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Statement: Says the initial Portland plastic bag ban represented "only a modest share of total single-use checkout bag use.
Speaker: sam adams
About the speaker: Sam Adams is the mayor of Portland. Before that he was a city commissioner and , for 11 years, was chief of staff to then-Mayor Vera Katz.
Date: November 9, 2012
Location: oregon
Topics: city government
Context: a proposed ordinance
Fact-check justification: He said it was probably safe to say that the initial ordinance targeted "a third of the volume --- but again, I caution the numbers.") We understand that the mayor’s office may not have intended to mean plastic bag usage, but it read that way to us -- and likely many others. Words matter. The statement contains an element of  -- a smaller number of outlets was affected initially -- but the mayor’s office has no facts to back up its assertion that the first ban represented a modest share of bag use.    We rate this  .
Statement: According to independent analysis, unfair trade deals have resulted in the loss of over 64,000 jobs in Wisconsin ... But Ron Johnson favors those deals.
Speaker: russ feingold
About the speaker: Russ Feingold served as a Democratic U.S. Senator representing Wisconsin from 1992 until 2010, when he was defeated for re-election. An attorney, he previously served 10 years in the Wisconsin Legislature. Following his Senate defeat, he founded Progressives United, which says it mission is to "stand up to the exploding corporate influence in our political system by organizing and amplifying the voices of those who believe that corporations have too much power." Feingold is running against U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, the man who defeated him, in the 2016 election.
Date: September 30, 2010
Location: wisconsin
Topics: jobs;message machine 2010;trade
Context: campaign TV and radio ads
Fact-check justification: Russ Feingold uses Ron Johnson’s own words to capture his rival’s support for several trade deals that Feingold asserts cost the state some 64,000 jobs. The source of the analysis is not independent, as Feingold claims, but it uses numbers both sides agree are the best available -- and ones that may vastly understate the number of jobs lost. Nevertheless, those numbers leave out the other side of the equation -- jobs created through the deals. As for defining the deals as "unfair," it is a characterization by Feingold that is disputed by Johnson. We rate Feingold’s  .
Statement: The government -- not the armed forces -- is stockpiling hundreds of millions of rounds of ammunition for domestic use.
Speaker: james buchal
About the speaker: James Buchal, a Portland attorney, says he is running for Congress "because the federal government is out of control and threatening our freedom and prosperity." Buchal has an A.B. degree in physics from Harvard College, a J.D. from Yale Law School and an M.B.A. from Yale School of Management. He ran unsuccessfully for Oregon attorney general in 2012.
Date: June 16, 2014
Location: oregon
Topics: homeland security;guns
Context: a campaign website statement
Fact-check justification: Estimated ammunition inventories for both agencies also continue to fall. With inventories and purchases going down, and usage roughly equaling purchases, the government is clearly not "stockpiling" ammunition. And while Buchal is correct in his assertion that the government has "hundreds of millions" of rounds on hand, even he later acknowledged that "in all likelihood," those rounds are being used for training purposes. We rate the  . Return to OregonLive.com/politics to comment on this article.
Statement: Today, the gap between African American and white homeownership is larger than it was in the late 1960s.
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: June 10, 2020
Topics: housing;race and ethnicity;wealth
Context: a USA Today op-ed
Fact-check justification: The recession of 2008-10 also "wiped out" 30 years of homeownership gains for African Americans, Bailey said. " shows that a large number of borrowers of color were targeted and steered into toxic mortgages, even when they qualified for safer and more responsible loans with cheaper costs." Biden said, "Today, the gap between African American and white homeownership is larger than it was in the late 1960s." This  is supported by research from the Urban Institute and data from the Census Bureau. We rate Biden’s statement .
Statement: Our families have the highest property taxes in the country. We must change this.
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: March 15, 2017
Location: illinois
Topics: taxes
Context: In a tweet
Fact-check justification: Rauner tweeted, "Our families have the highest property taxes in the country."  Using information from CoreLogic, WalletHub and the Tax Foundation, we found Illinois was ranked first, second, and third in highest property taxes, respectively. Reaching out to each of these sources, it appears that different methodologies and possible variations in original data may have accounted for the slight difference in final property tax rates. However, whichever metric you use, Illinois has one of the highest property tax rankings in the nation. Therefore, we rate this  . ' '
Statement: Navy SEALs found over 1,000 trafficked children and dead bodies on the Evergreen ship that blocked the Suez Canal.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: April 3, 2021
Topics: children;trade;facebook fact-checks
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: Capt. Bill Urban, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command, told PolitiFact there is "no " to the rumor. The ship was not raided by the SEALs and there’s no  any children or bodies were found on board. Ever Given was reported to be carrying an array of consumer goods, including Ikea furniture. The blog also contained unfounded claims about the Clintons and Wayfair , which we have debunked before. We rate this post !
Statement: The highest paid employee of the State of Rhode Island is a basketball coach.
Speaker: deadspin
About the speaker: Deadspin is an eight-year-old website that brings a humorous and sarcastic attitude to sports news. It is owned by Gawker Media.
Date: August 13, 2013
Location: rhode island
Topics: education;sports;state budget
Context: a website
Fact-check justification: The sports website Deadspin says the University of Rhode Island men’s basketball coach is the highest paid state employee. It’s a slam dunk. The judges rate the   .
Statement: Wisconsin elementary school students buck national trends in 'National Report Card' release.
Speaker: jill underly
About the speaker: Jill Underly is an American educator and school system administrator. In April 2021, she was elected to become the next Superintendent of Public Instruction of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The DPI race was non-partisan, but Underly's candidacy was largely backed by Democrats. 
Date: October 24, 2022
Location: wisconsin
Topics: children;education
Context: News release
Fact-check justification: After the test scores were released, Underly claimed: "Wisconsin elementary school students buck national trends in ‘National Report Card’ release." But that  is highly , as the scores here fell in each category, as they did in most other states. That is, they followed the trend. If there was any bucking, it was in that the scores did not fall as much as in some of the other states. From a statistical perspective, Underly and her team argue that among fourth graders, the drops were not deemed "statistically significant."  But in making the , Underly ignores a key element entirely — the gap between Black and white students. By that measure, Wisconsin fared worse than any other state. We rate this  .
Statement: Says Loretta Lynch was part of "a stunning collection of calls to violence and murder from the intolerant, unhinged leftists in the Democrat party.
Speaker:  infowars
About the speaker: Infowars is a conspiracy oriented website run by Alex Jones.
Date: June 14, 2017
Location: national
Topics: civil rights;pundits
Context: a website article
Fact-check justification: Infowars said Lynch advocated "violence and murder." She did not. She said that people who have marched for political change have bled and been killed. That would be the opposite of what Infowars said. We rate this  .
Statement: Mr. Trump is self-financing his campaign, so we don't have any donors.
Speaker: corey lewandowski
About the speaker: Corey Lewandowski is a conservative political adviser who worked for Americans for Prosperity in New Hampshire before joining Trump's campaign.
Date: February 15, 2016
Location: virginia
Topics: campaign finance
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: "Mr. Trump is self-financing his campaign, so we don’t have any donors," Lewandowski, Trump’s campaign manager, told a Virginia radio audience. Seconds later, he virtually repeated the . Trump is certainly his own greatest benefactor, having endowed his campaign with $12.8 million of the $19.4 million it raised through the end of last year - or 66 percent of its funds. Trump lists almost all of his investments in his campaign as a loan, not a donation, so he may be expecting to get some of his money back. In any case, Lewandowski is flat-out  by insisting the campaign has no donors other than Trump. He ignores thousands of supporters who contributed $6.6 million through the end of last year, or 34 percent of the campaign’s resources. So we rate the  .
Statement: Says Dick Cheney "de-Ba'athisized the Iraqi government and created ISIS.
Speaker: chris matthews
About the speaker: Chris Matthews is the host of the MSNBC show Hardball. Previously, Matthews served on the staffs of congressional Democrats and worked as a speechwriter for President Jimmy Carter. He also worked as chief of staff to former House Speaker Tip O'Neil.
Date: September 10, 2014
Topics: iraq;foreign policy;terrorism;punditfact
Context: a broadcast on MSNBC
Fact-check justification: Matthews said Cheney de-Ba’athisized the Iraqi government and created ISIS. We find that Cheney played a key role in de-Ba’athification and in creating the circumstances that led to the formation of ISIS. Former Ba’athists provide important military ISIS leadership, as they did in the first few years after the invasion when they joined forces with the group that preceded ISIS, al-Qaida in Iraq. However, many of those same Ba’athists later turned against al-Qaida in Iraq. They shifted back into the orbit of what became ISIS due to the repressive policies under Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki. The causal link is too distant to say Cheney created ISIS. His decisions contributed to the group’s formation, but not more than that. We rate the  .
Statement: Says Donald Trump was "forced to file for bankruptcy not once, not twice, four times.
Speaker: carly fiorina
About the speaker: Carly Fiorina is running for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. She is the former chairman and chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard Company (HP). She was defeated in her attempt as the Republican nominee to unseat Sen. Barbara Boxer in 2010.
Date: September 16, 2015
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography
Context: the CNN debate
Fact-check justification: Fiorina said Trump was "forced to file for bankruptcy not once, not twice, four times." While it is accurate that Trump filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy four times, Fiorina’s statement doesn’t tell the whole story. In context, Fiorina’s phrasing suggests Trump was personally responsible for the failures of these businesses, but in reality, much was out of Trump’s control -- such as a struggling casino industry. But Trump is certainly not blameless. We rate Fiorina’s statement .
Statement: Economic inequality in Multnomah County has a face -- and a name. It has 90,000 faces and names -- the number of county residents who are still unemployed, or underemployed, in the wake of the 2008 Wall Street crash.
Speaker: jim francesconi
About the speaker: Jim Francesconi is a member of the Oregon State Board of Higher Education.
Date: April 15, 2014
Location: oregon
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: a campaign website statement
Fact-check justification: : Jim Francesconi, now running for Multnomah County chair, says on his campaign website that 90,000 people in the county are either unemployed or underemployed in the wake of the 2008 Wall Street crash. His campaign, when asked, pointed to several sources to justify the number. One source, which the campaign could have verified, gave an  figure for the number of unemployed workers in the county. Another, contrary to what the campaign asserted, made no mention of underemployed workers. A third cited a figure for underemployment, but the person who compiled the figure acknowledged it was an "estimate on an estimate." Taking that estimate and adding it to the number of unemployed in the county gives us a figure of 68,600 -- a lot, obviously, but far short of the 90,000 listed by Francesconi. We rate the  .
Statement: Magic Johnson tested positive for HIV "because Fauci's gain of function study used a contaminated Hepatitis B vaccine.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: January 12, 2023
Location: national
Topics: sports;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: We reached out to Mikovits for  of her , but did not receive a response in time for publication. We did not find any  or news reports showing that NBA players had participated in a hepatitis B vaccine program like the one Mikovits described. But we’ve seen many claims about vaccines containing HIV or causing AIDS over the last three years, all of them baseless .   This  baseless too. We rate it  !
Statement: Says recent changes to Austin city policy give homeless people more rights than property owners and allow for "homeless camps on private property, business frontage, and even public sidewalks.
Speaker: travis county republican party
About the speaker: The Travis County Republican Party operates in the Austin, Texas area.
Date: July 3, 2019
Location: texas
Topics: homeless
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: A press release from the Travis County Republican Party said that Austin’s new ordinances regulating public camping allow for "homeless camps on private property, business frontage, and even public sidewalks" and that they give more rights to people experiencing homelessness than to property owners. This is an  characterization of Austin’s new policies, which only regulate public property. It’s  that individuals are allowed to camp or sleep nearby private property or businesses (as long as they don’t pose a hazard), but they are only allowed to do so on public property. At the time this piece was published, the party had not corrected the release on its website. We rate this  .  – The statement is not accurate.
Statement: Fidel (Castro) has made his preferences known in the campaign and had some very unkind things to say about me.
Speaker: john mccain
About the speaker: John McCain was a U.S. senator from Arizona, a post he held from 1987 to his death in 2018. He previously served two terms in the U.S. House. He was the Republican nominee for president in 2008. McCain was a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and spent his career in the military, as his father did. He was a combat pilot in Vietnam who was shot down and spent 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war. He was born in 1936 in Panama. 
Date: October 29, 2008
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: Our issue is whether Castro "made his preferences known in the campaign." Castro stops short of endorsing one candidate or the other. But we think the tone of Castro’s statements leaves little doubt he prefers Obama. For whatever that’s worth. We rule McCain’s statement .
Statement: The Democratic clean energy plan is pro-China, because "90% of the solar panels, 80% of the wind machines, 90% of the rare earth minerals … are in Asia or in China.
Speaker: cathy mcmorris rodgers
About the speaker: Cathy McMorris Rodgers is a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from a district in Washington state. As chair of the House Republican Conference, she is a member of her party's leadership.
Date: March 18, 2021
Location: national
Topics: china;climate change;energy
Context: a House hearing
Fact-check justification: Rodgers said that the Democratic clean energy plan is pro-China, because "90% of the solar panels, 80% of the wind machines, 90% of the rare earth minerals … are in Asia or in China." China produces over 90% of silicon wafers, a key building block in solar panels. China produces 80% of the rare earth minerals used in the U.S. for magnets used in electrical vehicles and wind turbines, though its role in wind power overall is far less dominant. But Rodgers' conclusion that the Democrats’ legislation amounts to a pro-China agenda omits key context about the overall direction of U.S. government policy. For some time and continuing today, the U.S. has been working to diversify its supply base and shrink its reliance on Chinese materials. We rate this  .
Statement: Sen. George LeMieux voted to let oil companies off the hook and overturn pollution rules.
Speaker: florida conservation alliance
About the speaker: The Florida Conservation Alliance is a Florida-based affiliate of the League of Conservation Voters, a national environmental advocacy group.
Date: June 19, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: environment;climate change;energy;message machine 2010;oil spill
Context: a television commercial
Fact-check justification: And almost all of the imagery highlights the spill. To us, the ad's strong implication is that the vote had something to do with law or policy relating directly to the spill. In our earlier ruling, we gave the Americans United for Change ad a , arguing that it overplayed its hand on the oil spill to such a degree that it risked  viewers about the nature of the vote being criticized. While the ad by the Florida Conservation Alliance uses somewhat different language, the message strikes us as essentially the same. We rate this ad  as well.
Statement: Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm met "with the radical green energy group behind the gas stove ban," which "has ties to the" Chinese Communist Party.
Speaker: nicholas langworthy
About the speaker: Nicholas A. Langworthy is the New York State Republican Committee Chairman. Previously, he was chairman of the Erie County Republican Committee.
Date: February 10, 2023
Location: new york
Topics: environment;china;energy
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Langworthy said Granholm met "with the radical green energy group behind the gas stove ban," which "has ties to the" Chinese Communist Party. Granholm did meet with the Rocky Mountain Institute’s CEO in 2021, but the department says that gas stoves weren’t discussed. The institute has raised concerns about the health impacts of using gas stoves, but has discussed a ban only as one of several options for limiting health impacts and did not explicitly advocate for a ban. Biden administration officials have said that they have no plans to ban gas stoves going forward, and it’s doubtful that the government could legally force existing gas stoves to be replaced even if it wanted. The institute is working with the Chinese government to reduce carbon emissions, but experts say that characterizing this as "ties" to the Communist Party lacks important context. We rate the statement .
Statement: I'm for a three-state political solution in Iraq. (Romney) is not.
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: June 8, 2007
Location: national
Topics: iraq
Fact-check justification: "Today, the nation's attention is focused on Iraq," he wrote. "All Americans want U.S. troops to come home as soon as possible. But walking away now or dividing Iraq up into parts and walking away later would present grave risks to the United States and the world. Iran could seize the Shiite south, al Qaeda could dominate the Sunni west, and Kurdish nationalism could destabilize the border with Turkey. A regional conflict could ensue, perhaps even requiring the return of U.S. troops under far worse circumstances."
Statement: For the last decade the climate has been cooling.
Speaker: mary matalin
About the speaker: Mary Matalin is a Republican political consultant and commentator.
Date: October 22, 2009
Location: national
Topics: environment;cap and trade;climate change;pundits
Context: CNN's Situation Room program
Fact-check justification: But they have not cooled either. In fact, some years in the last decade have been hotter than the previous years. At most, they could be described as hitting a plateau. But they haven't cooled as Matalin said. We find her  .
Statement: Obama worked with "Sen. Dick Lugar, a Republican, to help lock down loose nuclear weapons.
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: July 15, 2008
Location: national
Topics: military
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: The Lugar-Obama initiative is modeled after a 1991 bill authored by Lugar and former Democratic Sen. Sam Nunn. The Nunn-Lugar program provided U.S. funding and expertise to the former Soviet Union to dismantle stockpiles of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. We'll note here that the legislation Obama and Lugar sponsored did not deal solely with nuclear weapons, but rather with all weapons of mass destruction, and that a good bit of their legislation focused on conventional weapons. But it does seem like part of the legislation's intent is to "help lock down loose nuclear weapons." For that reason, we find Obama's statement to be .