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Statement: Says Scott Walker cut "taxes for the wealthiest" and raised taxes "on 140,000 Wisconsin families.
Speaker: mary burke
About the speaker: Burke is a former Trek Bicycle executive and former Wisconsin Commerce Department secretary who announced on Oct. 7, 2013 that she would seek the Democratic nomination for governor in Wisconsin in the fall 2014 election against incument Republican Gov. Scott Walker. She lost to Walker on Nov. 4, 2014. She is a school board member in Madison, Wisconsin.
Date: September 11, 2014
Location: wisconsin
Topics: housing;income;message machine 2014;poverty;taxes
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: Walker cut taxes for wealthier residents and raised taxes for people on the lower end of the scale. But he also made tax cuts that applied across the board. The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details. We rate it . To comment on this item, go to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s web page .
Statement: Sharron Angle voted to protect sex offenders.
Speaker: harry reid
About the speaker: Harry Reid is a former U.S. senator from Nevada. He served as the Democratic minority leader in the U.S. Senate immediately prior to leaving office.
Date: October 7, 2010
Location: national
Topics: legal issues;message machine 2010;public safety
Context: a campaign commercial
Fact-check justification: When the identical bill came up in committee, Angle did not vote against it, nor did she demand a roll call vote on the amended version when it came back to the Assembly from the Senate. In addition, she cited other concerns beyond privacy that may have played into her decision to vote against the bill, including legal liability (which was addressed in the bill's final version), the possibility that such programs could one day become mandatory and First Amendment concerns. These failures, in our view, do not greatly undercut the ad's argument, however. The notion that Angle "voted to protect the privacy of sex offenders instead of the safety of our kids" is an oversimplification. But Angle did vote against it at least once for reasons including concerns about invasion of privacy, so we rate it .
Statement: The Milwaukee business community "did not speak about the facts" -- and in support of train manufacturer Talgo -- as the Milwaukee-Madison rail link was being killed.
Speaker: talgo inc.
About the speaker: Talgo Inc. is a Spain-based manufacturer of trains with operations in the United States. The company opened a Milwaukee factory, but plans to close the manufacturing operation once current and planned work is done. It had hoped to build trains for a federally funded Milwaukee-Madison rail link. That $810 million has been redistributed to other states.
Date: December 10, 2010
Location: wisconsin
Topics: state budget;transportation
Context: a statement from the company
Fact-check justification: So where does that leave us? The state lost $810 million in federal funds, Talgo’s train manufacturing jobs and the area’s leading business group and political leaders have a black eye for wooing and then freezing out an international business. Some of Talgo’s ire was directed toward the MMAC, for not speaking out on its behalf. The organization said its hands were tied by a split membership. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says his plan to end the toll on Ga. 400 fulfills his campaign promise to commuters.
Speaker: nathan deal
About the speaker: Nathan Deal is running for Georgia governor in 2010.
Date: July 19, 2012
Location: georgia
Topics: transportation
Fact-check justification: That means Ga. 400 motorists will still be paying tolls much longer than they were originally promised. Deal failed to meet a date of his own making. But he has come up with a plan to eliminate the tolls, albeit on a deadline not addressed in his original campaign promise. Deal earns a  on this one.
Statement: There aren't enough ballots in question to change the outcome" of the Harris vs. McCready race in NC Congressional District 9.
Speaker: north carolina republican party
About the speaker: The N.C. GOP is a political party in North Carolina
Date: December 2, 2018
Location: north carolina
Topics: elections
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: The NC GOP says "there aren’t enough ballots in question to change the outcome of this election." There’s a gap between the number of mail-in votes cast in Bladen County (684) and the 905 votes by which McCready trails Harris. But it’s possible -- if not likely -- that the NC elections board is examining more than just the absentee-by-mail ballots that were cast. The board hasn’t publicly defined the scope of its investigation. Investigators could be examining the 684 mail-votes from Bladen County, the 680 mail-in votes from Robeson County, as well as the combined 1,675 mail-in ballots that weren’t returned from either county. The N.C. GOP hasn’t presented  to prove that the NC elections board is focusing solely on the mail-in ballots that were already counted in Bladen County. In fact, they’ve criticized the board for lacking transparency. We believe Woodhouse and the NC GOP’s  meets the definition of a    : it contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression.
Statement: Says Chris Christie was the "first governor in America to endorse" Mitt Romney.
Speaker: chris christie
About the speaker: Chris Christie announced June 6, 2023 that he is running for the Republican nomination for president. Christie was the governor of New Jersey and a candidate for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. As governor, Christie won office in 2010 and was re-elected in 2014. Prior to that, he was U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 2002 to 2008. 
Date: August 28, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: candidate biography;elections
Context: an interview on "CBS This Morning"
Fact-check justification: In light of a New York Post article claiming Christie doubted whether Romney could beat Obama, Christie claimed in a TV interview that he was the "first governor in America to endorse" Romney. But about four months before Christie offered his endorsement, the Romney campaign announced he had the support of Republican governors in Nebraska and Idaho, and news articles noted both endorsements afterward. We rate the statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com . Editor's Note: After this story was published, we added a line noting how the governor's office had not responded to an email presenting our findings. https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/9bc52084-48a1-4732-a941-7b31c4baa16b
Statement: The White House referred to Christmas trees as Holiday Trees for the first time this year.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: October 17, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: This  was debunked in 2009 and is still untrue today. We did not find any  to indicate that the Biden administration is calling Christmas trees by any other name. A second part of the  says Ben Stein responded to the change in Christmas terminology with a speech. But his speech was delivered in 2005, years before the   about Christmas trees emerged. We rate this  !
Statement: Says if labor force participation rate were the same as when Barack Obama became president, unemployment would be 11 percent.
Speaker: paul ryan
About the speaker: U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R.-Wis., became Speaker of the House in 2015 and served until his retirement in January 2019. Ryan was elected to represent southern Wisconsin in Congress in 1998 and for part of his tenure chaired the House Budget Committee. He was Mitt Romney's vice-presidential running mate in the 2012 presidential election. He did not seek re-election in 2018.
Date: June 9, 2012
Location: texas
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: his keynote address at the Republican Party of Texas convention
Fact-check justification: The general unemployment rate in June 2012 would have been 10.9 percent if the labor force participation rate had remained at the 65.5 percent in place when Obama became president. That’s about 11 percent. We rate Ryan’s statement .
Statement: Every day on average 500 people die from gun violence.
Speaker: ilhan omar
About the speaker: Ilhan Omar is a Democratic congresswoman representing Minnesota's 5th congressional district, which includes parts of Minneapolis and surrounding municipalities.
Date: June 5, 2019
Location: national
Topics: crime;guns
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Omar said, "Every day on average 500 people die from gun violence." Her  was made in promoting legislation that would add new background check requirements for gun transfers made in the United States. Based on the latest federal figures, for 2017, the average per day was 109  — that’s counting deaths resulting from suicides, homicides, unintentional and undetermined deaths as well as those from law enforcement. And it’s 100 if you use a five-year average for 2013 to 2017. We rate Omar’s statement .
Statement: Adam Schiff will be impeached.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 19, 2023
Topics: congress;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: That requires a two-thirds vote. The Senate has expelled only 15 members in its history, and 14 of those came during the Civil War for supporting the Confederacy. The House has expelled only five members , the most recent being James Traficant, D-Ohio, in 2002, who was convicted of several felonies, including soliciting bribes. There are no news reports that Schiff is at risk of being expelled, much less impeached. We rate this  !
Statement: Says Joe Biden is formally listed as criminal suspect in Ukraine case involving his son.
Speaker: viral image
About the speaker: Graphics, pictures and charts shared on social media give chain emails a run for their money when it comes to spreading too-good-to-be-true claims all over the Internet. A common form is is the "Internet macro," which uses an easily recognized and repurposed image (called a meme) wth superimposed text to make a funny but political argument. Sometimes these images are passed across social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit so widely that the original source is nearly impossible to determine.
Date: July 22, 2020
Topics: criminal justice;foreign policy;facebook fact-checks
Context: a viral image
Fact-check justification: A  that Joe Biden is formally listed as a criminal suspect in a case in Ukraine involving his son Hunter misconstrues the facts. A judge in Ukraine has ordered that a criminal case file be opened regarding Biden’s efforts as vice president to get Ukraine’s top prosecutor removed from office. But the opening of the file does not mean that a criminal investigation has been launched on merit and does not mean Biden has been listed formally as a criminal suspect. We rate the statement .
Statement: Since being elected in 2002, Scott Walker has "given back over $370,000 of his salary to the county.
Speaker: scott walker
About the speaker: Scott Walker, a Republican, is the former governor of Wisconsin. He was first elected in November 2010. He survived a recall election in 2012, defeating Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett after igniting controversy with a bill curtailing public-employee union collective-bargaining rights.  He won re-election to a four-year term in November 2014 and was a 2016 presidential candidate before dropping out in September of 2015. He was defeated by Tony Evers in the 2018 gubernatorial election. Walker is a former Milwaukee County executive and former member of the state Assembly.
Date: October 5, 2010
Location: wisconsin
Topics: county budget
Context: a statement on campaign web site
Fact-check justification: Walker has foregone $375,070 in salary since being elected county executive in 2002 -- $5,070 more than what he has claimed during the gubernatorial campaign. Our summation is as simple as the math: In his initial campaign, Walker made a pledge to return $60,000 a year, though he later was re-elected on a smaller give-back pledge. He said his checkbook is more than $370,000 lighter -- and the county’s coffers that much better off. The record shows Walker’s  is accurate. We rate it .
Statement: Congressman (Tom) Cotton is the only Arkansan in Congress -- Democrat or Republican -- to vote against disaster relief five times.
Speaker: senate majority pac
About the speaker: Senate Majority PAC is a super PAC that works to elect Democrats to the U.S. Senate.
Date: June 19, 2014
Location: national
Topics: environment;bipartisanship;congress;federal budget;homeland security;infrastructure;public safety;voting record;weather
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: A Senate Majority PAC ad said, "Congressman Cotton is the only Arkansan in Congress -- Democrat or Republican -- to vote against disaster relief five times." We found that Cotton voted against five bills or amendments that would have gone to immediate aid or funded disaster relief programs. The rest of the Arkansas delegation only voted "no" on some of them. However, the ad is a bit disengenuous because it really only addresses three disaster relief bills, and a couple of other Arkansan delegates voted against final passage. The ad also leaves out the times that Cotton voted for disaster relief funding, as long as there were spending cuts to other programs to make up for it. Overall, Cotton typically doesn’t support spending that isn’t balanced out with cuts in other areas. Additionally, if you think this ad -- which shows tornado-ravaged areas -- is talking all about Arkansas, that isn't the case. Most of these votes had to do with Hurricane Sandy. We rate this  . UPDATE, July 9, 2014 : In a response ad, Cotton listed three votes that showed his support for disaster-relief funding. We rated that ad . Read that fact check here.
Statement: A Wisconsin bill to limit use of food stamps for junk food would also "prevent -- or limit --  the extent to which" food stamps could be used for organic foods.
Speaker: fred clark
About the speaker: Democrat Fred Clark is a member of the Wisconsin state Assembly, representing the 42nd District near Baraboo. He was elected in 2008. He ran unsuccessfully against Republican state Sen. Luther Olsen in an August 2011 recall election.
Date: May 7, 2013
Location: wisconsin
Topics: federal budget;poverty;states;welfare
Context: a legislative meeting
Fact-check justification: FoodShare recipients could still use one-third of their benefits on any kind of organic food (or junk food, for that matter). But they could use the two-thirds portion only for some kinds of organics. Our rating Clark said a bill to limit use of food stamps for junk food would also "prevent -- or limit --  the extent to which" food stamps could be used for organic foods. There would be limits on which types of organic foods a person could buy with two-thirds of their food stamps, but not for the other third. The meat-and-potatoes portion of Clark's statement is accurate, but it needs a garnish or two of clarification -- our definition of .
Statement: Kavanaugh accuser's brother's firm linked to Fusion GPS.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: September 17, 2018
Topics: supreme court;facebook fact-checks
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: Ford’s brother, Ralph Blasey, worked for a law firm that worked with Fusion GPS nine years after he left the company. Fusion GPS’s work on the Russian dossier began more than a decade after Blasey left BakerHostetler. While it’s accurate to say Blasey worked for BakerHostetler — he says that clearly on his LinkedIn — it is   to somehow link her brother’s past employment to Fusion GPS’s work in investigating Donald Trump’s ties to Russia. We rate this  .
Statement: Says Donald Trump is for a single-payer health care system.
Speaker: rick perry
About the speaker: Rick Perry is the U.S. Energy Secretary and was governor of Texas from late December 2000 through 2014. He was re-elected in 2002, 2006 and 2010. He unsucessfully ran for president in 2012 and 2016.
Date: August 2, 2015
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: an interview on "Fox News Sunday"
Fact-check justification: Perry said Trump is "for single-payer health care." Fifteen years ago, Trump was decidedly for a universal healthcare system that resembled Canada’s system, in which the government pays for care for all citizens. Recently, he's said he admires Scotland’s single-payer system and disses the Affordable Care Act as incompetently implemented. However, a Trump spokesman denied that the candidate supported "socialized medicine" and suggested Trump prefers a "free-market" solution. Other than that, though, the Trump campaign has been silent about what his specific health care policies are; perhaps Trump will be pressed on this point during the Aug. 6 debate. Given the current , Perry's attack is partially accurate, but leaves out details. We rate the statement .
Statement: Baseball and insurance are the only industries exempt from antitrust laws.
Speaker: americans united for change
About the speaker: A liberal advocacy group, Americans United For Change states on its Web site that it was founded in 2005 to fend off President Bush's plan to privatize Social Security. In 2006, the organization "broadened its scope to build broad public and congressional support for action on a wide range of long-stalled policy issues."
Date: October 12, 2009
Location: national
Topics: baseball;health care
Context: a television advertisement
Fact-check justification: The Americans United for Change ad is generally correct to equate the antitrust exemptions of baseball and health insurance, but the one for health insurance is more limited. And the ad is  to say that these are the "only industries exempt from antitrust laws." Agricultural and fishing co-ops and maritime shippers have similar exemptions. And a host of other sectors, notably freight rail, have some pretty significant antitrust protections as well. We rate the ad's  .
Statement: In one of the states that determined the outcome" of the 2016 presidential race, "the winning margin averaged out to just two votes per precinct, two votes.
Speaker: michelle obama
About the speaker: Michelle Obama is the wife of Barack Obama and the former First Lady of the United States. She is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School and has worked for the Mayor of Chicago and the University of Chicago. Michelle and Barack Obama have two daughters, Malia and Sasha.
Date: August 17, 2020
Location: michigan
Topics: elections
Context: a Democratic convention speech
Fact-check justification: Obama said, "In one of the states that determined the outcome" of the 2016 presidential race, "the winning margin averaged out to just two votes per precinct — two votes." In Michigan, Trump’s winning margin averaged out to just over two votes per precinct. We rate the statement .
Statement: 34 dead after Lizzo attempted to crowd surf.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: April 6, 2023
Topics: pop culture;facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: Lizzo herself addressed one on July 27, 2021, on her own TikTok account.   "So, I’ve seen a lot of annoying things about me on the internet, but the thing that bothers me the most is this rumor that I stage-dived at a concert and killed somebody," she said. "Like, that rumor is a lie first of all, I’ve never stage-dived in my life." Lizzo’s Grammy-winning work celebrates self-love and body positivity and she speaks often about giving media representation to plus-sized people who are often ignored in popular media imagery.    We rate the  she killed anyone !
Statement: Says "the number of Americans living at or below the poverty line is at its highest level since" 1964.
Speaker: barbara buono
About the speaker:  Barbara Buono is a Democratic state senator representing part of Middlesex County. Buono previously served in the State Assembly from 1994 to 2001.
Date: November 29, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: poverty
Context: a speech on the Senate floor
Fact-check justification: During a debate over raising the state’s minimum wage, Buono claimed "the number of Americans living at or below the poverty line is at its highest level since" 1964. The latest official poverty rate -- 15 percent in 2011 -- does represent one of the highest levels since 1964, but there have been a few years in the past five decades when the rate was the same or higher than the most current estimate. We rate the statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: Suntrust Bank cancels account because company sells guns.
Speaker: florida news flash
About the speaker: Hernando County-based blog/news site run by Samuel Martin McCall.
Date: March 29, 2015
Location: florida
Topics: financial regulation;guns
Context: a website headline
Fact-check justification: FloridaNewsFlash.com said, "Suntrust Bank Cancels Account Because Company Sells Guns." Actually, the bank decided recently to end relationships with pawn shops, payday lenders and check cashers, but it will still work with firearms dealers. The FDIC has warned banks to examine relationships with customers that use third-party payment processors, because of the risk of consumer fraud, and a federal program called Operation Choke Point has investigated the same issue. Gun rights advocates have argued that Operation Choke Point is a backdoor way of targeting gun shops, but the government denies there’s any such plan to target gun dealers, and no one has been able to truly prove otherwise. Overall, we rate the statement .
Statement: Says President Barack Obama "spent nearly a trillion dollars on make-work government jobs.
Speaker: rand paul
About the speaker: Rand Paul, a U.S. senator from Kentucky elected in 2010. He ran for president in 2016 before dropping out to seek re-election to the Senate. Paul is a medical doctor and an ophthalmologist. His father is Ron Paul, a 2008 presidential candidate and a former member of Congress from Texas. 
Date: January 28, 2014
Location: national
Topics: economy;federal budget;jobs;stimulus
Context: a response to the State of the Union address
Fact-check justification: Paul said Obama "spent nearly a trillion dollars on make-work government jobs." It’s plausible that through the stimulus, Obama spent nearly $1 trillion of taxpayer dollars in hopes it would create jobs. But Paul is  to suggest that all $1 trillion was spent on "make-work government jobs." Two-thirds of the stimulus was spent on tax cuts and entitlements, and of the remaining one-third, much was paid to private contractors. Only a modest fraction of the $1 trillion was spent on government jobs, much less on jobs spent doing nothing. We rate his  .
Statement: If you don't count illegal aliens, people who qualify for other insurance, and people who make more than $75,000 a year, "it leaves about 15 million people" who are uninsured.
Speaker: orrin hatch
About the speaker: Orrin Hatch is a Republican senator from Utah.
Date: August 20, 2009
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: an interview on Fox News
Fact-check justification: So we find that the individual numbers that Hatch uses are accurate or in the ballpark. Our concerns are with the methodology used to come up with his bottom line. It relies on a hodgepodge of different years and sources and leaves open the possibility that some people are double- or triple-counted. It would not pass muster in an undergraduate statistics class. So we find his statement is .