade with Mexico is $720 million a day; that’s our No. 1 trading partner."
David Dewhurst stated on April 16, 2014 in a video ad: Dan Patrick "got caught not paying his taxes" and "pocketed his employees’ payroll taxes."
Julián Castro stated on April 15, 2014 in a debate over immigration issues with state Sen. Dan Patrick: Up "to 45 percent" of illegal immigrants "are not people that physically crossed the southern border or northern border. They are visa overstayers."
David Dewhurst stated on April 16, 2014 in a video ad: Dan Patrick "changed his name from Danny Goeb to hide from" his "debts."
David Dewhurst stated on March 2, 2014: Dan Patrick "called for increasing the gas tax and the state sales tax."
David Dewhurst stated on March 2, 2014 in a TV ad: Says Dan Patrick "supported giving a $5,000 taxpayer-funded voucher to every family to buy a car."
