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Statement: U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy "voted to allow members of Congress to receive taxpayer-funded health care for life.
Speaker: national republican senatorial committee
About the speaker: The National Republican Senatorial Committee helps elect Republicans to the U.S. Senate.
Date: March 23, 2015
Location: florida
Topics: congress;health care
Context: a statement on a website
Fact-check justification: The NRSC said that Murphy "voted to allow members of Congress to receive taxpayer-funded health care for life." The NRSC cites votes Murphy took against repeal of the Affordable Care Act. Even if those votes led to actual repeal -- which they didn’t -- members of Congress would not get free healthcare for life. This was a   when Democrats tried their versions of it in the past -- and it’s just as  now. We rate this  .
Statement: We are the only state in the country that state employees don't contribute [to their pensions].
Speaker: rick scott
About the speaker: Rick Scott, a wealthy Florida businessman, was first elected Florida's 45th governor on Nov. 2, 2010 and re-elected Nov. 4, 2014. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2018 and is running for re-election in 2024.
Date: December 14, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: retirement;state budget
Context: a meeting with state legislators
Fact-check justification: Florida will be the only state, starting Jan. 1, 2011, where no one in the state retirement system is asked to contribute toward their pension. Two states -- Virginia and Missouri -- recently switched their retirement system meaning new hires will have to pay toward their retirement, but not existing employees. Michigan doesn't force its employees to participate either, but that state has a more private-sector-like 401(k) program. And Tennessee and Utah still do not require many of their state employees to contribute toward retirement, although other employees in those states do. We rate this  .
Statement: White people control almost 90 percent of the nation's wealth.
Speaker: starbucks
About the speaker: Seattle-based Starbucks is a coffee company.
Date: March 20, 2015
Location: wisconsin
Topics: income;population;wealth
Context: a newspaper advertisement
Fact-check justification: We rated the   . And in 2013, we rated as  this  by the liberal group One Wisconsin Now: "The Walton family, which owns Wal-Mart, controls a fortune equal to the wealth of the bottom 42 percent of Americans combined." Our rating Starbucks said: "White people control almost 90 percent of the nation's wealth." That matches the latest net worth figures from the Federal Reserve System. We rate the statement .
Statement: Thousands of Seattle Democrats gather to demand mail-in voting because it's too dangerous to vote in-person.
Speaker: viral image
About the speaker: Graphics, pictures and charts shared on social media give chain emails a run for their money when it comes to spreading too-good-to-be-true claims all over the Internet. A common form is is the "Internet macro," which uses an easily recognized and repurposed image (called a meme) wth superimposed text to make a funny but political argument. Sometimes these images are passed across social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit so widely that the original source is nearly impossible to determine.
Date: August 17, 2020
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: (Read more about our partnership with Facebook .)   The photo does show thousands of demonstrators in Seattle on June 6, but they were protesting police violence against Black people — not demanding mail-in voting for the November election.   West Seattle Blog reported on the demonstration, which happened in the West Seattle neighborhood, and published the photo that appears in the Facebook post. It’s credited to Paul Weatherman , an aerial photographer.   We rate this post .
Statement: David Perdue "opposes laws that provide equal pay protections for women.
Speaker: georgians together
About the speaker: PAC formed to help Michelle Nunn's U.S. Senate bid.
Date: September 25, 2014
Location: georgia
Topics: jobs;labor;women
Context: television attack ad
Fact-check justification: Our Ruling The ad statement implies sweeping opposition by Perdue to laws giving women the right to collect equal pay for equal work. There’s no  of that. In fact, Perdue says he supports equal pay for equal work. The only thing the super PAC can point to is he’s against a single proposed law that supporters say would give women more power to fight back against discrimination. We rate the statement as .
Statement: Says the Clinton Foundation "gave ONLY $5 million to charities, spent $85 million for their salaries & travels and KEPT the rest = $87 million" in 2014.
Speaker: viral image
About the speaker: Graphics, pictures and charts shared on social media give chain emails a run for their money when it comes to spreading too-good-to-be-true claims all over the Internet. A common form is is the "Internet macro," which uses an easily recognized and repurposed image (called a meme) wth superimposed text to make a funny but political argument. Sometimes these images are passed across social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit so widely that the original source is nearly impossible to determine.
Date: November 18, 2019
Topics: campaign finance;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post claimed that, in 2014, the Clinton Foundation only gave $5 million to charity while spending $85 million for salaries and travel. The foundation hires people to carry out its own humanitarian programs instead of giving it all away, meaning its charitable contributions show up as program expenses instead of grants on tax forms. The Clinton Foundation spent $217 million on programs and about $13 million for salaries and travel in 2014.  The Facebook post is . We rate it .
Statement: Recent news reports indicate DWI crashes in Austin dropped 23 percent since ridesharing entered the market.
Speaker: uber
About the speaker: Uber is a ride-sharing service with providers in many cities including Austin.
Date: November 7, 2015
Location: texas
Topics: crime;transportation
Context: a web post
Fact-check justification: Uber said: "Recent news reports indicate DWI crashes in Austin dropped 23 percent since ridesharing entered the market." That aligns with a local news report. Yet different timeframes for making statistical comparisons suggest a range of results--even, in one slice, more DWI collisions than before. It's worth repeating that Uber is referring to correlations between ride-sharing’s availability and collisions, not necessarily causation. We rate this statement .  – The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Says a CNN broadcast shows "400,000 votes just disappeared" in the California recall election.
Speaker: viral image
About the speaker: Graphics, pictures and charts shared on social media give chain emails a run for their money when it comes to spreading too-good-to-be-true claims all over the Internet. A common form is is the "Internet macro," which uses an easily recognized and repurposed image (called a meme) wth superimposed text to make a funny but political argument. Sometimes these images are passed across social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit so widely that the original source is nearly impossible to determine.
Date: September 15, 2021
Location: california
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: The vote ‘drop’ was taking out the error and putting in the vote being reported by Santa Clara County. "  The estimated vote changed from 52% to 49% because when the correction was made, "the total number of votes tabulated declined by 350,000 votes and estimated percent of the total vote currently tabulated declined," he said. But those votes weren’t surreptitiously scrubbed from the election. They were mistakenly entered, and then removed.    We rate claims that these votes disappeared fraudulently .
Statement: Florida Democrats "put my Social Security number and my wife's Employment Identification Number in a mail piece.
Speaker: allen west
About the speaker: Allen West announced in July 2021 that he is running for the Republican primary for Texas governor. He served for about a year as chairman of the Texas Republican Party, stepping down in June 2021. West represented Florida's 22nd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2011 to 2013. Lieutenant Colonel West retired from the Army in 2004 after 22 years of service.
Date: July 20, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: negative campaigning
Context: a Fox News interview
Fact-check justification: It makes you wonder what else Klein will do to me, or to you," West says in his video . "Join our cause today, and we can return character, honor and integrity to Congress." We won't weigh in on that last part. But the mailer episode was well-documented by reporters, and the party admitted and apologized. We rate West's  .
Statement: Says U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took a "$10 million payout from Netflix.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 12, 2019
Topics: fake news;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: It means we can give to deserving nonprofits and don’t have to live off credit cards to make our next movie. But it DOESN'T go to @AOC or other candidates! https://t.co/xB22ZMoTgs It is accurate that Netflix acquired distribution rights for a documentary featuring Ocasio-Cortez, but she did not receive a penny from the deal. This  is .
Statement: Says Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan would "eliminate the guarantee of Medicare.
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: health care;medicare
Context: Danville, Ky
Fact-check justification: Biden said that Romney and Ryan would "eliminate the guarantee of Medicare." Calling today’s Medicare benefits "guaranteed" is partially, but not entirely, . Currently, Medicare does guarantee broad health coverage for seniors and, in the short term, guarantees specific benefits. But Medicare doesn’t cover everything, and Congress and the president can change what is covered -- and will be forced to do so when fiscal pressures hit. Meanwhile, it’s plausible that the Romney plan could provide less of a "guarantee" than Medicare currently does, but we found sharp disagreement between supporters and opponents of Romney’s Medicare plan on that point. This disagreement is hard to resolve given the shortage of information Romney has so far provided. On balance, we rate the  .
Statement: According to its website Black Lives Matter, Inc is NOT a charity. It is a full-fledged corporation that does NOT have any locations.
Speaker: candace owens
About the speaker: Candace Owens is a conservative commentator, author and host on the Daily Wire. She formerly worked as a spokeswoman for Turning Point USA. She started Blexit, an effort to get black voters to leave the Democratic Party. She previously co-founded the website Degree180.
Date: June 11, 2020
Topics: civil rights;corporations;race and ethnicity;facebook fact-checks
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: The Black Lives Matter Global Network has active chapters in 16 cities in Canada and the United States, according to its website. Most chapters have a website and corresponding social media profiles, many of which are verified. We reached out to the Black Lives Matter Global Network repeatedly for a comment, but we haven’t heard back. Regardless, Owens’ tweet is . We rate it .
Statement: More people today are leaving Virginia than moving in.
Speaker: nikki haley
About the speaker: Nikki Haley announced on Feb. 14, 2023 that she is running for president in the Republican primary. Haley was the governor of South Carolina 2011-2017 and then served as President Donald Trump's ambassador to the UN in 2017 and 2018.
Date: May 17, 2016
Location: virginia
Topics: economy;population
Context: a forum
Fact-check justification: Haley said, "More people are leaving Virginia today than moving in." She made her statement in a partisan attack on McAuliffe’s economic stewardship, saying Virginia no longer is competitive in attracting and keeping businesses. Her  was based on IRS data on the number of people who moved and filed tax returns from a different state than the one in which they lived the previous year. Economists and demographers use these figures to chart migration in states. In 2014, Virginia had a net loss of 12,463 households to other states. The latest Census Bureau figures estimate Virginia lost a net of 23,813 people to other states during a 12-month period ending in July 2015. Because Haley was talking in the context of Virginia competing with other states, we think her  largely holds up. But there’s a caveat. If you add first-year immigrants and temporary foreign workers and students to the mix, then annual Census Bureau estimates show more people continue to enter Virginia than leave it. So we rate Haley’s statement . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/2fb6662b-ae96-4dd8-8584-d361711933a8
Statement: McCain is "raising campaign cash with one of (Jack) Abramoff's closest business partners: scandal-plagued conservative activist Ralph Reed.
Speaker: democratic national committee
About the speaker: The Democratic National Committee is the national organization of Democrats.
Date: August 13, 2008
Location: national
Topics: ethics
Fact-check justification: Reed's name appears 197 times in the Senate report, which ties him to numerous unseemly Abramoff efforts. So yes, he was one of Abramoff's closest business partners, and he was plagued by scandal as a result. The DNC's news release does not note that the Abramoff-Reed partnership and Reed's scandals are in the past, and it could be read to imply that they continue today. Strictly speaking, however, the release avoids attaching a tense to its charges about Reed. So we find them to be .
Statement: Every couple days we have a caravan size group of people apprehended trying to come into the country illegally, or coming to the ports of entry without documentation.
Speaker: ron johnson
About the speaker: Ron Johnson is a Republican U.S. senator from Wisconsin. A businessman and accountant, Johnson defeated Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold in the 2010 election. He is seeking re-election in 2016.
Date: November 1, 2018
Location: wisconsin
Topics: immigration;homeland security;legal issues
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: Our rating Johnson said, "Every couple days we have a caravan size group of people apprehended trying to come into the country illegally, or coming to the ports of entry without documentation." The numbers can vary month to month, and the estimates of those participating in the caravan have risen and fallen. So, Johnson has a point. But the larger issue is that, in making the comparison, Johnson is mixing numbers for illegal entries with caravan participants aiming at a legal process -- asylum. For a statement that is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context, our rating is .
Statement: Under a law proposed by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, businesses that move into Wisconsin "don't have to pay any taxes" on their income for two years.
Speaker: mahlon mitchell
About the speaker: Mahlon Mitchell has served as president of the Professional Fire Fighters of Wisconsin union since January 2011. A Democrat, he lost to Republican Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch in Wisconsin's June 2012 recall elections. In November 2017, he announced his candidacy for governor in the 2018 election.
Date: November 4, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Topics: jobs;taxes
Context: remarks
Fact-check justification: The bill was approved 82-12 by the Assembly and 24-9 by the Senate, with a total of 29 Democrats voting yes. It was signed into law by Walker on Jan. 31, 2011. Our conclusion Mitchell said that because of actions taken by Walker, businesses moving to Wisconsin "don't have to pay any (income) taxes" for two years. Walker backed and signed a law that offers such a tax deduction. We rate Mitchell’s statement .
Statement: A monthly "police and fire protection fee" on all Wisconsin phone bills does nothing to support police and fire.
Speaker: andre jacque
About the speaker: Wisconsin Rep. Andre Jacque, R-DePere, was elected to the state Assembly in 2010.
Date: May 15, 2013
Location: wisconsin
Topics: criminal justice;state budget;taxes
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: So, indirectly, the phone fee helps support police and fire, given that a county sheriff’s department, or a city police or fire department, are among the largest expenses in local government. Our rating Jacque said a 75 cents-per-month "police and fire protection fee" on Wisconsin phone bills does nothing to support police and fire. The $50 million per year in phone fee revenue isn’t dedicated to police and fire protection. But the money does support those services indirectly, in that it goes to local governments, which spend a large portion of their budgets on police and fire services.    We give a nod to Jacque for highlighting the  nature of the police and fire phone fee, but we rate his  .
Statement: Barack Obama "ended up getting re-elected by the largest gender gap in the history of American elections.
Speaker: cecile richards
About the speaker: According to the biographical sketch posted online by Planned Parenthood, Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, previously worked as deputy chief of staff for House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi. In 2004, she founded and served as president of America Votes, a coalition of 42 national grassroots organizations working to maximize registration, education, and voter participation. She began her career organizing low-wage workers in the hotel, health care, and janitorial industries throughout California, Louisiana and Texas.
Date: July 26, 2016
Location: texas
Topics: elections;polls and public opinion
Context: remarks to the Texas delegation at the Democratic National Convention as webcast by the Texas Tribun
Fact-check justification: Richards said that Obama in 2012  "ended up getting re-elected by the largest gender gap in the history of American elections." Such data doesn’t appear to be available for all presidential elections. Otherwise, Gallup’s unusual approach to calculating the gender gap for Democratic presidential nominees places Obama No. 1 since 1952 with a 14-point gap in 2012. But other reasonable methodologies show that since 1948, other candidates and victors (even Ike) had greater gender gaps. On balance, we rate this  .  – 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: Surgeon who exposed Clinton Foundation corruption in Haiti found dead in apartment with stab wound to chest." — Intellihub
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: December 12, 2017
Topics: fake news;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post on Facebook
Fact-check justification: The couple faced allegations that their efforts didn’t accomplish enough and that some of the projects they backed benefited foreign investors and the wealthy more than poor Haitians.    Lorich’s criticism was aimed at the United States, not the Clinton Foundation, but conspiracy theories that the Clintons kill their political enemies aren’t new . And Intellihub isn’t alone in promoting the idea that the doctor’s death was retribution. But while these stories lean on some factual information—Lorich traveled to Haiti and he was discovered with a chest wound—there is no  that suggests he was murdered by the Clinton family. We rate this headline !
Statement: What I have done -- and this is unprecedented ... is I've said to each agency ... 'look at regulations that are already on the books and if they don't make sense, let's get rid of them.'
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: June 29, 2011
Location: national
Topics: government regulation;regulation
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification: "Whatever it is called, presidents are always reviewing regulations to eliminate ones that impose unnecessary burdens." In fact, a U.S. Government Accountability Office report on July 16, 2007, states that, "Every president since President Carter has directed agencies to evaluate or reconsider existing regulations." Obama claims that his administration is doing something unprecedented -- "no administration has done this before," he said -- by having each agency review existing regulations, with an eye toward eliminating ones that don't make sense. Lots of presidents have done that. We rate Obama's statement .
Statement: Accuses Ed FitzGerald of "pay-to-play and corruption politics.
Speaker: republican governors association
About the speaker: the gubernatorial campaign arm of the Republican Party.
Date: April 24, 2013
Location: ohio
Topics: candidate biography;criminal justice;ethics
Context: a news release reacting to FitzGerald's run for governor
Fact-check justification: But they have no proof that FitzGerald engaged in corrupt politics. And they misleadingly hide behind the cryptic and nuanced "Public Official 14" designation while ignoring the much more direct and meaningful exculpatory statement from the lead prosecutor. They also ignore the work FitzGerald has done to clean up after the corrupt regime that preceded him. Facts lay waste to any effort like this one that explicitly brands FitzGerald as a corrupt politician. !