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Statement: The push by Assembly Democrats seeking Americans with Disabilities Act accommodations for a lawmaker were timed to make Vos look bad as he became president "of the nation's largest bipartisan organization called the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Speaker: robin vos
About the speaker: Wisconsin state Rep. Robin Vos, R-Rochester, has represented western Racine County in the state Assembly since 2004. In November 2012, he was elected Assembly speaker. Vos previously served on the Racine County Board of Supervisors, from 1994 to 2004.
Date: August 15, 2019
Location: wisconsin
Topics: disability;legal issues
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: Vos claimed the accommodation request for Anderson was timed to embarrass him as he took over as president of the National Conference of State Legislatures.  But records show the effort began months and months earlier. We rate Vos’  .
Statement: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez compared Trump to Jesus, calling both "con artists.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: April 24, 2020
Topics: fake news;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: If you're fooled by  news, this man probably wrote it The same  was also posted on a Blair-affiliated website called Freedom Fictions with the headline: "Fact Check: Yes, AOC Called Jesus & Trump ‘Con Artists.’ " Freedom Fictions is a  fact-check site that routinely proclaims articles previously posted on BustaTroll and other satirical sites as . Blair has told PolitiFact that his satire operation is designed to fool conservatives with stories that most people would find . We rate this !
Statement: If out-of-state drivers paid gas tax, they would contribute $73 million to fix our roads
Speaker: jon erpenbach
About the speaker: Jon Erpenbach is a Democratic member of the Wisconsin state Senate. He was elected to a Madison-area district in 1998.
Date: June 6, 2019
Location: wisconsin
Topics: gas prices
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Erpenbach claimed if Evers’ gas tax increase were in place, out-of-state drivers would contribute $73 million to help fix Wisconsin roads.  That’s based on the high-end of the 10% to 15% range used by the Department of Transportation. But the DOT and fiscal bureau recommend using 12% as a more reasonable figure. That puts the tally considerably lower. Our definition for  is "The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information." That fits here.
Statement: Medicare monthly premiums will go up to $104.20 in 2012 and $247.00 in 2014 due to "provisions incorporated in the Obamacare legislation, purposely delayed so as not to 'confuse' the 2012 re-election campaigns.
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: September 24, 2011
Location: national
Topics: health care;medicare
Context: a chain e-mail
Fact-check justification: The chain e-mail claimed that Medicare Part B premiums would increase dramatically in future years because of the health care law supported by President Barack Obama. We couldn’t find  to support the e-mail’s numbers. And in fact, most Medicare beneficiaries will only pay $3.50 more a month in 2012. The e-mail’s projection for 2014 seems entirely fabricated. The health care law leaves in place the long-established methods for calculating Medicare Part B premiums. The chain e-mail makes the additional unproved  that its allegations -- which are  anyway -- were accomplished nefariously and delayed for political purposes. We rate its claims .
Statement: Says that when adjusted for inflation and population growth, state general revenue spending has decreased 10.7 percent on his watch.
Speaker: david dewhurst
About the speaker: David Dewhurst, the former state land commissioner, was initially elected lieutenant governor of Texas in 2002. He lost his 2012 bid for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate and lost his bid for re-nomination in 2014.
Date: April 13, 2012
Location: texas
Topics: state budget
Context: a Republican U.S. Senate debate
Fact-check justification: Dewhurst’s debate  that state general revenue spending dropped by 10.7 percent on his watch is close to the 11.5 percent reduction that a comparison of 2012-13 estimated spending to 2002-03 spending yields. But that result is , too simplistic. First, it overlooks changes — up and down — in general revenue spending, adjusted for inflation and population growth, between each of the preceding two-year budgets. Second, the spending figure for 2012-13 does not account for more than $6 billion in state costs postponed to the next budget period. Rolling in those costs, making for a closer-to-realistic accounting of costs in the latest Dewhurst-touched budget, shrinks the difference of 11.5 percent to 4.7 percent. We rate Dewhurst’s  .
Statement: Sewer backups into basements caused the "vast majority of the damage to homes and buildings" in Milwaukee's July floods, but federal flood insurance doesn't cover them.
Speaker: jim bohl
About the speaker: Jim Bohl has served as an alderman on the Milwaukee Common Council since April 2000. Before being elected, he worked as a high school teacher and as an aide to Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, when Barrett served as a Democratic member of Congress.
Date: November 3, 2010
Location: wisconsin
Topics: environment
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: Nobody has a clear answer on whether sewer backups into basements caused the "vast majority" of the damage. The  is anecdotal  and contradictory, which makes Bohl’s generalization more than a little problematic. It is  that damage from sewer backups is not covered under the federal flood insurance. So Bohl’s not all wet, but he went a bit overboard. We rate his statement
Statement: Says he presented "a balanced budget.
Speaker: bruce rauner
About the speaker: Bruce Rauner was elected governor of Illinois in 2014. He became the first Republican governor in the state in 12 years upon his inauguration in January 2015. The gubernatorial campaign was Rauner's first foray into politics. He previously had been a principal at the private equity firm GTCR in Chicago.
Date: February 15, 2017
Location: illinois
Topics: state budget
Context: the annual budget speech
Fact-check justification: Gov. Rauner said he proposed a balanced budget. "Today we present you with a balanced budget that shows what is possible if we all come together on a comprehensive approach to state finances and job creation" the governor told lawmakers. Yet, the budget book produced by the governor’s office of management and budget suggests the budget is balanced by "working together on a grand bargain." A so-called grand bargain budget compromise, though, has not been achieved or enacted. Illinois government finance experts agree Rauner’s proposal is not balanced. We rate this  .
Statement: To date, nobody has been able to show that there is a law for the average American citizen working day in and day out to pay an income tax.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 15, 2022
Topics: taxes;facebook fact-checks
Context: a reel
Fact-check justification: A second person featured in the Facebook reel, Sherry Jackson, who is identified as a "former IRS agent," was sentenced in 2008 to four years in prison for failure to file income tax returns. A Facebook reel says, "To date, nobody has been able to show that there is a law for the average American citizen working day in and day out to pay an income tax." U.S. laws about income tax requirements are in the Internal Revenue Code, found in Title 26 of the United States Code. The laws have been repeatedly upheld by courts. We rate this  !
Statement: 100,000 Americans died of an overdose in a single year.
Speaker: john cornyn
About the speaker: John Cornyn is a U.S. senator from Texas, former Texas attorney general and former justice on the Texas Supreme Court. He earlier served as a Bexar County state district judge.
Date: February 14, 2022
Location: texas
Topics: border security;drugs;public health
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Cornyn tweeted on Feb. 14, "We recently found out our nation hit a grim milestone: 100,000 Americans died of an overdose in a single year." While Cornyn did not specify which year in the tweet, the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention support this. We rate this as .
Statement: There's not one Democrat who endorses" the Romney-Ryan Medicare plan.
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 11, 2012
Location: national
Topics: bipartisanship;debates;medicare
Context: Danville, Ky
Fact-check justification: Biden said "there’s not one Democrat who endorses" the Republican proposal to fundamentally restructure Medicare. That hasn’t always been the case. Last year, Wyden and Ryan put their heads together and offered a compromise proposal for the future of Medicare. But that bipartisan bond began to crack months ago when the Wisconsin congressman put forth a second budget with provisions Wyden opposed. Their partnership dissolved in August, after Ryan joined the Romney ticket, and Wyden made a point of talking up the differences between his and the Republicans’ ideas for Medicare, not the similarities. Wyden was the only Democrat to endorse Ryan’s idea of premium support in Medicare, and his approval has clearly been revoked. We rate Biden’s statement .
Statement: Fully half the people — our research is showing half the people — in (California) want to leave.
Speaker: john cox
About the speaker: John Cox is a Republican businessman who lives in San Diego County. He is a candidate in the 2021 election to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom. He ran and lost in the 2018 race for California governor.
Date: July 30, 2018
Location: california
Topics: housing;polls and public opinion;the 2018 california governor's race;taxes
Context: a Fox Business Network interview
Fact-check justification: Republican candidate for governor John Cox claimed in a recent Fox Business Network interview that "Fully half the people — our research is showing —  half the people in this state … want to leave." Independent polls place that share at one-quarter to one-third of Californians. That’s still a large amount but not half. Internal polls commissioned by the Cox campaign, and using a smaller sample size, show 50 percent of those asked were either "very likely" or "somewhat likely" to move out of the state over the next few years. Cox’s statement, while it includes the caveat that "our research is showing,"  leaves the impression for the average viewer that it’s a settled fact that half of California wants to move out. But that’s only the case if one relies on internal figures from the campaign, and ignores results from two outside surveys with much larger samples. His  is partially accurate, but it leaves out important details and takes things out of context. We rate it .   – 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.
Statement: Says doctors received a letter stating that if they "say anything bad about the vaccine," they are "at risk of losing their medical license. How messed up is that s---?
Speaker: tiktok posts
About the speaker: Posts on the video-sharing platform TikTok.
Date: August 28, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a TikTok video
Fact-check justification: A TikTok video claimed doctors received a letter stating that if they "say anything bad about the vaccine," they are at risk of losing their medical license. The  is in reference to a statement the Federation of State Medical Boards’ Board of Directors sent to physicians on July 29. The warning did not say that doctors are required to promote the vaccine, and it did not prohibit medical professionals from talking with patients about possible side effects.  The statement warned doctors that those who spread vaccine misinformation could face professional consequences — including having their medical license revoked.  We rate this  .
Statement: If you look at the average teacher pay compared to the average pay of your citizens, Virginia ranks last.
Speaker: terry mcauliffe
About the speaker: Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat, was elected governor of Virginia on Nov. 5, 2013. He received 47.8 percent of the vote in defeating Republican Ken Cuccinelli, who came in at 45.2 percent. Robert Sarvis, a Libertarian, finished a distant third with 6.5 percent.
McAuliffe's inaguration as Virginia's 72nd governor is scheduled on Jan. 11, 2014.
McAuliffe, a wealthy businessman and noted political fundraiser, was co-chairman of President Bill Clinton's 1996 reelection campaign. He was chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2001 to 2005 and chairman of Hillary Clinton's unsuccessful presidential campaign in 2008. In 2009, McAuliffe unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for Virginia governor.
McAuliffe was born in Syracuse, N.Y., on Feb. 9, 1957. He has a bachelor's degree from The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., and a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C. McAuliffe has lived in Fairfax County for more than 20 years, is married and has five children.
 
Date: March 10, 2021
Location: virginia
Topics: education;income;wealth
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: McAuliffe said, "If you look at the average teacher pay compared to the average pay of your citizens, Virginia ranks last." During the 2018-19 school year, the pay for a Virginia teacher was $52,466 and the average salary of a full-time, year-round worker was $73,890. The 29% discrepancy was the highest in the nation. So, we rate McAuliffe’s statement .
Statement: Say Socialist candidate Norman Thomas said in 1944 that the Democratic Party had adopted the Socialist platform.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: October 12, 2018
Topics: corrections and updates;fake news;facebook fact-checks
Context: post on Facebook
Fact-check justification: The idea that Norman Thomas would have said the Democratic Party had adopted the Socialist Party platform runs counter to all the text of speeches that still exist from those Thomas delivered in 1944." Until someone -- anyone -- can offer  that the quote came from Thomas, we rate this post . Update: This story was updated after publishing to include comment from Thomas Lannon at the New York Public Library. The rating remains unchanged."
Statement: Whether in Illinois or Washington, Barack Obama has bridged partisanship to bring about significant reform.
Speaker: nancy pelosi
About the speaker: Rep. Nancy Pelosi represents a district in California. She served as speaker of the U.S. House January 2019-2021. Formerly the speaker of the House from 2007-11, Pelosi served as the House minority leader from 2003 to 2007 and from 2011 to 2019.
Date: August 25, 2008
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography
Context: Denver
Fact-check justification: "I don't think it was a particularly good compromise," Obama told the St. Petersburg Times on May 21, 2008. A review of Obama's votes as a senator also doesn't bolster his argument of bipartisanship. Congressional Quarterly does vote studies each year and found that in the Bush era, Obama voted his party's position 96 percent of the time on votes where Republicans and Democrats were divided. Bottom line, while it's clear that Obama has had some bipartisan success, when it comes to voting on key pieces of legislation, Obama's record is almost in lockstep with the Democratic Party. Therefore, we can only give Pelosi's  a .
Statement: The last six polls, including this week's Time magazine, show that I beat John McCain by six or seven points.
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: February 10, 2008
Location: national
Topics: elections
Context: Alexandria, Va
Fact-check justification: It's possible that Obama has access to private polls we haven't seen. We asked the campaign for a response but didn't hear back. So we will deduct a small amount on the -O-Meter for his citing of "the last six polls," but Obama's larger point is correct. Polls show he is winning against McCain, while Clinton either loses to McCain or beats him by a smaller margin. So we award this statement a .
Statement: No other country on the planet witnesses the number of gun deaths that
we do here in the United States, and it's not even close.
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: September 2, 2021
Location: national
Topics: criminal justice;guns;wisconsin
Context: News release
Fact-check justification: Agard said "the fact is, no other country on the planet witnesses the number of gun deaths that we do here in the United States, and it’s not even close." The U.S. does top the list when only high-income developed nations with populations of 10 million or more are considered.  However, Agard is off by a bit when looking at raw numbers, and off by a whole lot when looking at gun-related deaths as a share of the population.  For a statement that contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression, our rating is .
Statement: The Obama administration "supported Muslim allies trying to establish a new international blasphemy standard.
Speaker: jonathan turley
About the speaker: Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University.
Date: January 11, 2015
Topics: civil rights;foreign policy;religion;terrorism;punditfact
Context: a "Washington Post" op-ed
Fact-check justification: Turley said that the Obama administration "supported Muslim allies trying to establish a new international blasphemy standard." The accuracy of this statement hinges on how you understand that word "supported." American diplomats did endorse a UN resolution that avoided words about restricting speech that defamed a religion, but left open the door to criminalizing speech that was "incitement to immediate violence based on religion." The administration, as well as some free-speech advocacy groups, saw this as progress. But blasphemy laws remain on the books in Muslim nations, and the largest international body that speaks for those nations has said plainly that such laws are appropriate and ought to be adopted in the west. Not even Turley argues that this is the result the administration wanted, and another critic of the administration's strategy said American diplomats do not support efforts to establish an international blasphemy standard. One could argue that by participating in the ongoing negotiations, the administration has de facto endorsed a vehicle for the Muslim nations, but that is not the same as supporting their efforts. The statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate the  .
Statement: There are statistics out there that show the number of women who died from illegal abortions prior to Roe v. Wade, that number has skyrocketed since with women dying more with legal abortions.
Speaker: nick schroer
About the speaker: Nick Schroer is a Republican state representative in Missouri.
Date: February 12, 2019
Location: missouri
Topics: abortion
Context: a podcast
Fact-check justification: According to the CDC, "in 2014, the most recent year for which data were available, six women were identified to have died as a result of complications from legal induced abortion." Our Ruling Schroer said the number of women dying from legal abortions has "skyrocketed" compared to illegal abortions prior to Roe v. Wade. Schroer said he was talking about pregnant women and female fetuses, though that wasn’t the question he was asked and is extremely  to listeners. The number of women who have died from abortions has steadily decreased, even prior to the decision in Roe v. Wade. We rate this  .
Statement: Malia Obama arrested with a gang of thugs in Chicago.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: May 6, 2017
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: a headline
Fact-check justification: As for the  accomplices pictured in the story, the image is taken from a series of mugshots showing a group of eight men arrested in Florence County, S.C., in 2013 for running a dogfighting ring. Malia’s image was inserted to suggest she’d been partying with the other seven. But that’s not the case. As far as we know, the 18-year-old is still enjoying her gap year before enrolling at Harvard this fall. We rate this statement !
Statement: A number of Democrats running for governor want to cut the prison population by 50%" and "that would require the release of thousands of violent felons.
Speaker: scott walker
About the speaker: Scott Walker, a Republican, is the former governor of Wisconsin. He was first elected in November 2010. He survived a recall election in 2012, defeating Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett after igniting controversy with a bill curtailing public-employee union collective-bargaining rights.  He won re-election to a four-year term in November 2014 and was a 2016 presidential candidate before dropping out in September of 2015. He was defeated by Tony Evers in the 2018 gubernatorial election. Walker is a former Milwaukee County executive and former member of the state Assembly.
Date: August 7, 2018
Location: wisconsin
Topics: criminal justice;crime;state budget
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Our rating Walker says: "A number of Democrats running for governor want to cut the prison population by 50%" and "that would require the release of thousands of violent felons." Two Democrats have called for a 50 percent cut and two have said that should be a goal. But  is lacking that such a cut would require the release of thousands of violent felons. While a short time frame might require that, a longer time frame  — and reducing incoming inmates as well as releasing some others — would not. We rate Walker’s statement .