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Statement: About $4.89 billion in one-time money was used to balance the current state general revenue fund budget.
Speaker: ted strickland
About the speaker: Ted Strickland was governor of Ohio from 2007 through 2010. He lost his bid for re-election in 2010 to Republican John Kasich.
Date: September 17, 2010
Location: ohio
Topics: state budget
Context: a posting to the state's Office of Management and Budget website
Fact-check justification: And even if you don’t count those funds, the budget office’s one-time number is still off by about $1 billion.    So let’s go to the scorecard and add it up: Whether you count the $647 million in tobacco money tied up in court or not, it’s clear that the $4.89 billion one-time money figure is off by at least $1 billion. The fact that reporters are apprised immediately by Wurst that the figure is incomplete shows that the administration realizes that it isn’t an accurate representation of how much one-time money is used in the state budget. That suggests to us that the Strickland administration knows that continuing to use the $4.89 billion one-time money figure on its website could mislead the public. That’s why we rate the statement as .
Statement: The Mitchell Park Domes "lose about $1 million-plus every year" and "the number of people going to the Domes has been going down.
Speaker: chris abele
About the speaker: Chris Abele is Milwaukee County Executive, a position he won in an April 2011 special election to finish out the final year of the term of Scott Walker, who was elected governor in November 2010. The election was the first attempt at political office for Abele, a Milwaukee philanthropist and business owner.
The office is nonpartisan, but Abele has indicated he is a Democrat.
Date: March 3, 2016
Location: wisconsin
Topics: county budget
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: He’s  on both counts. In the past five years, the tab for county taxpayers exceeded $1 million once. On average it was $630,000. Meanwhile, attendance has actually increased 28 percent under his watch. We rate his  .
Statement: 47 - New provisions ObamaCare charges the IRS with implementing, according to the Government Accountability Office.
Speaker: dave joyce
About the speaker: Former Geauga County prosecutor who was elected to Congress in 2012.
Date: June 5, 2013
Location: ohio
Topics: health care;taxes
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: "Indeed," the Post's Fact Checker noted, "the Supreme Court upheld the law precisely because the individual mandate fell within Congress’s taxation power (even though the Obama administration had tried hard to  this was not a tax)." Other federal agencies, such as the Department of Health and Human Services, are also involved in implementation of the law. Far more responsibility falls on the Department of Health and Human Services, which has taken the lead in organizing its implementation, providing information to the public about the law and providing oversight. Joyce’s statement is accurate. On the -O-Meter, it rates as .
Statement: 60 percent of Texas 8th graders are not proficient in math. Only 26% have a teacher with a undergraduate major in math.
Speaker: george p. bush
About the speaker: George Prescott Bush, formerly a corporate lawyer, won election as Texas land commissioner in 2014. He's renominated to seek a second term in 2018.
Date: July 2, 2013
Location: texas
Topics: education
Context: a Twitter post
Fact-check justification: Bush said 60 percent of Texas eighth graders are not "proficient" in math and only 26 percent have a teacher who majored in math in college. Federal figures support both ends of this , though clarification is needed to specify that "proficient" here does not mean that 60 percent of such students are flat failing to keep up. In 2011, 19 percent of Texas eighth-graders fell short of the "basic" math achievement hurdle set for the federal math test. We rate this statement as .
Statement: Macy's sent a letter to Rick Perry urging him to veto" equal pay bill.
Speaker: senfronia thompson
About the speaker: A Houston lawyer first elected to the state House of Representatives in 1973, Thompson "has served longer in the Legislature than any other woman or African-American in Texas history," according to her House biography, and chairs the House Local and Consent Calendars Committee.
Date: November 20, 2013
Location: texas
Topics: income;legal issues;workers
Context: email blast from Progress Texas
Fact-check justification: Thompson said "Macy's sent a letter to Rick Perry urging him to veto" her equal pay measure. As the Houston newspaper reported, Macy’s wrote the governor May 31, 2013, saying "We urge you to veto this legislation." The  is .  – The statement is accurate and there’s nothing significant missing. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Nobody has been talking about it (Medicaid fraud), focused on it, or paying attention to it.
Speaker: alex sink
About the speaker: Alex Sink is a candidate for Congress in Florida's 13th Congressional District. She served as Florida's Chief Financial Officer from 2007 to 2011. She was the Democratic Party's nominee for governor in 2010, but lost to Rick Scott.
Date: March 4, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: health care;medicare
Context: an interview with interview with the St. Petersburg Times/Miami Herald
Fact-check justification: And more than 250 people are employed at two state agencies to monitor Medicaid payouts for fraud and abuse. At PolitiFact Florida, we always say words matter. In this case, Sink said, "Nobody has been talking about (Medicaid fraud), focused on it, or paying attention to it." While the outcomes may not be to her liking, people are paying attention. For that, we rate her  .
Statement: Says Chelsea Clinton tweeted, "If Jesus were alive today he'd be working at Planned Parenthood.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 7, 2021
Topics: abortion;religion;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A screenshot of a  tweet falsely attributed to Chelsea Clinton. The  tweet appears to reference a letter written by the Rev. Salvatore Cordileone, the archbishop of San Francisco. Cordileone argued against Catholics who favor abortion rights receiving communion. We found no  Chelsea Clinton tweeted about this matter at all.   We rate these Facebook posts !
Statement: The Obama administration is using as its "legal justification for these airstrikes (on the Islamic State), an authorization for military force that the president himself has called for repeal of.
Speaker: julie pace
About the speaker: Julie Pace is the White House correspondent for the Associated Press and a frequent panelist on "Fox News Sunday."
Date: September 11, 2014
Topics: iraq;terrorism;punditfact
Context: a question to White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest
Fact-check justification: Pace said that the Obama administration is using as its "legal justification for these airstrikes (on the Islamic State), an authorization for military force that the president himself has called for repeal of," and several other publications have reiterated her point that Obama wanted the 2001 AUMF Pace is referring to repealed. There’s no doubt that the Obama administration is using the 2001 AUMF as its "legal justification." Obama hasn’t publicly named the 2001 AUMF, but his press secretary and a statement from a senior administration official have. Saying that Obama "called for repeal of" the 2001 AUMF, though, is an oversimplification. Obama said he wanted to work with Congress "to refine and, ultimately, repeal" the 2001 AUMF, meaning he wants it repealed eventually, but not now. Other statements by his administration have been consistent with that point of view. Pace’s statement could have used some additional clarification or detail, so we rate her  .
Statement: Says "under Oregon law, girls from 15 years of age and up are given complete control over whether to be sterilized or not.
Speaker: cnsnews
About the speaker: CNSNews.com was started by the chairman of the Media Research Center. According to CNSNews.com, its goal is to “provide an alternative news source that would cover stories that are subject to the bias of omission and report on other news subject to bias by commission.”
Date: August 10, 2012
Location: oregon
Topics: health care;public health
Context: a news article
Fact-check justification: In fact, free sterilization is not available on demand for 15-year-olds in Oregon. A 15-year-old must first convince a doctor that the procedure is medically necessary. While sometimes it is -- to treat cancer, for instance --a decade of records from the Oregon Health Plan and the explanation of procedures at OHSU show sterilization of 15-year-olds is incredibly rare. In Oregon, 15-year-old girls do not have "complete control" over whether to be sterilized. We rule the statement .
Statement: Says Chuck Todd said the Roy Moore story "felt completely orchestrated.
Speaker: steve bannon
About the speaker: Steve Bannon is Breitbart chairman and a former Trump White House aide and strategist.
Date: November 15, 2017
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography
Context: radio interview
Fact-check justification: Bannon said Chuck Todd said the Roy Moore story "felt completely orchestrated." But the Meet the Press clip Bannon cited showed Todd was talking about the Republican response to the Washington Post report on sexual assault allegations against Moore, not the report itself. Todd never questioned the report’s validity. We rate this statement .
Statement: Says "sixty-two percent of small businesses over the last five years went under because they couldn't pay their health care bills.
Speaker: bill pascrell
About the speaker: Bill Pascrell is Democratic member of the House of Representatives from New Jersey.
Date: February 1, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: health care;small business
Context: a speech on the House floor
Fact-check justification: In a speech on the House floor, Pascrell claimed that "sixty-two percent of small businesses over the last five years went under because they couldn't pay their health care bills." But his spokesman told us the congressman made a  and cited the  statistic. Pascrell meant to say health care costs led to 62 percent of personal bankruptcies five years ago. We rate the statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: Seventy percent of all uninsured live in households in which at least one person is working.
Speaker: terry mcauliffe
About the speaker: Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat, was elected governor of Virginia on Nov. 5, 2013. He received 47.8 percent of the vote in defeating Republican Ken Cuccinelli, who came in at 45.2 percent. Robert Sarvis, a Libertarian, finished a distant third with 6.5 percent.
McAuliffe's inaguration as Virginia's 72nd governor is scheduled on Jan. 11, 2014.
McAuliffe, a wealthy businessman and noted political fundraiser, was co-chairman of President Bill Clinton's 1996 reelection campaign. He was chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2001 to 2005 and chairman of Hillary Clinton's unsuccessful presidential campaign in 2008. In 2009, McAuliffe unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for Virginia governor.
McAuliffe was born in Syracuse, N.Y., on Feb. 9, 1957. He has a bachelor's degree from The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., and a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C. McAuliffe has lived in Fairfax County for more than 20 years, is married and has five children.
 
Date: January 13, 2014
Location: virginia
Topics: families;health care;workers
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: McAuliffe said 70 percent of medically uninsured Virginians live in households where at least one person works. His figure is backed by research from the Urban Institute and we were unable to find any contradictory study. So we rate McAuliffe’s  .
Statement: Gov. Lawton Chiles said "if I were to become ... become speaker of the House it would be (his) worst nightmare.
Speaker: daniel webster
About the speaker: Daniel Webster, a former Florida House Speaker and Senate Majority Leader, is a Republican representing Congressional District 8 in Central Florida. 
Date: April 22, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: candidate biography
Context: announcing his campaign for the U.S. House
Fact-check justification: But he thought Webster's statement at the campaign rally essentially reflected Chiles' thinking at the time. Back to Webster's statement. He said Chiles called Webster his "worst nightmare." Every published reference except one said the comment was about the GOP takeover of the Florida House in 1996 and not Webster specifically. In our minds, that's just a hair different, and warrants a rating of .
Statement: A photo shows a Trump rally in Pennsylvania, not the Woodstock music festival.
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: May 21, 2019
Topics: history;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: (Read more about our partnership with Facebook .) It’s  that Trump addressed supporters in Montoursville, Pa., on May 20 — and took some shots at former Vice President Joe Biden, who was born in the state. But the photo in the Facebook post is most definitely a photo of Woodstock . Here’s the Getty Images caption of photographer Barry Z Levine’s shot: "Aerial view of the massive crowd in attendance at the Woodstock Music and Arts Fair in Bethel, New York, August 15-17 (and part of the 18th), 1969." We rate this Facebook post !
Statement: Shows a photo of two similar Wall Street Journal newspapers with different headlines about President Donald Trump, and describes the editions as, "Same paper, same dates, different markets. What did you just learn? Feeling manipulated yet?
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 18, 2019
Topics: transparency;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A photo shared on the internet shows two copies of the Wall Street Journal from the same day, but with two different headlines, and suggests the organization distributed it to different markets to influence readers. While the photo is real and depicts two legitimate editions of the Journal, it is actually displaying two different editions of the paper that were produced at different times of the day and with different stories—one written before Trump made a speech at a rally and one after. We were not able to pinpoint what geographical areas these two papers were circulated in. But we do know that they were distributed in separate areas, as different editions are produced in response to geography-based delivery schedules. It is not accurate to say that the Wall Street Journal printed the same story with two different headlines in an attempt to influence readers in different markets. The paper altered its headlines and story in response to developing news and according to different print deadlines. We rate this  .
Statement: If you look at what we've done over the last several years, the crime rate has actually gone down in [Providence] and . . . the number of shootings has been going down.
Speaker: angel taveras
About the speaker: Angel Taveras served a four-year term as the mayor of Providence, R.I. beginning in Jan. 3, 2011, the first Dominican-American to be elected mayor in the state. In 2014 he lost the Democratic primary when he ran for governor. Taveras, a lawyer and former Housing Court judge, replaced David N. Cicilline, who was elected to Congress in Rhode Island's 1st District. He is a graduate of  Harvard University and Georgetown Law School.
Date: July 12, 2014
Location: rhode island
Topics: history;crime;public safety
Context: an interview with The Providence Journal
Fact-check justification: Angel Taveras said, "Over the last several years, the crime rate has actually gone down in the city and . . .  the number of shootings has been going down." While the overall rate ticked up the year before Taveras took office and during the first year of his tenure, it has declined by a few percentage points in the last two years, reflecting the long-term trend. Similarly, the number of shooting victims made a significant jump the first year Taveras was in office. The number has fallen since then, but in 2013, it was still 10 higher than the year before he became mayor. The count as of July 12 --  the date of Taveras' statement -- was not lower than the same time last year; it was identical. All things considered, the statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context. We rate it  . (If you have a  you’d like PolitiFact Rhode Island to check, email us at [email protected] And follow us on Twitter: @politifactri.)
Statement: Says Ted Cruz just flip-flopped about the president needing to be U.S.-born.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 26, 2015
Location: texas
Topics: candidate biography
Context: an online meme
Fact-check justification: A Facebook meme indicates Ted Cruz has conveniently flip-flopped on whether the president must be U.S.-born. We found no  Cruz made the presented comments or that he’s changed his position about the "natural born citizen" provision. While he’s spoken occasionally about his own birth and citizenship, he appears not to have made declarations about Obama’s origins. This makes the Facebook post factually unsupported and . !  – The statement is not accurate and makes a  . Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check. https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/9fb7e53e-44be-41dc-a91b-15f4bed19831
Statement: After four years of a celebrity president … 85% (of recent college grads are) moving back in with their parents.
Speaker: american crossroads
About the speaker: American Crossroads is a 527 campaign committee that supports Republican candidates.
Date: April 26, 2012
Location: national
Topics: jobs;message machine 2012
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: The ad cites a questionable survey and suggests the data is new when the author says the survey was "many years ago." Also, the 85 percent figure is at least twice the highest rate found by Pew, a well-respected research group. And the ad blames Obama for a phenomenon that economists say is beyond the impact of a president. We rate the  .
Statement: Says the director of NASA says its main mission is Muslim outreach.
Speaker: michael sullivan
About the speaker: Sullivan helms Empower Texans, which says on its website that it exists to create and sustain a system of strong fiscal stewardship within all levels of Texas government, ensuring the greatest amounts of economic and personal liberty, and promoting public policies that provide individuals with the freedom to use their strengths and talents in pursuit of greater opportunities.
Date: July 19, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: space
Context: a Twitter post
Fact-check justification: Sullivan's tweet says Bolden said NASA’s "main mission is Muslim outreach." That's akin to saying the agency is deserting outer space to concentrate on residents of the Nile Delta, which would be unbelievable. That said, Bolden acknowledged to PolitiFact that he mischaracterized the agency's main mission in the remark about Obama charging him to do three things. That is, he said something close to what Sullivan said he said — and wishes he hadn't. We rate Sullivan’s statement .
Statement: FBI crime statistics have found that labeled 'sanctuary' cities experience lower rates of all crime types, including homicides.
Speaker: sally hernandez
About the speaker: Sally Hernandez won election as the sheriff of Travis County in November 2016. She was previously the constable for Travis County's Precinct 3.
Date: April 18, 2017
Location: texas
Topics: immigration;criminal justice;crime
Context: an oped commentary co-authored by four other Texas sheriffs
Fact-check justification: Hernandez said: "FBI crime statistics have found that labeled ‘sanctuary’ cities experience lower rates of all crime types, including homicides." Any implication the FBI reached this conclusion is ; the agency has not aired such findings. Still, an outside analysis of 2015 FBI-collected crime statistics supports the idea that communities offering sanctuary to unauthorized residents have less total crime. Then again, that analysis didn't independently confirm the sanctuary status of each county nor did it fine-tune the crime statistics as much as criminologists would prefer before reaching cause-effect conclusions. On balance, we find the sheriff's statement .  – 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: The president's come out with rules that say, 'No new coal-fired power plants.'
Speaker: shelley moore capito
About the speaker: Shelley Moore Capito is a U.S. Representative from West Virginia and a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate.
Date: July 29, 2014
Location: national
Topics: energy;government regulation
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: Capito said, "The president's come out with rules that say, 'No new coal-fired power plants.' " The rules do not explicitly ban future coal plants, so already this is an exaggeration of what the EPA has proposed. While the future of coal is uncertain, it has much more to do with energy markets and the rise of natural gas — a cheaper and more efficient energy source — than Obama’s regulations. The stricter carbon standards from the EPA may create additional barriers to building new facilities. But already there is one attempt to build a facility that would meet these thresholds and experts expect it won’t be the last. The test facing coal is real, but Capito goes way too far in her indictment. We rate the statement .