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Statement: Under Gov. Kitzhaber, unemployment rose 65 percent, state spending went up 57 percent and personal incomes declined compared to the rest of the country.
Speaker: chris dudley
About the speaker: Republican Chris Dudley is a financial adviser. He ran unsuccessfully for governor of Oregon in 2010. Dudley graduated from Yale University in 1987 with a degree in economics and political science.  He played 16 seasons in the National Basketball Association, including six seasons with the Portland Trail Blazers.  He retired from basketball in 2003. He was a senior vice president at M Financial and is now a partner in a small financial company in Oregon. In 1994, Dudley and his wife, Chris Love, founded The Dudley Foundation, which is dedicated to children who have diabetes.
Date: September 15, 2010
Location: oregon
Topics: economy
Context: Albany
Fact-check justification: Realistically, there’s not much a governor can do about those kind of macroeconomic factors. -- Oregon enjoyed a robust economy for six of the eight years Kitzhaber was governor. But when things started to go south, Kitzhaber was at the helm. We find the  to be .    Comment on this item.
Statement: There are more atheists in the country right now than Jews, Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists combined and doubled.
Speaker: david silverman
About the speaker: David Silverman is president of American Atheists Inc.
Date: February 17, 2012
Location: rhode island
Topics: religion
Context: a story on TV website
Fact-check justification: Atheist David Silverman claimed that "There are more atheists in the country right now than Jews, Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists combined and doubled." He wants to include not only people who define themselves as atheists, but others, such as agnostics, who have serious doubts about the existence of God. But just as atheists don't want someone else's religious beliefs and practices foisted upon them, we believe that those who doubt the existence of a supreme power shouldn’t be lumped into the "atheist" category. If Silverman had claimed that the number of Americans who don't believe in God is larger than the number of Jews, Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists in the U.S., he’d be on more solid ground. But he didn’t. Instead, he said you could double the number of people in those religions and atheists would still outnumber them. The only way to achieve that number is to include people who may not desire -- or deserve -- to be in that category, so we rate his statement  . (Get updates from PolitiFactRI on Twitter . To comment or offer your ruling, visit us on our PolitiFact Rhode Island Facebook page.) Update: The original version of this item omitted the first name of Jessica Ahlquist, who sued the Cranston, R.I. School Committee to remove a prayer banner from Cranston High School West.
Statement: We've had Muslims in America since George Washington.
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: October 9, 2016
Location: national
Topics: immigration;history
Context: the second presidential debate
Fact-check justification: Clinton said, "We've had Muslims in America since George Washington." History scholars, studies and information from the Library of Congress say Muslims have been in the United States for hundreds of years, certainly dating back to Washington. Though Muslims were brought to America as slaves from Africa, experts believe many were not able to freely practice their religion. The Founding Fathers eventually outlined freedom of religion, among other rights. We rate Clinton’s statement .
Statement: We have the second highest corporate tax rate among our trading partners.
Speaker: rob portman
About the speaker: Rob Portman was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2010. He is a former Republican congressman who also was a U.S. trade representative and director of the Office of Management and Budget under President George H.W. Bush.
Date: November 11, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: corporations;deficit;economy;jobs;taxes
Context: a Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction hearing
Fact-check justification: Bartlett, who recently wrote a book on tax reform called "The Benefit and The Burden," thinks the whole exercise is somewhat irrelevant because cutting taxes won’t necessarily lead to more investment, especially in today’s stagnant economy when nobody is interested in expanding. The upshot is that there are a lot of ways to slice the corporate tax apple, and the conclusion that can be drawn depends a lot on the question that is being asked. So where does all this leave Portman’s ? The  is irrefutable when looking at the statutory rate but arguable when considering effective rates. So Portman’s statement is accurate, but requires some clarification, which on the -O-Meter means a rating of .
Statement: The Trump administration has had "zero unfulfilled equipment and supply requests from state governors.
Speaker: sean hannity
About the speaker: Sean Hannity is a conservative political commentator and hosts a nationally syndicated radio show, as well as two television shows on the Fox News Channel. In a 2013 interview Hannity said that he is a “registered Conservative” and ”not a Republican, though people often mistake me for one.” Hannity has authored three books.
Date: July 21, 2020
Topics: health care;public health;pundits;states;punditfact;coronavirus
Context: an episode of his TV show
Fact-check justification: Hannity said, "This administration has fulfilled every request from every state governor." That’s an exaggeration of the administration’s efforts to help states navigate the pandemic.  While some states said they have no requests outstanding, representatives from several others told us that they have requests they are waiting on or requests that were never filled.  Hogan, the Republican governor of Maryland and chair of the National Governors Association, said "it’s obviously not the case" that governors have everything they need. We rate this statement .
Statement: A photo shows Muslims laughing in front of a burning Notre Dame.
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 15, 2019
Topics: corrections and updates;terrorism;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: (As far as I know) we don’t know yet anything about these persons, situation etc." In a statement, Sputnik said "The men seen in the photograph are not mentioned once throughout the article and are of no relevance at all to the story. That other news organisations should seek to find an alternative meaning to this picture is the very definition of  news. We are also shocked by comments made by these media outlets judging the religion of these two men solely by their appearance." We rate this Facebook post .
Statement: Newspapers have framed this election as my fight against the Illinois mafia.
Speaker: bruce rauner
About the speaker: Bruce Rauner was elected governor of Illinois in 2014. He became the first Republican governor in the state in 12 years upon his inauguration in January 2015. The gubernatorial campaign was Rauner's first foray into politics. He previously had been a principal at the private equity firm GTCR in Chicago.
Date: March 20, 2018
Location: illinois
Topics: elections
Context: his victory speech
Fact-check justification: After  squeaking out a victory over a primary challenger, Gov. Bruce Rauner declared to supporters that, "Newspapers have framed this election as my fight against the Illinois mafia." Incendiary rhetoric has been a staple of Rauner speeches for years, but in upping the ante even more in his fight against Pritzker it appears the governor is also projecting his own words onto the thoughts of others. Newspapers, or more precisely one column in the Wall Street Journal, did not frame Rauner’s re-election fight in terms of a struggle with a mafia-like force. That is Rauner’s own characterization and he is simply quoting himself while seeking to attribute the observation to others. This dizzying feedback loop earns Rauner’s primary night  a .
Statement: House Bill 6627 also requires the applicant to attest to their eligibility to vote, as is required by the National Voter Registration Act and used by all other states that have (automatic voter registration).
Speaker: mike fortner
About the speaker: Mike Fortner, R- West Chicago, former mayor of West Chicago, and has headed transportation policy for the DuPage Mayors and Managers Conference. He has a B.A. in math and physics from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from Brandeis University in Massachusetts. He also teaches physics at Northern Illinois University, and co-chairs the Illinois Articulation Initiative Physics Panel. He formerly was a West Chicago alderman and a member of the West Chicago Elementary District 33 school board.
Date: November 25, 2016
Location: illinois
Context: Springfield
Fact-check justification: In a November op-ed about a Republican-backed automatic voter registration bill, Fortner wrote, "House Bill 6627 also requires the applicant to attest to their eligibility to vote, as is required by the National Voter Registration Act and used by all other states that have AVR." Fortner argued the House Republican’s automatic voter registration legislation addresses the concerns raised by Rauner when he vetoed SB 250 on Aug. 12. The bill would have permitted the Secretary of State to electronically send information pertaining to an applicant’s identity, address and citizenship to the State Board of Elections, "regardless of whether or not the individual attested to his or her eligibility to register to vote," according to the language of the bill. The West Chicago Republican’s  that the National Voter Registration Act requires applicants to attest to their eligibility to vote, as do all the states that have automatic voter registration is accurate. An analysis of the legislation passed by the six states and Washington, D.C., that have enacted AVR shows all of them require applicants to attest to their eligibility to vote with a signature, and none had language similar to that of Illinois’ bill. We rate Fortner’s  .
Statement: There has never been a panther attack in the history of Florida.
Speaker: ron bergeron
About the speaker: A Broward County paving contractor who has served as a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission commissioner since 2007. 
Date: September 2, 2015
Location: florida
Topics: environment
Context: a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission meeting
Fact-check justification: Bergeron said, "There has never been a panther attack in the history of Florida." While that’s the official stance of the state’s fish and wildlife agency, saying "never" is perhaps overstating the case a bit. There historically have been accounts of people tangling with the big cats. But many of those stories come from newspaper articles that date back a century or more. Wildlife experts agree that in modern times, there have been no verified panther attacks on a person in Florida. Bergeron would have been better served if he had used the words "verified panther attack." We rate his statement .
Statement: No Democratic campaign for (Fla.) governor has ever had these kinds of resources this early on in an election cycle.
Speaker: alex sink
About the speaker: Alex Sink is a candidate for Congress in Florida's 13th Congressional District. She served as Florida's Chief Financial Officer from 2007 to 2011. She was the Democratic Party's nominee for governor in 2010, but lost to Rick Scott.
Date: January 6, 2010
Location: florida
Context: response to questions about fundraising totals
Fact-check justification: Yet the $5 million Sink raised in cash and check contributions in 2009 is more than what Jim Davis and Rod Smith raised in 2005, combined. It's also more than what her husband, McBride, and Reno raised a year ahead of the 2002 election. MacKay in 1997 and Chiles in 1993 don't come close, either. We rate Sink's statement .
Statement: The hole in the earth that's going to be dug (for the proposed Gogebic mine) is bigger than my entire district.
Speaker: evan goyke
About the speaker: Democrat Evan Goyke represents the 18th District in the Wisconsin State Assembly.
Date: March 7, 2013
Location: wisconsin
Topics: environment
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Goyke says the proposed Gogebic mine would be larger than his district. Using the smallest size estimates, the mine would cover 3,840 acres, or 231 acres more than the 18th Assembly district. Goyke got his numbers right. But he’s also got an advantage -- geographically, his densely populated district is the second smallest in the state, trailing only the 8th on Milwaukee’s south side. We rate Goyke’s statement .
Statement: Our state economic development agency under Walker, WEDC, actually isn't even using the funds that are appropriated to it.
Speaker: mary burke
About the speaker: Burke is a former Trek Bicycle executive and former Wisconsin Commerce Department secretary who announced on Oct. 7, 2013 that she would seek the Democratic nomination for governor in Wisconsin in the fall 2014 election against incument Republican Gov. Scott Walker. She lost to Walker on Nov. 4, 2014. She is a school board member in Madison, Wisconsin.
Date: January 21, 2014
Location: wisconsin
Topics: jobs
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Our rating Burke says that Walker’s jobs agency "isn’t using the funds appropriated to it." She referred to WEDC’s well-documented surplus. No one disagrees about the amount, how it came about or what was done in response to it. Officials note the current budget is on track to be spent in its entirety. We rate Burke’s  .
Statement: I'm proud of the fact that I've raised more money from small donors than anybody else, and that we're getting $25, $50, $100 donations, and we've done very well doing it that way.
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 15, 2008
Location: national
Topics: ethics
Context: Las Vegas
Fact-check justification: Another report is due about two weeks from this writing, on Jan. 31, 2008. It's possible, though not likely, that fundraising during the last quarter of the year could change this analysis. Here are the totals for individual donors calculated by the center so far, excluding PAC contributions and transfers from other accounts: * Obama: $79.2-million total, $19.8-million small; * Clinton: $79.6-million total, $10.4-million small; * Edwards $30.1-million total, $8.4-million small. Based on the center's analysis, we find Barack Obama's  that he gets the most money from small donors to be .
Statement: McCain will give more tax breaks to big oil.
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: July 8, 2008
Location: national
Topics: taxes
Fact-check justification: As for the other two claims in the ad: * "McCain and Bush support a drilling plan that won't produce a drop of oil for seven years." We addressed this before in PolitiFact, finding that most oil experts say if the U.S. pursued oil drilling in prohibited offshore areas, as McCain has proposed, it would take at least 10 years to realize any significant oil production. McCain has even acknowledged that fact himself, saying in a June 23 town hall meeting in Fresno, Ca., "Even though it may take some years, the fact that we are exploiting those reserves would have psychological impact that I think is beneficial." * McCain has "voted with Bush 95 percent of the time." We've also dealt with this  previously and concluded that it accurately reflects a 2007 "presidential support" score from Congressional Quarterly.
Statement: It's not the coronavirus that's killing people. It is the economy.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: April 23, 2020
Location: national
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a post on TikTok
Fact-check justification: A TikTok user said it’s the economic downturn, not the coronavirus, "that’s killing people." He brought up the statistic that a 1% rise in unemployment causes 58,000 additional deaths over five years, due to heart attacks, drug abuse and other "diseases of despair." The researcher whose work lies behind that statistic said it doesn’t apply and that he has no question that current deaths, now over 80,000, stem from the virus. No analyst said the immediate scale of deaths could be tied to rising unemployment. We rate this  .
Statement: Some states hit hardest by opioid deaths "have more opioid prescriptions than residents.
Speaker: eric schneiderman
About the speaker: Eric Schneiderman is the state Attorney General of New York. He is a Democrat and former member of the State Senate. 
Date: September 19, 2017
Location: new york
Topics: drugs
Context: an announcement
Fact-check justification: Schneiderman said some states hit hardest by the opioid crisis "have more opioid prescriptions than residents." West Virginia and Kentucky — two states with the highest rates of opioid deaths in the country — reported more opioid prescriptions than their respective population, according to CDC data. Six other states had more prescriptions than residents, too. We rate his  .
Statement: CDC just cancelled Halloween for kids.
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: October 12, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Like the CDC’s advice related to the holidays, these guidelines were not mandates.   "They are not regulations. They are not commands," said Jay Butler, the CDC’s deputy director of infectious diseases. "But they are recommendations or even suggestions (on) how you can have a gathering that will keep people as safe as possible." We rate this Facebook post .
Statement: While our people work longer hours for lower wages, almost all new income goes to the top 1 percent.
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: February 1, 2016
Location: national
Topics: economy;income;workers
Context: a political ad
Fact-check justification: In his ad, Sanders asserts that, "While our people work longer hours for lower wages, almost all new income goes to the top 1 percent." The question of hours is a mixed bag. The individual data suggest that people work the same or fewer hours. But family data analyzed by Brookings and only showing a limited slice of the population show that mothers are working longer hours. Wages have, in general, been going up, although  at all compared to the gains seen among the rich. And while the super-rich may have accumulated 91 percent of the new wealth from 2009 to 2013 according to the economist Sanders has been relying on, the latest analysis shows that the ratio is now 58 percent since 2009, 55 percent since 1993. That's a huge amount of new income for just 1 percent of the population, but it's a stretch to say that it's "almost all." On balance, we rate his statement .
Statement: About 57 percent of registered Democrats in the new (9th Congressional) district come from my old district.
Speaker: dennis kucinich
About the speaker: Dennis Kucinich is running in the Democratic primary for governor of Ohio in 2018. Kucinich was elected to Congress in 1996. He previously served as a member of the city council and as mayor in Cleveland, the city where he was born in 1946. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Case Western University. He has been married since 2005 to Elizabeth Harper. He was married twice before and has one child. He withdrew from the presidential race on Jan. 25, 2008.
Date: September 14, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: elections;redistricting
Context: an email to supporters
Fact-check justification: "The fact remains that the majority of the registered Democrats in the new district come from Congressman Kucinich’s longtime Democratic base in Cuyahoga County, which is the point that the Congressman has been making." By our calculations, Kucinich overstated the percentage of Democratic voters from his old district that will carry over into the new one. But he is pretty close and he is correct that the largest portion of the new district’s registered Democrats are part of his old 10th District territory. Whether that gives him an advantage in a primary contest remains to be seen. On the -O-Meter, Kucinich’s  rates .