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Statement: Rick Scott tried to slash school funding by $3.3 billion.
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: March 25, 2014
Location: florida
Topics: education;state budget
Context: his campaign website
Fact-check justification: In the end, Tallahassee approved $1.3 billion in cuts. Scott has asked for increases in the three years since. Crist’s statement was specifically phrased, saying Scott "tried" to reduce school funding. That is accurate, but it’s important to note that Scott's initial proposal died in the Legislature, and funding has increased since that attempt. We rate the statement .
Statement: Gov. Scott Walker received a $7,300 pay raise.
Speaker: democratic party of wisconsin
About the speaker: The Democratic Party of Wisconsin focuses on advancing state Democratic candidates and related issues.
Date: November 9, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: The pay for Walker -- or whoever succeeded Doyle as governor in January 2011 -- was long ago established. It’s one amount -- $144,423 -- and it can’t change. Walker can’t give himself a pay raise. It’s right there in the state Constitution. We rate the statement .
Statement: There are 4.7 percent of Virginians who are minimum wage earners who are over 25 years of age working full-time and trying to raise a family.
Speaker: mark obenshain
About the speaker: Mark Obenshain, R-26th, is a Virginia State Senator. His district is comprised of Page, Rappahannock, Shenandoah and Warren counties and Harrisonburg and part of Rockingham County. 
Obenshain lost the 2013 Virginia attorney general's race to Democrat Mark Herring by a slim margin after a recount. 
Obenshain was born in Richmond. His father, Richard Obenshain, was a Virginia Republican Committee chairman and Republican National Committee co-chairman and died in a plane crash during a U.S. Senate campaign.
Obenshain graduated from Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, in 1984, and received a law degree from Washington and Lee University School of Law, Lexington, in 1987.
Date: February 11, 2014
Location: virginia
Topics: families;workers
Context: a floor debate
Fact-check justification: Obenshain’s overarching point must be considered, however. He was speaking against raising the minimum wage, arguing that the increase would threaten jobs while improving the lot of only a few working families. Our analysis of data that is available strongly suggests that the percentage of Virginia workers supporting families on the minimum wage might be even lower than what Obenshain mistakenly said. So Obenshain stumbled into a credible conclusion. We rate his statement .
Statement: Autopsy results from Vince Foster's exhumed body — Cause of death to be changed!
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: March 24, 2017
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: a headline
Fact-check justification: TheLastLineOfDefense.org doesn’t indicate this story or any other post is , but its About Us link notes that "all articles should be considered satirical and any and all quotes attributed to actual people complete and total baloney." TheLastLineOfDefense.org has developed a regular cottage industry of writing about Foster’s death. The site has previously written posts that said Gowdy had Foster’s body exhumed , then that it went missing from the morgue in Norfolk, or that WikiLeaks has proof of a conspiracy surrounding Foster’s death. The assertion that Foster’s body has been dug up, autopsied again and his death ruled a homicide is completely made up. We rate this statement !
Statement: Both the state and federal governments make more per gallon in gas taxes than the oil companies make themselves for doing all the work.
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: October 10, 2009
Location: wisconsin
Topics: energy;taxes
Context: Oshkosh
Fact-check justification: That 2008 comparison is the latest available on the federal website. But he didn’t put a time frame on his statement, stating the equation as a timeless fact. And if you include foreign profits, it’s not on target even for 2008. The reality is it depends on the year, which is an important detail. We rate Johnson’s statement .
Statement: When President Obama took office, we were losing 700,000 jobs a month. Now we've had job growth, I think, for 24 consecutive months.
Speaker: david cicilline
About the speaker: David Cicilline was elected to the 1st Congressional District in 2010. Before that, he was mayor of Providence, beginning in January, 2003. A Brown University graduate, he received his law degree from Georgetown University Law Center.
Date: August 28, 2012
Location: rhode island
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: a debate on WPRI.com
Fact-check justification: In the debate, U.S. Rep. David Cicilline said: "When President Obama took office, we were losing 700,000 jobs a month. Now we've had job growth, I think, for 24 consecutive months." We want to note, as we repeatedly have, that even though there's been improvement in the job numbers during the Obama administration, a president's ability to influence the economy is severely limited. As for Cicilline’s comment, he understated the job losses occurring when President Obama took office and, by the most commonly used measure, he overstated by two months the timespan of continued job growth. But his main point -- that there has been growth for nearly two years -- is sound. Because the statement is "accurate but needs clarification or additional information," we rule it  . (Get updates from PolitiFact Rhode Island on Twitter: @politifactri . To comment or offer your ruling, visit us on our PolitiFact Rhode Island Facebook page.)
Statement: Firearms homicides are down about 40 percent" since Texas passed concealed-gun permit law.
Speaker: jerry patterson
About the speaker: Jerry Patterson, who won election to three terms as state land commissioner starting in 2002, filed to seek the post afresh in the 2018 elections. The former state senator from Pasadena unsuccessfully sought the 2014 Republican nomination for lieutenant governor.
Date: November 19, 2013
Location: texas
Topics: civil rights;crime;guns
Context: an online campaign video
Fact-check justification: Patterson said firearms homicides decreased 40 percent since Texas passed a law permitting licensed residents to carry concealed guns. That  was staked to changes nationally and a timeframe unreasonably starting before the law took effect. Still, Patterson’s figure is close to correct. Data for Texas show declines of either 32 percent or 42 percent since the state law took effect. We are not concluding that the measure authored by Patterson explains the decrease, which occurred nationally for multiple reasons. We rate this statement, which needed clarification, as .  – 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: Video shows Arizona ballots "break chain of custody in Arizona.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: November 13, 2022
Location: arizona
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: Also, the posts’ claims that there were no observers at Runbeck is .   The Maricopa County Republicans tweeted on Nov. 10 that Republicans had workers at Runbeck’s facilities on election night.   The party’s account tweeted again on Nov. 14: "Repeating! There were Republican observers at RUNBECK on election night and the next day when ballots were sent there for scanning!"  Claims that the transportation of these ballots amounts to a broken chain of custody in Maricopa’s elections are . We rate these posts .
Statement: Nobody in total is proposing cutting anything. We're trying to reduce the rate of growth in government.
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: February 13, 2013
Location: wisconsin
Topics: deficit;federal budget;medicaid;medicare
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: And it declared  claims in 2010 by Republicans that the federal health care law cut hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicare at the elderly’s expense. Both ratings rested in part on the recognition that Medicare’s budget would continue to grow, just at a slower pace, under the cost-savings plans. Johnson’s  is something of a reverse image of those claims, though on a grander scale. With the points of clarification noted above, we think his main point is on target. We rate his statement .
Statement: The deaths of U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski, R-Ind., and actor Anne Heche are suspicious and linked because they "partnered fighting against pedophilia.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: August 19, 2022
Topics: congress;pop culture;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post claimed the deaths of Walorski and Heche are suspicious and linked because they "partnered fighting against pedophilia." A far-right podcast known to promote QAnon conspiracy theories was the source of the post’s , and we could find no  that the two women ever knew each other. We rate this  . PolitiFact researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report.
Statement: A recent study of a proposed cap-and-trade policy's effect on Wisconsin consumers showed it could "raise gasoline prices by 141 percent and electricity rates by 171 percent" by 2030.
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 26, 2013
Location: wisconsin
Topics: environment;economy;gas prices
Context: a constituent email
Fact-check justification: The same study cites much smaller increases under a second scenario. And its conclusions, published by opponents of the bill, are an outlier among several other studies that independent congressional researchers say were more thorough -- and show much smaller increases. He also ignores studies that said a more recent bill dramatically held down the size of cost increases to consumers. In an area in which precise conclusions are difficult, Johnson cherry-picks one study of a dead bill and presents its worst-case scenario as hard  of "prohibitively expensive" effects of a cap and trade approach. We rate his statement .
Statement: Says a Senate resolution would restore $140 in monthly general assistance payments and prevent people from committing crime.
Speaker: sandra cunningham
About the speaker: Sandra Cunningham is a New Jersey State Senator. A Democrat, she represents a part of Hudson County.
Date: July 11, 2011
Location: new jersey
Topics: crime;poverty;state budget
Context: a speech on the State Senate floor
Fact-check justification: The ruling Cunningham strongly implied the state budget cut monthly general assistance payments, but the budget actually kept those payments intact. The senator also said losing that money could lead to more crime, but two experts said the payments wouldn’t necessarily prevent criminal acts. Cunningham acknowledged the monthly benefits were restored, but it is still  for her to  people will commit crime in response to losing general assistance payments, when those payments aren’t changing at all. We rate the statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: When Mitt Romney was governor of Massachusetts, "we didn't just slow the rate of growth of our government, we actually cut it.
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: May 12, 2012
Location: national
Topics: history;state budget
Context: an interview with CBN News
Fact-check justification: We believe the measure that best fits Romney’s no-frills  is to use raw dollars -- and by that measure, spending rose by an average of about 5 percent per year during Romney’s term. We also should note that many of Romney’s efforts to shape the budget were summarily rejected by the Democratic legislature, so claiming full credit for any budgetary trends on his watch is a stretch. On balance, we rate Romney’s  .
Statement: Says U.S. Senate rival Tommy Thompson said he wants to "do away with Medicare.
Speaker: tammy baldwin
About the speaker: Tammy Baldwin was elected to the U.S. Senate on Nov. 6, 2012. She represented Wisconsin’s Second Congressional District from January 1999 to January 2013. She served as a member of the Wisconsin Assembly from January 1993 to January 1999. She was a Dane County supervisor from 1986 to 1994 and briefly served on the Madison Common Council, filling a vacancy, in 1986.
Date: June 7, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: federal budget;health care;medicare
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Our rating Baldwin claimed that Thompson "said he wanted, quote, to do away with Medicare." He did say it, acknowledges he did not misspeak, and Baldwin accurately repeats the phrase. Still, Baldwin leaves out  from Thompson’s own mouth that Thompson is talking about a dramatic transformation of Medicare in order to save government health care assistance to seniors, not end it outright. The -O-Meter definition of  is a statement that is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context. We think that fits Baldwin’s .
Statement: According to The Book of Revelations the anti-christ ... will be a man, in his 40s, of MUSLIM descent ... is it OBAMA??
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: March 19, 2008
Location: national
Topics: obama birth certificate;religion
Context: a chain e-mail
Fact-check justification: it's all there you can just find it," White said. "That description (in the chain e-mail) never occurs anywhere in one place nor are the component parts really about the same situation. It's a cherry-picking through Scripture to get it all to fit together." But fit together it doesn't. The  in this e-mail is egregiously , so we rule it  .
Statement: In New Jersey, Gov. Christie vetoed legislation to extend early voting.
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 4, 2015
Location: national
Topics: elections
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Clinton said, "In New Jersey, Gov. Christie vetoed legislation to extend early voting." In 2012, state legislators passed a bill that would have added early, in-person voting to New Jersey’s existing absentee ballot mail-in system. While the legislation wouldn’t have extended the time period for early voting, it would have given voters more ways to vote before Election Day. Christie rejected the bill, saying the existing system worked fine. We’re not weighing in here on whether the new system was better, but we do find that Clinton was careful in how she worded her . The proposal would have extended early voting, and Christie vetoed it. We rate her statement .
Statement: Over 80 percent of the people want the shot to vote" on whether to approve same-sex marriage, according to polls.
Speaker: vincent "buddy" cianci
About the speaker: Vincent "Buddy" Cianci is a talk-radio host and ex-convict who spent more time serving as mayor of Providence (21 years from 1975 to 2002) than anyone in the city's history. He is the author of "Politics and Pasta: How I Prosecuted Mobsters, Rebuilt a Dying City, Advised a President, Dined with Sinatra, Spent Five Years in a Federally Funded Gated Community, and Lived to Tell the Tale." He was defeated in the 2014 mayoral election when he ran as an independent.
Date: December 12, 2010
Location: rhode island
Topics: civil rights;lgbtq;marriage
Context: an ABC-6 interview program
Fact-check justification: Nor did he mention that the polling was being done by a special interest group. And we believe the former mayor -- who eats, drinks and breathes politics, and currently serves as a political consultant for Channel 6 -- knows loaded questions when he sees them. Those are important elements for people to know. Yet Cianci simply kept repeating the 80 percent figure as it were a consistent, reliable number. Because of that omission, the -O-Meter drops a notch and we'll rate his statement .
Statement: Justice John Roberts Signed Off On Obama's Arrest For Treason.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: July 1, 2014
Location: national
Topics: criminal justice;legal issues
Context: various posts on the Internet
Fact-check justification: Bloggers said Roberts "signed off on Obama’s arrest for treason." But even if he wanted to, the Constitution wouldn’t allow it. We rate the  .
Statement: More than 64 percent of minimum-wage earners are women.
Speaker: nancy pelosi
About the speaker: Rep. Nancy Pelosi represents a district in California. She served as speaker of the U.S. House January 2019-2021. Formerly the speaker of the House from 2007-11, Pelosi served as the House minority leader from 2003 to 2007 and from 2011 to 2019.
Date: March 7, 2013
Location: national
Topics: workers
Context: a news conference
Fact-check justification: Pelosi said 64 percent of minimum-wage earners are women. Government figures from 2012, which are based on census data, back up her assertion. We rate the  .
Statement: Georgia and other states with weak gun laws have more crime.
Speaker: michael bloomberg
About the speaker: Michael Bloomberg was mayor of New York City from 2002 to 2013. The billionaire co-founded Bloomberg LP, a financial information and media company, in 1981. On Nov. 24, 2019, he announced his candidacy for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president and dropped out on March 4, 2020.
Date: October 18, 2010
Location: georgia
Topics: guns
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: So where does this leave us? The CDC numbers do show states with weaker gun laws tend to have more firearm deaths. The FBI data shows some of those states had more violent crime, but others were in the middle of the pack nationally. There are many types of crime, and not all are committed with firearms. We rate Bloomberg's statement as a .
Statement: Says President Barack Obama initially said the national health-care mandate isn't a tax, but his administration now says it is a tax.
Speaker: republican party of texas
About the speaker: The Republican Party of Texas says it promotes a conservative government philosophy in the Lone Star state.
Date: July 19, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: health care;taxes
Context: a message on Twitter
Fact-check justification: In its tweet, the Republican Party overreaches when it says the administration now calls the mandate a tax. The administration (still) isn't doing that. But it does cite Congress' power to levy taxes as authority for the mandate. And that enables the GOP to score its own political point, based on what looks like the administration's runs at having it both ways. We rate the GOP's recap of Obama's early position and his administration's recent defense of the law as .
Statement: Right now, four in 10 public schools in our state are at least 50 years old.
Speaker: roy cooper
About the speaker: Roy Cooper, a Democrat, is the governor of North Carolina. Previously he was the attorney general, a state senator and a state representative.
Date: February 25, 2019
Location: north carolina
Topics: education;state budget
Context: his State of the State address
Fact-check justification: But there are some uncertainties. So we rate this statement . This story was produced by the North Carolina Fact-Checking Project, a partnership of McClatchy Carolinas, the Duke University Reporters’ Lab and PolitiFact. The NC Local News Lab Fund and the International Center for Journalists provide support for the project, which shares fact-checks with newsrooms statewide. To offer ideas for fact checks, email  [email protected] .
Statement: Says President Barack Obama was responsible for "the assassination of at least four American citizens" in drone strikes.
Speaker: kesha rogers
About the speaker: A follower of fringe political figure Lyndon LaRouche, frequent candidate Kesha Rogers of Houston has called for the impeachment of President Obama. The Texas Democratic Party declared her “not a real Democrat” before the March 2014 primary, in which she came second but with enough votes to trigger a runoff to determine the Democratic nominee opposing Republican incumbent U.S. Sen. John Cornyn. In 2010 and 2012, she won the Democratic nomination for a Houston-area U.S. House seat.
Date: March 19, 2014
Location: texas
Topics: legal issues;foreign policy;terrorism
Context: statements on her campaign website
Fact-check justification: Rogers said Obama was responsible for "the assassination of at least four American citizens" in drone strikes. U.S. drone strikes reportedly carried out on Obama’s authority killed the citizens listed by Rogers. But three deaths were evidently not intended, while it’s debated -- and unsettled at best -- whether the killing of al-Awlaki, targeted for his al-Qaeda role, was an assassination. We rate this , which presents these deaths out of context, as .  – The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.