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Statement: Since the week ending March 14, Wisconsin actually saw a drop in tourism spending compared to last year of $1.7 billion.
Speaker: sara meaney
About the speaker: Sara Meaney is the secretary of the Department of Tourism in Wisconsin, appointed in December 2018 by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.
Date: May 24, 2020
Location: wisconsin
Topics: economy;tourism
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: Meaney said the state’s tourism losses have topped $1.7 billion since March.  Data from weekly studies commissioned by the U.S. Travel Association, an organization with over 1,100 members nationwide, found that beginning the week ending March 14, when the COVID-19 crisis first began to significantly impact tourism spending, Wisconsin was down $17 million compared to a year earlier. The drop in year-over-year travel spending in the state mounted weekly, with the latest available report reporting a drop of $214 million for the week ending May 16. That brings the state tourism sector drop to $1.775 billion since the week ending March 14. For a statement that is accurate and there’s nothing significant missing, our rating is . window.gciAnalyticsUAID = 'PMJS-TEALIUM-COBRAND';
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Statement: Ron DeSantis voted against the wall.
Speaker: maga inc
About the speaker: MAGA Inc. is a pro-Donald Trump PAC.
Date: May 24, 2023
Location: florida
Topics: immigration;border security
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: Less than a year before, DeSantis voted for a bill that would provide the same amount of funding toward the construction of border barriers. He later voted for a bill requiring the Department of Homeland Security to build barriers along the border, and co-sponsored a bill to fund construction of the wall. After his congressional tenure, DeSantis continued to express support for building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. The  contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it .
Statement: Building and running the Atlanta Streetcar is projected to create 1,399 jobs.
Speaker: john lewis
About the speaker: Civil Rights icon John Lewis represents Georgia's 5th Congressional District. He was the recipient of the presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, in February 2011. 
Lewis is the oldest surviving keynote speaker of the 1963 March on Washington.
 
Date: January 17, 2011
Location: georgia
Topics: transportation
Context: a newsletter to constituents
Fact-check justification: So did Lewis get his job creation figures right? Lewis accurately cited numbers reviewed by government agencies and experts, but in the end, that vetting wasn’t enough. He used figures that would give a typical person the impression that those projected 1,399 "job years" are actual jobs. That understanding would be correct for the construction phase, but it would be 20 times higher than the actual number of positions needed to run the streetcar. Since the figures experts gave Lewis would give a typical person a  impression, we rule his statement .
Statement: The DEA just raided a United States senator — Dems in a panic.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: June 10, 2017
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: a headline
Fact-check justification: The fictitious saga led to the pretend senator's death and more, including  implicating Chelsea Clinton  and tying the DEA raid to a previous  yarn about the Clinton Foundation smuggling contraband and refugees. We attempted to reach NewsFeedHunter.com through their website contact form to ask if they knew the story was , but didn’t receive a reply. The site’s registration information is private. But we know the story is contrived, because all the articles at TheLastLineOfDefense.org are made up. We rate this statement !
Statement: We now actually import more oil than we did before 9/11.
Speaker: john kerry
About the speaker: John Kerry is the secretary of state. He previously was a senator from Massachusetts and the Democratic Party's nominee for president in 2004.
Date: June 6, 2010
Location: national
Topics: energy;this week - abc news;trade
Context: an interview on ABC's "This Week''
Fact-check justification: In 2009, that figure was 9.86 million barrels per day. Adding in unfinished oils to the previous measure of crude oil turns an  statement into a correct one. Bottom line: There are three ways to analyze the question, and with two of them, Kerry is right that imports have grown. Using the other statistic, he's  -- imports have declined. So we rate Kerry's statement .
Statement: Atheists are prohibited from holding office in 8 states.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: October 31, 2021
Topics: elections;religion;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: But it notes that Pennsylvania differs from the other seven states in that its rule is that believers can’t be disqualified from office but says nothing about atheists. While seven states still have clear language in their constitutions banning atheists from holding public office, Pennsylvania’s constitution isn’t as clear cut. Regardless, the bans are likely unenforceable and rarely attempted since a 1961 Supreme Court ruling on the matter. The statement in the Instagram post is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context. We rate it .
Statement: In Texas, "sexting is a felony sex offense for teenagers — that can mean up to 10 years in prison.
Speaker: whoopi goldberg
About the speaker: Whoopi Goldberg is an award-winning actress and comedian who co-hosts ABC's daytime talk show, The View.
Date: February 8, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: children;criminal justice;crime;technology
Context: an episode of The View
Fact-check justification: Later, Williamson County District Attorney John Bradley told us his office has fielded several sexting claims involving teenagers. He said he couldn’t recall if his office had charged a teenage "sexter" with a felony offense, but said that after working with all parties involved, his office has prosecuted teenage "sexters" with misdemeanor charges that can lead to a fine, sentences of less than a year in jail or both. So, Goldberg is correct that a Texas "sexter" could now end up with a 10-year prison term, but that’s if they’re prosecuted for child pornography — apparently a rare occurrence. Contrary to Goldberg’s declaration, sexting in itself is not a felony in Texas for anyone, including teenagers. We rate Goldberg’s statement as .
Statement: The left is determined to erase Mount Rushmore from our history books.
Speaker: north carolina republican party
About the speaker: The N.C. GOP is a political party in North Carolina
Date: February 24, 2023
Location: north carolina
Topics: history
Context: an email
Fact-check justification: An email from the North Carolina Republican Party said "The left is determined to erase Mount Rushmore from our history books." We found no  that elected leaders or political groups — at a national or local level — are pushing to "erase" Mount Rushmore from history books.  Also, conservatives often accuse liberals of being "woke" for wanting to teach the ugly side of U.S. history. If "the left" were upset about the history of Mount Rushmore, logic dictates that its activists would want its history to be included in textbooks — not excluded. We rate the  .
Statement: Dr. Oz wins seat.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: October 5, 2022
Location: pennsylvania
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: His website was soliciting donations. His Facebook account was sharing videos based on claims Oz is connected to medical research that resulted in the deaths of dogs, pigs and rabbits. Oz, meanwhile, hasn’t won the Senate seat. The general election isn’t until Nov. 8.   We rate this post !
Statement: From 1947 to 1979, family incomes for rich, middle-income and poor Americans grew about the same rate. But since 1979, incomes for rich families have grown much faster.
Speaker: united for a fair economy
About the speaker: United for a Fair Economy is a group that “raises awareness that concentrated wealth and power undermine the economy."
Date: June 7, 2011
Location: national
Topics: families;income;labor;workers
Context: a chart
Fact-check justification: Two conservative economists -- Dan Mitchell of the Cato Institute and J.D. Foster of the Heritage Foundation -- raised some of the same methodological concerns as Steuerle, and they also warned against drawing broader conclusions than the data can support. For instance, both noted that the chart, striking as it is, doesn’t say that someone in the lowest 20 percent is doomed to stay there. "When you add income mobility to the equation, the left's rich-get-richer-and-poor-get-poorer story gets rather blurry," Mitchell said. Still, despite some modest differences in the final numbers, the story told by the United for a Fair Economy chart strikes us as pretty accurate. So we rate the chart .
Statement: Says a New York physician and his wife jumped to their deaths because they "can't afford" Obamacare.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: July 28, 2017
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: Internet posts
Fact-check justification: Bloggers said a New York physician and his wife jumped to their deaths because they "can’t afford" Obamacare. Multiple blog posts said that the couple committed suicide because of unaffordable medical costs. That was based on initial reports about the note the pair left behind, and turned out not to be the case. News outlets later took out references to health care expenses when they updated their stories, but the flawed information remained in other posts. We rate the statement .
Statement: Human trafficking is the third-biggest criminal enterprise in the world.
Speaker: amy klobuchar
About the speaker: Amy Klobuchar is a senator from Minnesota. Klobuchar was elected as senator in 2006 and re-elected in 2012 and 2018. Klobuchar received a bachelor’s degree in political science from Yale University and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School. In 2019, she announced she was running for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out March 2, 2020.
Date: July 26, 2016
Location: national
Topics: human rights;crime
Context: a speech at the Democratic National Convention
Fact-check justification: Klobuchar said that human trafficking is the third-biggest criminal enterprise in the world. A U.N. agency estimated the total value of human trafficking at $150 billion. The comparable estimates for the drug trade range from about $280 billion to $420 billion. There is one dicey estimate for counterfeiting of $250 billion. By those measures, human trafficking does rank third. However, all of these numbers hinge on sweeping assumptions and limited data. With that caveat in mind, we rank this  .
Statement: Paul Ryan "is one of only six House Republicans who voted for Teddy Kennedy's bill to force Christian employers to hire LGBT employees.
Speaker: constitutional rights pac
About the speaker: Constitutional Rights PAC, a political action committee based near Washington, D.C., says it "exists to advocate Constitutional governance and remind elected servants of the oaths they swore to uphold." 
Date: October 14, 2015
Location: wisconsin
Topics: civil rights;lgbtq;religion;workers
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: Ryan: "Every president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt has had" fast-track trade authority.  . Ryan: All 28 members of NATO have "pledged to spend at least 2 percent of their economy on defense. But only three countries do -- Britain, Greece and us."  .
Statement: Judge Jackson doesn't think perverts should have to register (as sex offenders). She says it 'stigmatizes' THEM.
Speaker: lars larson
About the speaker: Lars Larson is a conservative radio talk show host. The "Lars Larson" show runs on 18 radio stations in Oregon and Washington. His Compass Media Networks national show is carried by 200 radio stations around the country. Larson got his start in radio, then reported for KPTV, Channel 12, in Portland for many years.
Date: March 21, 2022
Location: national
Topics: criminal justice;public safety;supreme court
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Larson also conflated Jackson’s questioning of the legality and intent of sex offender registries with a relaxed attitude toward sex offenders.  Jackson did not explicitly advocate against them, rather questioned whether they were punitive and therefore in violation of the Constitution. In her article, she mentioned that opponents of sex offender registries argue that "community notification subjects ex-convicts to stigmatization." Larson’s  contains an element of  but is missing important details and ultimately takes Jackson’s article out of context. We rate it .
Statement: As a result of Obamacare, we are becoming something of a part-time employment country.
Speaker: maria bartiromo
About the speaker: Maria Bartiromo is host of CNBC's On the Money with Maria Baritromo and a co-host of Closing Bell. She previously worked for CNN.
Date: October 20, 2013
Location: national
Topics: health care;jobs;pundits
Context: an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press"
Fact-check justification: Bartiromo said under Obamacare "we are becoming something of a part-time employment country." There is anectdotal  that some companies are or will reduce the hours of some employees. But those individual instances fail to make a case of moving to a "part-time employment country." Government numbers actually show that the fraction of part-timers in the workforce has declined since 2010 and in a longer historical perspective, the share of part-timers was less during this recession than in the downturn of 1983. The argument that the delay of the employer mandate boosted full-time hires is suspect. We see the same trend in previous years well before President Barack Obama was elected. An independent analysis suggests that the lack of full-time work is the most significant explanation for a persistently high share of part-time work in the labor force. We rate the  .
Statement: There's no evidence anywhere that offshore drilling has hurt tourism in any area where it has been allowed.
Speaker: barney bishop
About the speaker: Barney Bishop is the president and CEO of Associated Industries of Florida, a pro-business group supporting more offshore oil drilling.
Date: August 26, 2009
Location: national
Topics: environment;energy
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: Another study said that while losses by beachfront businesses in Santa Barbara may have suffered, other businesses farther inland benefited. Using superlatives and absolutes might make for the best sound bite, but it also makes it more difficult to be right. Bishop said, "There's no  anywhere that offshore drilling has hurt tourism in any area where it has been allowed,” and the record shows otherwise. Though infrequent, incidents of offshore drilling directly and adversely affecting an area's tourist economy do exist. For that, we rate Bishop's statement .
Statement: Says voter roll purge would mean "more than 200,000 registered Wisconsin voters will be prohibited from voting.
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: December 17, 2019
Location: wisconsin
Topics: elections;states
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Yes, the pruning process — if allowed by the courts — could potentially remove more than 200,000 people from the voting rolls before the upcoming elections. But there is no punitive element that would ban future voting. Everyone can re-register, even on Election Day. The use of the word "prohibited," in particular, goes too far, in that it suggests there is no way to vote in the future. We rate Pelosi’s  .
Statement: Most Americans don't own stocks.
Speaker: ro khanna
About the speaker: Ro Khanna is a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from a district that includes portions of such cities as Cupertino, Santa Clara and San Jose.
Date: September 12, 2018
Location: california
Topics: economy;financial regulation
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Khanna wrote that "most Americans don’t own stocks." To be precise, a narrow majority of Americans does own stocks, according to credible recent studies. But Khanna has a point that Americans of modest incomes are significantly less invested in the stock market than wealthier Americans are. Other large groups, including minorities and those without a college education, also lag in stock ownership, meaning that the stock rally is largely passing them by. We rate the statement .
Statement: We are picking up oil with shovels and paper and plastic bags.
Speaker: marco rubio
About the speaker: Marco Rubio, a U.S. senator from Florida, was a candidate for president of the United States in 2016 and then dropped out and won re-election to the Senate. He was first elected to the Senate in 2010 and took office Jan. 5, 2011. Rubio served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2000 to 2008 and is a former Speaker of the Florida House. He served on the West Miami City Commission from 1998 to 2000. He is from Miami and holds a law degree from the University of Miami.
Date: June 26, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: oil spill
Context: an interview on "Fox & Friends"
Fact-check justification: BP officials also say thick tar clogs mechanical rakes. The machinery that is being used is largely out on the water, in the form of skimming vessels, that scoop up the thick mats of oil that have formed on the surface of the water. There are currently five state-leased skimming vessels working off the Florida panhandle, but elected officials and Panhandle residents alike have complained, as Rubio does, that more skimmers should have been deployed by BP and the federal government right after the oil rig explosion to keep oil from creeping toward the shoreline in the first place. So while Rubio may have been slightly off when saying paper bags were used in the clean-up effort, there’s plenty of plastic bags and shovels being used to haul off the tar balls. We find his  .
Statement: Gavin Newsom was "the first to take on the National Rifle Association and win.
Speaker: gavin newsom
About the speaker: Gavin Newsom was elected governor of California in 2018. He is the state's former lieutenant governor and served as mayor of San Francisco. He is a Democrat.
Date: April 23, 2018
Location: california
Topics: elections;public safety;the 2018 california governor's race;guns
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: A TV advertisement by the Gavin Newsom for Governor campaign claimed Newsom was "the first to take on the National Rifle Association and win." The , however, ignores major gun control measures passed by California politicians from U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein to former Los Angeles mayors Tom Bradley and Antonio Villaraigosa, in the face of NRA opposition. Newsom’s campaign spokesman said the  in the ad was meant to convey a more specific accomplishment, showing Newsom as the first to push through a statewide gun safety ballot measure. We’re not challenging that statement. But we rate the original  as .    –  The statement is not accurate. Click here for  more  on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Before the terrorist attacks in Benghazi, "the State Department not only failed to honor repeated requests for additional security, but instead actually reduced security in Libya.
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: May 6, 2014
Location: wisconsin
Topics: foreign policy;military;terrorism
Context: an opinion article
Fact-check justification: Our rating Johnson said that before the terrorist attacks in Benghazi, "the State Department not only failed to honor repeated requests for additional security, but instead actually reduced security in Libya." State Department headquarters in Washington did refuse repeated requests from its ambassador in Libya for more security personnel. And it decided not to accept an offer from the Defense Department to extend the stay of one of its security units in Libya, reducing the level of security that was available. We rate Johnson’s statement . To comment on this item, go to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s web page .
Statement: The Obama administration had cut $300 million from school safety.
Speaker: ted cruz
About the speaker: Ted Cruz is a U.S. Senator from Texas, first elected in 2012. Cruz also was a candidate for president of the United States in 2016. He is the former solicitor general for the state of Texas, previously serving as the director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice, and as a domestic policy advisor on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign, according to his campaign biography.
Date: March 7, 2018
Location: national
Topics: corrections and updates;education;guns
Context: an interview on CNN's "New Day"
Fact-check justification: Cruz said the Obama administration cut $300 million in school safety money. That fits with the elimination in 2010 of the formula-driven Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities State Grant program. A fuller look at Obama’s proposed 2010 budget puts the cut around $200 million. In addition, Cruz ignores that in 2013, Obama called for $385 million to respond directly to mass shootings in schools, and $4 billion to hire an additional 15,000 police officers. Cruz’s statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it . Update: After we published, we heard from Cruz's office. The fact-check reflects their comments. The rating remained unchanged.
Statement: You can hire lots of bureaucrats.  That's what the president's done.  He's added 135,000 people to the government workforce.
Speaker: mitt romney
About the speaker: Mitt Romney is a U.S. senator from Utah. He ran for president in 2012 as the Republican nominee, losing to incumbent President Barack Obama. Prior to that, Romney served one term as governor of Massachusetts, elected to the post in 2002. He was born in 1947 in Michigan, where his father was governor from 1963 to 1969. Romney graduated from Brigham Young University and received both a law degree and an MBA from Harvard University. Romney helped found the investment firm Bain Capital in 1984, which launched or rebuilt such companies as Staples and Dominos Pizza. Romney managed the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City from 1999-2002. He ran for president in 2008 but lost the Republican nomination. He and his wife, Ann, have five sons, Tagg, Craig, Matt, Ben and Josh.
Date: January 4, 2012
Location: national
Topics: jobs;new hampshire 2012;workers
Context: Peterborough, N.H
Fact-check justification: That may not bring to mind doctors and nurses caring for wounded veterans or border patrol agents. When we examine the largest areas of growth, we find it is in national defense, veteran care, anti-terrorism and border security. Finally,  while Romney makes it sound as if this is solely Obama's doing, congressional Republicans and Democrats have approved increases in those areas. If President Obama is responsible for this growth, he had a lot of help from members of Romney’s own party. We rate Romney’s statement .