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Statement: Kathryn Starkey "only attended half of those meetings.
Speaker: committee to protect florida
About the speaker: The Committee to Protect Florida is headed by Rockie Pennington, a political consultant for Richard Corcoran, a Republican candidate for State House District 45.
Date: August 2, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: environment;candidate biography;taxes
Context: a mailer
Fact-check justification: Starkey served on the board from June 2002 through April 2008, so we looked only at the 12 budget-related meetings that fell within that period. (Pennington, who put together his mailer a month ago, said he wasn’t sure why we came up with different counts for the meetings.) Of 12 budget meetings she could have attended, Starkey attended seven (five of those seven were the final votes). That attendance record is more than half — by a hair. We rate this  .
Statement: In Florida "we have 75,000 on (a) waiting list for child care and 23,000 on waiting lists" for community care for the elderly.
Speaker: nan rich
About the speaker: Nan Rich won a seat on the Broward County Commission in 2016. She served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2000-2004 and then was elected to the Florida Senate. She served as leader of the Senate Democratic Caucus 2010-2012 and then was term limited. Rich lost a Democratic primary for governor in 2014.
Date: September 12, 2013
Location: florida
Topics: children;education;state budget
Context: a "Tampa Tribune" blog
Fact-check justification: Rich said in Florida "we have 75,000 on (a) waiting list for child care and 23,000 on waiting lists" for Community Care for the Elderly. Rich’s numbers on the waiting lists for child care and Community Care for the Elderly were about a year outdated. Her number overstated the child care waiting list by about 14,000 and understated the community care for the elderly waiting list by about 6,000, based on numbers from this summer. Still, her numbers track with recent averages. Both waiting lists require some further explanation: Everyone on the list may not be eligible for that particular program or could be moved into another program. We rate this  .
Statement: Says U.S. Senate candidate Joni Ernst signed a pledge that "protects tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas.
Speaker: nextgen climate action committee
About the speaker: Next Generation Climate Action Committee, or NextGen, is a Democratic-aligned super PAC promoting awareness and solutions to global warming. The group was founded by Thomas Steyer, a billionaire who in 1986 founded Farallon Capital Management, a San Francisco hedge fund.
Date: August 30, 2014
Location: national
Topics: corporations;taxes
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: An ad by NextGen Climate Action Committee said Ernst signed a pledge that "protects tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas." Ernst signed the Taxpayer Protection pledge, a promise promoted by Americans for Tax Reform, which is a broad vow to oppose all tax increases. It does not specify protecting tax loopholes for companies that have employees overseas. In one instance, Americans for Tax Reform urged signers to vote against a bill that closed one of these loopholes, but the decision was more about stopping a tax increase than protecting outsourcing, and Ernst had yet to sign the pledge then, anyway. We rate this  .
Statement: Says he "won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.
Speaker: donald trump
About the speaker: Donald Trump is the former president of the United States. He was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016.  He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015, 2017 and 2019 Lie of the Year. In November 2022, he announced he would run for president in 2024.
Date: November 27, 2016
Location: national
Topics: immigration;elections
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Trump tweeted that he "won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally." Neither Trump nor his allies have presented any  of widespread illegal voting. In reality, studies have consistently shown that voter fraud is nowhere near common enough to call into question millions and millions of votes. Indeed, the ability to carry off such a far-reaching conspiracy — potentially involving millions of people over the course of several months and without being noticed by election administration officials, many of them in states controlled by Republicans — is  illogical. We rate Trump’s statement . Editor's note, Nov. 28, 5:00 p.m. : This post has been updated to include references to Miller's conference call. The rating remains unchanged. https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/9c4a231c-afbc-4351-96ba-2379fc5a2f5a
Statement: Says the percentage of officers the Chicago Police Board fired after hearing their cases or who chose to resign prior to a board hearing roughly doubled during her tenure.
Speaker: lori lightfoot
About the speaker: Lori Lightfoot is the 56th mayor of Chicago. Prior to taking office in May 2019, she worked as an attorney and previously served as president of the Chicago Police Board, a civilian body responsible for deciding disciplinary matters involving allegations of police misconduct.
Date: March 5, 2019
Location: illinois
Topics: city government;public safety
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Lightfoot’s tweet said that under her watch, the percentage of police board hearings that resulted in an officer being fired increased from 37 percent to 72 percent and that the share of discharge cases that ended because the cops involved decided to resign rather than face the board doubled from 15 percent to 30 percent. Those figures check out. It’s worth noting, however, that the total number of discharge cases the board reviews is so small that just a minor increase in officer firings by the board translated into a huge increase in the share of cases that ended in dismissals. Lightfoot’s  itself is accurate, but it doesn’t do much to reinforce the self-portrait she is drawing on the campaign trail of a reformer who improved police accountability. We rate Lightfoot’s  .  — The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Says New Hampshire has the third-highest property tax in the country.
Speaker: jackie cilley
About the speaker: Originally from the northern New Hampshire town of Berlin, Jackie Cilley has been elected to both the N.H. House of Representatives and Senate. She is the owner of a marketing firm called Cilley Associates.
Cilley currently lives in the town of Barrington and teaches at the University of New Hampshire Whittemore School of Business and Economics.
She served in the House of Representatives from 2004-2006 and the Senate from 2006-2010. While serving at the in the Sanate she chaired  the Executive Departments and Administration committee and was co-chair of the Administrative Rules committee.
Date: July 16, 2012
Location: new hampshire
Topics: corrections and updates;taxes
Context: a statement during a candidates forum at Nashua City Hall
Fact-check justification: Using Census data, the leading tax advocacy organizations show that New Hampshire ranks third, behind only Connecticut and New Jersey, in property tax charges. It’s worth noting, though, that Cilley does not paint a full picture of the Granite State’s overall tax landscape. Looking at overall tax burden, New Hampshire residents fund the government with a relatively low percentage of their incomes in comparison to other states. We rate this statement . Note: The original number reported for New Hampshire's total state and local property taxes was  and has been changed.
Statement: Says Betty White said Dec. 28, days before she died, "Eat healthy and get all your vaccines. I just got boosted today.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: January 1, 2022
Topics: pop culture;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The cause and manner of White’s death had not been made public as of Jan. 3. Witjas previously told People she "died peacefully in her sleep at her home early this morning." Unsupported and  claims blaming the COVID-19 vaccines have routinely cropped up in the wake of celebrity deaths, even though the vaccines have proven to be safe. "You can get a COVID vaccine and still die from something else," Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, previously told PolitiFact. Since the quote is fabricated, we rate these Facebook posts !
Statement: Texas this fiscal year will "have more money in reserve than the other 49 states combined.
Speaker: dan patrick
About the speaker: As a Houston state senator, Dan Patrick won election as lieutenant governor of Texas in November 2014 after earlier defeating incumbent David Dewhurst for his party's nomination. Patrick also has hosted a daily talk show on AM700 in Houston.
Date: February 25, 2015
Location: texas
Topics: state budget;states
Context: Austin
Fact-check justification: Patrick said Texas this year will "have more money in reserve than the other 49 states combined." On our inquiry, Patrick acknowledged this was a misstatement. Indeed, what he celebrated turned out to be  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.
Statement: Today, for the first time in fifteen years, Master Lock's unionized plant in Milwaukee is running at full capacity.
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: January 24, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: jobs;trade
Context: the State of the Union speech
Fact-check justification: We are also investing in training and working with area technical colleges and universities to find and equip skilled workers." Our conclusion Obama singled out Master Lock saying the company brought back outsourced jobs and is operating at capacity for the first time in 15 years. That’s the same thing Master Lock executives said more than a year ago, and they’ve continued to add jobs and said they would continue to do so. It also tracks with their efforts to attract a more highly skilled work force to run an updated operation. We rate Obama’s statement .
Statement: $53 million a week is coming across the border in drugs.
Speaker: david mckinley
About the speaker: David McKinley is a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from West Virginia.
Date: October 13, 2019
Location: west virginia
Topics: immigration;drugs;crime
Context: a local newspaper
Fact-check justification: McKinley said that "$53 million a week is coming across the border in drugs." If you interpret his statement to mean how much is reaching the border and is seized there, the available federal, state and local data puts the figure at about $44 million. That’s smaller than what McKinley said, but his number is a reasonable approximation given the uncertainty stemming from value fluctuations and other limitations of the data. We rate the statement .
Statement: Fulton County numbers show massive duplicate ballots, rejected ballots, non-citizens trying to vote.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: November 11, 2018
Topics: fake news;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post on Facebook
Fact-check justification: While it’s  that Fulton County did have some rejected and duplicated ballots—and a few cases of non-citizens trying to vote, according to reports—this story suggests something nefarious in the gubernatorial election. Without context, describing "massive duplicate ballots" wrongly suggests Fulton County was the site of voter fraud. The headline also misleads readers to believe that a huge number of voters were non-citizens. The county found that was the case in only two instances. We rate this statement .
Statement: Under the federal Controlled Substance Act, marijuana is listed in the same Schedule I as heroin," even though "marijuana is not a killer drug like heroin.
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: March 26, 2016
Location: wisconsin
Topics: criminal justice;drugs;crime;government regulation;public health
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Our rating Criticizing the nation’s war on drugs, Sanders says that under the federal Controlled Substance Act, "marijuana is listed in the same Schedule I as heroin," even though "marijuana is not a killer drug like heroin." Like heroin, marijuana is indeed listed as a Schedule I drug, the federal designation given to drugs considered the most dangerous. But at least under the Obama administration, the federal government doesn’t treat it as one under the law. For a statement that is accurate but needs clarification, our rating is . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/046c4622-acb2-422a-b6cd-ffa78af57f99
Statement: Wendy Davis "was just doing a fund-raiser in Chicago with the international socialists organization.
Speaker: david dewhurst
About the speaker: David Dewhurst, the former state land commissioner, was initially elected lieutenant governor of Texas in 2002. He lost his 2012 bid for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate and lost his bid for re-nomination in 2014.
Date: May 7, 2014
Location: texas
Topics: candidate biography;corrections and updates
Context: a roundtable debate with state Sen. Dan Patrick
Fact-check justification: Dewhurst said Davis raised money in Chicago for a socialist organization. Davis appeared at a fund-raiser for a Democratic U.S. House member who may have participated in DSA chapter meetings in the 1980s. There’s no sign Schakowsky is a current DSA member, nor is there  Davis raised money for a socialist group. This  shakes out as  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. UPDATE, 6:18 p.m., May 12, 2014 : This article was updated to include detail about the newsletter excerpts relied upon by Kurtz, the conservative author. These additions did not change our rating of Dewhurst’s statement.
Statement: $500 billion of the extension of the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy goes to 120,000 families.
Speaker: joe biden
About the speaker: Joe Biden is the president of the United States. A Democrat, Biden served as a Delaware senator from 1973 (elected at the age of 29) until 2009. During his time in the Senate, he served as chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, chair of the International Narcotics Control Caucus and chair of the Judiciary Committee. He subsequently served as Barack Obama’s vice president from 2009 to 2016. Biden launched unsuccessful presidential campaigns in 1988 and 2008. He received a degree in history and political science from the University of Delaware and his J.D. from Syracuse School of Law. 
Date: September 2, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: federal budget;income;wealth;taxes
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: "They would save something, however, to the extent that economic growth contributes to the plan’s revenue neutrality." Our rating Biden said that "$500 billion of the extension of the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy goes to 120,000 families." We couldn’t find a definitive study confirming Biden’s figure, but four sources said it’s in that range. His math, and the description of the Bush tax-cut package, needs some clarification. But, overall, we think this is .
Statement: Over time there have been 160-some carve-outs to the filibuster.
Speaker: amy klobuchar
About the speaker: Amy Klobuchar is a senator from Minnesota. Klobuchar was elected as senator in 2006 and re-elected in 2012 and 2018. Klobuchar received a bachelor’s degree in political science from Yale University and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School. In 2019, she announced she was running for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out March 2, 2020.
Date: December 5, 2021
Topics: congress;elections
Context: an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
Fact-check justification: Klobuchar said, "Even if you keep the filibuster in place, over time there have been 160-some carve-outs to the filibuster." This number is supported by academic research, though there are important differences between what Klobuchar is seeking for the voting-rights bill and what most of the 160-odd prior examples involved.  Many of the past examples are significantly less sweeping than voting rights, and the vast majority had to clear a 60-vote threshold at some point on their way to being enacted, unlike the voting rights carve-out being proposed. The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information, so we rate it .
Statement: Obama has "racked up more debt than any president in history — over $5 trillion.
Speaker: jim renacci
About the speaker: Jim Renacci, a Republican, is running against U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat, in 2018. Renacci is the representative from Ohio's 16th Congressional District. He is a businessman and also the former mayor of Wadsworth. He was first elected to Congress in 2010.
Date: June 12, 2012
Location: ohio
Topics: deficit;economy;federal budget
Context: an online blog post
Fact-check justification: Experts note, too, that the weak economy has contributed to the debt, given the reduction in federal revenues and greater spending on items like unemployment benefits. Renacci is accurate in asserting that the national debt has increased since Obama took office by more than $5 trillion, more than any previous administration. But his statement assigns direct control -- and blame -- to Obama. Lost in that is the impact of the faltering economy, decisions made before Obama took office and the fact that others, such as Congress, also have had a role in increasing the debt. On the -O-Meter, Renacci’s  rates .
Statement: Florida lawmakers danced "after passing anti-trans legislation.
Speaker: tiktok posts
About the speaker: Posts on the video-sharing platform TikTok.
Date: May 4, 2023
Location: florida
Topics: lgbtq
Context: a TikTok
Fact-check justification: TikTok users claimed Florida lawmakers were dancing after passing "anti-trans" bills. These videos take lawmakers’ line dancing out of context. Some people may be angry that Florida Democrats would dance alongside Republican colleagues at all, given their differences on transgender policies. But the videos leave a  impression of how the events unfolded. Lawmakers were not dancing after a particular vote; the dancing happened before the speaker gaveled in the day’s business. The vote on a transgender bathroom bill happened the next day. We rate this  . RELATED: All of our fact-checks about Florida including claims by Gov. Ron DeSantis. RELATED: No, Florida can’t ‘kidnap’ trans kids under proposed law, but it does affect custody disputes
Statement: Public display of a long rifle is perfectly legal in Texas.
Speaker: mike hashimoto
About the speaker: Hashimoto describes himself as a commentator torn between libertarianism and conservatism.
Date: June 2, 2014
Location: texas
Topics: legal issues;government regulation;guns
Context: a commentary
Fact-check justification: Hashimoto wrote: "Public display of a long rifle is perfectly legal in Texas." Texas law explicitly restricts handguns and some other weapons from being openly carried around. But the law is silent on long rifles. Generally, another provision says no one should display a firearm in a manner calculated to alarm. We rate this  as .  – 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: Only one" Black-owned restaurant in Michigan received a loan through the Paycheck Protection Program
Speaker: kamala harris
About the speaker: Kamala Harris is the vice president of the United States. Harris was elected as a senator from California in 2016. She previously was California’s attorney general from 2011 to 2017. From 2004 until 2011, she was the district attorney of San Francisco. Harris received a bachelor’s degree in political science and economics from Howard University and a J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of Law. In 2019, she ran for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out in December. On Aug. 11, 2020, former Vice President Joe Biden named Harris as his running mate.
Date: September 22, 2020
Location: michigan
Topics: race and ethnicity;small business;coronavirus
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: Harris claimed that only one Black-owned restaurant in Michigan received a Paycheck Protection Program loan. Her  was based on old data and referred only to restaurant owners who reported racial demographic information and received loans greater than $150,000. According to the most recent SBA data, at least 29 self-identified Black-owned restaurants in Michigan have received a Paycheck Protection Program loan, far fewer than the number of white-owned restaurants. And there’s other  of racial disparities in access to loans from the program nationwide. But the vast majority of loan applicants in Michigan did not provide racial data, making it impossible to determine how many Black-owned restaurants in the state benefited from the program. Harris’  contains an element of , but ignores critical facts that give a different impression. We rate this  . This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections FactChat #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here for more.
Statement: The things I said (during the prank call by a blogger posing as GOP contributor David Koch) are the things I've said publicly all along" about the Wisconsin budget debate.
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: February 23, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Topics: candidate biography;labor;state budget
Context: a news conference
Fact-check justification: Let’s wind this down. Walker sought to downplay the news value in his phone conversation with the blogger by saying, in essence, there was nothing new. While some of the discussion was old news, the chat did produce some revelations about strategy, tactics and Walker’s view of his actions. So, is Walker right that what was said privately matches what he has consistently said publicly? That rates a  on the -O-Meter.