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Statement: If voters agree in November to approve a one-cent sales tax increase, that will give "Hillsborough County the highest sales tax of all Florida counties.
Speaker: david caton
About the speaker: David Caton is executive director of the Florida Family Association, a group that fights against pornography and gay rights and addresses other social concerns.
Date: November 5, 2009
Location: florida
Topics: transportation;taxes
Context: a mass e-mail
Fact-check justification: That would take its sales tax rate to 8 percent. But PolitiFact has no means of reading the tea leaves on whether the Pinellas or Okeechobee county issues will make the ballot, let alone win voters' approval. And we are ruling now, not in the future. Caton said voter approval of a 1-cent increase would give "Hills­borough County the highest sales tax of all Florida counties." We rate his  .
Statement: The study that states that more than 70 percent of the traffic on the Sellwood Bridge is to/from Clackamas County has been thoroughly debunked by The Oregonian.
Speaker: john lee
About the speaker: John Lee is the chairman of the Clackamas County Republican Party.
Date: May 17, 2011
Location: oregon
Topics: transportation
Context: May 17 election voters pamphlet
Fact-check justification: It’s frustrating when statistics are short-handed to the point of being . But we have to object to his  that The Oregonian debunked a study that claimed "more than 70 percent of trips ends or starts in Clackamas County." The March 2010 story simply corrected one figure -- which was retracted by City Club itself -- and added context. We rate the statement . Comment on this item.
Statement: For 22 percent of N.H. Meals on Wheels recipients, the delivery driver is "the only human contact in their life from week to week.
Speaker: ann mclane kuster
About the speaker: Ann McLane Kuster was the Democratic nominee for Congress in the Second Congressional District of New Hampshire, narrowly losing by just 3,551 votes in 2010.
Kuster, an attorney, has not held elected office, but her parents did. Her mother, Susan McLane was a State Senator, and her father Malcolm served as Mayor of Concord, on the Executive Council, and ran for Governor as an Independent in 1972.
Kuster, of Hopkingtom, graduated from Dartmouth College in 1978, in the third class with women, and received her law degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 1984.
Date: June 5, 2017
Location: new hampshire
Topics: federal budget;food;population
Context: a meeting with nonprofit leaders
Fact-check justification: Kuster said for 22 percent of Meals on Wheels home recipients, the driver "is the only human contact in their life from week to week, the only person they see." The depressing statistic is backed up by the data collected by a coalition of Meals on Wheels providers in New Hampshire. We rate the  .
Statement: In one Colorado hospital, 50 percent of newborns tested had marijuana in their system.
Speaker: arizonans for responsible drug policy
About the speaker: Arizonans for Responsible Drug Policy is the main anti-marijuana group opposing Proposition 205, which would legalize recreational marijuana, in Arizona. 
Date: October 11, 2016
Location: arizona
Topics: marijuana
Context: a political advertisement
Fact-check justification: The ad claimed, "In one Colorado hospital, 50 percent of newborns tested had marijuana in their system." That hospital -- St. Mary-Corwin Medical Center -- did have more than 45 percent of their newborn babies tested test positive for marijuana in their systems. The big issue with the talking point is it cherry-picks one month of data. Overall, from January 2015 through September 2016, almost 1 in 3 newborn babies tested for marijuana at St. Mary-Corwin came up positive for marijuana in their systems. That’s not half, but it’s still pretty high. We rate the ad’s  .   https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/c0486014-62bc-4d7b-a14d-25fb5b447a1d
Statement: A quarter of the entire acreage in the country that is under hemp production is here in North Carolina.
Speaker: julie mayfield
About the speaker: Julie Mayfield represents Buncombe County in North Carolina's state Senate.
Date: June 2, 2022
Location: north carolina
Topics: marijuana
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Mayfield said "a quarter of the entire acreage in the country that is under hemp production is here in North Carolina." That’s not . North Carolina has planted about 4% of the nation’s hemp and harvested about 5.5% of it, according to a USDA report released in February. We rate this  .
Statement: I played in a game here against the Pittsburgh Steelers where there was 23 inches of snow. … We played in at least 15 inches of that.
Speaker: curtis martin
About the speaker: Curtis Martin is a former running back for the New York Jets.
Date: January 28, 2014
Topics: sports;punditfact
Context: comments on ESPN
Fact-check justification: Former Jets star running back Curtis Martin said he once played a game in 15 inches of snow. This is one of those stories that gets more unbelievable as the years pass. That’s because it’s not . We rate Martin’s  .
Statement: Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett "has held the line on property taxes.
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: August 16, 2010
Location: wisconsin
Topics: taxes
Context: a speech at a campaign fund-raiser for Tom Barrett's gubernatorial campaign
Fact-check justification: But in some years the city was limited by state-imposed caps on how much property taxes could be increased. And, in some years, the property tax levy  was lower than the mayor proposed once the Common Council finished its work.    President Obama’s statement ignores the shift of items from the property tax to fees, with total revenue collected from the four main fees more than doubling under Barrett. So city property owners are hit with that increase, on top of the higher property taxes. We rate the president’s remark .
Statement: Manufacturing the battery for one electric car produces the same amount of carbon dioxide as running a petrol car for eight years.
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: April 29, 2021
Topics: environment;climate change;transportation
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A cartoon shared on Facebook claims the carbon dioxide emitted from the production of one electric car battery is the equivalent to driving a gas-powered vehicle for eight years. The production of lithium-ion batteries for electric cars emits a significant amount of carbon dioxide, but nowhere near the level claimed in the cartoon. The emissions from battery production are equivalent to driving a gasoline car for one or two years, depending on where it’s produced, and those emissions are effectively offset over time by the lack of tailpipe emissions when the car is on the road.  We rate this  .
Statement: Water transportation is the most fuel efficient, least polluting, safest, and least expensive means of moving cargo.
Speaker: bob gibbs
About the speaker: Bob Gibbs is a Republican member of Congress from Ohio's 18th District.
Date: April 18, 2012
Location: ohio
Topics: economy;transportation
Context: the House of Representatives
Fact-check justification: Clearly, it’s the most fuel efficient on average. It’s also safer and cleaner. As for the expense, because barge traffic is so dependent on rail and trucking, those two modes of transportation could have an impact. But that said, the experts we talked to were persuasive that on average, water transportation is least expensive. On the -O-Meter, Gibbs’ statement rates .
Statement: Will Hurd "tends to have a 96 percent straight Republican, straight party voting record.
Speaker: pete gallego
About the speaker: Pete Gallego, initially elected to the Texas House in 1990, won election to the U.S. House in November 2012. He lost his re-election bid in 2014. In July 2018, he ran in a special election to represent Texas Senate District 19.
Date: October 23, 2015
Location: texas
Topics: bipartisanship;congress;redistricting;voting record
Context: a blog post by the Texas Tribune
Fact-check justification: Pete Gallego said Will Hurd "tends to have a 96 percent straight Republican, straight party voting record." At the time of the statement, Pete Gallego’s  and the percentage were consistent with Hurd’s voting record. We rate this  .  – 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: When the United States invaded Iraq, Saddam Hussein wanted to acquire weapons of mass destruction, and "he said so himself after his capture.
Speaker: john mccain
About the speaker: John McCain was a U.S. senator from Arizona, a post he held from 1987 to his death in 2018. He previously served two terms in the U.S. House. He was the Republican nominee for president in 2008. McCain was a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and spent his career in the military, as his father did. He was a combat pilot in Vietnam who was shot down and spent 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war. He was born in 1936 in Panama. 
Date: June 4, 2008
Location: national
Topics: iraq
Context: St. Petersburg, Fla
Fact-check justification: That's what our review of the  shows. Granted, the  was compiled by the U.S. intelligence community, the same group that got the weapons question  before the invasion. But it's the best record publicly available, and it supports McCain's statement. Hussein told Piro that he did want to pursue weapons of mass destruction someday. So we find McCain's statement to be .
Statement: We've had the lowest health care inflation in history because of Obamacare.
Speaker: gwen moore
About the speaker: U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore is a Democratic member of Congress, representing Wisconsin's 4th District, which primarily includes Milwaukee. Moore, who served in the state Legislature from 1989 to 2004, was elected to Congress in 2004.
Date: November 11, 2014
Location: wisconsin
Topics: economy;health care;medicaid;medicare
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: "Just as growth in health-care costs have slowed because the 2009 economic crisis, so has economic growth and general price inflation overall." Our rating Moore said: "We've had the lowest health care inflation in history because of Obamacare." There’s an element of  in her , given that the Affordable Care Act is given some credit for the smallest increases in health care inflation on record. But Moore’s  gave virtually all the credit to Obamacare, when there isn’t  it played that large of a role. We rate Moore’s statement .
Statement: Says Demond Means, "turnaround district" superintendent for Milwaukee Public Schools, said the district "needs to be gutted.
Speaker: wisconsin jobs now
About the speaker: Wisconsin Jobs Now is an advocacy group involved on jobs and education issues. It describes itself as "a non-profit organization committed to fighting income inequality from the bottom up and building stronger communities throughout Wisconsin."
Date: April 28, 2016
Location: wisconsin
Topics: education
Context: a Facebook posting
Fact-check justification: A group opposing the "turnaround" program for MPS posted a photo of Demond Means with a statement that says "MPS needs to be gutted." But Means says he never said those words, the group offers no real  he did and acknowledges the photo was doctored to make their point. Indeed, the original words on the photo conveyed a message of helping public schools, not gutting them. We rate the  .
Statement: The majority of Austinites rent" the places they live.
Speaker: mike martinez
About the speaker: Mike Martinez,a former firefighter and 2014 candidate for mayor of Austin, served multiple terms on the Austin City Council; her last term ended in early 2015.
Date: August 4, 2014
Location: texas
Topics: city budget;city government;taxes
Context: a news story
Fact-check justification: Martinez said the majority of Austinites rent where they live. Government surveys show slightly more than half the city’s residents rent. We rate this statement .  – 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: Barack Obama will somehow manage to add more than $8 trillion to the national debt, which is more debt than the 43 presidents who held office before him compiled together.
Speaker: jeb bush
About the speaker: Jeb Bush was a Republican candidate for president of the United States in 2016. He served two terms as the governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007. He is also the brother of former President George W. Bush and the son of former President George H.W. Bush. 
Date: February 5, 2016
Location: national
Topics: debt;deficit;federal budget
Context: a column posted on Medium.com
Fact-check justification: Bush said that Obama "will somehow manage to add more than $8 trillion to the national debt, which is more debt than the 43 presidents who held office before him compiled together." On the numbers, Bush is right, as long as you measure the nation’s publicly held debt, the most commonly cited statistic, and as long as you project forward to the end of Obama’s tenure. But Bush leaves out some important context when he focuses the blame solely on Obama, and when he ignores that the percentage increase in the debt under George W. Bush was similar. The statement is accurate but needs clarification, so we rate it .
Statement: Says Texas has the most uninsured people of any state -- 6 million.
Speaker: garnet coleman
About the speaker: Coleman, initially elected to the Texas House in 1991, formerly chairs the Texas House Committee on County Affairs. Coleman says in his online biography that he's one of the authors of the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in Texas, a program that makes health insurance available to more than 500,000 children from working families. He said he also helped simplify access to Medicaid for more than 600,000 Texas children, and worked to secure an increase of $161.5 million for at-risk child care services.
Date: February 10, 2013
Location: texas
Topics: health care
Context: an interview for WFAA-TV's "Inside Texas Politics."
Fact-check justification:     Coleman said Texas has the most uninsured residents.     Texas continues to have highest percentage of uninsured residents in the nation, but, in raw numbers, California has about 1 million more uninsured residents. Coleman’s  has an element of , yet it’s  on the numbers. We rate it .
Statement: Florida is ranked 50th in the nation for mental health care funding.
Speaker: carlos guillermo smith
About the speaker: Carlos Guillermo Smith, an Orlando Democrat, was elected to the Florida House of Representatives in 2016.
Date: January 10, 2017
Location: florida
Topics: health care;guns
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification: Smith said, "Florida is ranked 50th in the nation for mental health care funding." A key source of data for ranking states on mental health spending is the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors Research Institute. That data shows that Florida ranked 51st in 2014. However, it is difficult to compare Florida with other states because it administers its Medicaid program differently than most states. We rate this  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/286aaba3-1421-4bfe-92f8-a0d42caf82ea
Statement: Stalin once ripped all the feathers off a live chicken as a lesson to his followers.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: October 29, 2021
Topics: history;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: An image shared on Facebook claims that Stalin plucked a live chicken to teach his followers a lesson about political control. The image uses the anecdote to criticize anti-COVID-19 measures. But there’s no  the anecdote is . The story comes from an author who is inspired by legends and myths and uses allegories and fantasy in his work. A Stalin biographer told PolitiFact that the anecdote is not . We rate the  .
Statement: Says Donald Trump has "changed his mind" on abortion.
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: August 6, 2015
Location: national
Topics: abortion
Context: the first Republican presidential debate
Fact-check justification: Fiorina said that Trump changed his mind on abortion, and by Trump’s own admission, that is accurate. As late as 2000, he wrote that he was pro-choice. By 2011, he said he was pro-life. Recently, he noted that he thinks exceptions for the life of the mother, incest and rape are appropriate. We find some murkiness in his repetition of "It depends when," but that doesn’t change the fundamental finding. We rate this  .
Statement: Leaving @[4:0] as a Facebook comment can reveal if your account has been hacked.
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: June 28, 2019
Topics: privacy issues;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The series of numbers was the account’s Facebook page ID. "Today" created a Facebook page called, "Don’t panic! This is just a test," and ran an experiment asking users to type the page’s ID number into the same formula and, you guessed it, the text changed to the words, "Don’t panic! This is just a test." We rate this Facebook post .
Statement: A video taken from a car driving through Bucha, Ukraine, shows a corpse "moving his arm," and then "in the rear view mirror the 'corpse' sits down.
Speaker: russian ministry of defense
About the speaker: The Russian Ministry of Defense is the governing body of the Russian Armed Forces.
Date: April 3, 2022
Location: national
Topics: military;facebook fact-checks;ukraine;russia
Context: a Telegram post
Fact-check justification: The Russian Ministry of Defense said a video taken from a car driving through Bucha, Ukraine, shows a corpse "moving his arm," and then "in the rear view mirror the ‘corpse’ sits down." Both claims misrepresent what the video in question shows. The video shows a mark floating across the car’s windshield — perhaps a drop of water or a speck of dirt — which Russia officials falsely portrayed as of a corpse "moving his arm."  Similarly, what Russian officials falsely claimed was a corpse sitting up was actually a dead person whose body appeared distorted due to the shape of the car’s passenger-side mirror. We rate this  .
Statement: We have never gone a year in Virginia -- ever -- without passing a budget -- ever.
Speaker: ken cuccinelli
About the speaker: Ken Cuccinelli became acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on June 10, 2019. Cuccinelli, a Republican, was Virginia's attorney general from 2010 to 2014. In 2013, he lost the general election for governor to Democrat Terry McAuliffe. In 2016, he was a adisver to the presidential campaign of Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas.
Born in 1968, Cuccinelli has a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Virginia, a J.D. from Geroge Mason University School of Law and an M.A. in International Commerce and Policy from George Mason University.
He represented Fairfax County in the state senate from 2002 to 2010.
 
 
 
 
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Date: April 18, 2013
Location: virginia
Topics: state budget
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: "We have never gone a year in Virginia -- ever -- without passing a budget -- ever," Cuccinelli said. Never, that is, except in 2001. We rate Cuccinelli’s statement
Statement: The Iranian parliament will get to say yes or no on this deal, and I think the United States Congress should have the exact same input into the process.
Speaker: ron johnson
About the speaker: Ron Johnson is a Republican U.S. senator from Wisconsin. A businessman and accountant, Johnson defeated Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold in the 2010 election. He is seeking re-election in 2016.
Date: March 8, 2015
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy;nuclear
Context: an interview on 'Fox News Sunday'
Fact-check justification: Johnson said, "The Iranian parliament will get to say yes or no" on the nuclear deal. This is  on two accounts. Experts said the nuclear agreement between the United States and Iran won’t require ratification by Iran’s parliament, the Islamic Consultative Assembly. It’s possible the deal will be contingent on Iran’s ratification of a previous international nuclear agreement, which might require the assembly’s approval, but the body won’t weigh in on the deal currently being worked on. And even if it did, it would be entirely symbolic, as the assembly is heavily influenced by the Supreme Leader on foreign policy matters. We rate the statement .
Statement: President Clinton "reduced the scale of our military dramatically.
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: October 21, 2007
Location: national
Topics: military
Context: Orlando, Fla
Fact-check justification: So Romney is comparing a Reagan-era defense spending number with a Clinton number, but his comment suggests the whole decline occurred under Clinton. Contrary to Romney's , the post-Cold War shrinkage of the U.S. military was a bipartisan effort. It began under a Republican president and a Democratic Congress and continued under a Democratic president and a Republican Congress. And so we find, as we did before, that Romney's  is . "President Clinton "reduced the scale of military dramatically."