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Money now or money later
Greg Abbott has benefitted from "payday lenders who have given him $300,000 and then received a ruling from him that they can operate in a loophole in the law that allows them to charge unlimited rates and fees."
— PolitiFact Texas on Wednesday, October 29th, 2014
CORRECTED: Defending a Texas law
"Weeks after accepting a quarter-million-dollar campaign contribution" from a hospital board chairman, Greg Abbott went to court against victims of a drug-taking neurosurgeon.
— PolitiFact Texas on Wednesday, October 15th, 2014
Unknown if Abbott agrees
Greg Abbott "heads up a party whose platform calls for the repeal of the Voting Rights Act."
— PolitiFact Texas on Wednesday, September 24th, 2014
A 1998 dissent
Says that, as a Supreme Court justice, Greg Abbott found that a company whose vacuum cleaners were sold door to door "had no responsibility" in the hiring of a salesman who raped a customer.
— PolitiFact Texas on Friday, August 8th, 2014
Do the litigation limbo
Says Greg Abbott "has lost" in court "four times in just the past few days."
— PolitiFact Texas on Sunday, July 6th, 2014
Three cents less in '12
Women "are still paid 82 cents for every dollar a man earns in Texas."
— PolitiFact Texas on Thursday, March 20th, 2014
UPDATED: Called herself noncustodial in '13
"I never gave up custody of my children. I never lost custody of my children."
— PolitiFact Texas on Thursday, January 30th, 2014
Unsaid: Most women lived in the 8% of counties
Says 92 percent of Texas counties had no abortion provider in 2008.
— PolitiFact Texas on Tuesday, June 25th, 2013
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."
— PolitiFact Texas on Thursday, April 18th, 2013
Edged Idaho in 2010
Says Texas is "dead last in support for mental health."
— PolitiFact Texas on Thursday, January 10th, 2013
Endowment aid continuing
Says "for the first time ever," Texas lawmakers are not funding student population growth.
— PolitiFact Texas on Friday, June 3rd, 2011
Rankings vary, but she's close
Says Texas ranks 44th nationally in education funding per pupil.
— PolitiFact Texas on Monday, January 31st, 2011