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Statement: Says Tom Ganley has been "sued over 400 times, for fraud, discrimination and more," and "a judge called Tom Ganley's business practices "deceptive and unconscionable.
Speaker: betty sutton
About the speaker: Rep. Betty Sutton is a Democrat from Ohio's 13th Congressional District.
Date: September 21, 2010
Location: ohio
Topics: message machine 2010
Context: a television campaign ad
Fact-check justification: We repeat: We are not rating the ad’s statement about Ganley’s honesty. But Sutton’s  that he has been "sued over 400 times" and that a judge described his business practices "deceptive and unconscionable" checks out. Recognizing that he has been in business more than four decades and is Ohio’s largest car dealer are additional pieces of information not in the ad that help put the numbers into perspective. We rate her ad  as . Comment on this item .
Statement: There is no 'backlog' of untested rape kits in Wisconsin.
Speaker: brad schimel
About the speaker: Republican Brad Schimel was elected in 2006 as the district attorney in Waukesha County, which borders Milwaukee County. He was the GOP nominee for Wisconsin attorney general in the November 2014 election, and defeated Susan Happ to win the office. After he was defeated in November 2018, he was appointed a circuit court judge in Waukesha County.
Date: April 9, 2017
Location: wisconsin
Topics: criminal justice;crime;states
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: That’s a large accumulation of uncompleted work. And that’s the definition of a backlog. The fact that Schimel himself previously used the term makes his  not only  but . We rate Schimel’s  . USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin reporter Keegan Kyle contributed to this story.
Statement: A majority of the men and women on this stage have previously and publicly embraced amnesty. I am the only candidate on this stage who has never supported amnesty.
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: September 16, 2015
Location: national
Topics: immigration
Context: comments during the CNN debate
Fact-check justification: Cruz said at the second Republican debate, "A majority of the men and women on this stage have previously and publicly embraced amnesty. I am the only candidate on this stage who has never supported amnesty." We’ll reiterate that many of these candidates have changed their position on what to do about undocumented immigrants already in the United States, and we’ll note once again that the definition of "amnesty" isn’t hard and fast. So what Cruz may consider amnesty might not be what any of these candidates considers to be amnesty. Still, as far as we can tell, Cruz is the only one on the CNN debate stage who has never plainly supported something like a path to citizenship or some other form of legal status. We rate Cruz’s  .
Statement: Mike Pence voted against expanding the Children's Health Insurance program, which Hillary helped to start.
Speaker: howard dean
About the speaker: Howard Dean is the former chairman of the Democratic National Committee. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004, and was the longtime governor of Vermont before that.
Date: July 26, 2016
Location: national
Topics: federal budget;health care;medicaid;medicare;poverty;public health
Context: a speech at the Democratic National Convention
Fact-check justification: Dean criticized Pence’s health policy record, saying, "Mike Pence voted against expanding the Children’s Health Insurance program,which Hillary helped to start." That  is largely accurate. Pence voted against CHIP when he was in Congress, and Clinton did have a role in starting the program when she was First Lady. But it is important to note that Pence has supported health policy as governor of Indiana that was in line with health policies that Dean and other Democrats support. We rate the statement .
Statement: The collective net worth of Americans has taken a $5.5 trillion hit ... mainly due to plummeting home values.
Speaker: nina turner
About the speaker: Nina Turner is a state senator from the 25th Senate District in Cleveland. She joined the Ohio Senate in September 2008 after serving on Cleveland City Council. She also served in the administration of former Cleveland Mayor Michael White. In addition to her duties in the Ohio Senate, she teaches at Cuyahoga Community College.
Date: October 24, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: economy;housing
Context: an opinion column
Fact-check justification: And since 2007, net worth -- assets minus liabilities -- dropped from $64.2 trillion to $58.7 trillion, or about $5.5 trillion. The table also confirms the significant drop in home values -- as the Christian Science Monitor reported, about $4.7 trillion -- that accounts for the drastic decrease in net worth. It is important to note that while Turner’s column did not bookend the $5.5 trillion figure with exact dates, it generally addressed the effects of the recent recession -- the same post-2007 period covered by Scherer. So her use of the Fed numbers from 2007 and after made sense. On the -O-Meter, we rate Turner’s  .
Statement: Says New Jersey has "the highest unemployment rate in the region" and "stagnant job growth.
Speaker: marie corfield
About the speaker: Marie Corfield is a public school teacher who was defeated in the November 2013 election for a District 16 Assembly seat.
Date: December 30, 2013
Location: new jersey
Topics: jobs
Context: a column on BlueJersey.com
Fact-check justification: Corfield claimed in a recent column that Christie is "the governor of the state with the highest unemployment rate in the region, (and) stagnant job growth." She’s right that the unemployment rate is the highest in this region, but  on whether New Jersey’s job growth has been sluggish. BLS data shows clearly that while the Garden State’s unemployment rate is the highest among its neighboring states, it’s not the worst in the country. And it’s also clear from BLS data that private-sector jobs are growing in New Jersey. We rate Corfield’s  . To comment on this story, go to NJ.com .
Statement: Brazil got off oil in the last 30 years.
Speaker: bill maher
About the speaker: Bill Maher is a comedian and host of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher. He also works as a comedian and actor.
Date: May 2, 2010
Location: national
Topics: environment;energy;oil spill;pundits;this week - abc news
Context: an interview on ABC News' 'This Week'
Fact-check justification: But Maher said, "Brazil got off oil in the last 30 years." Actually, Brazil still consumes a great deal of oil. It's also embarking on more offshore drilling in some of the deepest waters for exploration. Brazil is hardly "off oil." So we rate Maher's statement .
Statement: A Republican-sponsored Wisconsin mining bill "will take at least seven years to create jobs.
Speaker: chris larson
About the speaker: Chris Larson, a Milwaukee Democrat, was elected to the Wisconsin state Senate in November 2010. A former member of the Milwaukee County Board, he is a candidate for Milwaukee County executive in 2016.
Date: January 15, 2013
Location: wisconsin
Topics: environment;jobs;government regulation
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Coakley said she didn’t expect it would take seven years to get to that point. Our rating Larson said a Republican-sponsored mining bill "will take at least seven years to create jobs." The  Larson cited referred to how long it would take to open the mine, which is the when the largest number of jobs will be in play. But there’s not hard  that it would take at least seven years to open the mine and it’s clear that a significant number of jobs would be created before the opening. For a statement that contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression, we give Larson a .
Statement: Fracturing or horizontally fracturing the shale to open up larger pockets of natural gas ... has been used for over 60 years and, as of 2009, over 80,000 wells have been fracked in Ohio.
Speaker: kris jordan
About the speaker: Kris Jordan is a Republican who represents the Ohio Senate’s 19th District, which includes Delaware and Knox counties as well as portions of Franklin County. He is serving in his first term. A lifelong resident of Delaware County he served six years as a county commissioner before being elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in 2008. He and his wife, Melissa, live in Ostrander.
Date: June 15, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: environment;energy
Context: the Ohio Senate
Fact-check justification: When we asked him about the discrepancy, Jordan said he assumed all the fracturing in Ohio was horizontal. "Maybe I didn’t ask if it was horizontal or vertical," Jordan said. That’s an important fact to know, especially since the state says horizontal fracturing has only been used 39 times in Ohio. On the -O-Meter, we rate the statement . Comment on this item .
Statement: I haven't switched my position" on the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.
Speaker: tim kaine
About the speaker: Tim Kaine is a U.S. senator representing Virginia, elected to the Senate in 2012. He was the 2016 Democratic nominee for vice president.
Kaine was governor from 2006 to 2010, lieutenant governor from 2002 to 2006, mayor of Richmond from 1998 to 2001, and city councilman of Richmond beginning in 1994. He was also the chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2009 to 2011.
Kaine was born in St. Paul, Minn. He earned a bachelor's degree in economics in 1979 from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and a law degree from Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass., in 1983. He took a year-long break during law school to work with the Jesuit order as a Catholic missionary in Honduras, becoming fluent in Spanish.
 
Date: August 7, 2016
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;trade
Context: an interview on "Meet the Press"
Fact-check justification: Kaine said, "I haven’t switched my position" on TPP. Though Kaine voted to give Obama fast-track authority to negotiate trade deals, a piece of legislation that paved the groundwork for TPP, he never took an official position on the deal itself. Throughout 2015, he reiterated he would oppose the deal if it didn’t have strong environmental and labor provisions. But in July 2016, Kaine repeatedly praised TPP for including those exact protections. Days later, as Clinton’s running mate, he came out against the trade deal. We rate Kaine’s  .
Statement: The Census is predicting a 6% undercount that will be targeted against nonwhites in this country — so Hispanics, African Americans, communities of color" if a citizenship question is asked.
Speaker: beto o'rourke
About the speaker: Beto O’Rourke is a former representative of Texas’s 16th Congressional District. He represented the district from 2013 until 2019, when he gave up his seat to run a senate campaign against incumbent Ted Cruz, which O’Rourke lost. He received a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Columbia University. In 2019, he ran for the Democratic nomination for president.
Date: June 13, 2019
Location: texas
Topics: census
Context: an interview on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Fact-check justification: O’Rourke said, "The Census is predicting a 6% undercount that will be targeted against nonwhites in this country — so Hispanics, African Americans, communities of color" if a citizenship question is asked. The Census Bureau made estimates for noncitizen households — not nonwhites — and estimated a 6% decline in self-response rates, which isn’t the same as an undercount. These distinctions are important in the context of how the population is counted and who’s at risk of being left out. However, researchers do estimate that blacks, Hispanic/Latinos and noncitizens could be undercounted if a citizenship question is added. Those estimates range from approximately 4% to 12%. So there’s basis for O’Rourke’s 6% figure, even though he mentioned the  source. O’Rourke’s statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context. We rate it .
Statement: Sanitizer will do nothing for the coronavirus.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 2, 2020
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: an image
Fact-check justification: Since its outbreak in Wuhan, China, in December, the 2019 coronavirus  has infected more than 88,000 people in 64 countries. In the United States, there have been 43 confirmed cases and six deaths , as of March 2, not including those repatriated to the country. So continue washing your hands, and using hand sanitizer with a high alcohol content when you aren’t near soap and water. The post telling you hand sanitizer will "do nothing" to stop the coronavirus is . We rate it .
Statement: Unlike the gridlock in Washington, more than 80 percent of the bills we passed during this General Assembly had bipartisan support.
Speaker: tom niehaus
About the speaker: Tom Niehaus is a state senator from Ohio's 14th Senate District. In January of 2011, his Republican colleagues unanimously elected him to serve as the president of the Ohio Senate for the 129th General Assembly.
Date: January 3, 2013
Location: ohio
Topics: bipartisanship
Context: an online video
Fact-check justification: The actual numbers showed about 79 percent had bipartisan support. But while Niehaus didn’t hit the number on the nose, the driving point behind his  certainly is accurate. The senator’s point was that the two parties worked together and avoided gridlock. And since the threshold for bipartisanship is that a majority of Democrats support the bill, there clearly was bipartisan support for a significant amount of legislation. On the -O-Meter, Niehaus’  rates .
Statement: In countries that allow gay marriage, the rates of heterosexual marriage "have plummeted to where you have counties now in northern Europe where 80 percent of the first-born children are born out of wedlock.
Speaker: sam brownback
About the speaker: Sam Brownback is a U.S. senator from Kansas, elected to that job in 1996. He previously served one term in the U.S. House and also was the state agriculture commissioner. He graduated from Kansas State University and earned a law degree from the University of Kansas. He was born in Garnett, Kan., in 1956. He and his wife, Mary, have five children. He withdrew from the presidential race on Oct. 19, 2007.
Date: September 5, 2007
Location: national
Topics: families;lgbtq
Context: Durham, N.H
Fact-check justification: Generally speaking, gay partners in these countries have the legal and financial protections of marriage, but they are not allowed to marry in church or adopt children. The county-level statistics Brownback cites about first-born births are correct, Badgett said, but that trend also started years before the legalization of same-sex unions. Conservative author Stanley Kurtz is a prominent advocate of the argument that gay marriage hurts heterosexual marriage. Kurtz responded to Badgett's study by arguing that marriage rates in Scandinavia and other European countries are still declining, and that the legalization of same-sex partnerships "reinforces and intensifies parental cohabitation." But even Kurtz acknowledges that the decline began before the legalization of same-sex unions.
Statement: With Proposition 1, the number of abortion seekers from other states will soar even higher, costing taxpayers millions more.
Speaker: california together, no on proposition 1
About the speaker: California Together is organization created to oppose this year's Proposition 1 and providing the public with what it describes as "evidence and explanation" about "the problems surrounding" this ballot initiative. 
Date: August 16, 2022
Location: california
Topics: abortion;health check
Context: comments on its website
Fact-check justification: California Together warns voters: "With Proposition 1, the number of abortion seekers from other states will soar even higher, costing taxpayers millions more." Proposition 1 would protect an individual’s "fundamental right to choose to have an abortion." It could lead to more people going to California for abortion services, but that’s already happening, even before voters decide on the measure. Also, Proposition 1 doesn’t allocate any new spending. So, the $20 million state fund to cover travel expenses for abortion seekers would exist regardless of whether it is adopted. Bottom line: a nonpartisan analyst found there will be no direct fiscal impact to the state and out-of-state residents don’t qualify for state-subsidized health programs. It’s speculative that Proposition 1 would expand abortion rights beyond what’s currently allowed or that the state would allocate more money for out-of-state residents. Because the statement contains some  but ignores critical facts to give a different impression, we rate the statement .
Statement: Says Mitt Romney "has a corporation in Bermuda (but) failed to disclose that on seven different financial disclosures.
Speaker: robert gibbs
About the speaker: Robert Gibbs served as White House press secretary for President Barack Obama. He now is a Democratic consultant.
Date: July 8, 2012
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;corrections and updates;taxes
Context: an interview on CNN's "State of the Union"
Fact-check justification: Obama campaign adviser Robert Gibbs said Romney owns a Bermuda-based corporation and that he failed to disclose his ownership seven times. The documentary  indicates Gibbs is right that Romney owned it when he filed his estimated tax return in December and that he did not disclose it earlier. The Romney campaign has not said the statements are . We rate Gibbs  . UPDATE -- We may have had the lyrics to Kokomo in our heads ("Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama...") because twice in this article we referred to the Bahamas when we meant Bermuda. We've corrected the mistakes, although we still can't get the song our of our head.
Statement: In 2012, "Wall Street" gave Scott Brown "more campaign contributions than any other candidate -- $5.3 million.
Speaker: jeanne shaheen
About the speaker: Jeanne Shaheen is a Senator from New Hampshire.
Date: September 15, 2014
Location: new hampshire
Topics: campaign finance;financial regulation;message machine 2014
Context: a radio ad
Fact-check justification: Shaheen’s ad said that in 2012, "Wall Street" gave Scott Brown "more campaign contributions than any other candidate -- $5.3 million." If you put together six categories that might reasonably be considered "Wall Street," Brown received about $4.2 million in all, and he finished first among Senate candidates in four of those six categories. However, the total amount is short of the $5.3 million claimed in the ad. The statement is generally accurate but needs clarification or additional information, so we rate it .
Statement: During the three times the top marginal tax rates were lowered in the 20th century, "revenues actually went up while the economy improved in America.
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: January 16, 2019
Location: wisconsin
Topics: economy;taxes
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Walker claimed that during the three times the top marginal tax rates were lowered in the 20th century, "revenues actually went up while the economy improved in America." But that’s a largely meaningless statement, since raw revenues have always increased over time due to inflation — regardless of the current tax policy. Economists say the claimed connection between marginal tax rates and revenue doesn’t acknowledge the many other market factors at play. And the cherry-picked data Walker cites ignores the revenue increases that came after marginal tax rates rose. We rate Walker’s  .
Statement: Says "employers are still allowed to pay people with disabilities below the minimum wage.
Speaker: tom harkin
About the speaker: Tom Harkin is a U.S. Senator from Iowa.
Date: July 26, 2016
Location: national
Topics: civil rights;disability;income;jobs;regulation;workers
Context: a speech at the Democratic National Convention
Fact-check justification: Harkin said, "Employers are still allowed to pay people with disabilities below the minimum wage." He’s right that employers have been able to pay a subminimum wage to disabled workers since the 1930s. There’s one significant exception today, created by Obama’s executive order: Federal contractors must pay all workers a $10.15 minimum wage. The statement is accurate but needs clarification, so we rate it .   https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/cf683287-e597-4fcc-9926-102ddec70249
Statement: Biden changes his mind and now wants to resume building Trump's wall.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 3, 2022
Topics: immigration;facebook fact-checks
Context: an article
Fact-check justification: The headline on a Facebook post says, "Biden changes his mind and now wants to resume building Trump’s wall." The headline gives the  impression that construction will commence on hundreds of miles of border wall promised by the Trump administration. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is planning repair work on the existing border wall, including closing gaps, cleaning up work sites and stabilizing eroding areas. But this work is not indicative of Biden’s effort to "resume building Trump’s wall." We rate this  .
Statement: Cap and trade legislation "was originally a Republican idea.
Speaker: debbie wasserman schultz
About the speaker: Debbie Wasserman Schultz became the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee in 2011 and resigned in July 2016. The Florida Democrat was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2004 after serving in the state senate. She represents Congressional District 23 in Broward and Miami-Dade counties.
Date: May 13, 2014
Location: florida
Topics: environment;climate change
Context: a question and answer after a speech
Fact-check justification: Wasserman Schultz said that cap and trade legislation "was originally a Republican idea." Experts who have followed the history of the environmental policy focus on the fact that emissions trading to address acid rain became part of the Clean Air Act of 1990 under Bush. The legislation ultimately passed with bipartisan support under a Republican president. More recently, another prominent Republican -- McCain -- co-sponsored cap and trade legislation. Democrats did support cap and trade legislations at different points along the way. But we found a strong tradition of support from Republican presidents for cap and trade, which uses markets to try to reduce pollution. We rate this  .