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Statement: When Nancy Nusbaum was Brown County executive, spending went up nearly 50 percent.
Speaker: wisconsin manufacturers and commerce
About the speaker: Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce is Wisconsin's largest business group. It says its members include large and small manufacturers, service companies, local chambers of commerce and specialized trade associations. WMC is also a lobbying organization and often gets involved in state political races.
Date: July 18, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Topics: county budget;taxes
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: They certainly were large compared with the years that followed, for reasons related to decisions by Nusbaum, county supervisors, the state, and local residents -- as well as demographics and sociological trends. The number -- 50 percent -- is on target. But the ad leaves out information about the other factors that went into the spending. Indeed, Brown County’s spending was not atypical for the time and by at least one group’s measure was in the middle of the pack. We rate the WMC  .
Statement: President Barack Obama shut down NASA space flights and turned the agency "into a Muslim outreach department.
Speaker: rush limbaugh
About the speaker: Rush Limbaugh is a conservative radio talk show host. His website describes him as "America's Truth Detector; the Doctor of Democracy; the Most Dangerous Man in America; the All-Knowing, All-Sensing, All-Everything Maha Rushie; defender of motherhood, protector of fatherhood and an all-around good guy."
Date: March 6, 2014
Topics: islam;space;punditfact
Context: a segment on 'The Rush Limbaugh Show'
Fact-check justification: Limbaugh reached into the early flare-ups of the Obama presidency for his quip about NASA’s conversion into a "Muslim outreach department." The notion stems from remarks by Bolden in an interview with an Arabic TV channel in 2010. Bolden identified three priorities from Obama, including finding "a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math and engineering." The Obama White House refuted Bolden’s remarks once outrage swelled, with spokespeople emphasizing the agency’s mission is space exploration and not diplomacy. Limbaugh also accused Obama of shutting down NASA space flights. Obama certainly played a role (the shuttle flights stopped while he was in office), but the plan to scuttle the space shuttle program started before Obama took office, and Congress has not fully funded budget requests to speed along the creation of a private American space fleet. Those omissions go beyond the realm of hyperbole. We rate Limbaugh’s  .
Statement: Says "Snoop Dogg arrested for conspiracy after talking about his 'murder Trump' video.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: March 14, 2017
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: Internet posts
Fact-check justification: The First Amendment allows a lot of leeway for criticism , and Snoop Dogg is hardly the only recording artist to signal his distaste for Trump. Shock rocker Marilyn Manson, for example, released a video teaser in November 2016 for his new album Say10 , in which he beheads a man dressed suspiciously similar to Trump. Snoop Dogg’s reaction since has been limited to a March 15 Instagram video in which he said he’s "got nothing to say, mate." A post shared by snoopdogg (@snoopdogg) on Mar 15, 2017 at 3:52pm PDT He hasn’t been arrested for his video or for talking about it, despite what the  reports say. We rate this one !
Statement: Ketanji Brown Jackson has "a weak record — defund police, abolish ICE and now a completely open border policy.
Speaker: mick mcguire
About the speaker: Mick McGuire, former head of the Arizona National Guard, is a 2022 candidate for the Republican nomination for a U.S. Senate seat from Arizona.
Date: March 24, 2022
Location: arizona
Topics: immigration;corrections and updates;criminal justice;ad watch
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: McGuire said Jackson has "a weak record — defund police, abolish ICE and now a completely open border policy."  There is no  that Jackson has stated support for any of those measures. The baseless statement is  and . We rate it ! PolitiFact staff researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report. UPDATE, March 28, 2022: This fact-check has been updated to include a response we received from the McGuire campaign after publication.   RELATED: Marsha Blackburn misleads about Jackson’s record on releasing criminals during the pandemic RELATED: Josh Hawley misleads on Judge Jackson and child pornography sentencing RELATED: GOP Ariz. Senate hopeful Lamon falsely claims that Biden wants to give ‘illegal immigrants’ $450,000
Statement: The UNC athletic director's $705,000 salary was "not at market. Not even close.
Speaker: chapel hill
About the speaker: The University of North Carolina is located in Chapel Hill.
Date: November 3, 2017
Location: north carolina
Topics: sports
Context: meeting
Fact-check justification: Cochrane, the chairman of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Board of Trustees, said Cunningham’s old $705,853 base salary was "not at market … not even close." It’s a stretch to say that Cunningham’s salary was "not even close" to what the market rate is for someone with his experience. However, experts agree that compared to his peers, Cunningham was well underpaid for his work at a university that’s achieved so much success despite facing adversity. We rate this  .
Statement: Florida has had 119 hurricanes since 1850," yet experts are saying "the last one was due to climate change.
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: September 8, 2021
Location: florida
Topics: climate change;weather;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A viral image claimed: "Florida has had 119 hurricanes since 1850, but the last one was due to climate change." The post uses a sarcastic tone to mock what scientists say about climate change and hurricanes, but it mischaracterizes their view. Experts do not blame climate change for causing hurricanes, though they say it’s a possible cause of making them more intense. The post also misstates the number of hurricanes in Florida since 1850. It has had 140. We rate the post .
Statement: An image shows animals burning in the Australia wildfires
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: January 4, 2020
Topics: environment;animals;fires;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post on Facebook
Fact-check justification: Trading in or being in possession of protected animals or their body parts is a criminal offense in Indonesia, and animal traffickers can face up to five years in jail and fines up to $10,000 USD. Jakarta officials seized 258 animal remains in the 2012 raid, according to an article by the Daily Mail , which included 15 tigers, 2 sun bears and 48 deer, before destroying them. The animals had all been killed by poachers before being stuffed and sold to be displayed in peoples homes. Australia’s fire season is shaping up to be one of the deadliest for the country’s wildlife, but this image is unrelated. We rate the post .
Statement: After the Texas cutoff of aid to women's health care services including Planned Parenthood clinics, "over 150,000… women lost the only health care they had. Our Medicaid birth rate shot up. It cost taxpayers over $130 million in one year alone in extra Medicaid birth costs.
Speaker: wendy davis
About the speaker: Wendy Davis, a Fort Worth attorney, was initially elected to the Texas Senate in 2008. She was the 2014 Democratic gubernatorial nominee, giving up a shot at winning re-election to the Senate.
Date: September 21, 2015
Location: texas
Topics: corrections and updates;health care;public health;women
Context: an appearance on MSNBC’s “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell”
Fact-check justification: Davis said that after the Texas cutoff of aid to women’s health services including Planned Parenthood clinics, "over 150,000… women lost the only health care they had. Our Medicaid birth rate shot up. It cost taxpayers over $130 million in one year alone in extra Medicaid birth costs." There was about that much of a drop-off in women participating in state-backed family planning and cancer screening programs. But Davis didn’t provide nor did we find confirmation all the women lost the only care they had or that Medicaid-funded birth costs actually spiked by the predicted $130 million-plus. In fact, there were fewer Medicaid-covered Texas births in 2014 than in 2011. We rate this multi-part  .  – The statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check. CORRECTION, 4:44 p.m., Dec. 2, 2015 : We revised this fact check to correct our initial version's description of actions taken by the Legislature in 2011 to reduce family-planning aid that went to clinics connected to providing abortions. As a reader nudged, that version incorrectly said an action took place in 2013 when the move occurred in 2011. That story also was imprecise about the dollar costs of the actions. These changes did not affect our rating of Davis' .
Statement: State legislators "quietly shifted $2 billion from education to road building" in 2013.
Speaker: alex mcmurtrie jr.
About the speaker: Alex McMurtrie Jr., a Chesterfield County attorney, is one of three candidates in a 2015 Democratic primary election for 10th District seat in the Virginia Senate.He serves on the Board of Visitors and Virginia Commonwealth University and the Board of Trustees at Georgetown University Law School.
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Date: May 7, 2015
Location: virginia
Topics: education;state budget;transportation
Context: a campaign flyer
Fact-check justification: McMurtrie says legislators "quietly shifted $2 billion from education to road building" in 2013. He backs his statement with hyper-inflated numbers multiplied over a 10-year period and a contorted interpretation of a newspaper article. An outdated provision in the bill McMurtrie refers to would have transferred $198 million a from the general fund to transportation. McMurtrie assumes all of that money would have been stripped from public schools when, in fact, the general fund also supports public safety and health programs. About one-third of the fund pays for education, so the hit to schools likely would have been around $66 million a year, or $660 million over a decade. The updated provision in the bill, ignored by McMurtrie, will shift $113 million from the general fund to transportation. If budgeting practices hold up, that should mean about a $38 million annual hit to education, or $380 million over 10 years. Either way, McMurtrie’s  of a $2 billion raid on education doesn’t hold up. Nor does his subsequent  that the bill "potentially" took billions from schools. And the legislature’s public debate on the bill, amplified by extensive media coverage, dissolves McMurtrie’s  that lawmakers "quietly" shifted education dollars. We rate McMurtrie’s statement .
Statement: Says Dan Feehan "would vote with Pelosi for open borders and amnesty, putting Minnesota families at risk.
Speaker: congressional leadership fund
About the speaker: The Congressional Leadership Fund is a super PAC exclusively dedicated to protecting and strengthening the Republican Majority in the House of Representatives.
Date: October 26, 2018
Location: national
Topics: immigration
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: The Congressional Leadership Fund says Dan Feehan "would vote with Pelosi for open borders and amnesty, putting Minnesota families at risk." There is no question Feehan holds views contrary to the president’s and those of many House Republicans. He wants to find a way for people who are in this country already to stay, under certain conditions. But nothing in his positions suggests he supports open borders and total amnesty. There is a lot of either-or posturing in politics, and this is no different, but the CLF’s extreme framing of Feehan’s positions calls for a harsh ruling: .
Statement: Fauci doesn't trust new vaccine research as delta variant surges.
Speaker: fox news channel
About the speaker: Fox News Channel is a 24-hour cable channel focused on coverage of breaking news and politics. 
Date: August 15, 2021
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: A Fox News Instagram post claimed that "Fauci doesn’t trust new vaccine research as delta variant surges." That’s not an accurate interpretation of what he said. Fauci said he did not doubt the findings of a preliminary study on the effectiveness of the Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines. But he cautioned that the study’s findings are preliminary, and said they should not be used to make decisions about which vaccine to take for a booster shot. His position was consistent with the caveats the study authors noted. We rate the post .
Statement: In 2011, (Debbie) Wasserman Schultz missed 62 congressional votes — one of the worst records of any member of Congress.
Speaker: karen harrington
About the speaker: Karen Harrington is running in a Republican primary for Congressional District 20 in South Florida. She lost in the same district against U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz in 2010.
Date: January 9, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: candidate biography;congress;voting record
Context: a website
Fact-check justification: Harrington said, "In 2011, Wasserman Schultz missed 62 congressional votes — one of the worst records of any member of Congress." She’s right that Wasserman Schultz missed 62 votes. That means Wasserman Schultz is No. 45 among members who have missed votes, out of 435 sitting members, a fairly high ranking. On the other hand, she's not even the worst in the state and has a better voting record than four other members of the Florida delegation. So the record is mixed on whether she is "one of the worst." We rate the statement .
Statement: Her opponent: zero times a judge, zero rulings, zero experience on the bench.
Speaker: jan patterson
About the speaker: Jan Patterson is a former justice on the 3rd Texas Court of Appeals.
Date: January 20, 2010
Location: texas
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: "In the past decade, I have more experience in the civil district court that I am running for than Justice Patterson does," she said. "She has been an appellate judge — I have been a civil trial attorney." Meachum estimated that she's litigated 50-70 cases in Travis County. Patterson is correct that Meachum has never been a judge. We rate her statement as .
Statement: It's been proven over and over again Medicaid has the worst outcomes in the industrialized world as far as the quality of health care.
Speaker: ted yoho
About the speaker: Ted Yoho has represented Florida's 3rd district in the U.S. House of Representatives since his election in 2012. He has practiced as a veterinarian.
Date: March 14, 2017
Location: florida
Topics: medicaid
Context: an interview on PBS
Fact-check justification: Yoho said "It’s been proven over and over again Medicaid has the worst outcomes in the industrialized world as far as the quality of health care." Yoho’s spokesman said that he didn’t mean to use the word "worst." His  focused on studies about Medicaid outcomes within the United States with no comparison to other countries. Yoho intended to argue that Medicaid under the ACA hasn’t improved health outcomes. Kaiser examined multiple studies and found Medicaid expansion improves access to care and self-reported health, but additional research is needed to determine effects on health outcomes. As far as Yoho’s original statement, we rate it .
Statement: Says signs posted at projects funded by the federal stimulus act has cost "20 or 40 million" dollars.
Speaker: jim renacci
About the speaker: Jim Renacci, a Republican, is running against U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat, in 2018. Renacci is the representative from Ohio's 16th Congressional District. He is a businessman and also the former mayor of Wadsworth. He was first elected to Congress in 2010.
Date: January 4, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: deficit;federal budget;stimulus
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: The cost of the signs nationally has run into the millions. But although some huge numbers have been cited, no one was able to document an exact figure. And when agencies putting the signs up were asked to investigate the costs, their estimates tallied up to less than half of Renacci’s figures. That’s an important detail the listener needs to put things in proper context, and on the -O-Meter that means we rate the congressman’s  as . Comment on this item .
Statement: As chair of the Senate Education Committee, I led the charge to restore most of the education cuts from last session.
Speaker: dan patrick
About the speaker: As a Houston state senator, Dan Patrick won election as lieutenant governor of Texas in November 2014 after earlier defeating incumbent David Dewhurst for his party's nomination. Patrick also has hosted a daily talk show on AM700 in Houston.
Date: August 28, 2014
Location: texas
Topics: education;state budget
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: Patrick said that in the 2013 session, "I led the charge to restore most of the education cuts from last session." In the session, Patrick voted twice for a version of the budget elevating education spending by $1.5 billion, or less than a third of the earlier reduction. He later voted against the final budget driving up such spending by $3.4 billion, a decision he didn’t clarify to us. On balance, it’s not clear to us how someone can lead in putting money back by voting against putting money back. This  grades out as  and . !  – The statement is not accurate and makes a  . Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: David Perdue "proposes rolling back the clock on women's health care.
Speaker: georgians together
About the speaker: PAC formed to help Michelle Nunn's U.S. Senate bid.
Date: September 23, 2014
Location: georgia
Topics: health care
Context: television attack ad
Fact-check justification: That’s a major omission. Voters also need to know what Perdue is proposing -- repeal and replacement of Obamacare -- others have tried to do and failed. And you could argue that almost any group helped by Obamacare could be hurt with its repeal. There is a lot of missing context in this attack ad. We rate it .
Statement: Eighty percent of the American people support an approach (to federal budget problems) that includes revenues and includes cuts.
Speaker: barack obama
About the speaker: Barack Obama is the former president of the United States. Obama also served as a U.S. senator from Illinois. He was born in 1961 in Hawaii, where his parents met as students at the University of Hawaii. Obama's father is from Kenya and his mother is from Kansas. He graduated from Columbia University and received his law degree from Harvard Law School. Obama previously served in the Illinois state Senate and was an instructor at the University of Chicago Law School. He and his wife, Michelle, have two daughters, Malia and Sasha.
Date: July 15, 2011
Location: national
Topics: federal budget;polls and public opinion;taxes
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification: And the July Gallup poll found that 42 percent of respondents were following the issue "not too closely" or "not at all."  Getting back to Obama's statement, he said, "You have 80 percent of the American people who support a balanced approach. Eighty percent of the American people support an approach that includes revenues and includes cuts." Even the best poll doesn't show support quite that high -- he would more accurately have accounted for the small numbers that support only tax increases or were unsure, putting the number at 70 percent. But his overall point is correct that polls show most Americans support a balanced approach when given a choice between cutting spending or raising taxes. So we rate his statement .
Statement: Says New Jersey is "losing 50 football fields of open space to development every day and the more we develop upstream the more flooding we have downstream.
Speaker: new jersey sierra club
About the speaker: The New Jersey Sierra Club is the state's chapter of the nationwide environmental organization.
Date: September 6, 2011
Location: new jersey
Topics: environment;housing
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: The Sierra Club claimed "50 football fields" are developed in New Jersey every day, increasing the danger of flooding. Flooding can be a side effect of development, but the group’s statistic doesn’t reflect the steep decline in construction activity during the past four years. Tittel argues his organization is using the most recent data available, but that still doesn’t make it right. We rate the statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: Jan. 6 was NOT an insurrection…but Nov. 4 at 3 a.m. was!
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: December 28, 2021
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks;jan. 6
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: An extensive body of  includes video documentation and many eyewitness accounts. The 2020 presidential election was not an insurrection. Joe Biden was legally elected president. Late-night spikes in voting results reflected the effort to count unprecedented numbers of mail-in ballots and are not proof of fraud. We rate this  !
Statement: Says U.S. left 33 Black Hawks to the Taliban, which has more than "85%" of all countries.
Speaker: richard hudson
About the speaker: Richard Hudson is a Republican Congressman representing North Carolina's 8th District.
Date: September 1, 2021
Location: north carolina
Topics: afghanistan;military
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Hudson’s post said the U.S. military left 33 Black Hawks that are now part of the "Taliban’s new arsenal," and that the group now has more of the helicopters than "85%" of all countries. Hudson’s  about the "Taliban’s new arsenal" is based on a report published before the last troops left Afghanistan on Aug. 30 . So that may be off. His  about how the Taliban’s stock of Black Hawks compares to other countries appears to be accurate.  Hudson’s post gets some of the numbers right, but leaves out key context. We rate it .