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Statement: California's Attorney General, Xavier Becerra is putting together plans to raise property tax revenue by eliminating the only thing keeping some people's property tax from sky rocketing, Prop 13.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: December 31, 2019
Location: california
Topics: city budget;county budget;education;federal budget;state budget;taxes
Context: social media posts
Fact-check justification: Read more about Prop. 13, its history and efforts to change it in 'The Block That Prop. 13 Built ,' a collaboration between CapRadio, CALmatters  and public radio stations across California.   Email us at  [email protected]  with feedback or contact us on  Twitter  or  Facebook . Also, we’re starting a new project called  ‘Ask PolitiFact California.’   Is there something in California government or politics that we should fact-check next? Send us a question, and one of our reporters and fact-checkers might reach out to find the answer.
Statement: Says U.S. Rep. Ron Kind's "stimulus cost taxpayers $278,000 per job.
Speaker: national republican congressional committee
About the speaker: National Republican Congressional Committee
Date: July 5, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Topics: jobs;stimulus;taxes
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: Spokeswoman Andrea Bozek cited various reports critical of the stimulus, but nothing to establish that the $278,000 figure is correct. To review: The National Republican Congressional Committee, like Boehner and Dewhurst, claimed that the federal stimulus cost $278,000 per job. The NRCC called it "Kind’s stimulus" because U.S. Rep. Ron Kind, D-Wis., voted for it. Our PolitiFact colleagues have twice ruled the   and the NRCC offered us no new  to consider. We rate its  , as well.
Statement: Says photos show the Trump-Ukraine whistleblower with Chuck Schumer, Elizabeth Warren, Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton.
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: November 9, 2019
Topics: impeachment;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The #Senate is almost as important as the presidency, and we have to start working now for #2020. "  He posted the photo with Elizabeth Warren on Instagram in 2016 . "What better way to spend #womencrushwednesday than with the woman who crushes it in Washington as well as anyone else, Senator Elizabeth Warren!" Soros wrote.   We rate the Facebook post .
Statement: A U-Haul operated by antifa activists distributed "shields, weapons & black bloc" to protesters in Louisville, Ky., and is linked to "a George Soros-funded initiative.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: September 23, 2020
Location: national
Topics: corrections and updates;race and ethnicity;facebook fact-checks
Context: a series of images
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post says an antifa-operated U-Haul truck distributed "shields, weapons & black bloc" to protesters in Louisville and is linked to "a George Soros-funded initiative." A video shows protesters taking shields, signs and other supplies from the back of a U-Haul truck. Some of the signs bear a symbol associated with antifa activists. An eyewitness said he didn’t see any  that the truck contained weapons The  that the U-Haul truck is linked to an organization funded by Soros appears to have originated on forums known for spreading online disinformation. There is no connection between the billionaire philanthropist and the truck. The post contains an element of  but stretches the facts to make an unproven connection to Soros. We rate it . UPDATE (Sept. 25, 2020): This fact-check has been updated to include a statement from the Bail Project and more information about Zoller.
Statement: Voting in the wrong precinct led to over 14,000 registered voters statewide to lose their vote in 2008.
Speaker: nina turner
About the speaker: Nina Turner is a state senator from the 25th Senate District in Cleveland. She joined the Ohio Senate in September 2008 after serving on Cleveland City Council. She also served in the administration of former Cleveland Mayor Michael White. In addition to her duties in the Ohio Senate, she teaches at Cuyahoga Community College.
Date: June 22, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: elections
Context: the Ohio Senate
Fact-check justification: Ostrowski noted that it is not always poll workers fault because sometimes voters insist they are in the right location and demand a provisional ballot. Regardless, data from the secretary of state’s office supports Turner’s . In the November 2008 election ballots from more than 14,000 registered voters weren’t counted because they were cast in the  place. Her  is accurate and there’s nothing significant missing. On the -O-Meter, we rate Turner’s statement as .
Statement: The Democrats don't want to do anything having to do with protecting people from eviction.
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: August 8, 2020
Location: national
Topics: congress;housing
Context: Bedminster, N.J
Fact-check justification: Trump said, "The Democrats don’t want to do anything having to do with protecting people from eviction." Congressional Democrats passed and supported bills that set out to protect people from evictions, including through an eviction moratorium and rental assistance. We rate Trump’s  .
Statement: President Obama and Democrats' spending addiction has driven our national debt to historic proportions, maxed out our national credit card and has now led to the Democrat Downgrade of our country's AAA credit rating.
Speaker: kevin dewine
About the speaker: Kevin DeWine is the former chairman of the Ohio Republican Party. He was elected the party's chief executive officer Jan. 16, 2009. He resigned in April 2012.
As party chair, DeWine is responsible for the management of all party operations and services, including candidate recruitment, campaign support, training, fundraising, voter contact programs and legal strategies. He also is a member of the Republican National Committee, where he sits on the party's ethics and site selection committees.
He previously served four terms in the Ohio House of Representatives.
 
Date: August 8, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: federal budget
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: The firm complains that the statutory debt ceiling and the threat of default "have become political bargaining chips in the debate over fiscal policy" and that "the differences between political parties have proven to be extraordinarily difficult to bridge." In our reading -- and in the words of the very Politico story that the GOP cites as a source -- "S&P suggested that the Democrats are just as much a part of the problem as the Republicans." We repeat: Just as much.   Democrats and Republicans both. That means the one-sided label of "Democrat downgrade" has some element of  -- but it ignores so much critical information that it gets a -O-Meter rating of .
Statement: As Dane County executive, Kathleen Falk raised property taxes by "millions of dollars every year" and approved the second highest increase in the state in 2010.
Speaker: rebecca kleefisch
About the speaker: Rebecca Kleefisch was the lieutenant governor of Wisconsin from 2011-19 under Gov. Scott Walker. She previously worked as a TV anchor and reporter, most recently with WISN-TV in Milwaukee. Kleefisch was defeated August 9, 2022 in her Republican primary bid for Republican nomination for governor.
 
Date: February 3, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: county budget;state budget;taxes
Context: an op-ed piece
Fact-check justification: So if you compare the tax levy he sought in his first budget to that in his last, it is up. Our conclusion Kleefisch takes on Falk’s record of consistent property tax levy increases. While we found Dane County on the low side for tax hikes during Falk’s 14 years, Kleefisch’s main point is that taxes went up every year under Falk, and spiked one year. They did. We rate her statement .
Statement: Says Obama sent $450 million to China to build a wind farm in Texas.
Speaker: americans for tax reform
About the speaker: Americans For Tax Reform was founded in 1985 by Grover Nordquist. It advocates a tax system in which the taxes are simpler, flatter, more visible, and lower than they are today. It views the government's power to control one's life as derived from its power to tax and believes that power should be minimized.
Its flagship program is the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, which it began promoting in 1986 and expanded to the state level in 1990. Those who sign on to the pledge commit to oppose any effort to increase income taxes on individuals or businesses.
Date: September 21, 2012
Location: national
Topics: china;jobs;message machine 2012;stimulus
Context: a mailer to voters
Fact-check justification: The Americans for Tax Reform flyer said that Obama sent $450 million to China to build a wind farm in Texas. The wind farm was never built, the project sponsors never applied for government funds and never received any. These facts have been well known for at least two years and were publicly reported several times. The source cited by Americans for Tax Reform noted that the project had not been funded. The flyer spreads a discredited . We rate the statement .
Statement: Mexico is providing professional charter buses for the migrant caravan.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: November 6, 2018
Topics: immigration;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: It is unclear whether the buses Fox News saw and reported on were the work of the Mexican federal government, but other reports from the same day and region said buses were donated for some migrant families to use to get to their next destination. At one point, a Mexican governor did make an offer to transport migrants by bus to Mexico City, the group’s next stop at the time. However, he withdrew that plan almost immediately thereafter. The story has some basis, but it doesn’t provide readers with all the details or mention that multiple buses were donated. We rate this  .
Statement: You might be surprised to know that 137 billion gallons flows (into Lake Erie) every day. You might be surprised to know that only 86.3 billion gallons flow out. ... Leaving us a net surplus of approximately 50 billion gallons a day.
Speaker: tim grendell
About the speaker: State Senator Tim Grendell has represented Ohio’s 18th Senate District, which includes all of Lake and Geauga counties, and eastern Cuyahoga County, since 2004.  Prior to being elected to the Senate, Grendell served two terms as a member of the Ohio House of Representatives.
Date: June 28, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: environment;water
Context: the Ohio Senate
Fact-check justification: Trying to make his case that Ohio has more water than it could ever use, Grendell asserted that about 137 billion gallons of water a day flowed into Lake Erie and only 86 billion gallons a day flowed out. However, the acknowledged expert in this area said that Grendell’s math is all wet. The expert calculates the amount of water flowing into lake Erie as roughly the same amount flowing out each day (about 154 billion gallons a day.) If that wasn't the case, we would see a spike in overall Lake Erie water levels rise, which hasn’t happened. On the -O-Meter, Grendell's  rates as .
Statement: At nearly 19 million people, the population of Florida is larger than all the earlier primary and caucus states combined.
Speaker: rick scott
About the speaker: Rick Scott, a wealthy Florida businessman, was first elected Florida's 45th governor on Nov. 2, 2010 and re-elected Nov. 4, 2014. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2018 and is running for re-election in 2024.
Date: September 24, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: elections;race and ethnicity
Context: Orlando at Presidency 5
Fact-check justification: As Scott made his plea , we wondered: Is the population of Florida larger than Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada combined? We turned to the U.S. Census Bureau : 2010 population Iowa : 3 million New Hampshire : 1.3 million South Carolina : 4.6 million Nevada : 2.7 million Total: 11.7 million Florida : 18.8 million So, Scott's right on. Florida's "nearly 19 million people" does eclipse the early states' nearly 12 million. (Now, that doesn't tell us who actually votes there — but he didn't say voters, so we won't quibble.)
Statement: Says that in Texas, "you can be too gay to adopt" a foster child "who needs a loving home.
Speaker: beto o'rourke
About the speaker: Beto O’Rourke is a former representative of Texas’s 16th Congressional District. He represented the district from 2013 until 2019, when he gave up his seat to run a senate campaign against incumbent Ted Cruz, which O’Rourke lost. He received a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Columbia University. In 2019, he ran for the Democratic nomination for president.
Date: September 29, 2018
Location: texas
Topics: children;sexuality
Context: an Austin rally
Fact-check justification: O’Rourke said at an Austin rally that in Texas, "you can be too gay to adopt" a foster child "who needs a loving home." Contrary to the implication in O'Rourke's statement, Texas has no law against adoption by gay parents. LGBTQ Texans can, and do, become adoptive parents through any number of processes. Still, O'Rourke is partially accurate in that a 2017 Texas law allows essentially allows faith-based groups to refuse to help gay Texans adopt.  On our Texas -O-Meter, that fits the definition of .
Statement: It is simply a fact that insufficient funding for Amtrak has delayed the installation" of a positive train control safety system. "To deny a connection between the (derailment in Philadelphia) and underfunding Amtrak is to deny reality.
Speaker: charles schumer
About the speaker: Charles Schumer is a Democratic senator from New York and the Senate majority leader.
Date: May 13, 2015
Location: national
Topics: federal budget;transportation
Context: remarks to reporters
Fact-check justification: Schumer said that "it is simply a fact that insufficient funding for Amtrak has delayed the installation" of a positive train control safety system. "To deny a connection between the (derailment in Philadelphia) and underfunding Amtrak is to deny reality." Schumer has a point that insufficient funding has been an obstacle to implementing positive train control in locations like the one where the accident occurred. But other factors played a role as well, including administrative problems within Amtrak and technical challenges such as difficulty obtaining radio frequencies. The statement is partially accurate but oversimplifies by leaving out important details, so we rate it .
Statement: The Obama administration's "own Environmental Protection Agency" has said its Clean Power Plan "will have a marginal impact on climate change.
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: September 16, 2015
Location: wisconsin
Topics: environment;climate change;energy;government regulation
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: The New York Times reported that climate policy experts cited the significance of China’s plan, given that the United States and China -- the world’s top greenhouse gas polluters -- have long been viewed as the biggest obstacles to reaching a meaningful global warming deal. Our rating In the debate, Walker said the Obama administration’s "own Environmental Protection Agency" has said its Clean Power Plan "will have a marginal impact on climate change." The EPA acknowledges that the plan can have only a limited effect on global climate change, given that they order reductions in carbon emission only in the United States. But a key aim of the plan is to spur other nations to reduce their emissions, as well, and to spur new technologies that will help reduce emissions. Walker’s statement is partially accurate, but leaves out important details -- our definition of .
Statement: Obama certificate a fake.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: December 14, 2021
Topics: obama birth certificate;facebook fact-checks
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: One was in the Honolulu Advertiser on Aug. 13 , 1961, and the other was in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin the next day . They both said the same thing: "Mr. and Mrs. Barack H. Obama, 6085 Kalanianaole Highway, son, Aug. 4," and they were both submitted to the newspaper by the health department — not Obama’s family. "Take a second and think about that," PolitiFact reported in 2009. "In order to phony those notices up, it would have required the complicity of the state Health Department and two independent newspapers — on the off chance this unnamed child might want to one day be president of the United States." We rate the  about Obama’s birth certificate being a  !
Statement: An Iowa policy "provides for a state round up of Iowa citizens who might be exposed to the swine flu virus.
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: September 9, 2009
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: a chain e-mail
Fact-check justification: "It's particularly effective when a new disease has not yet been introduced into our country. Given that the virus is already widespread in the United States and worldwide and is presenting the same sort of disease we see with regular seasonal flu, CDC does not intend to issue quarantine or isolation orders for 2009 H1N1 flu at this time." The chain e-mail claims that the Iowa policy "provides for a state round up of Iowa citizens who might be exposed to the swine flu virus." The fact is that there is no mandatory order that all Iowa residents be vaccinated against H1N1, let alone a policy seeking to round up and detain people those refuse. We rule this  .
Statement: Says John McCain "has done nothing to help the vets.
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: July 19, 2015
Location: national
Topics: military;veterans;voting record
Context: comments on ABC's This Week
Fact-check justification: Trump said that McCain "has done nothing to help the vets." While many veterans’ groups have had their differences with McCain over the years over specific legislation and his general approach to veterans’ issues, that’s not the same as saying he’s done "nothing" for veterans. In fact, just within the past two years, McCain has sponsored and helped enact several major provisions to help veterans. He also devotes a significant portion of his office staff to offer veterans on casework. We rate Trump’s  .
Statement: With Obamacare, "You have no options .. you can't get competitive bidding.
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: February 21, 2016
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: an interview on "Meet the Press"
Fact-check justification: Trump said that under Obamacare, "you have no options," for health insurance plans. That is  in about 10 percent of the counties where individuals buy their coverage on the government’s insurance exchange. In another 30 percent of counties, people have only two companies to choose between. But the people living in about 60 percent of the rest of the counties have at least three insurance providers to compare. There’s an element of  in Trump’s words, but his statement leaves out a lot of information that would leave a different impression. We rate this assertion .
Statement: In the United States, 50 percent of social services are provided by the Catholic church.
Speaker: frank keating
About the speaker: Frank Keating, a Republican, is the former governor of Oklahoma. He currently serves as president and CEO of the American Bankers Association.
Date: March 17, 2013
Location: national
Topics: poverty;religion
Context: an appearance on NBC's 'Meet the Press'
Fact-check justification: Keating said, "In the United States, 50 percent of social services are provided by the Catholic church." He’s right that Catholic groups are among the biggest providers of social-service charity in the nation, but it doesn’t appear that they account for half of all such charity. We’re admittedly using a bit of guesswork, but Catholic charity seems to account for 17 percent to 34 percent of all nonprofit social-service charity, depending on how generous an estimate you make. And that share drops to single digits once you factor in the money the federal government spends on means-tested programs. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says they said "it was impossible to balance a budget at the same time, with an $11 billion deficit" and "we did it.
Speaker: chris christie
About the speaker: Chris Christie announced June 6, 2023 that he is running for the Republican nomination for president. Christie was the governor of New Jersey and a candidate for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. As governor, Christie won office in 2010 and was re-elected in 2014. Prior to that, he was U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 2002 to 2008. 
Date: August 28, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: state budget
Context: Tampa
Fact-check justification: Christie said naysayers said it was "impossible to balance a budget at the same time, with an $11 billion deficit" and "we did it." The state Constitution requires a balanced budget every year and Christie met that obligation. The deficit figure Christie cites refers to a $10.7 billion projected structural deficit, a calculation Christie uses to his advantage in his first budget year but has since dismissed as the old way of budgeting. That’s important context Christie’s statement lacks. So, we rate this statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .