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Statement: Federal investigators found a company that (David Perdue) ran discriminated against women -- paid them less than men for the same work.
Speaker: emily's list
About the speaker: EMILY's List is a political advocacy group that raises money to elect Democratic women who support abortion rights.
Date: September 1, 2014
Location: georgia
Topics: women;workers
Context: television attack ad
Fact-check justification: In summary: The ad is based on a letter from an EEOC area manager in MIssissippi, which says there was reasonable cause to believe female managers in at least one district were discriminated against in pay. The case never went to trial. The company settled out of court without admitting guilt. The statement is accurate on its face, but needs further clarification. We rate it as .
Statement: In San Francisco, we were successful in reducing our street population 40 percent. We got 12,000 people off the street.
Speaker: gavin newsom
About the speaker: Gavin Newsom was elected governor of California in 2018. He is the state's former lieutenant governor and served as mayor of San Francisco. He is a Democrat.
Date: May 8, 2018
Location: california
Topics: homeless;housing;the 2018 california governor's race
Context: a campaign debate
Fact-check justification: Newsom’s overall statement is partially accurate. But the first portion uses a cherry-picked timeframe that ignores the last quarter of Newsom’s term as mayor. The second part of his  leaves out some key context. We rate Newsom’s  .   – The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context.
Statement: When migrants arrived on Martha's Vineyard, "They called out the National Guard and deported them within 24 hours.
Speaker: ron desantis
About the speaker: Ron DeSantis announced on May 24, 2023 that he is running for president in the Republican primary. DeSantis won the race for Florida governor in 2018 and 2022. DeSantis was first elected to Congress in 2012 and resigned in September 2018 to focus on his campaign. He represented Florida's 6th Congressional District which is south of St. Augustine and north of Orlando and includes Daytona Beach. DeSantis initially ran for U.S. Senate in 2016 but dropped out after Marco Rubio decided to seek re-election.
Date: April 6, 2023
Location: national
Topics: immigration;florida
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: DeSantis said when migrants arrived on Martha’s Vineyard, "They called out the National Guard and deported them within 24 hours." The migrants were relocated to a Cape Cod military base and were not removed from the United States. They remain in the U.S. today. Deportations are carried out by federal immigration authorities, not the National Guard. We rate this statement . RELATED : All of our fact-checks of claims by and about DeSantis RELATED : All of our fact-checks about immigration RELATED : Fact-checking 2024 presidential candidates, who’s running
Statement: Hillsboro school district has already placed Antifa, BLM in their curriculum as Justice Fighters. Fourth grade.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: September 20, 2020
Topics: education;race and ethnicity;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Beth Graser, a spokesperson for the Hillsboro School District, told us that the  isn’t  — the district hasn’t added Antifa or Black Lives Matter to its curriculum as "Justice Fighters." In fourth grade, Hillsboro students are taught about civic engagement and there’s a series of lessons called Justice Fighters that teach the kids about leaders who fight for justice, Graser said. "It includes many races and genders of leaders, including Black leaders like Martin Luther King, but does not call out groups or movements like Antifa or BLM. "  We looked online for any news coverage or other  that supports the  in the Facebook post but found none. We rate this Facebook post .
Statement: Voters in Maricopa County, Ariz., were forced to vote using Sharpie pens that aren't read by voting machines.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: November 3, 2020
Location: arizona
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: In other words, the Sharpie is actually the preferred pen for filling out ballots in Maricopa County. This  is . We rate it . This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections FactChat #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click  here , for more.
Statement: Says his opponent Dorman Grace brags on his Facebook page about receiving illegal campaign contributions.
Speaker: dale peterson
About the speaker: Dale Peterson is a former Republican candidate for agriculture commissioner in Alabama.
Date: May 25, 2010
Location: national
Topics: agriculture;campaign finance;ethics;message machine 2010
Context: a campaign commercial
Fact-check justification: We make sure the birds are disease-free. But we don't regulate the poultry growers themselves, in my opinion." Ultimately, it appears the state Ethics Commission is going to have to decide whether these contributions were improper (and it seems unlikely we'll hear a decision before next month's Republican primary). But we think it's fair to say that when the state's poultry program director and the legal advisor to the Alabama Department of Agriculture say the law is untested and unclear, it's a bit of a gray area. And so we rule Peterson's statement .
Statement: From Obama's book: "I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race.
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: May 19, 2008
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography
Context: an e-mail message
Fact-check justification: And yet, at least through age 33 when he wrote Dreams from My Father , he found solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against his mother's race." But those are Sailer's words, not Obama's. It's an arguable point whether it's a fair characterization of the views expressed in Obama's book. The bottom line is an e-mailer somewhere took the sentence, rewrote it, and passed it off as Obama's words. For this reason, we rate this statement !
Statement: 150,000 (oil spill) claims have been filed by Floridians, but only 40 percent of them have been paid.
Speaker: alex sink
About the speaker: Alex Sink is a candidate for Congress in Florida's 13th Congressional District. She served as Florida's Chief Financial Officer from 2007 to 2011. She was the Democratic Party's nominee for governor in 2010, but lost to Rick Scott.
Date: December 7, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: oil spill
Context: a meeting of the Florida Cabinet
Fact-check justification: You can read the latest report for yourself here . In lashing out against BP claims administrator Feinberg, Sink noted that of all claims made in Florida following the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, only 40 percent had been paid. She's just about right on. So far, about 43 percent of claims submitted by Floridians or Florida business owners have been paid, another 39 percent have been denied and a little more than 18 percent are still under some type of review. We rate Sink's  .
Statement: Last week the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE), led by Rick Perry's appointee, voted to remove Thomas Jefferson from social studies textbook standards. That's right. Thomas Jefferson... was deleted from a list of historical figures who inspired political change.
Speaker: bill white
About the speaker: Bill White, an author, is a San Antonio native who was mayor of Houston from 2004-2009. He was the 2010 Democratic nominee for governor of Texas.
Date: March 17, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: education
Context: an e-mail
Fact-check justification: They weren't. We can see how White might've been confused. Media coverage of the board's action hasn't always been precise. White's final sentence — that Jefferson was deleted from a list of historical figures who inspired political change — is a more accurate way to put it. We rate White's multi-part statement as .
Statement: Just remember this: the president's health care bill put 30 million people on health care rolls that weren't there before.
Speaker: frank lautenberg
About the speaker: Frank Lautenberg is a Democratic senator representing New Jersey.
Date: May 3, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: health care
Context: a video posted on YouTube
Fact-check justification: During his May 3 appearance on the Rutgers-Camden campus, Lautenberg made this  about the health care reform law: "Just remember this: the president's health care bill put 30 million people on health care rolls that weren't there before." Based on the latest projections, the health care reform may lead to insurance coverage for about 30 million additional Americans -- but contrary to what Lautenberg suggested, that has not happened yet. The increase in newly insured people is estimated to reach 30 million in 2016. We rate the statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: As a Congressman, J.D. Hayworth was an avid earmarker who supported such pork as "$220,000 to renovate a Maine Blueberry farm" and "$5.8 million for a Vermont snowmobile trail.
Speaker: john mccain
About the speaker: John McCain was a U.S. senator from Arizona, a post he held from 1987 to his death in 2018. He previously served two terms in the U.S. House. He was the Republican nominee for president in 2008. McCain was a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and spent his career in the military, as his father did. He was a combat pilot in Vietnam who was shot down and spent 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war. He was born in 1936 in Panama. 
Date: May 26, 2010
Location: national
Topics: federal budget;message machine 2010
Context: a political ad
Fact-check justification: In fact, we doubt he even knew those particular projects were even in the bill. But Hayworth knew the bills contained billions in earmarks, and he even boasted in a press release about some of the earmarks he included for Arizona. From where we sit, if you boast to constituents about the earmarks you brought to your home state, then you've got to live with the earmarks other legislators brought to theirs. And those projects listed in the McCain ad were among them. We rate the ad's claims .
Statement: Says he "raised graduation rates to nearly 90 percent.
Speaker: tony evers
About the speaker: Tony Evers, a Democrat, was elected Wisconsin governor in November 2018. His term begins in January 2019. Evers has served as the Wisconsin superintendent of public instruction, a non-partisan position, since 2009. He previously worked as a teacher and school district administrator.
Date: September 25, 2018
Location: wisconsin
Topics: children;education
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: Evers took office in 2009. In the 2009-’10 year, the graduation rate was 85.7 percent. In  2016-’17, the most recent year available, it was 88.6 percent. But, like other politicians before him, Evers gets off track by giving himself too much credit for changes that have many factors, including -- perhaps especially -- efforts at the local school district level. We rate the  .
Statement: Says "former Democrat Kelli Ward attacked President Trump's plans to crack down on illegal immigration, saying Trump was making a mistake.
Speaker: martha mcsally
About the speaker: Martha McSally, a Republican, is a former U.S. Senator and former U.S. Representative from Arizona. McSally served 26 years in the U.S. Air Force, retiring in 2010 as a full colonel. She was the first female fighter pilot to fly a combat mission and command a fighter squadron. She was elected to public office for the first time when she won election to Congress in 2014.
Date: August 14, 2018
Location: arizona
Topics: immigration;homeland security
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: A McSally campaign ad against Ward said, "Former Democrat Kelli Ward attacked President Trump's plans to crack down on illegal immigration, saying Trump was making a ." Ward registered as a Democrat when she was 18 years old but became a Republican in her early 20s. Ward supports Trump’s border wall promise. She opposed bills that included funding for border security, because she believed they provided amnesty, not because they included border security measures. Ward said Trump’s  was supporting the bills. McSally’s ad contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it .
Statement: Says she made a "cold call" and persuaded an Illinois company to relocate to Wisconsin.
Speaker: rebecca kleefisch
About the speaker: Rebecca Kleefisch was the lieutenant governor of Wisconsin from 2011-19 under Gov. Scott Walker. She previously worked as a TV anchor and reporter, most recently with WISN-TV in Milwaukee. Kleefisch was defeated August 9, 2022 in her Republican primary bid for Republican nomination for governor.
 
Date: March 28, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: corrections and updates;jobs
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: In a new TV ad , launched May 9, 2012, Kleefisch makes a similar  to the one we evaluated and in materials supporting the ad her campaign indicates she first spoke with a company representative in January of 2011 -- not March as her spokesman told us. Since the  related to her role in convincing the business to move here, not when she made her first call, it does not change our rating. Indeed, in the ad Kleefisch modifies a bit her original  that it was her call that persuaded the company to make the move. Here’s what she says in the ad: "So I called them up and told them why they should move to Wisconsin, and they did. That’s just one of many businesses we’ve helped create more jobs."
Statement: Says Obama has flip-flopped on public campaign financing.
Speaker: let freedom ring
About the speaker: Let Freedom Ring is a conservative group.
Date: July 24, 2008
Location: national
Topics: ethics
Context: a TV ad airing on cable networks such as Fox and MTV
Fact-check justification: And we've already seen that (McCain is) not going to stop the smears and attacks from his allies running so-called 527 groups, who will spend millions and millions of dollars in unlimited donations." Asked whether they pursued an agreement with McCain, the Obama campaign pointed us to a news account that said Bob Bauer, an attorney for Obama, met with McCain lawyers to discuss how both campaigns could operate in the public financing system. But that account was sketchy and didn't sound to us like the "aggressive pursuit" that Obama had promised. The fact is that Obama said he would pursue public financing, but decided it wasn't in the campaign's tactical interest. So we find the ad's  to be .
Statement: Says New START, passed while Clinton was secretary of state, is a "treaty cutting Russia's nuclear arms.
Speaker: hillary clinton
About the speaker: Hillary Clinton was the 2016 Democratic nominee for president. She served as U.S. Secretary of State during the first four years of the Obama administration. She is formerly a U.S. senator from New York, first elected in 2000. She was a candidate for president in 2008. She previously served as first lady when her husband, Bill Clinton, served two terms as president. She was born in Chicago in 1947, graduated from Wellesley College and earned a law degree at Yale Law School. She and her husband have one daughter.
Date: September 9, 2016
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;foreign policy;nuclear
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: Clinton said New START, passed while she was secretary of state, was a "treaty cutting Russia’s nuclear arms." The treaty hasn’t cut Russia’s nuclear arms yet. But if it does in the future, after the treaty is fully implemented in 2018, it seems that any reductions would be minimal rather than sweeping. New START has a limited impact in that it focuses on one portion of Russia’s nuclear program: deployed strategic weapons. The treaty does place tighter limits on these weapons than any past treaty. But Russia was actually already meeting the treaty’s limits, for the most part, when treaty implementation began. Also, the treaty does not restrict either country from stockpiling weapons, nor does it require them to destroy any existing weapons. We rate her  .
Statement: Historically, our spring elections (including for state Supreme Court) have a smaller turnout associated with them.
Speaker: melissa agard
About the speaker: Melissa Kristen Agard is an American small business owner and politician from Madison, Wisconsin. A Democrat, she is a member of the Wisconsin State Senate and minority caucus vice-chair. She previously served four terms in the Wisconsin State Assembly, when she was primarily known as Melissa Sargent.
Date: January 3, 2023
Location: wisconsin
Topics: elections;legal issues;states;supreme court
Context: TV interview
Fact-check justification: Agard said, "Historically, our spring elections (including for state Supreme Court) have a smaller turnout associated with them." According to the Elections Commission, since 2000 turnout percentages for spring elections range from just shy of 12% for a 2006 state Supreme Court race to 34% for the contentious state Supreme Court race between Kloppenburg and Prosser.  Even that 34% is well below the fall general election turnout for 2012, which came in at about 70%. For a statement that is accurate and there’s nothing significant missing, our rating is  .
Statement: Ron DeSantis "opposes any background checks on guns, even for violent criminals.
Speaker: charlie crist
About the speaker: Charlie Crist lost the race for Florida governor as the Democratic candidate in 2022. He served as a U.S. congressman from St. Petersburg since 2017 and resigned Aug. 31, 2022 to focus on his campaign.  As a Republican, Crist served as governor from 2007 to 2011. Crist left the Republican Party in 2010 to mount a campaign for the U.S. Senate as an independent. Crist lost the race to Marco Rubio. In 2012, he endorsed President Barack Obama and announced that he had registered as a Democrat. He lost his race as a Democratic candidate for governor in 2014.
Date: July 14, 2022
Location: florida
Topics: regulation;guns
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: However, he hasn’t supported efforts to expand the criminal background check requirement to include gun sales by unlicensed sellers. DeSantis also promised to sign a "constitutional carry" bill. If passed, the law may allow people who evaded background checks through private sales to carry firearms publicly.   Crist’s statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it .
Statement: Says Texas has so few gas-pump inspectors in the field, "the HEBs of this state, the Brookshires of this state, they're calibrating their own gas pumps. The (Texas Department of Agriculture) just sends them the stickers and they calibrate them.
Speaker: hank gilbert
About the speaker: Hank Gilbert, who raises cattle near Tyler, was the 2010 Democratic nominee for Texas agriculture commissioner. He won the party's 2006 nomination for the same post.
Date: January 11, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: consumer safety;energy
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: It's not. Also, as Gilbert's campaign acknowledged to us, his statement that the state sends stickers to stores simply isn't so. Gilbert may have only said this to a single audience. Regardless, his --which was never corrected publicly--incorrectly suggests wrongdoing, and state complicity in that wrongdoing. On the -O-Meter, that's fuel enough to rate .
Statement: Says he created more than 500 American jobs.
Speaker: bill flores
About the speaker: Bill Flores of Bryan was initially elected to the U.S. House in 2010. 
Date: September 26, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: candidate biography;economy;message machine 2010
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: As far as we can tell, significantly more than 500 jobs were added to the payrolls at growing companies where Flores worked as a CFO. But as he acknowledged to us, the statement's wording overstates that achievement — leaving viewers to conclude he personally created the jobs. We rate his statement as . Editor's note: This statement was rated  when it was published. On July 27, 2011, we changed the name for the rating to .
Statement: During his first year, President Obama said he "was going to visit Kim Jong-ll and Ahmadinejad and Assad and Chavez – the worst actors in the world.
Speaker: mitt romney
About the speaker: Mitt Romney is a U.S. senator from Utah. He ran for president in 2012 as the Republican nominee, losing to incumbent President Barack Obama. Prior to that, Romney served one term as governor of Massachusetts, elected to the post in 2002. He was born in 1947 in Michigan, where his father was governor from 1963 to 1969. Romney graduated from Brigham Young University and received both a law degree and an MBA from Harvard University. Romney helped found the investment firm Bain Capital in 1984, which launched or rebuilt such companies as Staples and Dominos Pizza. Romney managed the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City from 1999-2002. He ran for president in 2008 but lost the Republican nomination. He and his wife, Ann, have five sons, Tagg, Craig, Matt, Ben and Josh.
Date: July 5, 2011
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy;new hampshire 2012
Context: Wolfeboro, N.H
Fact-check justification: There is a small amount of  in Romney's , but his wording  what Obama really said. When asked if he would be willing to meet with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea -- "without precondition, during the first year of your administration, in Washington or anywhere else" -- Obama said he would. But in the language of diplomacy, that is significantly different than saying he "was going to visit" them, which is how Romney characterized it. We find his statement .
Statement: Drivers will "get guaranteed earnings, health care benefits, personal protections, and they can maintain their flexible schedules.
Speaker: lyft
About the speaker: A ride-sharing app that is advocating passage of California's proposition 22. 
Date: October 8, 2020
Topics: corrections and updates;health check
Context: support of California's Prop 22
Fact-check justification: The stipend offered under Proposition 22 is a "health care benefit," but the wording is  and ignores critical informaiton. While neither Lyft nor the Yes on 22 campaign says the proposition will give drivers health insurance, saying that it will offer them "health care benefits" gives the impression that the stipend is similar to traditional job-based coverage. It’s not. Drivers who value the ability to make their own schedules would have to figure out how to work an average of nearly 40 hours a week — essentially full time — to receive the full stipend. The stipend would cover a fraction of the premiums for health insurance that’s typically less generous than what they’d get as employees. Moreover, because drivers’ stipends could change quarterly based on their driving time — which could be affected by vacation or illness — any coverage purchased with the stipend could carry a cloud of uncertainty. We rate this  as . Clarification: This story was changed to clarify that "engaged" time does not include time spent waiting between jobs.