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Statement: Says she voted to stop a new "age tax" under which "Arizonans age 50 & over could be charged 5 times more for their health care.
Speaker: kyrsten sinema
About the speaker: Kyrsten Sinema is a senator from Arizona. She was formerly a state representative.
Date: September 8, 2018
Location: arizona
Topics: health care
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Sinema said she voted to stop a new "age tax," under which "Arizonans age 50 & over could be charged 5 times more for their health care." Sinema voted against the Republican effort to repeal Obamacare, which would have allowed companies to charge individuals 50 and over up to five times more than what they charged younger adults. Sinema’s ad glosses over a few important points. The bill’s provision only applied to people who bought insurance through the individual and small-group markets. It wouldn’t have applied to people on Medicare (and are 65 and older) or with coverage through larger employers. The current health care law allows insurers to charge this age group three times as much for insurance as younger adults. Although Sinema's tweet references a "new" age tax, it may be unclear to some that the charges wouldn’t be fives time more than the current situation. Sinema’s statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details. We rate it .
Statement: ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson "will have to divest his holdings, that's a requirement" to serve as Secretary of State.
Speaker: chris collins
About the speaker: Chris Collins is the Republican congressman representing New York's 27th Congressional District.
Date: December 13, 2016
Location: new york
Topics: ethics;government regulation
Context: an interview with Buffalo news station WGRZ
Fact-check justification: Collins said Trump’s pick for secretary of state "will have to divest his holdings, that’s a requirement." Legal experts we spoke to said the law forbids a financial conflict of interest for cabinet members. If Tillerson wanted to hold onto his stock in ExxonMobil, he would have to recuse himself of any state business related to the company. Or he could place his holdings in a blind trust during his tenure as secretary of state. Tillerson could also seek a waiver from the president-elect.  We rate this  as .
Statement: West has raised $2 million from those that would leave our beaches in ruins, end Social Security and Medicare, and give corporations free reign.
Speaker: ron klein
About the speaker: Ron Klein is a former Democratic Congressman from South Florida, representing District 22 in South Florida from 2007-2011. He was defeated in a re-election campaign on Nov. 2, 2011.
Date: June 28, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: campaign finance;corporations;medicare;oil spill;social security
Context: a fundraising e-mail
Fact-check justification: The donors the Klein campaign cited added up to about $25,000 -- only a sliver of his $2 million campaign. The West campaign could cherrypick too and likely find negative headlines about some of Klein's donors -- including BP in previous election cycles. But we don't think that we can draw conclusions about all of Klein's donors based on his BP donations. Similarily, there is no way Klein would know the viewpoints of all of West's donors unless he researched all of their views on these topics -- an impossible endeavor. We rate this  .
Statement: For the last decade, Floridians' salaries have shrunk substantially" when adjusted for inflation.
Speaker: dan gelber
About the speaker: Dan Gelber is a former Florida state Senator representing Miami Beach. He campaigned to be Florida Attorney General and was defeated on Nov. 2, 2010.
Date: September 13, 2013
Location: florida
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: an op-ed
Fact-check justification: Gelber wrote that Floridians’ "salaries have shrunk substantially while the cost of living has increased."  In an un-artful way, Gelber is claiming that a Floridian’s salary doesn’t go as far today as it did a decade ago. While one calculation bucks Gelber's , the  generally backs him up. Reports show that salaries have shrunk when adjusted for inflation. The one calculation that does not is also the least persuasive. Still, economists we spoke with noted several caveats and cautioned against reaching broad conclusion. As such, we rate the  .
Statement: Florida Highway Patrol has a semi-truck … The FHP uses a fleet of three such 'hidden in plain sight' trucks to snitch on bad drivers.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 17, 2022
Location: florida
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: FHP told PolitiFact that at least one of these semitrucks could be used to patrol highways for traffic violations, like speeding or tailgating, though the vehicles are not regularly used in such capacities.   "The Florida Highway Patrol does have a marked semitruck that has the capability of conducting a traffic stop," said Peter Bergstresser, a spokesperson for FHP. However, contrary to the post's suggestion, the trucks are not "hidden in plain sight." They are black and beige, like other patrol vehicles in Florida, and prominently bear the agency’s seal and name.   A post shared by FLHSMV (@flhsmv)
Statement: Stunning report: nearly 15 million mail-in ballots were not counted in the 2020 election.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: September 4, 2021
Location: national
Topics: nevada;elections;facebook fact-checks;california;arizona
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: An Instagram post said, "Stunning report: Nearly 15 million mail-in ballots were not counted in the 2020 election." The post leaves the impression that these ballots  should have been tabulated but were not. That’s a  interpretation of federal data about mailed ballots that ended up in the "unknown" category, which includes ballots that were mailed to people but not sent back because they chose not to vote.  The U.S. Election Assistance Commission said that of about 90.7 million mail ballots sent out for the November 2020 election, about 15 million were ultimately placed in an "unknown" category.  Millions of these ballots were in states that issued ballots automatically to all registered voters because of the pandemic. There’s no  that these ballots were improperly excluded from tabulation. This  has an element of , but leaves out important context that could give a different impression. We rate this  .  PolitiFact senior correspondent Louis Jacobson contributed to this fact-check.
Statement: Says of the coronavirus threat, "there was not a single suggestion by anyone, a doctor, a scientist, a political figure, that we needed to cancel Mardi Gras.
Speaker: john bel edwards
About the speaker: John Bel Edwards is governor of Louisiana.
Date: April 5, 2020
Topics: public health;public safety;coronavirus
Context: a CNN interview
Fact-check justification: New Orleans Mardi Gras celebrations began early January and ended Feb. 25. PolitiFact reviewed public comments from Trump, federal and state health officials on and before Feb. 25 and did not find suggestions that large public events be cancelled. At that time, there was no report of community spread of the virus. Edwards’ statement is accurate. We rate it .
Statement: Twitter employee named Jackson Mulholland resigned in a tweet after Elon Musk joined the company's board.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 4, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post shared a screenshot of a tweet in which a Twitter employee resigned over the news that Elon Musk became the company’s largest shareholder. The tweet was widely shared on social media but comes from a satirical account. The man named is not a current or former employee of the company, a Twitter spokesperson said. We rate this  .
Statement: Since the Democrats' stimulus went into effect last year, Ohio has lost about 150,000 Jobs.
Speaker: rob portman
About the speaker: Rob Portman was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2010. He is a former Republican congressman who also was a U.S. trade representative and director of the Office of Management and Budget under President George H.W. Bush.
Date: June 30, 2010
Location: ohio
Topics: economy;jobs;stimulus
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: We found some problems with Portman’s  and the campaign’s efforts to back it up: Portman’s campaign later offered The Plain Dealer conflicting citations for the figures in both statements, and for the time-frame examined, making it difficult to pin down how and when they computed the figure. In the end, the number of jobs lost cited in Portman’s June 30 statement is inflated and not close enough to be considered a difference that can be attributed to rounding. Furthermore, while the campaign is correct that jobs have been lost since the stimulus was passed, its release ignores important context: Ohio has started to see net job gains in recent months, albeit small, contradicting a suggestion that the stimulus bill is causing job losses. So, for these reasons, we rate Portman's  . Comment on this item .
Statement: Says Rick Perry of Texas was "the governor who relied most on stimulus funds to close his state's budget deficit in 2010.
Speaker: martin o'malley
About the speaker: Martin O'Malley is the former governor of Maryland who is running for the Democratic nomination for president in 2016. He has also served as the mayor of Baltimore.
Date: June 15, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: state budget;stimulus
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: So, what about our rating? Based on available information, O’Malley’s  is accurate, though the survey backing up his  did not include results from 30 percent of the states. It’s possible that some of them relied on stimulus dollars to close their 2010 budget gaps to the same degree that Texas did — or greater. O’Malley’s statement also ignores the mathematical reality that Texas received a greater-than-most share of stimulus dollars to plug a budget shortfall that was smaller than most. We rate the statement .
Statement: I did not vote to spend money to fight that (Amendment 6 redistricting) lawsuit.
Speaker: alan hays
About the speaker: Sen. Alan Hays (R-Umatilla) represents parts of Lake, Marion, Seminole, Sumter, and Volusia counties
Date: July 13, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: redistricting
Context: a public hearing about redistricting
Fact-check justification: And even more generally, there wasn't a vote on budgeting redistricting legal fees in the Senate, both Craig Meyer, chief of staff for Republican Senate President Mike Haridopolos, and Sen. Nan Rich, the Senate's Democratic leader, told us. Instead, the redistricting dollars go into an overall category that the Senate leadership can spend how it sees fit. So, Hays was correct to say "I did not vote to spend money to fight that lawsuit." There was no vote for line-item money for the lawsuit initially filed by the members of Congress and now also being fought by the state House -- but not the state Senate. We rate this  .
Statement: The state covered a smaller percentage of the cost of K-12 education in 2013 than it did
in 2002.
Speaker: claire suggs
About the speaker: education analyst
Date: January 9, 2015
Location: georgia
Topics: children;education
Context: at Media Symposium
Fact-check justification: To her larger point, the federal and local governments also have been paying larger shares through these years. But several factors were at play: the recession, the austerity cuts, the stimulus money. The austerity cut is smaller this year than in several years. That’s needed context. We rate the statement .
Statement: Thanks to actions by the Milwaukee County Board on the 2013 budget, the amount of county taxes on the average home in the city of Milwaukee "would be a $19 decrease.
Speaker: marina dimitrijevic
About the speaker: Marina Dimitrijevic is the director of the Wisconsin Working Families Party. She's also a Milwaukee County supervisor and previously served as chairwoman of the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors. Voters elected her to a Milwaukee County supervisor's post in 2004; in 2012, her fellow supervisors elected her to lead the board. She was an unsuccessful candidate in the Aug. 12, 2014 Democratic primary for the 19th District seat in the state Assembly.
Date: November 14, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: county budget;county government;taxes
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: But by highlighting it as a piece of good news, she is leaving out critical information that would give a different impression. Namely, tax bills aren’t down because spending was cut by the County Board. The bills are down in the City of Milwaukee because property values have fallen. Had there been no change in city property values, that bill would be $84 higher -- just to pay for the County Board’s decisions. We rate the  .
Statement: Tyler Perry's plan to turn a majority of the former Fort McPherson into a film and television studio is expected "to add over 8,000 new jobs to Atlanta.
Speaker: city of atlanta
About the speaker: City of Atlanta
Date: August 8, 2014
Location: georgia
Topics: jobs;labor;military;wealth
Context: press release
Fact-check justification: At best only about 800 of those are expected to be permanent jobs. Most of them are in contract work. That’s important and missing context that doesn’t diminish the project but shortchanges the reader. The overall statement from the city is partially accurate, but . We rate the statement .
Statement: In 2017, the first piece of legislation that Republicans passed "made it easier for the mentally ill to purchase guns.
Speaker: eric swalwell
About the speaker: Eric Swalwell is a representative of California’s 15th Congressional District. Swalwell has represented the district since 2013. He received his bachelor’s degree in government and politics from the University of Maryland, College Park and a J.D. from the University of Maryland School of Law. In 2019, he ran for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out in July.
Date: April 14, 2019
Location: national
Topics: guns
Context: a campaign rally
Fact-check justification: Swalwell said that after Republicans won the majority in both chambers of Congress, the first law they passed made it easier for the mentally ill to purchase guns. He was correct that H.J. Res. 40 eliminated barriers for certain disabled individuals to buy guns, but it wasn’t the first law passed in 2017. We rate the  .
Statement: No, I did not (have illegal immigrants working at his mansion).
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: November 28, 2007
Location: national
Topics: immigration
Context: St. Petersburg, Fla
Fact-check justification: Even nice guy Mike Huckabee has joined Giuliani, piling on after Romney criticized him over his plans to offer tuition breaks for children of illegal immigrants while serving as governor in Arkansas. Huckabee, appearing on Fox News Channel, said, "I guess Mitt Romney would rather keep people out of college so they can keep working on his lawn." Romney's "I did not" statement racks up a  on the -O-Meter. We cut him a little slack for doing what most Americans would do and rely on the legal status of the company hired to do the job. But he could have scored even better if he had at least spoken about his own situation, rather than speaking in general terms about the pitfalls of finding good legal help.
Statement: This election actually was not unusually close.
Speaker: mitch mcconnell
About the speaker: Mitch McConnell is a U.S. Senator from Kentucky and the Republican minority leader in the U.S. Senate.
Date: January 6, 2021
Topics: elections
Context: a Senate floor speech
Fact-check justification: McConnell said, "This election actually was not unusually close." By most metrics — including electoral votes, the popular vote margin, the percentage of the vote he won, and the margins in the seven closest states — Biden did put up impressive numbers compared with recent presidential winners. The sole notable sign of a close race was that, due to the vagaries of the electoral college, only about 66,000 more votes for Trump — if they were perfectly allocated among the right states — would have flipped the election from Biden to Trump. But that dynamic has been the case in other recent presidential elections. We rate the statement .
Statement: Democrats say Chafee wants to tax equipment that enables amputee veterans to drive
Speaker: democratic governors association
About the speaker: The Democratic Governors Association is an independent organization that supports Democratic governors and candidates.
Date: July 23, 2010
Location: rhode island
Topics: taxes
Context: Democratic Governors Association website
Fact-check justification: UPDATE: After this item was published, we learned that the driving equipment for amputee veterans would be paid for by the federal government for those injured in the line of duty. In such instances, the veterans are not taxed. However, because the Chafee campaign acknowledges that he would tax all items on a list of exemptions, it does not change the assertion that the former senator would tax the driving equipment. Therefore, the ruling stands.
Statement: The church Barack Obama belongs to only admits black people.
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: January 6, 2008
Location: national
Topics: religion
Fact-check justification: Dwight Hopkins, a professor of divinity at the University of Chicago who attends Trinity and is black, said he also regularly sees a few white people at Trinity. Many churches are ethnically homogenous, but that doesn't mean they require members to be a certain race. We find the e-mail's statement that Trinity United Church of Christ only accepts African-Americans for membership to be . UPDATE: Barack Obama resigned from Trinity United Church of Christ on May 31, 2008, after church pastor Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. made controversial remarks about U.S. foreign policy and other matters. Obama said he intends to join another church after the election.
Statement: The Earth is 6,000 years old, that's a fact.
Speaker: jesse kremer
About the speaker: Wisconsin state Rep. Jesse Kremer, a Republican from Kewaskum, northwest of Milwaukee, was elected to the state Assembly in 2014.
Date: May 11, 2017
Location: wisconsin
Topics: environment;education;religion;science
Context: a legislative hearing
Fact-check justification: "Determining that age has come from measurements that are testable and repeatable, following the scientific method." Our rating Kremer says: "The Earth is 6,000 years old, that’s a fact." Kremer states a biblical belief, but goes too far in describing it as a fact. It’s a matter of settled science that the Earth is much older, with the current consensus being that it is about 4.5 billion years of age. We rate the statement .
Statement: Taxpayers pay for roughly 45 percent of all births in Wisconsin! And 60 percent of the births in Milwaukee!!!
Speaker: michelle litjens
About the speaker: Wisconsin state Rep. Michelle Litjens, R-Oshkosh, was elected to the state Assembly in 2010.
Date: June 2, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Topics: health care;medicaid
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: But let’s return to what brought us here. GOP state Rep. Michelle Litjens claimed that taxpayers paid for roughly 45 percent of all births in Wisconsin, including 60 percent of the births in Milwaukee. Her staff said she was referring to state figures for 2008, which we confirmed are the most recent available in terms of how many of the births were financed by Medicaid. State statistics confirm both of Litjens’ claims. We rate her statement .
Statement: Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine voted "to let the U.N. take OUR guns.
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: June 19, 2014
Location: virginia
Topics: voting record;guns
Context: a chain email
Fact-check justification: A chain email says Warner and Kaine were among 46 senators who voted to "let the U.N. take our guns." This is a wild distortion of the senators’ support for a U.N. Arms Trade Treaty that has no enforcement power but encourages nations to adopt common standards to block the flow of arms into nations beset by terrorists or dictators with brutal human rights records. The goal is to raise the international arms trade rules to standards already used by the United States. The treaty explicitly recognizes the sovereign rights of nations to control gun laws within its borders. So the assertion that the U.N. would be empowered to take guns from United States citizens is outlandish. We rate the  .
Statement: Says a Justice Department memo "directs that you must openly embrace gay marriage and homosexuality.
Speaker: louie gohmert
About the speaker: Louie Gohmert, a U.S. House member since 2005, is a former chief justice of the Texas 12th Court of Appeals and Smith County state district judge. He lives in Tyler.
Date: July 15, 2013
Location: texas
Topics: families;lgbtq
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Gohmert said a Justice Department memo "directs that you must openly embrace gay marriage and homosexuality." The department promotes diversity. But there doesn't appear to be a department memo or mandate that employees openly support gay marriage or homosexuality. That said, a subset of workers received a brochure from an agency-sanctioned employee group encouraging managers to respect and support gay workers. We rate this , which has an element of , as .
Statement: We've seen property taxes go down for the first time in 12 years on a median valued home.
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: May 31, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: taxes
Context: a recall debate
Fact-check justification: The Fiscal Bureau is still checking the administration’s math and fine-tuning the numbers, but so far the data clearly supports a decrease, said Fred Ammerman, the Fiscal Bureau’s property tax program supervisor. So, the fact the numbers are not final adds a note of caution to the mix. But the figure Walker cited is a commonly used benchmark that last dropped from 1999 to 2000. And he made it clear he was talking about just residential property. We rate Walker’s  .