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Statement: Milwaukee County taxpayers paid $370,000 to settle a lawsuit over a decision by Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. to use "untrained corrections officers" rather than deputies to patrol the lakefront.
Speaker: chris moews
About the speaker: Chris Moews is a lieutenant in the Milwaukee Police Department and was an unsuccessful candidate in the Aug. 12, 2014 Democratic primary election for Milwaukee County Sheriff.
Date: July 14, 2014
Location: wisconsin
Topics: labor;public safety
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: I don’t think they wanted that amount to get out there." Our rating Moews claimed that taxpayers shelled out $370,000 because Clarke switched from deputies to lower paid corrections officers for lakefront and park and ride lot patrols. He got some of his facts and dates , but the gist of his  is correct. The union filed and won two complaints regarding the move to corrections officers, and county taxpayers paid $370,000 to settle one of them. We rate the  .
Statement: New York Mail-In voting is in a disastrous state of condition. Votes from many weeks ago are missing - a total mess. They have no idea what is going on. Rigged Election.
Speaker: donald trump
About the speaker: Donald Trump is the former president of the United States. He was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016.  He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015, 2017 and 2019 Lie of the Year. In November 2022, he announced he would run for president in 2024.
Date: July 29, 2020
Location: new york
Topics: elections
Context: a Tweet
Fact-check justification: The state Board of Elections told us that an unknown number of voters who requested ballots did not receive them, and that ballots placed in the mail were not received by the board. These could be considered "missing," the word used by Trump.  But in the same tweet, Trump claims that the election in New York was "rigged," leaving the reader with the impression that these ballots are missing because there was malicious intent, where none has been proven in New York.  We rate Trump’s  .
Statement: Says Winston Churchill said, "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: August 28, 2019
Topics: fake news;history;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post quotes Winston Churchill as once saying that having enemies is good because "that means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life." The original version of the quote actually came from Victor Hugo in 1845, not Churchill. This post is .
Statement: World Economic Forum "calls for AI to rewrite Bible, create 'religions that are actually correct'
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 10, 2023
Topics: religion;technology;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Social media posts shared a Slay News article headlined, "WEF Calls for AI to Rewrite Bible, Create ‘Religions That Are Actually Correct.’" The WEF did not call for this. The article refers to comments made by Harari, who has attended WEF functions but does not hold a leadership position there. The article also misconstrues what Harari said in a recent interview. Harari was discussing the future of AI and predicted that in a few years, there may be religions whose holy texts were written by AI. He did not advocate for AI to rewrite the Bible, nor did he say AI-crafted religion is "correct." We rate this  .
Statement: Mark Sharpe has lowered property taxes by 17 percent.
Speaker: mark sharpe
About the speaker: Mark Sharpe, 50, of Tampa is seeking the Republican nomination for an at-large seat on the Hillsborough County commission. He was first elected to the county commission in 2004, and previously worked as a naval intelligence officer and development officer for a private school.
Date: July 20, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: candidate biography;taxes
Context: a campaign mailer
Fact-check justification: But with a couple of slight word adjustments — Mark Sharpe supported a 17 percent cut in the tax rate — he could have easily earned a better rating. There is obviously a grain of  in Sharpe’s . But he claimed full responsibility for cuts enabled by others and largely mandated by the state. And those cuts still have not produced an overall drop in tax revenues. So we must rate his  .
Statement: Says Saudi Arabia, a U.S. ally, has "paid to export throughout the world" Wahhabism -- "an extreme form of Islam" that basically teaches "Americans are the devil.
Speaker: russ feingold
About the speaker: Russ Feingold served as a Democratic U.S. Senator representing Wisconsin from 1992 until 2010, when he was defeated for re-election. An attorney, he previously served 10 years in the Wisconsin Legislature. Following his Senate defeat, he founded Progressives United, which says it mission is to "stand up to the exploding corporate influence in our political system by organizing and amplifying the voices of those who believe that corporations have too much power." Feingold is running against U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, the man who defeated him, in the 2016 election.
Date: October 7, 2016
Location: wisconsin
Topics: islam;foreign policy;religion
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Our rating Feingold says Saudi Arabia, a U.S. ally, has "paid to export throughout the world" Wahhabism -- "an extreme form of Islam" that basically teaches "Americans are the devil." Saudi Arabia is a U.S. ally, albeit sometimes with strained relations. It has paid to export Wahhabism and Wahhabism is an extreme form of Islam. But it’s not clear that Wahhabism teaches that Americans are the devil. We rate Feingold’s statement .
Statement: In annual surveys of Rhode Island communities that receive Drug Free community grants, many report that more than 50 percent of youth surveyed do not think daily marijuana use poses any serious risk of harm.
Speaker: nancy denuccio
About the speaker: Nancy DeNuccio, of Narragansett, R.I., is chairwoman of the Ocean State Prevention Alliance, a coalition of substance-abuse prevention specialists and mental-health professionals that is opposing proposals for more lenient laws toward marijuana possession.
Date: February 20, 2013
Location: rhode island
Topics: drugs;education;marijuana
Context: A news release
Fact-check justification: Nancy Devaney, chairwoman of Ocean State Prevention Alliance, said in a news release:  "In annual surveys of RI communities that receive Drug Free community grants, many report that more than 50 percent of RI youth surveyed do not think daily marijuana use poses any serious risk of harm." The percentages from surveys in several communities we checked generally supported her statement, though not all students asked about their perceptions of risk based on daily use of the drug. For those reasons, we rate the statement  . (If you have a  you’d like PolitiFact Rhode Island to check, e-mail us at [email protected] And follow us on Twitter: @politifactri.)
Statement: Says Paul Ryan "tried to change the whole game" for Social Security
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: August 20, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: federal budget;message machine 2012;retirement;social security
Context: a radio ad
Fact-check justification: But we find it’s not quite  that he "changed the whole game." Even at its most ambitious, his plan did not affect people who were older than 55 and, for younger workers, the plans were voluntary and allowed workers to stay within the traditional Social Security system. At no time has he proposed ending Social Security altogether, but that’s not exactly what the radio ad is alleging. His most recent plan is limited to a demand that the White House and Congress fix it at some unspecified point in the future. We rate this statement .
Statement: COVID-19 is "here to stay" and "we need to accept that and be prepared to deal with COVID long term.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 26, 2020
Location: wisconsin
Topics: health care;public health;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A widely shared Facebook post from a Wisconsin doctor said we need to face the reality that COVID-19 is "here to stay" and "we need to accept that and be prepared to deal with COVID long term." He was making the point that staying indoors for another month or two with extended shelter-in-place orders won’t get rid of the virus. (Though, as noted, the shelter-in-place orders are not meant to fully eradicate the virus.) Experts say it’s still too early to know this with complete certainty, since much remains unknown about the nature of immunity. And we have no clue how effective a future vaccine may be. But a best guess at this point is that COVID-19 could indeed stick around long-term, waxing and waning similar to the seasonal flu. Experts say there’s also reason to believe that lingering version could be less severe, though, a nuance Murdock did not address. Based on what we know now, we rate this  .
Statement: Says because of Donald Trump, "the IRS decided to stop enforcing the individual mandate that was the underpinning of the ACA. That has resulted in insurance companies all across the country jacking their rates up, explicitly because they don't believe that healthy people will buy insurance.
Speaker: chris murphy
About the speaker: Chris Murphy is a Democratic member of the U.S. Senate from Connecticut. He previously represented a district in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Date: June 26, 2017
Location: national
Topics: health care;taxes
Context: a video
Fact-check justification: Murphy said that insurance companies are jacking up their rates because of the IRS’ weakened enforcement of the individual mandate under Trump. That’s an exaggeration. The Trump administration has continued the same policies as Obama. A mandate to buy insurance is in place, but there’s not much punishment for those who refused to comply. Murphy suggested that the individual mandate itself was key in keeping insurance rates low. In theory, the requirement invites greater diversity to the health insurance risk pool, but the IRS never had sufficient tools at its disposal to enforce it effectively. Blaming rate increases on the IRS is too simplistic, particularly as there is no  of a direct link. A number of other factors are at play, including uncertainty around future health care subsidies. Because there has been little outward change in the IRS enforcement policies, we rate this statement .
Statement: In July 2010 the government said small businesses -- 60 percent -- will lose their health care, 45 percent of big business and a large percentage of individual health.
Speaker: sean hannity
About the speaker: Sean Hannity is a conservative political commentator and hosts a nationally syndicated radio show, as well as two television shows on the Fox News Channel. In a 2013 interview Hannity said that he is a “registered Conservative” and ”not a Republican, though people often mistake me for one.” Hannity has authored three books.
Date: November 11, 2013
Topics: health care;punditfact
Context: comments on Fox News Channel
Fact-check justification: Citing a government report, Hannity said "small businesses -- 60 percent -- will lose their health care, 45 percent of big business and a large percentage of individual health." The government report did not say that. The report attempted to quantify the number of insurance plans that -- through the normal ebbs and flows of the market -- would change to the point that they would trigger new minimum standards. Put another way, government analysts tried to quantify how many plans would lose their grandfathered status. But they didn’t look at the coverage those plans offered. In those terms, many of the plans that will lose their grandfathered status already met the new minimum standards. We rate Hannity’s  .
Statement: Says U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson "led the fight to let polluters release unlimited amounts of carbon pollution and took nearly $225,000 from polluters.
Speaker: league of conservation voters
About the speaker: The Washington, D.C.-based League of Conservation Voters, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, is “a liberal-leaning organization that raises money primarily in support of environmentally friendly public policy.”
Date: September 1, 2015
Location: wisconsin
Topics: environment;government regulation
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: Our rating The League of Conservation voters launched TV ads that  Johnson "led the fight to let polluters release unlimited amounts of carbon pollution and took nearly $225,000 from polluters." Much of the ad’s content is recycled. The , however, is puffed up a bit this time because it says Johnson "led" the effort. We did not find much  of that. That knocks the  down to .
Statement: Ben Bernanke has been the most "inflationary" chairman in the history of the Federal Reserve.
Speaker: newt gingrich
About the speaker: Newt Gingrich is a political adviser and author. A former Georgia congressman, Gingrich served as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. Gingrich sought the GOP nomination for president in 2012.
Date: September 7, 2011
Location: georgia
Topics: economy
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: "But that’s not the same thing," said Ratajczak, who still writes a weekly commentary on the economy for Morgan Keegan, an investment firm. Our ruling: Gingrich is making the point that Bernanke has created a huge pool of liquidity that is raising inflationary pressures to levels never seen under previous Fed chairmen. However, the current CPI rates are still low, and Gingrich’s concerns haven’t been seen in Consumer Price Index averages, which are widely used to monitor inflation. The index has been higher under other Fed chairmen, and Bernanke is in the middle under such a comparison. We rate Gingrich’s statement .
Statement: Missouri still owes $60 million on bonds issued to build the 23-year-old Edward Jones Dome, the former home of the St. Louis Rams.
Speaker: denny hoskins
About the speaker: Denny Hoskins is a Republican state senator from Missouri.
Date: January 31, 2019
Location: missouri
Topics: sports;state budget
Context: an interview with the Columbia Daily Tribune
Fact-check justification: Hoskins noted that Missouri still owes $60 million on bonds issued to build The Dome at America’s Center. However, Hoskins’ chief of staff noted that his estimate was high and the 2018 State Debt Report shows that Missouri only owes $47.45 million on those bonds as opposed to the $60 million Hoskins claimed. This is a simple numbers  and Hoskins was high on his estimate. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says Democrats blocked his efforts at police reform.
Speaker: tim scott
About the speaker: Tim Scott, a South Carolina Republican senator, announced he is running for president in May 2023. He joined the Senate in 2013. Scott was previously elected to the Charleston County Council, the South Carolina House of Representatives and the United States House of Representatives.
Date: April 28, 2021
Location: national
Topics: congress;criminal justice;race and ethnicity
Context: a GOP response to President Joe Biden's speech
Fact-check justification: Scott says Democrats blocked his efforts at police reform. Scott proposed a bill in June 2020, but Democrats blocked it from moving forward. Scott omits the reason that Senate Democrats blocked the measure: They preferred the House version of a police reform bill Democrats put forward the same month.  While both parties faced pressure to adopt police reform, partisan bickering and maneuvers led to nothing passing, and efforts stalled weeks later. Bipartisan negotiations are now underway, but it remains to be seen whether they will reach a compromise.  We rate this statement . RELATED: Fact-checking Sen. Tim Scott's GOP response to President Joe Biden
Statement: 2019 coronavirus can live for "up to 3 hours in the air, up to 4 hours on copper, up to 24 hours on cardboard up to 3 days on plastic and stainless steel.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 18, 2020
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: an infographic
Fact-check justification: The New England Journal of Medicine article found that COVID-19 can only survive for up to four hours on copper, which is what quarters, nickels and dimes are primarily made of . Ironically, pennies are made primarily of zinc, although they have a copper exterior. Based on the information available, KIRO-TV’s infographic is accurate. But we’ll issue a small note of caution because the study has not been peer-reviewed. .
Statement: After the last administration nearly killed the US auto industry, I saved the U.S. auto industry ... We brought you a lot of car plants… (and Japan) "announced five car companies are coming to Michigan.
Speaker: donald trump
About the speaker: Donald Trump is the former president of the United States. He was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016.  He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015, 2017 and 2019 Lie of the Year. In November 2022, he announced he would run for president in 2024.
Date: September 10, 2020
Location: national
Topics: jobs;michigan
Context: Michigan
Fact-check justification: Trump made several claims about the auto industry, saying he saved it from near destruction, and had brought many new plants to Michigan, including the arrival of five new Japanese car companies. He didn’t save the auto industry. The major U.S. automakers recovered strongly during the Obama administration. After rising for 10 years, Michigan auto industry employment fell on Trump’s watch, even before the coronavirus hit. He didn’t bring many new plants. One company, the Italian-American Fiat Chrysler, announced a new assembly plant in Detroit, on the site of an idled engine factory, as part of a package of investments in Michigan. As for the Japanese investments coming to Michigan, one company — Toyota — unveiled plans to expand its American operations. And others have added U.S. capacity, too. But none of that was in Michigan. We rate this  .
Statement: The global cost of corruption is as much as 5% of the world's GDP.
Speaker: kamala harris
About the speaker: Kamala Harris is the vice president of the United States. Harris was elected as a senator from California in 2016. She previously was California’s attorney general from 2011 to 2017. From 2004 until 2011, she was the district attorney of San Francisco. Harris received a bachelor’s degree in political science and economics from Howard University and a J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of Law. In 2019, she ran for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out in December. On Aug. 11, 2020, former Vice President Joe Biden named Harris as his running mate.
Date: May 4, 2021
Topics: economy
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Harris cited a figure that’s been popularly used by reputable organizations for more than a decade. But the methodology for that assessment is unclear. Organizations that have used that figure did not provide details supporting the estimate. One expert said that the 5% estimate is plausible, but had no data to confirm it. Without substantial  for the data, we rate Harris’  .
Statement: Some states, like Montana and Nebraska, are getting more than $300,000 in federal stimulus money per reported COVID-19 case. New York is the hardest-hit state and yet we are getting only about $12,000 per case.
Speaker: andrew cuomo
About the speaker: Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, was elected to his first term as governor of New York in 2010.
Date: April 12, 2020
Location: new york
Topics: federal budget;health care;medicare;public health;state budget;states;coronavirus
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Cuomo tweeted, "Some states, like Montana and Nebraska, are getting more than $300,000 in federal stimulus money per reported COVID-19 case. New York is the hardest-hit state and yet we are getting only about $12,000 per case," In the first round of funding for health care providers, New York state’s providers received far less money per coronavirus case than other, less-affected states, according to a credible analysis. However, Cuomo’s tweet addressed only one part of the federal funding, and it glossed over the distinction between states and health care providers in those states. The funding source Cuomo tweeted about sends money to providers, not the state. The statement is accurate but needs additional information, so we rate it .
Statement: Says "sleazy Keith Ellison and shady Dean Phillips both caught up in another sexual harassment scandal" and that Phillips is "charged with ignoring sexual harassment and discrimination at his companies.
Speaker: erik paulsen
About the speaker: Erik Paulsen is the Republican U.S. Rep. for Minnesota's 3rd Congressional District
Date: October 17, 2018
Location: national
Topics: negative campaigning
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: Paulsen attempts to tie Phillips to another Democratic candidate involved in a domestic abuse case and says he "ignored sexual harassment allegations at his companies." But Phillips has nothing to do with the accusations against Ellison. Phillips served on the board of a health organization that was sued over sexual harassment allegations in 2007, but the lawyer in that case said he had nothing to do with it. There is also no  that proves he was informed or received a letter about the harassment. Paulsen’s ad misleads viewers by connecting Phillips to a domestic abuse case he is not involved in, and implies some sort of formal action was taken against Phillips ("charged with ignoring") at a company he runs, neither of which are . We rate it .
Statement: Democratic Reps. Cicilline, Boswell, Carnahan and Critz "demanded that Congress vote to increase the nation's debt limit without making any spending cuts.
Speaker: national republican congressional committee
About the speaker: National Republican Congressional Committee
Date: June 3, 2011
Location: national
Topics: deficit;federal budget
Context: a robo-call
Fact-check justification: Again, none of the four actually voted for the bill to raise the debt ceiling. All four did sign a letter in April that sought a "clean" vote on raising the debt ceiling -- one that wasn't directly tied to spending cuts. However, all of the congressmen have gone on record in support of spending cuts independent of the debt ceiling vote. Republicans and Democrats have disagreements about how and where to cut and how much, but that's different than not wanting to make spending cuts at all. We rate the NRCC's  in the robocalls .