Backup information, provided by Everlasting GOP Stoppers via Facebook message, June 18, 2013

On worker/industrial deaths:

http://www.chron.com/opinion/outlook/article/Texas-is-No-1-in-a-grim-statistic-4400677.php

http://www.bls.gov/ro6/fax/cfoi_tx.htm

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=5&ved=0CDQQFjAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dallasnews.com%2Fbusiness%2Fheadlines%2F20120915-as-workplace-deaths-fall-nationally-they-remain-stubbornly-high-in-texas.ece&ei=iPTAUZPaK6aJjALGsoDwAQ&usg=AFQjCNELfLAf7q-QAfJ3AVQoYymPaS4xVA

On carbon emissions:

https://www.google.com/interstitial?url=http://www.environmentalleader.com/2013/05/14/texas-no-1-state-in-co2-emissions-from-energy/

http://www.eredux.com/states/state_detail.php?id=1112

http://www.edf.org/blog/2013/05/29/texas-leads-nation-carbon-emissions-it%E2%80%99s-time-mess-texas

On education:

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2013/04/texas_is_last_in_education_fir.php

http://www.texasobserver.org/texas-on-the-brink-we-can-do-better/

On mental health spending:

http://www.texastribune.org/texas-health-resources/health-reform-and-texas/texas-ranks-50th-mental-health-spending/

http://www.givingcityaustin.com/2012/12/17/texas-ranks-50th-in-funding-for-mental-health-patients/

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/25/us/25ttmentalhealth.html?_r=0

http://www.county.org/member-services/legislative-updates/Documents/Briefs/2013%20Legis%20Brief%20-%20Counties%20and%20Mental%20Health.pdf