Sacramento Bee editorial says Texas is last in mental health care spending

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Disparaging Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s pitch for California businesses to check out opportunities in his state, the Sacramento Bee editorial board said Texas ranks poorly in several ways.

We’ve been sorting through the Feb. 6, 2013, editorial’s factual claims. Click here to read our collected checks.

Among the claims: "Come check out a state that is last in mental health expenditures..."

That’s familiar. We recently looked into the same characterization by state Sen. Wendy Davis, rating it Mostly True. Another state lagged Texas in the latest national ranking of states.

Stuart Leavenworth, who edits the Bee’s editorial page, pointed us to the same source that Davis cited, a Dec. 18, 2012, news story posted by WFAA-TV, Channel 8 in Dallas, that was headlined "Texas ranks last in mental health funding."
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1. Probably Explains Why So Many Texans Are Insane

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2. Gun control, a well regulated state militia, starts with appropriate mental health care.

Background checks will need to include the mental health care community.

Rick Perry could care less about health care because it involves the citizens of Texas.

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3. As JuanitaJean said once

It takes effort to come in 51st in a field of 50.