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Statement: Even with a permanent income tax increase... the budget is more than $1 billion out of balance…
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: September 7, 2017
Location: illinois
Topics: state budget;taxes
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: Gov. Bruce Rauner said Illinois’ current operating budget is "is more than $1 billion out of balance…" The head of the Illinois Teachers Retirement System confirms Rauner’s  that the new pension plan expected to generate $500 million in anticipated savings won’t be enacted during the current fiscal year (or even the next one). The Civic Federation reports that the small surplus in the budget will finance only $3 billion of the $6 billion Rauner plans to borrow. But putting $3 billion toward past-due Medicaid bills would generate $3 billion in federal matching funds -- something Rauner has not discussed. Failure to sell or get the expected price for the Thompson Center are possible scenarios that could further imperil the budget. Some of the assumptions identified as sources of the trouble originated in Rauner’s own budget, a fact that Rauner does not acknowledge and that needs to be considered here. Whether or not the imbalance reaches more than $1 billion is debatable, but Rauner is correct that there remains much work to do. We rate his statement .
Statement: Austin's Stop Abuse for Everyone has seen in its offices "sexual assault survivors that report being attacked by their ridesharing drivers, at a rate of one per month.
Speaker: our city, our safety, our choice
About the speaker: Our City, Our Safety, Our Choice is a PAC urging Austin residents to vote against Proposition 1 on the city's May 7, 2016 ballot.
Date: April 8, 2016
Location: texas
Topics: elections;crime;transportation
Context: a fund-raising letter from female supporters
Fact-check justification: Supporters of the anti-proposition group wrote that Austin’s SAFE has seen in its offices "sexual assault survivors that report being attacked by their ridesharing drivers, at a rate of one per month." According to SAFE’s CEO, that count reflected what forensic nurses heard from victims over the last half of 2015. Separately, an Austin police tally of assault complaints tied to ride-hailed drivers might signal an even greater per-month average for that year. However, we learned, SAFE heard no such reports from sexual assault victims through the first three-plus months of 2016, perhaps a welcome indication that the pattern reported for 2015 hasn't persisted. On balance, we rate this  .  – The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: You see a whole bunch of Korean cars here in the United States, and you don't see any American cars in Korea.
Speaker: barack obama
About the speaker: Barack Obama is the former president of the United States. Obama also served as a U.S. senator from Illinois. He was born in 1961 in Hawaii, where his parents met as students at the University of Hawaii. Obama's father is from Kenya and his mother is from Kansas. He graduated from Columbia University and received his law degree from Harvard Law School. Obama previously served in the Illinois state Senate and was an instructor at the University of Chicago Law School. He and his wife, Michelle, have two daughters, Malia and Sasha.
Date: June 29, 2011
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy;trade;transportation
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification: It's worth noting that Obama's press conference didn't do much to prod Congress to act on the trade agreement. The day after his remarks, Senate Republicans  boycotted  a hearing on the trade agreement, arguing that the trade agreement should not include $1 billion in additional spending to help workers who become unemployed as a result of international trade. Overall, though, we found little dispute that Obama's statement, "You see a whole bunch of Korean cars here in the United States, and you don't see any American cars in Korea," is largely correct, if you account for the complexity of international trade. Korean companies are building cars in America, while American companies build cars in Korea. We rate his statement .
Statement: CNN staged a fire in Edmonton, Canada, and claimed it was filmed in Ukraine.
Speaker: viral image
About the speaker: Graphics, pictures and charts shared on social media give chain emails a run for their money when it comes to spreading too-good-to-be-true claims all over the Internet. A common form is is the "Internet macro," which uses an easily recognized and repurposed image (called a meme) wth superimposed text to make a funny but political argument. Sometimes these images are passed across social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit so widely that the original source is nearly impossible to determine.
Date: March 28, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks;ukraine
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: In fact, Firefighter Aid Ukraine posted a screenshot of CNN’s coverage on Facebook on March 26 because it showed Ukrainian firefighters "near Lviv wearing gear donated by Edmonton firefighters. "  An April 2019 Instagram post from the group shows piles of jackets bound for Ukraine. A 2018 post says: "Sharing more gear outside Lviv." The second photo in this post shows someone holding up a jacket that says "Edmonton" that resembles the one that appears in the CNN broadcast.   We rate claims that this jacket is  that CNN staged the scene, or that Lemon isn’t in Ukraine, .
Statement: Boiling tap water causes fluoride in the water to be "more toxic.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 3, 2023
Topics: public health;water;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Fluoridation expert Howard Pollick, a dentistry professor at the University of California, San Francisco, said water companies sometimes recommend boiling when the water supply is contaminated.   Lilly D’Angelo, president and founder of Global Food and Beverage Technology Associates consulting company, said "there is no downside to boiling water other than it takes a little more energy and time." The  that boiling water makes it toxic is  and  — ! RELATED: ‘H3O2’ not better than plain old H2O when it comes to drinking water RELATED: Jesse Ventura says the Nazis pioneered the use of fluoridated water RELATED: Governments regulate chlorine levels in water to keep it safe for consumers to drink
Statement: Rep. Paul Gosar asks Capitol Police to arrest illegal immigrants attending State of the Union.
Speaker: usa trainnews
About the speaker: USA Trainnews is a right-leaning website.
Date: January 30, 2018
Topics: immigration;congress;fake news;punditfact
Context: a headline
Fact-check justification: Gosar’s chief of staff Tom Van Flein told PolitiFact that Gosar spoke on the phone with the Capitol Police chief, but he didn’t know how the police ultimately responded to Gosar’s request. We sent an email and left messages for spokespersons for the Capitol Police and the Justice Department and did not get a reply. USA Trainnews wrote that "Rep. Paul Gosar asks Capitol Police to arrest illegal immigrants attending State of the Union." Gosar tweeted on Jan. 30 that he contacted police and Attorney General Jeff Sessions asking that they arrest any illegal immigrants attending the State of the Union. We rate this  .
Statement: This year's state budget and my spending proposal for Fiscal Year 2016 represent an infusion of more than $1 billion in additional money for K-12 education.
Speaker: nathan deal
About the speaker: Nathan Deal is running for Georgia governor in 2010.
Date: January 14, 2015
Location: georgia
Topics: education;state budget
Context: State of State
Fact-check justification: Our Ruling: The governor said in his State of the State address that the 2015 and 2016 state budgets represent an infusion of $1 billion in additional money for K-12 education. To districts that, in 2014, collectively were living with $1 billion in austerity cuts and next year will see those reduced to about $460 billion, that probably does seem rejuvenating. Deal’s statement is accurate, but also . A billion-plus additional dollars will be in the budget, but most of the money is going to cover routine growth in student enrollment and to reduce austerity cuts. We rate the governor’s statement .
Statement: Says Austin trains are "full" at rush hour and "packed" for special events.
Speaker: lee leffingwell
About the speaker: Lee Leffingwell, initially elected mayor in 2009, is a former Austin City Council member and retired airline pilot. Leffingwell, a past chair of the city's Environmental Board, grew up in Austin's Bouldin neighborhood, according to the biography posted on the city's web site.
Date: February 5, 2013
Location: texas
Topics: transportation
Fact-check justification: Leffingwell said Capital Metro’s trains are "full" during rush hour and "packed" for events such as SXSW and the F1 race. Capital Metro considers a train full if all 108 seats are occupied, but would a typical commuter agree? After the seats are full, 92 additional passengers can ride standing up (and pay the same fares to do so). If you’re a rider who needs to get to work, there’s a big difference between a train you can board and a train that’s so packed you have to wait for the next one. At the peak of the special events Leffingwell named in 2012, about 48 more people could have ridden the average SXSW Saturday train and another 68 could have boarded an average F1 train. It’s a tighter squeeze at rush hour: With average ridership at 155, the trains tend to have all seats full and so many standing riders that only about 45 more can squish aboard. Seats might all be occupied, but there’s almost always still room on the trains for more passengers. We rate the mayor’s  as .
Statement: Joe Biden and the Democrats want to remove any term that denotes gender.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 10, 2021
Topics: sexuality;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A meme widely shared on Facebook claimed, "Biden and the Democrats want to remove any term that denotes gender." The contact form on WhiteHouse.gov now allows people to choose pronouns that don’t identify gender, and Biden is considering adding a gender-neutral choice for documents such as passports. But it doesn’t eliminate gender-specific options. The Democratic-led House went further by changing all gender-specific references in its rules document to gender-neutral references.  While the Biden administration has advocated for more inclusive language that allows people to self-identify using gender pronouns that they feel are better suited to them, and the Congressional Democrats changed the language in their rules to be more inclusive, this  goes too far. They have not removed all terms that denote gender; they have added another option to the existing ones. We rate it .
Statement: Says Scott Walker's defunding of Planned Parenthood "left women across the state stranded with nowhere else to turn" for cancer screenings, breast exams and birth control.
Speaker: hillary clinton
About the speaker: Hillary Clinton was the 2016 Democratic nominee for president. She served as U.S. Secretary of State during the first four years of the Obama administration. She is formerly a U.S. senator from New York, first elected in 2000. She was a candidate for president in 2008. She previously served as first lady when her husband, Bill Clinton, served two terms as president. She was born in Chicago in 1947, graduated from Wellesley College and earned a law degree at Yale Law School. She and her husband have one daughter.
Date: August 3, 2015
Location: wisconsin
Topics: abortion;families;health care;public health;sexuality;state budget;women
Context: a video
Fact-check justification: Our rating Clinton said Walker's defunding of Planned Parenthood "left women across the state stranded with nowhere else to turn" for cancer screenings, breast exams and birth control. Walker in 2011 eliminated all state funding to Planned Parenthood, which in turn closed five clinics over the next three years. The loss of those clinics meant women were referred to other facilities, in some cases a considerable distance away, in order to continue getting services. But Clinton’s statement goes too far in that Walker’s move affected only some parts of the state and it’s  to say women in those areas have "nowhere else to turn." For a statement that is partially accurate, we give Clinton a .
Statement: This USPS employee was caught taking down Trump signs. These people are also responsible for the mail in ballots they are pushing so hard.
Speaker: viral image
About the speaker: Graphics, pictures and charts shared on social media give chain emails a run for their money when it comes to spreading too-good-to-be-true claims all over the Internet. A common form is is the "Internet macro," which uses an easily recognized and repurposed image (called a meme) wth superimposed text to make a funny but political argument. Sometimes these images are passed across social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit so widely that the original source is nearly impossible to determine.
Date: August 19, 2020
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: While the image in this Facebook post is authentic, it conflated the sign theft with current concerns about mail-in voting and could mislead people to believe that this happened this year.  We rate this post .
Statement: Says Mike Bloomberg "opposed modest proposals during Barack Obama's presidency to raise taxes on the wealthy, while advocating for cuts to Medicare and Social Security.
Speaker: bernie sanders
About the speaker: Bernie Sanders is a senator from Vermont. Sanders was first elected to the Senate in 2007 and was re-elected in 2012 and 2018. The senator also ran an unsuccessful presidential campaign in 2016, losing the Democratic primary to Hillary Clinton. From 1991 until 2007, he was the representative of Vermont’s At-Large District of the House of Representatives. Sanders was the mayor of Burlington from 1981 to 1989. He received a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Chicago. In 2019, he announced he was running for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out in April 2020.
Date: February 15, 2020
Topics: corrections and updates;medicare;social security;taxes
Context: Las Vegas
Fact-check justification: Sanders said Bloomberg opposed modest increases in taxes on the wealthy while advocating cuts in Medicare and Social Security. While Bloomberg did speak against tax hikes inside New York City and encouraged cuts in Medicare and Social Security, several factors make it  to put the statements side by side. When Bloomberg talked about trimming Medicare and Social Security, he also favored tax increases on wealthier Americans. That undermines Sanders’ . There were times when Bloomberg spoke out against tax increases on wealthier New Yorkers, but at other times he was prepared to raise taxes on them.  We rate this  . UPDATE, Feb. 20 : After we published, the Sanders campaign sent us additional examples of Bloomberg rejecting tax hikes at the national level and advocating for cuts in entitlements. For example, in 2011 , asked point blank if he would raise taxes on the wealthy, Bloomberg said, "No, because I just think this economy nationwide is at a point where it really could go either way." But in the same interview, Bloomberg also said that both sides in the deficit reduction debate were right to propose raising taxes on those making over $250,000, and spending cuts to Medicare and Medicaid. Bloomberg said the majority of the money "is going to come from the wealthy." And then he added, "you have to do it with meaningful cuts done in a time frame that is believable." The constant theme is that when Bloomberg talked about cutting Medicare and Social Security it was in the context of deficit reduction. And his plan for the deficit included tax hikes. To be sure, if he had his way, those increases would fall on both middle class and wealthy families, but he wouldn’t exempt the wealthy. Our ruling remains .
Statement: North Carolina's teacher income is rising faster than any other state.
Speaker: tim moore
About the speaker: Tim Moore is a Republican from Cleveland County and the speaker of the N.C. House of Representatives.
Date: February 20, 2017
Location: north carolina
Topics: education;state budget;states
Context: social media posts and a press release
Fact-check justification: North Carolina Republican Rep. Tim Moore, the N.C. House Speaker, said that "North Carolina's teacher income is rising faster than any other state." If you look at all six years Moore and his fellow Republicans have been in charge of the state budget, the  is clearly not . Teacher pay has risen faster in many other states. Moore said he was only counting from 2014 onward, which excludes the years teacher pay fell under GOP leadership. We frown on cherry-picking data like that. However, that data does support Moore’s  – but only with the caveat that the data is incomplete, and some states could still feasibly overtake North Carolina. Either way, Moore has a point that the teacher pay is rising quickly in recent years. We rate this  .
Statement: We've dedicated more money from (Washington County's) transportation budget to bike and ped projects under my watch than at any time in the history of Washington County.
Speaker: andy duyck
About the speaker: Andy Duyck was born on a farm outside Hillsboro and has served as a Washington County commissioner since 1994. He was sworn in as board chairman in January 2011.
Date: April 4, 2014
Location: oregon
Topics: transportation
Context: a public presentation
Fact-check justification: Comparable figures from more than a decade ago aren’t available because statistics specific to bike/ped projects weren’t listed separately then. However, spending on bike/ped projects during the building-boom years of 2004-05 was $5 million less than current allotments. A fellow commissioner noted that Duyck didn’t approve the spending allocations alone since it takes at least three votes for a budget proposal to win. We also note that while Duyck voted for the increases, his "watch" doesn’t come with the power to write the proposals. We rate his  .
Statement: The lifespan of the average American is less than that of people in nations that spend far less (on health care). ... To put it bluntly, we spend more and die sooner.
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: March 2, 2010
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: the book 'No Apology'
Fact-check justification: Ali Mokdad, a professor in global health at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, attributes the United States' poor showing in part to a lack of emphasis on preventive care. "We have fallen behind other countries in tackling the root causes of mortality and disease," Mokdad said. "We know, for example, that just reducing salt in people’s diets can save more than 100,000 lives a year, but there is much more discussion in this country about health insurance, which would save, at best, about half as many people." Whatever the reason, and however you measure it, Americans "spend more and die sooner," as Romney so bluntly put it. We rate his statement .
Statement: Say "in November 2010, voters overwhelmingly supported the idea of creating a (library) district.
Speaker: judy shiprack and diane mckeel
About the speaker: Multnomah County commissioners Diane McKeel and Judy Shiprack want the county to push a library district measure on the May 2012 ballot.
Date: December 23, 2011
Location: oregon
Topics: taxes
Context: a guest column
Fact-check justification: We don’t think the statement merits a  either. But we do think the characterization of what county voters approved in November 2010 needs fuller information. It’s not fair to conflate overwhelming support for a technical change in the charter with overwhelming support for a new, and pricier, library district. For that reason, we rate the statement  -- partially accurate but leaving out important details, such as the exact nature of the measure. Return to OregonLive to comment on this ruling.
Statement: The largest category of people coming into the technical schools in Wisconsin are people with four-year degrees.
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: October 16, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Topics: education;jobs
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Our conclusion Walker said "the largest category of people coming into the technical schools in Wisconsin are people with four-year degrees." Walker’s spokesman said the governor actually meant to  that an increasing number of people with four-year degrees are going to technical college. Between 2009 and 2010, the percentage of college graduates entering technical college rose a bit. But high school graduates make up the largest category of transfer students in technical schools, far outnumbering those with college degrees.    We rate Walker’s statement .