The Texas Senate previously claimed to have engaged in election finance reform.
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The Michael Berry ShowSep 15, 2026
None of the sources records the Texas Senate making the claimed 'election finance reform' statement, so the claim can be neither confirmed nor refuted. The closest source, a 2017 Texas Senate ethics-reform passage, is about a different bill and does not contain the quoted assertion. The post says only 'The Senate', so the Texas attribution is an inference from context.
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… So when I say Paxton is airing an ad, almost none of those ads will have been devised and paid for by the Paxton campaign, and this is also true of Talarico. The Senate years ago came out and beat their chest and said, "We've engaged in election finance reform. Our elections are not for sale," and they got lots of glowing articles, and, and, and, and the low information voter, through no fault of their own it doesn't make you a bad person to be a low information voter, doesn't make you a bad person not to pay close attention to politics you pay …
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Context. A 2017 Texas Senate ethics-reform passage (SB 14) touches on lobbying, disclosure, and 'dark money' but does not contain or confirm the quoted claim that the Senate 'engaged in election finance reform' and that 'our elections are not for sale.'[6]
Context. The other sources concern unrelated matters (a 2017 property-tax claim, a 2026 Trump-linked ad buy, a 2021 Cruz campaign-finance case, bill analyses and journals on other subjects) and do not address any Senate statement about election finance reform.[1][2][3][4][5][7]
Sources
7 sources: 3 fact-checkers, 2 primary, 2 not rated
- 1Dan Patrick's Pants on Fire property tax claimpolitifact.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 2Trump-backed group spends $10M on Texas Senate ad blitzapnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 3U.S. Supreme Court to consider Senator Cruz's campaign finance challengereuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 4Untitledcapitol.texas.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 5[PDF] 4299 SENATE JOURNAL — REGULAR SESSION 4299journals.senate.texas.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 6Texas Senate Passes Ethics Reformhoustonpublicmedia.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 7Texas Senate Bill SB2889app.legiplex.com · not rated · cited for: context
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