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Statement: Twenty-six men named William have been elected to statewide office and only seven women have had the honor.
Speaker: ruth's list florida
About the speaker: A political organization committed to helping female, pro-choice, Democratic candidates elected to public office.
Date: September 22, 2015
Location: florida
Topics: elections;women
Context: an email to voters
Fact-check justification: Ruth’s List Florida said that "26 men named William have been elected to statewide office and only seven women have had the honor." Because of changes in state government and elections, plus how officeholders came by their positions, it’s difficult to parse the exact count the group came up with. The total of officials we could confirm were elected and not appointed was 14 Williams (although there could be more) and eight women. That’s off from the numbers in the email, but the gist of the statement is still defensible. There have been many more men named William than women holding major elected offices in Florida. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez "has passed one bill in her 20 years in Congress, and that was to rename a post office.
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: October 5, 2016
Location: california
Topics: elections
Context: a U.S. Senate campaign debate
Fact-check justification: U.S. Senate candidate Kamala Harris claimed her opponent Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez "has passed one bill in her 20 years in office, and that was to rename a post office." That’s technically correct. But it ignores the fact that relatively few standalone bills introduced by members of Congress are passed on their own. Many are added as amendments to larger bills. Long-time Democratic House members Maxine Waters and Nancy Pelosi have sponsored a combined 10 bills that became law during their careers. Sanchez has co-sponsored nearly 180 bills. And she’s been praised for successfully introducing policy bills that were later included in the nation’s military budget. There’s technical  to Harris’ statement. But it takes things out of context and leaves the  impression that Sanchez has done next to nothing on Capitol Hill. We rate Harris'  .   – The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context. Click here for  more  on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check. https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/f00d78d0-46d5-427b-95e6-4f1ef703dc5c
Statement: Harry could be exiled to Botswana after he was deported from the United States due to an expired visa.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 12, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: We looked for mentions of a U.S. deportation and Botswana exile in publications such as Hello!, a royalist magazine, and British tabloids that report on royal minutiae, and discovered none. On March 7, Sky News Australia reported on comments by the network’s anchor Piers Morgan, who speculated that "Prince Harry could be denied entry to the United States" if he leaves following a recent acknowledgement that he used psychedelic drugs.   The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy, meaning King Charles serves in a symbolic role in government . He can’t force Harry to Botswana, which gained independence from Britain in the mid-1960s and was the site of Harry and Meghan’s third date .   We rate this post !
Statement: During the Obama/Biden administration "18,000 people got clemency.
Speaker: joe biden
About the speaker: Joe Biden is the president of the United States. A Democrat, Biden served as a Delaware senator from 1973 (elected at the age of 29) until 2009. During his time in the Senate, he served as chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, chair of the International Narcotics Control Caucus and chair of the Judiciary Committee. He subsequently served as Barack Obama’s vice president from 2009 to 2016. Biden launched unsuccessful presidential campaigns in 1988 and 2008. He received a degree in history and political science from the University of Delaware and his J.D. from Syracuse School of Law. 
Date: October 5, 2020
Topics: criminal justice
Context: Miami
Fact-check justification: Biden said that during the Obama/Biden administration "18,000 people ... got clemency." Biden misspoke and meant to say 1,800 got clemency. Federal justice department data showed Obama approved 1,927 clemency actions. We rate this statement .
Statement: United States students are achieving at number 25 out of 29 developing countries when it comes to science and math.
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: January 26, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Topics: education
Context: a news conference
Fact-check justification: But her point was that U.S. students ranked near the bottom in science and math. The test results cited, however, do not include a science-math combination ranking. What they show is the U.S. ranks in the top half of industrialized countries in science; in math, it’s in the lower half, but not near the bottom. Indeed, after we requested additional information from GE, the company told us Feb. 4, 2011, that it erred in saying the U.S. ranks 25th of 29 countries in science and math. We rate Kleefisch’s statement .
Statement: You worked hard for your money and you paid your taxes when you earned it. Now, (Indiana Republican congressional candidate) Todd Young wants to tax it again when you spend it.
Speaker: seiu
About the speaker: SEIU is the Service Employees International Union. It represents 2.1 million health care and public services workers.
 
Date: October 20, 2010
Location: national
Topics: message machine 2010;retirement;taxes
Context: a campaign commercial
Fact-check justification: So where does this leave us? We think SEIU makes a legitimate point that seniors -- the group that is specifically singled out for mentions in the ad's narration and in its visuals -- would face what amounts to double taxation of their savings if the Fair Tax were to pass. But we're also wary of giving this a full  rating, because we think that most viewers watching the ad would assume that the 23 percent tax would be levied on top of the existing income tax (which, we'll point out, is referenced at one point by a visual of someone filling out an IRS Form 1040). And it's simply not part of the plan for Americans to be hit by both the current tax code and the Fair Tax simultaneously. On balance, we give the ad a rating of .
Statement: Says scientists are "in dispute" over whether being gay is a choice.
Speaker: tim pawlenty
About the speaker: Tim Pawlenty is the former governor of Minnesota, having served two terms in office from 2003-2011.
Date: July 10, 2011
Location: national
Topics: lgbtq;science
Context: an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
Fact-check justification: So where does this leave us? Pawlenty said that scientists are "in dispute" about whether being gay is a choice or not. We think most people would interpret that to mean sexual orientation -- that is, attractions and impulses -- rather than sexual behavior. And on that question, it seems that the American Psychological Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the Human Rights Campaign and even the Family Research Council are in agreement. So we rate Pawlenty’s statement .
Statement: While 9,000 state employees were added to the state's payroll, Oregon's revenue forecasts dropped by more than $4 billion.
Speaker: dennis richardson
About the speaker: Dennis Richardson is a member of the Oregon House, representing District 4. He is an attorney and owns the law firm of Dennis Richardson & Associates, P.C., in Central Point.
Date: February 17, 2012
Location: oregon
Topics: state budget
Context: a newsletter
Fact-check justification: We’ve asked the retirement system to explain, and they cannot find an answer. Also, if some of the increase can be attributed to increased demand at state universities -- where students in large part pay for the new hires --  it seems unfair to blame it all on Democrats’ inability to save. At the very least, that’s an important detail readers should know. For those reasons, we find his statement that the state added 9,000 employees while revenue dropped $4 billion to be partially accurate, but missing important details. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says "56 percent of (the U.S.-Mexico) border is not under our control.
Speaker: ben carson
About the speaker: Dr. Ben Carson is President Donald Trump's secretary for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. A retired pediatric neurosurgeon, Carson ran as a Republican for president in 2016. He owns homes in West Palm Beach and Maryland.
Date: August 23, 2015
Location: national
Topics: immigration
Context: an interview on "State of the Union"
Fact-check justification: Carson said that "56 percent of that (U.S.-Mexico) border is not under our control." U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a 2011 report that 873 miles of the U.S. Mexico border was under "operational control." The other 1,120 miles, or about 56 percent, fell under two classifications "not acceptable for border security." That doesn’t mean there is an utter lack of control, but that the agency’s ability to detect or respond (or both) to crossings was hampered by a lack of resources or infrastructure. Carson did not specify what he meant by control, and experts have told us security is a subjective metric. It doesn’t appear he pulled the number out of thin air, but available data does show that illegal crossings along the border have overall been on the decline. We rate Carson’s statement .
Statement: The poverty rates in America today aren't much better than when we started the War on Poverty.
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: July 18, 2016
Location: wisconsin
Topics: poverty
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Our rating Ryan said, "the poverty rates in America today aren’t much better than when we started the War on Poverty." The official poverty rate has dropped from 19 percent in 1964 to about 15 percent today. Another measure, the supplemental poverty rate, suggests the rate of poverty decreased 10 percentage points over roughly the same time period. So, over time living conditions have improved with government assistance, but the measure of self-sufficiency has been relatively stagnant. For a statement that is partially accurate, we rate Ryan’s  .
Statement: The gas station where they initially attacked" Kyle Rittenhouse "is owned by his grandparents.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: November 20, 2021
Location: wisconsin
Topics: crime;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: He said that as he walked from Ultimate to go to a car lot to put out fires, he was "ambushed," and then fired shots. Ultimate is owned by a Kenosha man , Maher Bassam Shahin, according to State of Wisconsin business records.   There is no  that Rittenhouse’s grandparents owned the station. He had left the station before the shootings occurred.   We rate the post .
Statement: In 1986, President Ronald Reagan" cut the business tax rate to 34 percent and "it worked -- our economy boomed, the middle class thrived and median family income increased.
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 3, 2017
Location: wisconsin
Topics: corporations;economy;income;taxes
Context: the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Fact-check justification: Our rating In a Journal Sentinel op-ed, Trump said: "In 1986, President Ronald Reagan" cut the business tax rate to 34 percent and "it worked -- our economy boomed, the middle class thrived and median family income increased." Some economists say the corporate rate reduction, from 46 percent, did help lead to economic growth and higher income. But it wasn’t necessarily any more important than a cut -- from 50 percent to 28 percent -- in the top individual income tax rate that was part of the same 1986 package that included other tax changes, as well. More importantly, many other factors beyond tax cuts -- demographics, immigration, trade policy and more -- bear on the economy. Trump’s statement contains only an element of  -- our definition of .
Statement: We were losing all our cases in the World Trade Organization. ... And then I came along. Now we're winning a lot of cases because they know that they're not on very solid ground.
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: August 13, 2019
Location: national
Topics: trade
Context: Monaca, Pa
Fact-check justification: Trump said, "We were losing all our cases in the World Trade Organization. ... And then I came along. Now we’re winning a lot of cases because they know that they’re not on very solid ground." This statement contains multiple problems. For decades, the United States, like essentially all countries, has tended to lose most WTO cases in which it was a defendant. But it has won most cases when it was the complaining party. Under Trump, there are some indications of an improved (though still losing) U.S. record in cases it’s defending against. But trade experts say this has had little to do with Trump’s policies, which have in fact put the WTO’s continued operations at risk. We rate the statement .
Statement: 75 percent of the town boards in Wisconsin have no women on them at all.
Speaker: erin forrest
About the speaker: Erin Forrest is executive director of Emerge Wisconsin, which trains Democratic women to run for public office.
Date: April 2, 2017
Location: wisconsin
Topics: elections;population;women
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: The surveys were done in summer 2015 and the results were published in February 2016. Two of the findings: 71 percent of men compared to 60 percent of women said they were well-qualified to run; nearly 19 percent of women said "making decisions in public" acted as a barrier to running, while less than 5 percent of men felt that way. Our rating Forrest said: "75 percent of the town boards in Wisconsin have no women on them at all." She accurately quotes the most recent Alverno College study, in 2015, of elected women officials in Wisconsin. We rate the statement .
Statement: Pelosi's panel ready to arrest Trump.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: September 25, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks;jan. 6
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: News outlets such as NBC News reported Sept. 27 that senior leadership at the Secret Service had confiscated the cellphones of two dozen agents who were involved in the agency’s Jan. 6 response. The phones were handed over to the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general, NBC said.   A few days prior, U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., vice chair for the committee investigating Jan 6., said the committee had received some 800,000 pages of communication materials from the Secret Service but that most text messages from that date weren’t recovered, according to USA Today . "The texts themselves, in many cases, are gone," Cheney said.   We rate claims that the panel is preparing to arrest Trump after reviewing more than 100,000 Secret Service text messages .
Statement: It costs about $40,000 a year for a homeless person to be on the streets.
Speaker: shaun donovan
About the speaker: Shaun Donovan was appointed by President Barack Obama in 2009 to be Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
Date: March 5, 2012
Location: national
Topics: poverty
Context: an interview on "The Daily Show"
Fact-check justification: Donovan said it costs the public $40,000 for a homeless person to be on the streets because of the expenses of emergency room visits, jail time and hospital stays. He drew that figure from a 10-year-old study that wasn’t looking at the general homeless population but at people with severe mental illness -- a group that uses more services. The study also focused on New York City, an expensive place to live. Though Stewart and Donovan had been talking about growing up in New York shortly before, it wasn't clear that Donovan was referring only to New York when he noted the costs of homelessness. But based on what we learned about the housing-first approach to ending homelessness, Donovan’s underlying point, as well as the dollar figure he cited, hold up. Mangano told us it costs between $35,000 to $150,000 in public services for one year of someone living on the street. That puts Donovan’s figure at the low end of the range, and it’s an outdated figure that would surely be higher now. All that leads us to a ruling of .
Statement: For every dollar a county gets in taxes from new development, it costs us 40 to 50 percent more to provide services.
Speaker: florida hometown democracy
About the speaker: Florida Hometown Democracy is a political action group supporting the passage of Amendment 4, which would give citizens veto power over major development proposals and land use changes
Date: September 9, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: florida amendments
Context: a web ad supporting Amendment 4
Fact-check justification: What's the net effect of all the development happening in Florida? No one was able to direct us to an authoritative study to provide a clear answer. There is , however, that growth isn't completely paying for itself. Back in Hillsborough, the county Metropolitan Planning Organization has identified more than $3.2 billion worth of unfunded, but needed road projects. Here's a list of the top 20 unfunded projects from 2008. Pinellas County in 2009 had at least $1.1 billion in unfunded road projects . But when Hometown Democracy says in an ad that taxpayers are paying a 40 to 50 percent premium for development, they're failing to tell the entire story. The group is able to find specific examples of developments that cost taxpayers 40 to 50 percent more than what they're generating in new tax income, but the math doesn't work as a generalization. The cost, or benefit, of a development to taxpayers matters very much on the specific details about the development. Generally, studies suggest that new large single family developments do not pay for themselves. But infill development (taking an empty lot in an urban area) or redevelopment is much more likely to pay for itself. So are commercial and industrial development projects. As such, we rate Hometown Democracy's  .
Statement: Of six Rhode Island tax-credit programs worth about $35 million, "three companies got 90 percent of that -- CVS and two companies not even located in the state of Rhode Island.
Speaker: gary sasse
About the speaker: Gary Sasse is a former director of the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council, a former director of the Rhode Island Department of Administration and the state Department of Revenue, and now director of the Bryant Institute for Public Leadership at Bryant University.
Date: February 10, 2013
Location: rhode island
Topics: corporations;debt;deficit;economy;small business;state budget;taxes
Context: an appearance on 10 News Conference
Fact-check justification: Gary Sasse said that among six Rhode Island tax-credit programs worth about $35 million, "three companies got 90 percent of that -- CVS and two companies not even located in the state of Rhode Island." Sasse is rounding off some large numbers but he was, in essence, correctly quoting the state report he was citing. We rate the   . (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 U.S. Rep. Charles Bass wants to privatize Social Security.
Speaker: ann mclane kuster
About the speaker: Ann McLane Kuster was the Democratic nominee for Congress in the Second Congressional District of New Hampshire, narrowly losing by just 3,551 votes in 2010.
Kuster, an attorney, has not held elected office, but her parents did. Her mother, Susan McLane was a State Senator, and her father Malcolm served as Mayor of Concord, on the Executive Council, and ran for Governor as an Independent in 1972.
Kuster, of Hopkingtom, graduated from Dartmouth College in 1978, in the third class with women, and received her law degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 1984.
Date: September 6, 2012
Location: new hampshire
Topics: social security
Context: an ad, “Janice,” released September 6, 2012
Fact-check justification: "To address this financial crisis facing the Social Security program, one such idea Congressman Bass has supported would create a program that would allow individuals to voluntarily place a portion of their money that they currently pay as part of the payroll tax and place it into a personal account," Bass spokesman Scott Tranchemontagne wrote in a June email to the Telegraph. "Saying that (Bass) supports ‘privatizing Social Security is pure political rhetoric devised by Democratic spin doctors to frighten seniors." Our ruling: Little if anything has changed since our past ruling on Kuster’s claims about Bass’ support for privatization. The statements and votes that the Democrat references in support of her  suggest Bass supported a move toward partial privatization, not full privatization as the  suggests. Kuster’s  was  Falsethen, and it continues to be now.
Statement: Satan flashed in the halftime Super Bowl satanic ritual.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 7, 2021
Topics: pop culture;religion;sports;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A 2017 YouTube video highlighting what happened in 2017 also circulated widely on Facebook in the wake of The Weeknd’s Super Bowl performance on Feb. 7. We can’t say why the word "Satan" was used at the 2017 concert, despite searching for a credible explanation online. But we can say the word did not appear during his Super Bowl halftime show.  claims about Satan often align with the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory , which holds among other beliefs that the world is run by powerful people who belong to a cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles. We rate these Facebook posts .