UPDATED: Austin newspaper (still) not endorsing candidates in November elections

At the start of the week before this November’s elections, Gerald Daugherty, a Republican seeking re-election to the Travis County commissioners court, listed the endorsement of the Austin American-Statesman on his campaign website. In the same vein, an October mailer from the Austin Board of Realtors PAC said Daugherty was endorsed by the newspaper. A reader and the campaign of David Holmes, the Democrat facing Daugherty for the Precinct 3 post, asked us to check the endorsement claim, which we rated False. How we knew all this: The newspaper, also home to PolitiFact Texas, made no general-election candidate endorsements after ... >>More