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Latest Fact-Checks On Bill White

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Bill White
stated on October 15, 2010 in an interview.:
Says that under Gov. Rick Perry, Texas Department of Public Safety troopers have had “standing orders” not to inquire into the immigration status of people…
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • November 1, 2010
Bill White
stated on October 15, 2010 in an interview:
“Of those 850,000 (new Texas) jobs, most were public-sector jobs and minimum-wage jobs.”
Mostly False
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • October 29, 2010
Bill White
stated on October 4, 2010 in a TV ad:
“Rick Perry has become a millionaire on the public payroll.”
Mostly True
By Ciara O'Rourke • October 22, 2010
Bill White
stated on October 5, 2010 in a news story:
Says Rick Perry told students he couldn’t attend a gubernatorial forum due to scheduling conflicts, then on forum day “tweeted that he’d just been running…
Mostly True
By Ciara O'Rourke • October 14, 2010
Bill White
stated on September 27, 2010 in an e-mail:
Texas has “a higher unemployment rate than neighboring states.”
Mostly True
By Ciara O'Rourke • September 30, 2010
Bill White
stated on September 1, 2010 in a press release:
Says Rick Perry is a 25-year incumbent.
Mostly False
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • September 3, 2010
Bill White
stated on August 14, 2010 in a speech:
Says most of Perry’s chiefs of staff have been lobbyists.
True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms, Ciara O'Rourke • August 30, 2010
Bill White
stated on August 9, 2010 in an East Texas campaign stop.:
Says Rick Perry’s proposal on driver licenses and high school dropouts has been state law since 1989.
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • August 20, 2010
Bill White
stated on August 9, 2010 in a TV interview.:
“The state budget has gone up over 80 percent under Rick Perry.”
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • August 12, 2010
Bill White
stated on June 25, 2010 in a speech to the Texas Democratic Party convention in Corpus Christi:
“Rick Perry accepted more stimulus funds than any other governor except the governors of California and New York.”
Mostly True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • July 18, 2010
Bill White
stated on June 25, 2010 in a speech at the Texas Democratic Party convention:
“In Rick Perry’s Texas, we import nurses … from other countries.”
Half-True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • July 14, 2010
Bill White
stated on June 17, 2010 in a press conference.:
Says Gov. Rick Perry is “by far and away the highest-paid state employee on an hourly basis.”
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • July 12, 2010
Bill White
stated on June 25, 2010 in a speech:
“In Rick Perry’s Texas, the governor threatens to leave, to secede from the greatest country in the” world.
False
By W. Gardner Selby • July 7, 2010
Bill White
stated on June 17, 2010 in a press conference:
Gov. Rick Perry broke his promise that he would not accept a $40,000 pay increase.
Mostly True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • June 27, 2010
Bill White
stated on May 17, 2010 in an e-mail:
“Rick Perry attempted to fast-track unnecessary coal-fired power plants, which degrade air quality and would cost billions. Fortunately, a court stopped him.”
Mostly True
By Ciara O'Rourke • June 7, 2010
Bill White
stated on May 19, 2010 in a Facebook post:
“In three days last week, (Gov. Rick) Perry flew to five cities at taxpayers’ expense, holding press conferences, delivering $2,325,000 in checks.”
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • May 23, 2010
Bill White
stated on May 2, 2010 in a television ad:
Says he cut ‘tax rates five times’
Half-True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • May 7, 2010
Bill White
stated on April 20, 2010 in an interview:
Says Gov. Rick Perry has never held a private-sector job.
False
By W. Gardner Selby • April 26, 2010
Bill White
stated on April 13, 2010 in a press release:
“By the end of Governor Rick Perry’s term, he will have drained Texas taxpayers … of more than $360,000 to pay for the rental mansion…
True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • April 25, 2010
Bill White
stated on March 9, 2010 in a public interview:
Says Republican state leaders are using “Soviet-style” budget management.
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • April 15, 2010
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