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Statement: Hoadley called women 'breeders.'... wanted to learn about crystal meth and wrote that his sexual partners were his victims. Hoadley even wrote about a four year-old wearing a thong.
Speaker: congressional leadership fund
About the speaker: The Congressional Leadership Fund is a super PAC exclusively dedicated to protecting and strengthening the Republican Majority in the House of Representatives.
Date: September 30, 2020
Location: michigan
Topics: elections
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: Drawing from posts Hoadley wrote on his college blog, CLF’s ad claims, "Hoadley called women ‘breeders.’... wanted to learn about crystal meth and wrote that his sexual partners were his victims. Hoadley even wrote about a four year-old wearing a thong." Hoadley used the term "breeders" to refer to straight people, not women specifically. Hoadley attended an event to learn about the impact of crystal meth on the LGBTQ community. CLF’s  implies that Hoadley was interested in experimenting with the illegal substance. Hoadley wrote a poem that contained the line, "I talk to the latest victim of my sexual conquest," but his blog post noted his writing was a piece of fiction and that he was not talking about himself. Hoadley relayed a conversation in which his friend said he "shudders" at the thought of a four year-old being dressed in a thong. Both Hoadley and his friend were expressing their disdain for sexualizing children. CLF’s ad contains a small element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate this ad . This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections FactChat #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click  here , for more.
Statement: Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a cousin of George Soros, Pentagon official says.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 6, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks;ukraine
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: Soros has been at the center of many debunked claims about his connections to Ukraine, including that he wanted to run the country and that he was using the Ukraine "as a playing field to undermine (former President Donald) Trump’s campaign," NBC News reported in 2019. More recently,  claims have said that Soros admitted on television that he helped overthrow the former Ukrainian president in order to help Zelenskyy take office. The NBC News story noted that Soros "has long been the target of conspiracy theorists about Jews controlling the world." Soros and Zelenskyy are both Jewish. We rate the  that Zelenskyy is a cousin of Soros !
Statement: Says Texas law requires state agencies to give preference to goods produced and grown in Texas.
Speaker: rick perry
About the speaker: Rick Perry is the U.S. Energy Secretary and was governor of Texas from late December 2000 through 2014. He was re-elected in 2002, 2006 and 2010. He unsucessfully ran for president in 2012 and 2016.
Date: June 25, 2013
Location: texas
Topics: state budget
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: Perry said, "Current law already requires state agencies to give preference to goods produced and grown in Texas." That holds up. Existing law says that when making purchases of goods, the comptroller and state agencies "shall give preference to those produced or grown in this state or offered by Texas bidders." And the comptroller operates under rules that say items "manufactured" in Texas are considered to be "produced" in Texas. We rate Perry’s statement as .
Statement: When we got the income tax in 1913, the top rate was 7 percent. By 1980, the top rate was 70 percent.
Speaker: michele bachmann
About the speaker: Michele Bachmann, first elected to the U.S. Congress in 2006, represents the 6th Congressional District of Minnesota. She was reelected in 2008. Previously, she served in the Minnesota State Senate. Prior to that, she spent five years as a federal tax litigation attorney. Bachmann and her husband, Marcus, who have five children and have opened their home to 23 foster children, live in Stillwater, Minn., and own a mental health care practice.
Date: October 18, 2011
Location: national
Topics: history;taxes
Context: Las Vegas
Fact-check justification: Bachmann has accurately presented the historical tax rates for the two years she cited. We rate her statement .
Statement: Says President Donald Trump implemented "a travel ban that just didn't work, 400,000 people got in from those countries that were subject to the restrictions.
Speaker: chris murphy
About the speaker: Chris Murphy is a Democratic member of the U.S. Senate from Connecticut. He previously represented a district in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Date: May 11, 2020
Topics: immigration;china;public health;coronavirus
Context: an MSNBC interview
Fact-check justification: Murphy said Trump implemented "a travel ban that just didn't work, 400,000 people got in from those countries that were subject to the restrictions." That is . The New York Times reported a much lower number for people who flew directly into the U.S. from China after Trump’s limits went into effect — around 40,000 over two months. Those travelers were American citizens and other travelers exempted from the restrictions. The number is slightly higher when you factor in the number of travelers who took indirect flights and the number who have come in since the New York Times published its analysis in April. But it’s still far from 400,000. We rate Murphy’s statement .
Statement: Wealthy taxpayers, not middle-income earners, get "most of the deductions" in the tax code.
Speaker: paul ryan
About the speaker: U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R.-Wis., became Speaker of the House in 2015 and served until his retirement in January 2019. Ryan was elected to represent southern Wisconsin in Congress in 1998 and for part of his tenure chaired the House Budget Committee. He was Mitt Romney's vice-presidential running mate in the 2012 presidential election. He did not seek re-election in 2018.
Date: August 27, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: income;wealth;taxes
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Ryan, countering criticism of Romney tax plan, said that wealthy taxpayers, not middle-income earners, get "most of the deductions" in the tax code. He’s on target, with the caveat that it partly depends on the definition of "wealthy." Wealthier people pay higher tax rates and tend to get more benefit from deductions than lower-income earners. We rate his statement .
Statement: Not one politician has died from the virus.
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: September 4, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: According to Ballotpedia, at least one federal or state official was diagnosed with COVID-19 in more than half of the states. The site identified eight politicians who have died as a result of the disease, including Reggie Bagala , a Republican state representative in Louisiana, and Bob Glanzer , a Republican state representative in South Dakota. The family of Michigan state Rep. Isaac Robinson, a Democrat, said they suspect he also died of COVID-19 .    Abroad, Al Jazeera reports that Somalia’s former prime minister, the justice minister of Somalia’s autonomous Hirshabelle state, the secretary general of Guinea, a provincial minister for human settlement in Pakistan, a local legislator in Pakistan, a former Greek health minister, and Nigeria’s chief of staff, among others, have died from COVID-19.   We rate this  .
Statement: Foxconn "is the largest taxpayer in Racine County.
Speaker: van wanggaard
About the speaker: Wisconsin state Sen. Van Wanggaard, R-Racine, was elected to the Senate in 2010. He lost his seat in a recall election in 2012, but won the seat back in a regular election in 2014. He is a retired traffic investigator with the Racine Police Department and a former member of the Racine County Board of Supervisors.
Date: April 19, 2021
Location: wisconsin
Topics: corporations;county government;taxes
Context: Statement
Fact-check justification: In a statement, Wanggaard said Foxconn is the highest taxpayer in Racine County. The company did have the highest property tax bill in 2020 and cracked the top three in 2019, before some recent construction occurred. Wanggaard did not specify property taxes in his statement, but those are the only taxes that the county collects.  We rate this  .
Statement: Says she "is 6th in hard dollars raised and has more cash on hand than Governors (John) Kasich and (Chris) Christie combined.
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: February 6, 2016
Location: national
Topics: campaign finance
Context: a column posted on Medium.com
Fact-check justification: Fiorina said she "is 6th in hard dollars raised and has more cash on hand than Governors Kasich and Christie combined." While it’s worth noting the context that she ranks far back in the pack, Fiorina is right on both counts, according to the most recent public filings. We rate her  .
Statement: I'm the only candidate for Milwaukee County executive that has voted against increasing government pensions.
Speaker: jeff stone
About the speaker: Jeff Stone has served as a Republican member of the Wisconsin state Assembly since 1998, representing southern Milwaukee County suburbs. He ran unsuccessfully for Milwaukee County executive in 2011.
Date: February 7, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Topics: candidate biography;county budget;state budget
Context: a campaign radio ad
Fact-check justification: Let’s wrap up. Stone claims that he alone voted against pension increases. Some may argue by making a comparison to rival candidates who have never been in a position to cast votes, he adds a slightly  touch to the . But the context of it is Stone reciting the virtues of his own resume, not attacking others for shortcomings on theirs. We rate the statement .
Statement: A married couple that" use the same last name "is rarer and rarer in our country.
Speaker: rush limbaugh
About the speaker: Rush Limbaugh is a conservative radio talk show host. His website describes him as "America's Truth Detector; the Doctor of Democracy; the Most Dangerous Man in America; the All-Knowing, All-Sensing, All-Everything Maha Rushie; defender of motherhood, protector of fatherhood and an all-around good guy."
Date: February 2, 2015
Location: wisconsin
Topics: census;families;history;marriage;population;women
Context: his radio commentary
Fact-check justification: But it leveled off in the early 2000s. But as best we can tell, married couples who share the same last name is not rare at all. The latest U.S. census figures on the topic show that as of 2004, some 94 percent of married, American-born women in the U.S. were using their husband's last name. For a statement that contains an element of  but ignores facts that would give a different impression, our rating is . To comment on this item, go to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s web page .
Statement: The unemployment rate for young people is down from a 10.6 percent high in 2009 to 2.6 percent today.
Speaker: michelle obama
About the speaker: Michelle Obama is the wife of Barack Obama and the former First Lady of the United States. She is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School and has worked for the Mayor of Chicago and the University of Chicago. Michelle and Barack Obama have two daughters, Malia and Sasha.
Date: October 7, 2014
Location: wisconsin
Topics: economy;jobs;workers
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: So, for people ages 16 to 24, and for those ages 25 to 34, unemployment was considerably lower in September 2014 than it was five years earlier. But not as low as what Obama said in her speech. Our rating The first lady said: "The unemployment rate for young people is down from a 10.6 percent high in 2009 to 2.6 percent today." But the latest figures, for September 2014, show the rates were considerably higher for two groups that could be considered young: 13.7 percent for people ages 16 to 24, and 6.2 percent for those ages 25 to 34. We rate the statement .
Statement: We have, right now, Hezbollah, which is working throughout Latin America, in Venezuela, in Mexico, throughout Latin America, which poses a very significant and imminent threat to the United States of America.
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 22, 2011
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy;terrorism
Context: Washington
Fact-check justification: Romney warned during the Republican presidential debate in Washington that "We have, right now, Hezbollah, which is working throughout Latin America, in Venezuela, in Mexico, throughout Latin America, which poses a very significant and imminent threat to the United States of America." While there's some  of Hezbollah sympathizers and fundraisers working in the tri-border area between Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay and perhaps even recruiters and trainers in Chavez-led Venezuela, there's little  for the group "working" in Mexico. Even less publicly supported is the idea of that presence amounting to a "very significant and imminent threat to the United States of America." The State Department confirms there are no known terror cells of al-Qaida or Hezbollah groups in our hemisphere. Romney was asked to recite a national security issue he worries "nobody is asking about." In this case, there might be a good reason. We rate his statement .
Statement: Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican!
Speaker: raging elephants
About the speaker: Raging Elephants, a Houston group, describes itself as leading America’s "2nd Emancipation.” It says on its website that it's dedicate to advancing the "cause of conservatism-libertarianism by growing the ranks of conservative voters through RACIAL DIVERSITY. We envision a rejuvenation of conservatism by seeing more Americans of color join the movement."
Date: January 7, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: bipartisanship;history
Context: a web post
Fact-check justification: Upshot: Raging Elephants points to a King family member whose declaration lends support for its  that King was a Republican: his niece Alveda. We didn't divine how she reached that conclusion. Another King relative, his son, disagrees, as do respected academic experts and former King associates and friends. The record shows that as a civil rights leader, King avoided partisan identification. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says you can buy four light bulbs for $1.99 at Walmart, while a single compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) costs "$10 a pop.
Speaker: joe barton
About the speaker: Joe Barton is a Republican congressman from Texas. He was formerly the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce committee and served as that committee’s ranking member while the Democrats were in the House majority.
Date: November 11, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: energy;regulation
Context: a speech at The Heritage Foundation
Fact-check justification: However, Walmart also sells some CFLs for less and other incandescent bulbs for more. More importantly, Barton ignores other relevant factors — wattage and longevity — that undercut a simple price comparison and his suggestion that a "mainstream," two-income family can't afford such energy-saving bulbs. We rate his statement as . This story has been updated to correct the cost of a 13-watt CFL bulb to $1.64 Editor's note: This statement was rated  when it was published. On July 27, 2011, we changed the name for the rating to .
Statement: Says special counsel Robert Mueller "has brought in Democrat campaign donors at a very high level" on his team of lawyers.
Speaker: sean duffy
About the speaker: Sean Duffy is a Republican member of the U.S. House, representing Wisconsin's 7th District in the northwestern part of the state. The former Ashland County district attorney was elected In November 2010, taking the seat previously held by Democratic U.S. Rep. Dave Obey of Wausau.
Date: November 30, 2017
Location: wisconsin
Topics: bipartisanship;ethics;legal issues;crime;negative campaigning
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: As for a Democratic bias in the investigation, Duffy doesn’t specifically make that charge. But Mueller himself is a longtime Republican. And he is prohibited from choosing lawyers based on political affiliations. For a statement that is partially accurate, our rating is . div class='artembed'>
Statement: The cost-saving measures we put into place at Columbia/HCA drove down national health care inflation from 18% to 8% in seven years.
Speaker: rick scott
About the speaker: Rick Scott, a wealthy Florida businessman, was first elected Florida's 45th governor on Nov. 2, 2010 and re-elected Nov. 4, 2014. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2018 and is running for re-election in 2024.
Date: November 18, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: health care
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: As , he cited data from Mercer -- but that data was about employer costs, not national health care inflation. Health care inflation did drop between the late 1980s and the 1990s -- but not by the numbers Scott cited. And it's a stretch for Scott to suggest the actions of a single company caused that drop -- while the country was transitioning to managed care. With his hospital chain CEO background and national leadership on medical care and insurance issues, Scott should be considered a well-spoken expert on health care inflation. But we rate this  !
Statement: Obama thinks the national anthem should be "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing.
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: April 23, 2008
Location: national
Topics: patriotism
Context: a chain email
Fact-check justification: "The quotes are a creative take on possible unexplained rationales for public actions," he wrote in an email to us. "They are not actual recountings of what Sen. Obama has publicly said. Whether they do or don't reveal an inner  is a matter of opinion." A spokesman for the Obama campaign called the chain email "clearly ." We call it !
Statement: There are legitimate and widespread anomalies, and widespread questions about the conduct of (the Wisconsin Supreme Court) election, most visibly in Waukesha County, but also in counties around the state.
Speaker: joanne kloppenburg
About the speaker: JoAnne Kloppenburg of Madison is state Court of Appeals judge and a former assistant state attorney general. She ran for the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 2011 and is running for the high court again in 2016. 
Date: April 20, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Topics: elections
Context: remarks at a news conference
Fact-check justification: In Kloppenburg’s favor: Ballot shortages -- though not rare and not by themselves  of miscounts -- did happen in multiple areas and are by no means the norm. And the Waukesha County situation, while already investigated at length, still has a few loose ends, and questions remain about Nickolaus’ methods. So, Kloppenburg’s  had an element of  but skipped critical facts that would give a different impression. Some might call it . But on the -O-Meter, that’s the definition of .
Statement: Under the Republican health care repeal proposal North Carolina faces the 2nd highest premium increase in the nation. North Carolina residents will face an average cost increase of over $7,500.
Speaker: david price
About the speaker: David Price is a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives. He represents District 4, which covers orange County and parts of Durham and Wake counties.
Date: March 22, 2017
Location: north carolina
Topics: congress;health care;states;taxes
Context: a report from his Congressional office
Fact-check justification: David Price said that if the AHCA passes in its current form, "North Carolina faces the 2nd highest premium increase in the nation. North Carolina residents will face an average cost increase of over $7,500." Price’s numbers are accurate, at least in the short term as it applies to people buying insurance on the individual market. However, we don’t know what might happen after 2020. And the wording of Price’s  is  in describing average "North Carolina residents" with no qualifier. In reality, the changes apply only to the 5 percent of people buying health insurance on the individual market. For those reasons, we rate this  .
Statement: Says Gov. John Kasich implied that a portion of workers' compensation rebates to employers "should be directed back to him in the form of campaign cash.
Speaker: tom letson
About the speaker: Tom Letson is an Ohio representative from Warren.
Date: May 16, 2013
Location: ohio
Topics: campaign finance;workers
Context: an emailed news release
Fact-check justification: Rather, Letson is positing something very specific: that Kasich was asking rebate recipients to kick back some of their savings to the governor’s campaign. That’s a serious accusation. And though Letson hedges with words such as "as if" and "implying," that doesn’t excuse the gravity of his . We don’t think anyone could reasonably come away from Kasich’s email with the impression he implied what Letson says he did. PolitiFact Ohio has a rating for such  statements: !
Statement: We have the highest (corporate tax rates) in the world right now.
Speaker: pat toomey
About the speaker: Pat Toomey is a U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, having won election to his seat in 2010 by defeating Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak. Toomey occupies the seat formerly held by Sen. Arlen Specter, to whom he narrowly lost in the 2004 Republican U.S. Senate primary.
Date: January 2, 2011
Location: national
Topics: taxes
Context: an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
Fact-check justification: So making apples-to-apples comparisons can be tricky. There's also broader context that Toomey doesn't get into. In a previous item , we noted that when all taxes, including those such as personal income taxes and property taxes -- not just corporate taxes -- are taken into account and compared to gross domestic product, the U.S. doesn't rank near the top of the OECD table in total tax burden. Still, if you rate Toomey on his specific wording by looking at "corporate tax rates," he's right that the U.S. does now have the highest corporate tax rates on the books, at least among the biggest industrialized democracies, which is most economists' typical yardstick. So we rate his statement .