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Statement: As governor, I cut $5 billion in spending.
Speaker: tim kaine
About the speaker: Tim Kaine is a U.S. senator representing Virginia, elected to the Senate in 2012. He was the 2016 Democratic nominee for vice president.
Kaine was governor from 2006 to 2010, lieutenant governor from 2002 to 2006, mayor of Richmond from 1998 to 2001, and city councilman of Richmond beginning in 1994. He was also the chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2009 to 2011.
Kaine was born in St. Paul, Minn. He earned a bachelor's degree in economics in 1979 from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and a law degree from Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass., in 1983. He took a year-long break during law school to work with the Jesuit order as a Catholic missionary in Honduras, becoming fluent in Spanish.
 
Date: October 8, 2012
Location: virginia
Topics: message machine 2012;state budget
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: If we count everything, we come to about $4.64 billion.      Should Kaine receive some credit for cuts that he recommended but were enacted after he left office? We think so. But the actual spending cuts still fall short of $5 billion. We rate Kaine’s statement .
Statement: Photo shows Rep. Lauren Boebert with Capitol rioters before she gave them a tour of the building "one day before the insurrection.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: January 13, 2021
Location: colorado
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Facebook posts  a photo of Boebert shows her standing with Capitol rioters before she gave them a tour of the building "one day before the insurrection." This isn’t accurate. Boebert is seen with members of an extremist group in the image, but it wasn’t taken recently, or on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. It’s from a December 2019 rally at Colorado’s Capitol. We rate this .
Statement: Governor Carcieri has not been campaigning with me.
Speaker: allan fung
About the speaker: Allan Fung has been mayor of Cranston, R.I. since Jan. 5, 2009. In 2014 he made an unsuccessful run for governor as a Republican. He received his law degree from Suffolk University, worked as a prosecutor for the state attorney general's office, served as a lobbyist for MetLife and served two terms on the Cranston City Council, beginning in 2002. In his 2012 reelection bid, he was unopposed.
Date: October 21, 2014
Location: rhode island
Topics: candidate biography;debates;negative campaigning
Context: a Providence Journal-WPRI-12 debate
Fact-check justification: Spokeswoman Nicole Kayner produced a photo taken outside the Providence Biltmore of Carcieri going in, and cited a report in The Providence Journal that said: "Through the closed doors of the ballroom, cheers followed mention of both Fung’s name and that of the state’s last Republican governor, Donald Carcieri." But that’s pretty weak  for a loaded . In summary, we could find no convincing  that former Gov. Donald Carcieri has been campaigning with Allan Fung. Until we do, we rate Fung's statement  . (If you have a  you’d like PolitiFact Rhode Island to check, email us at [email protected] And follow us on Twitter: @politifactri.)
Statement: We're the Sunshine State, and we're hardly doing any solar energy production.
Speaker: charlie crist
About the speaker: Charlie Crist lost the race for Florida governor as the Democratic candidate in 2022. He served as a U.S. congressman from St. Petersburg since 2017 and resigned Aug. 31, 2022 to focus on his campaign.  As a Republican, Crist served as governor from 2007 to 2011. Crist left the Republican Party in 2010 to mount a campaign for the U.S. Senate as an independent. Crist lost the race to Marco Rubio. In 2012, he endorsed President Barack Obama and announced that he had registered as a Democrat. He lost his race as a Democratic candidate for governor in 2014.
Date: November 18, 2013
Location: florida
Topics: energy
Context: an interview on MSNBC's "The Ed Show"
Fact-check justification: Crist said that Florida is the "Sunshine State, and we’re hardly doing any solar energy production." On the one hand, Florida ranks in the top 10 states nationally for installed solar energy capacity. On the other hand, given how much sun Florida gets, it is something of an underperformer nationally, and its policies -- a lack of a renewable portfolio standard and the existence of strict laws governing electricity sales -- pose challenges to future development of the state’s solar resources. We rate Crist’s  .
Statement: Of the 13 (Bill) Clinton speeches that fetched $500,000 or more, only two occurred during the years his wife was not secretary of state.
Speaker: peter schweizer
About the speaker: Peter Schweizer is a political consultant and author of the book "Clinton Cash."
Date: April 26, 2015
Topics: candidate biography;foreign policy;punditfact
Context: his book "Clinton Cash"
Fact-check justification: Schweizer said, "Of the 13 (Bill) Clinton speeches that fetched $500,000 or more, only two occurred during the years his wife was not secretary of state." We're not checking Schweizer's suggestion that the increased speaking fees were part of a plan to curry favor in his wife's State Department. But on the specific numbers, Schweitzer is correct. Hillary Clinton’s financial disclosure forms from 2001 through the end of 2012 confirm Schweizer’s . We rate it .
Statement: Video shows Donald Trump returning to Washington "in a blaze of glory on Air Force 1.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 21, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: This post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat  news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook .) In a clearer version of the video , posted on YouTube by Bloomberg on Dec. 23, Donald and Melania Trump are seen arriving in Florida for the "final Christmas of his presidency. "  In both the YouTube post and the BitChute post, Melania Trump can be seen brushing her hair back at the same point on the stairs, the pacing of their steps is identical, and someone in uniform wearing a face mask is visible saluting the then-president.   We rate this post !
Statement: A letter from BP to the Minerals Management Service "actually recommends improvements and specific recommendations around safety regulations should they choose to change them.
Speaker: lamar mckay
About the speaker: Lamar McKay is chairman and president of BP America.
Date: May 2, 2010
Location: national
Topics: energy;oil spill;regulation;this week - abc news;workers
Context: an interview on ABC News' 'This Week'
Fact-check justification: McKay told Tapper that, "The rest of the letter actually recommends improvements and specific recommendations around safety regulations should they choose to change them." This gives the impression that BP was trying to work with regulators to make the safety regulations better, to make conditions safer. But most of what the letter suggests are ways to make the regulations less of a burden for BP. Certainly this is an "improvement" from BP's perspective, but we don't see how it makes safety "the number one priority." So we rate his statement .
Statement: Every single month since 1985 has been warmer than the historic average. All 12 of the warmest years on record have come in the last 15 years.
Speaker: rush holt
About the speaker: U.S. Rep. Rush Holt is a Democrat representing New Jersey's 12th district.
Date: July 22, 2013
Location: new jersey
Topics: environment;climate change
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: In a campaign ad where he claimed "millions will die" from climate change, Holt cited two statistics about monthly and annual global temperatures. "Every single month since 1985 has been warmer than the historic average," Holt said. "All 12 of the warmest years on record have come in the last 15 years." Both of those statistics are backed up by data released by scientists at the NOAA and NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. The global temperature in every month since February 1985 has been above the 20th Century average for its respective month, according to the NOAA. As for the warmest years on record, NOAA scientists estimate that the last 15 years have included the 14 hottest years and NASA scientists have said that same time period included the 13 hottest years. We rate the statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: Says that Josh Mandel voted to let insurance companies deny coverage for autism
Speaker: national education association
About the speaker: The National Education Association is the nation's largest professional employee organization. Its 3 million members work at every level of education—from pre-school to university graduate programs. NEA has affiliate organizations in every state and in more than 14,000 communities across the United States.
Date: September 27, 2012
Location: ohio
Topics: education;health care;message machine 2012
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: The teacher’s reading comprehension was good. Second, as a point of semantics, Mandel did not actually vote to deny autism coverage; it was already denied by many insurers. But he voted against requiring coverage, which has the same effect as voting to allow insurers to deny it. That’s additional information that provides clarification. On the -O-Meter, the NEA’s  rates .
Statement: 170,000 of the jobs" created in Texas under Gov. Rick Perry "were government jobs.
Speaker: ron paul
About the speaker: Ron Paul, a Texas physician, served two stints in the U.S. House. He also was the Libertarian Party nominee for president in 1988 before later seeking the Republican presidential nomination in 2008 and 2012. He didn't seek re-election to the House in 2012.
Date: September 12, 2011
Location: national
Topics: economy;jobs;state budget;states;workers
Context: Tampa
Fact-check justification:     We can’t find an exact match for Paul’s 170,000 figure in the official statistics, and getting to that number requires not just state jobs, but also local government jobs that Perry would have had difficulty influencing.     Still, there's some  in Paul’s underlying  that a notable share of the job growth Perry touts on the campaign trail came from government jobs. Even leaving out federal jobs, about one out of every four new jobs in Texas during Perry’s tenure has been a new state or local government job. So while Paul is  on the specific numbers, he makes a larger point with some merit. We’ll call it .
Statement: 60% of Alaska voters voted for a Republican, but thanks to a convoluted process and ballot exhaustion — which disenfranchises voters — a Democrat 'won.'
Speaker: tom cotton
About the speaker: Tom Cotton, a Republican, was elected to the House of Representatives in 2012 from a district in Arkansas.
Date: August 31, 2022
Topics: congress;elections
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Cotton tweeted "60% of Alaska voters voted for a Republican, but thanks to a convoluted process and ballot exhaustion — which disenfranchises voters — a Democrat ‘won.’"  Peltola achieved a legitimate win in a state in which the electorate approved ranked choice voting as the law. Peltola’s path to victory was aided by the two Republicans having attacked each other, and by Palin having a lot of critics.  Cotton arrived at the 60% figure by adding up the total votes the two Republicans, Palin and Begich, won in the all-candidate first round. There were about 11,000 voters who didn’t rank a second choice on their ballot, referred to as ballot exhaustion. But voters have that right and might have done so because they didn’t like a second candidate.  That voters could rank their choices doesn’t mean they were disenfranchised – a term that suggests citizens were blocked from voting.  We rate this statement . RELATED : Why Trump is  to call Alaska’s ranked choice voting 'rigged' RELATED : Democracy experts support Alaska’s move to ranked-choice voting. Here’s why RELATED : All of our fact-checks about elections
Statement: Hydrogen sulfide . . . [was] used in the genocide of Jews in Germany.
Speaker: michael chippendale
About the speaker: Michael W. Chippendale, of Foster, is a Republican state representative for District 40 in Rhode Island.
Date: December 16, 2011
Location: rhode island
Topics: environment;government regulation;public health;public safety;science
Context: a public forum
Fact-check justification: There’s no question that in confined conditions and at extremely high concentrations hydrogen sulfide can be dangerous. There are recorded instances of people dying from exposure to the gas. But we could find no record of the Germans using it in their gas chambers during World War II. Rep. Chippendale made a statement that was sure to draw attention. "My sole intent was to make the point and drive it home with as strong a use of terms as I possibly could while remaining factually accurate," he told us. But he wasn’t accurate. Give him credit for admitting that without much fuss. Nevertheless, we should all be more careful when trying to make a connection to something as emotionally charged as the Holocaust. We rule the statement . (Get updates from PolitiFactRI on Twitter . To comment or offer your ruling, visit us on our PolitiFact Rhode Island Facebook page.)
Statement: Tide gauges measuring sea level in Rhode Island since 1930 have risen "maybe about 10 inches since that time.
Speaker: janet freedman
About the speaker: Janet Freedman is a coastal geologist with the Coastal Resources Management Council.
Date: January 13, 2013
Location: rhode island
Topics: environment;climate change;science
Context: an interview on 10 News Conference
Fact-check justification: Janet Freedman, a geologist with Rhode Island's Coastal Resources Management Council, said, "In Rhode Island we have two long-term tide gauges that have been measuring the sea level since 1930 and we've seen that they've risen maybe about 10 inches since that time." Her "maybe about" phrase gives her some wiggle room. The long-term trend in Newport doesn't quite measure up to 10 inches. It's 8.7 inches. But the actual annual measurements at the beginning and end of that time period meet the  test,  because of a steep -- and not explained -- increase over the last few years. The Providence tide gauge data, on the other hand, show a much smaller trend over that time period -- it would be just over 7 inches. Freedman's overarching point that sea levels have been rising is certainly , and that's borne out by satellite data. Pinning down the actual size of the rise is as difficult as measuring the precise height of a wave.   Because her statement is essentially on-target but needs clarification or additional perspective, we rate it  . (If you have a  you’d like PolitiFact Rhode Island to check, e-mail us at [email protected] And follow us on Twitter: @politifactri.)
Statement: In Afghanistan, "over 100 billion dollars spent on military contracts.
Speaker: mandela barnes
About the speaker: Mandela Barnes is an American politician serving as the 45th lieutenant governor of Wisconsin. A member of the Democratic Party, Barnes is a former state representative. On August 14, 2018, he won the Democratic primary in a landslide and became the running mate of Democratic gubernatorial nominee Tony Evers. Evers and Barnes went on to win the November 2018 election, defeating incumbent Republicans Scott Walker and Rebecca Kleefisch. Barnes became Wisconsin's first African American lieutenant governor.
 
 
Date: August 16, 2021
Location: national
Topics: federal budget;military;wisconsin
Context: Twitter
Fact-check justification: Barnes said "Over 100 billion dollars spent on military contracts." A Bloomberg Law report found that the Pentagon has spent $107.9 billion on contracted services in Afghanistan. Those contracted services include lodging, laundry, food, transportation, equipment maintenance and fuel.  For a statement that is accurate with nothing significant missing, our rating is .
Statement: The average Georgia family makes $6,000 less than the average family did 10 years ago when inflation is factored in.
Speaker: jason carter
About the speaker: Jason Carter was elected to the Georgia Senate in May 2010, representing portions of DeKalb County. He is an attorney at the business litigation firm of Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, LLP. Carter is the grandson of former U.S. president and Georgia governor Jimmy Carter.
Date: January 15, 2014
Location: georgia
Topics: economy;income
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Carter said that an average Georgia family in effect makes $6,000 less than the average family did 10 years ago. PolitiFact Georgia’s research shows Carter didn’t exaggerate the problem with median household income. If anything, he underestimated it. We rate his statement .
Statement: Paul Ryan would "outlaw in vitro fertilization.
Speaker: ultraviolet
About the speaker: UltraViolet describes itself as "a community of women and men, fighting to expand women's rights and combat sexism everywhere - from politics and government to media and pop culture."
Date: August 16, 2012
Location: national
Topics: abortion;health care;legal issues;women
Context: a graphic on the Internet
Fact-check justification: UltraViolet has a point that the bill Ryan backed could significantly alter the way in vitro fertilization is practiced. However, the group  when it says the bill in question would "outlaw in vitro fertilization." The bill doesn’t outlaw the procedure directly -- whatever impact it has would likely require action by states, which many states may be unwilling to undertake. And while the bill likely outlaws specific practices that have historically been considered important for practicing in vitro fertilization, it would not ban the procedure itself. On balance, we rate the  .
Statement: (Ron) DeSantis' bill would remove: background checks, instruction, training and oversight.
Speaker: gavin newsom
About the speaker: Gavin Newsom was elected governor of California in 2018. He is the state's former lieutenant governor and served as mayor of San Francisco. He is a Democrat.
Date: January 30, 2023
Location: florida
Topics: guns
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Private sellers are not required to run background checks.   Newsom's  is partially accurate but leaves out important details. We rate it . RELATED: ​​ More states remove permit requirement to carry a concealed gun
Statement: Says President Trump said coronavirus testing makes the U.S. look bad, "so I said to my people, 'Slow the testing down.'
Speaker: priorities usa action
About the speaker: Priorities USA Action is a PAC that is supportive of President Barack Obama.
Date: June 22, 2020
Location: wisconsin
Topics: public health;coronavirus
Context: a digital ad
Fact-check justification: An attack ad targeting various battleground states quotes Trump as saying testing makes the U.S. look bad, "so I said to my people slow the testing down." Video recordings show he did indeed say these lines, and in the order presented. And the overall impression created by the ad is consistent with Trump’s messaging over the preceding month and a half. As health officials and politicians alike have pushed for more testing, Trump has expressed increasing doubts as to its importance, progressing from calling it "overrated" to calling for the slow down. Though White House officials defended that as a joke, Trump at one point contradicted that, while at another saying he didn’t mean it. We rate this  .
Statement: Almost 1,000 people a day" are moving to Florida "because they are more free here than they are in some other states.
Speaker: will weatherford
About the speaker: State Rep. Will Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel, is Florida's Speaker of the House for 2013-14.
Date: March 19, 2013
Location: florida
Topics: economy;population
Context: Americans for Prosperity-Florida rally
Fact-check justification: Weatherford said almost 1,000 people a day are moving to Florida "because they are more free here than they are in some other states." The number is actually a projection of the 2013 net migration. In 2012, census data shows that about 630 people on average moved to Florida each day. Our problem, however, is more with his assertion of why people are migrating to Florida. There's no real  to suggest it's freedom -- as in the business and tax climate -- as Weatherford suggests. Survey data shows most people move here because of family, jobs and weather. And in fact, when you look at Florida history, the state has seen similar population growth under both Republicans and Democrats. We rate Weatherford's  .
Statement: Florida doesn't regulate assault weapons or .50 caliber rifles or large-capacity ammunition magazines. It doesn't require a permit to purchase a gun. It doesn't require any registration, whatsoever.
Speaker: hillary clinton
About the speaker: Hillary Clinton was the 2016 Democratic nominee for president. She served as U.S. Secretary of State during the first four years of the Obama administration. She is formerly a U.S. senator from New York, first elected in 2000. She was a candidate for president in 2008. She previously served as first lady when her husband, Bill Clinton, served two terms as president. She was born in Chicago in 1947, graduated from Wellesley College and earned a law degree at Yale Law School. She and her husband have one daughter.
Date: June 13, 2016
Location: florida
Topics: guns
Context: an interview with CNN
Fact-check justification: Clinton said that Florida’s gun laws don’t regulate assault weapons or .50 caliber rifles or large-capacity ammunition magazines or require a permit or registration to purchase a gun. There’s no denying that Clinton described Florida law correctly. But an expert cautions that Florida law isn’t all that different than many places across the country. With that caveat, we rate this  .   https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/ac283bed-3a7e-4e3e-8f5d-167ef2ef7a3c
Statement: Wisconsin was the "first state to ban public and private sector employment discrimination based on sexual orientation.
Speaker: mark pocan
About the speaker: Mark Pocan was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2nd Congressional District on Nov. 6, 2012. He is from Madison and previously served as a Democratic member of the Wisconsin state Assembly. 
Date: June 16, 2014
Location: wisconsin
Topics: civil rights;legal issues;sexuality;workers
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: It passed the U.S. Senate in November 2013 on a 64-32 vote but has not cleared the Republican-controlled House. Our rating Pocan claimed Wisconsin was the "first state to ban public and private sector employment discrimination based on sexual orientation." The history books say he is correct. While some municipalities did so earlier, and Pennsylvania did so for public workers only, Wisconsin’s 1982 law was statewide and  covered all employees. We rate Pocan’s  .
Statement: Says that in the last five years, Texas "created more jobs than all other states combined.
Speaker: texas public policy foundation
About the speaker: The Texas Public Policy Foundation is a conservative research institute in Austin.
Date: April 25, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: a television ad that ran through May 20
Fact-check justification: The foundation’s  that Texas "created more jobs than all other states combined" stands up — considering only those states that had net job gains over five years. That’s the methodology usually used to define job creation in public discourse. But the foundation’s analysis disregards the 40 states where millions of jobs were created but were outnumbered by losses. And looking at the percentage increase in jobs relative to the size of each state’s work force — another telling statistic — two other states experienced greater gains than Texas. We rate the foundation’s statement as .