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Statement: Says "over 1 million signatures" were submitted in attempt to recall Gov. Scott Walker.
Speaker: democratic party of wisconsin
About the speaker: The Democratic Party of Wisconsin focuses on advancing state Democratic candidates and related issues.
Date: January 17, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: elections
Context: a video and multiple other instances
Fact-check justification: Bottom line: Nothing Zielinski cited calls the board’s 931,042 count into question in any serious way. Conversely, he provided no  to show that more than 1 million signatures were submitted. Our rating The Democratic Party of Wisconsin claimed it submitted to the state elections board "over 1 million signatures" to recall Walker -- a  that has been repeated and repeated. The board said just over 931,000 signatures were submitted. We rate the party’s statement .
Statement: An attack on a healthy 22-year-old homosexual man would be more protected under the law than an attack on an eight-year-old child.
Speaker: liberty institute
About the speaker: "Guided by principles that limit government and promote Judeo-Christian values, Liberty Institute was founded in 1972 as a non-profit organization to protect freedoms and strengthen families by impacting the legislature, media, grassroots, and the courts with the truth."
Date: March 29, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: lgbtq
Context: a Web site
Fact-check justification: Summing up: Lots of special classes have extra legal protections — many of which existed before protections were extended based on gender, gender identity and sexual orientation. The bottom line: Under the Shepard Act, an attack on a healthy 22-year-old homosexual man could — not would, as the Liberty Institute states — be more protected than an attack on an 8-year-old. But it takes a contortion to reach that conclusion. The statement incorrectly intimates that hate crimes laws are the only ones on the books, ignoring the web of other state and federal criminal laws offering protections to vulnerable groups of people — including children. We rate the institute's statement as .
Statement: 19% of WVians rely on SNAP," or food stamps.
Speaker: joe manchin
About the speaker: Joe Manchin is a U.S. senator from West Virginia. The former governor of West Virginia won a special election in November 2010 to complete the balance of the late Sen. Robert Byrd’s term.
Date: March 29, 2019
Location: west virginia
Topics: food;poverty
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Manchin said, "19% of WVians rely on SNAP, but proposed changes would take food assistance from those struggling to find stable employment while doing nothing to help them to become permanently employed." The percentage Manchin cited is a little high, but it’s close. We rate his statement .
Statement: Forcing Americans off of their current health coverage and onto a government-run plan isn't the answer, but that's exactly what the Democrats' plan would do.
Speaker: john boehner
About the speaker: John Boehner of Ohio is the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. He was formerly the Republican minority leader from 2007-2011, and was the majority leader briefly prior to that.
Date: October 26, 2009
Location: national
Topics: health care
Context: a statement on his Web site
Fact-check justification: Obama later made a more accurate statement, that if you "already have health insurance through your job, or Medicare, or Medicaid, or the VA, nothing in this plan will require you or your employer to change the coverage or the doctor you have ." We rated that . But we've also found nothing in the proposals so far that would force people off their current coverage into a government-run plan, if they prefer and can pay for private coverage. Boehner said that was "exactly what the Democrats' plan would do." So we rate Boehner's statement .
Statement: Picture shows the "Freedom Convoy" trucks in Canada.
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: January 30, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A reverse-image search of the photo in the post turns up a February 2019 CTV News story about a different convoy. Three years ago, Canadian truckers also drove to Ottawa but it wasn’t about a vaccine mandate — the pandemic hadn’t started yet. Rather, they were protesting what they considered the federal government’s lack of support for the energy sector. The caption of the photo in that story says "a convoy of at least 100 trucks is driving from Alberta to Parliament Hill to draw attention to what it says is Ottawa’s lack of support for the energy sector. "  We rate claims that this photo shows the current convoy protesting vaccine mandates .
Statement: Our rainy day fund has gone from 89 cents to $240 million.
Speaker: john kasich
About the speaker: John Kasich is the governor of Ohio. A Republican and a former congressman, he defeated Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland in 2010 and was reelected in 2014. He ran for president in 2016.
Date: April 2, 2012
Location: ohio
Topics: economy;jobs;state budget
Context: an interview with Fox News
Fact-check justification: The rainy day fund, which was drained by the recession after topping a billion dollars, was left in April 2011 with a balance of 89 cents. Seeing an opportunity few of us could resist, Perera wrote himself into state legend by writing a check to the state for 89 cents and doubling the fund. Kasich actually understated the fund’s latest balance, as of March 30, when he  rounded it to $240 million. The 89 cents was accurate. His statement rates as .
Statement: The Affordable Care Act "provided over 200,000 West Virginians with health care coverage.
Speaker: west virginia democratic party
About the speaker: The West Virginia Democratic Party is the official Democratic organization in the Mountain State.
Date: April 1, 2019
Location: west virginia
Topics: health care
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: The West Virginia Democratic Party said the Affordable Care Act "provided over 200,000 West Virginians with health care coverage." The combination of insurance purchases on the marketplace and the increase in Medicaid coverage works out to 205,699, according to the most recent data available. That’s in line with what the tweet said, so we rate it .
Statement: Crist sent his "top policy staffer to the House Committee to testify in support of the proposal," then vetoed the bill.
Speaker: adam hasner
About the speaker: Adam Hasner, R-Delray Beach, is a former Majority Leader for the Florida House of Representatives.
Date: April 15, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: education
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: That may be , but the one ultimately responsible for the actions of Crist's administration is Crist. A Crist education policy staffer went to a House committee hearing on March 25 and indicated the governor's support for a controversial teacher pay plan. Three weeks later, Crist vetoed essentially the same bill. We rate Hasner's statement . Story has been updated with comments from Crist spokesman Sterling Ivey.
Statement: COVID-19 "has killed less people than the damn flu.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 18, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: But that’s not an apples-to-apples comparison. Since it was discovered, COVID-19 has killed far more people. In 2020, COVID-19 was the third-leading cause of death in the United States, according to the CDC, after heart disease and cancer. About 345,000 Americans died of COVID-19 during that calendar year, or more than nine times as many Americans who die of the flu on average every year. We rate this  .
Statement: Obama unilaterally announced he was delaying employer mandate "through a blog post by a mid-level bureaucrat at the Department of Treasury.
Speaker: ted cruz
About the speaker: Ted Cruz is a U.S. Senator from Texas, first elected in 2012. Cruz also was a candidate for president of the United States in 2016. He is the former solicitor general for the state of Texas, previously serving as the director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice, and as a domestic policy advisor on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign, according to his campaign biography.
Date: January 10, 2014
Location: texas
Topics: corrections and updates;health care;legal issues;taxes
Context: a speech at a Texas Public Policy Foundation forum
Fact-check justification: Cruz said that Obama unilaterally announced he was delaying the employer mandate "through a blog post by a mid-level bureaucrat at the Department of Treasury." The announcement was also made on a White House blog, and "mid-level bureaucrat" isn’t necessarily accurate. We rate his statement 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. Correction, 4:10 p.m. Jan. 21, 2014: We revised this story, which originally overstated the salary of executive-level IV government employees. This correction did not affect our rating of the .
Statement: A teacher watched hard-core pornography in his classroom," along with other inappropriate behavior, but Tony Evers didn't revoke the teacher's license and "the teacher is still in the classroom.
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 5, 2018
Location: wisconsin
Topics: children;education;government regulation;sexuality
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: Our rating Walker says: "A teacher watched hard-core pornography in his classroom," along with other inappropriate behavior, but Tony Evers didn't revoke the teacher's license and "the teacher is still in the classroom." The first part of Walker’s statement, about the teacher’s behavior, is correct on two points; but on two other points, the validity of the allegations is unclear. Meanwhile, the more important part of Walker’s statement is  in saying Evers could have and didn’t revoke the teacher’s license. There was a lack of legal basis for revocation at the time — made clear by the fact that Walkers and Evers backed a change in state law so that teachers can be fired for viewing pornography at school. For a statement that contains only elements of , our rating is .
Statement: Says Bill Nelson voted to cut $700 billion out of Medicare to pay for Obamacare.
Speaker: connie mack
About the speaker: Connie Mack was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in November 2004. Mack, of Fort Myers, lost a U.S. Senate race to Sen. Bill Nelson in 2012. He served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2000 to 2003.
Date: October 17, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: medicare
Context: the Florida U.S. Senate debate
Fact-check justification: Mack said Nelson voted to cut $700 billion out of Medicare, to pay for Obamacare. Medicare spending increases under Obamacare, but over 10 years, it rises more slowly that it would without the law. The money comes from reducing payments to insurance companies and hospitals. Part of the savings go to reduce prescription drug payments for Medicare recipients, as well as to provide free preventive care. Overall, the lower spending extends the solvency of Medicare by eight years. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says she "oversaw an audit that won the city $2 million in franchise fees.
Speaker: amanda fritz
About the speaker: Amanda Fritz is a Portland city commissioner.
Date: September 28, 2012
Location: oregon
Topics: city budget;city government
Context: a campaign mailer
Fact-check justification: In her mailer, Fritz said that she "oversaw an audit that won the city $2 million in franchise fees." Indeed, while she oversaw the Office of Cable Communications and Franchise Management, the city settled a franchise dispute worth nearly $2.5 million. Still, some clarification is necessary -- namely that the audit began well before she was in office and also that the city was poised to get $1.3 million of the amount due before she intervened. She did push to get more than initially offered, but it’s not as though the city would have left empty-handed otherwise. We rate this  .
Statement: Says Republicans "just passed" the Veterans Choice program after 44 years of trying. "They've been trying to pass that one for many, many decades.
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: October 1, 2018
Location: national
Topics: veterans
Context: Johnson City, Tenn
Fact-check justification: Trump said that he and his fellow Republican "passed Choice," something that others had been trying to do for 44 years. He described the program as one that allowed veterans to get private care at government expense. The program to do exactly that has been around for four years. And it’s always been referred to as Choice. We rate this  .
Statement: In nine Democratic debates, "We've not had one question about a woman's right to make her own decisions about reproductive health care, not one question.
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: April 14, 2016
Location: national
Topics: abortion;debates
Context: Brooklyn
Fact-check justification: Clinton says in nine Democratic debates "We've not had one question about a woman's right to make her own decisions about reproductive health care, not one question." We could not find any example of a moderator asking a direct question about abortion, however Clinton and Sanders both raised the topic in multiple debates. We rate this  .
Statement: Says David Jolly "lobbied on a plan" by Rep. Paul Ryan that would turn Medicare into a voucher program.
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 25, 2014
Location: florida
Topics: medicare
Context: a campaign commercial
Fact-check justification: One of Sink’s campaign commercials claims that Jolly "lobbied on a plan" by Ryan that would turn Medicare into a voucher program. She’s suggesting that a meeting with would-be Medicare reformist Ryan on behalf of Free Enterprise Nation had to be advocating for the congressman’s plan to alter the face of the retiree health insurance program. Jolly’s campaign acknowledged that Jolly had attended a meeting on an overall budget proposal that included changes to Medicare, and under the law, that is enough to count as lobbying. But Jolly’s camp says he didn’t support Ryan’s potential changes to Medicare, and we can’t contradict that. More importantly, neither can Sink. Democrats used vague language that a reasonable person would assume meant Jolly was promoting the voucher portion of the proposal, when Jolly says he was critical of it. There’s a lack of  to tie Jolly specifically to that part of the Ryan budget plan, even though he did lobby on the legislation and was discussing Medicare. Sink is leaving out important context as she tries to harness a hot-button issue. We rate her  .
Statement: On the personal tax side, middle-income people are getting cuts and rich people are getting very little cuts or, in certain cases, increases" under the Republican tax bills.
Speaker: steve mnuchin
About the speaker: Donald Trump nominated longtime banker and former Goldman Sachs executive Steve Mnuchin to fill the Treasury secretary position in late November and was confirmed in Febuary. 
Date: November 19, 2017
Location: national
Topics: taxes
Context: an interview on "Fox News Sunday"
Fact-check justification: Mnuchin said, "On the personal tax side, middle-income people are getting cuts and rich people are getting very little cuts or, in certain cases, increases" under the Republican tax bills. Mnuchin's suggestion that middle-income Americans would do better than richer Americans stems from an analysis that looks only at the bills’ change to personal taxes, not at other types of taxes being rewritten in the bills, such as business and estate taxes. Once the proposed changes to these other taxes are taken into account, the bills’ tilt towards middle-income earners flips to become a tilt towards wealthier Americans. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says Mike Bloomberg is "a candidate who in 2015 stated, and I quote: 'I, for example, am not in favor, have never been in favor of raising the minimum wage.'
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 15, 2020
Location: national
Topics: vermont
Context: Nevada
Fact-check justification: Sanders quoted Bloomberg as saying in 2015 that he had never supported raising the minimum wage.  Bloomberg did make that statement. He called for raising the Earned Income Tax Credit instead.  Bloomberg changed his position in 2020. He now supports raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour over six years. With that clarification, we rate this statement .
Statement: Says the tax bill "is going to cost me a fortune, this thing -- believe me. Believe me, this is not good for me.
Speaker: donald trump
About the speaker: Donald Trump is the former president of the United States. He was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016.  He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015, 2017 and 2019 Lie of the Year. In November 2022, he announced he would run for president in 2024.
Date: November 29, 2017
Location: national
Topics: taxes
Context: St. Charles, Mo
Fact-check justification: Trump said, "This (tax bill) is going to cost me a fortune, this thing -- believe me. Believe me, this is not good for me." While there is uncertainty about the exact scale of Trump’s potential gains -- both because of the lack of a final version of the bill and because of big gaps in the public knowledge about his personal finances -- either of the GOP bills would almost certainly give Trump a big windfall. Two independent analyses suggest that it could be in the low tens of millions of dollars immediately. His family also could get as much as $1.1 billion over the longer term if the estate tax is fully repealed, as the House bill would do. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says "political interference" from Scott Walker's administration has led to "gagging (DNR) scientists so they can no longer comment on proposed legislation" and "we're letting polluters write their own permits.
Speaker: kelda helen roys
About the speaker: Kelda Helen Roys, a Madison Democrat, was elected to the Wisconsin Assembly in 2008 and served until 2012. In 2012, she lost to Mark Pocan in the race for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. House of Representatives. She is running for the Democratic nomination for governor in 2018. An attorney, Roys is the former executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin, which supports abortion rights.
Date: May 2, 2018
Location: wisconsin
Topics: environment;regulation;science
Context: a cable interview
Fact-check justification: As for the Walker administration, DNR scientists are permitted to share their expertise regarding proposed legislation -- without declaring a position or commenting on the legislation itself -- by invitation only. The  suggests this still happens frequently, though pre-Walker staffers had more latitude in what they could say. As for the second half of Roys’ statement, Walker has taken steps to change permit-writing processes so that businesses are more involved (and DNR officials less involved). But the plans have not come to fruition, and even if they did, responsibility would shift to "assured contractors" and would not occur in-house with those Roys labeled the "polluters." On balance, we rate the  .
Statement: The Koch brothers are "the richest people in the world. Individually, they're only fifth. Put them together they're the richest in the world.
Speaker: harry reid
About the speaker: Harry Reid is a former U.S. senator from Nevada. He served as the Democratic minority leader in the U.S. Senate immediately prior to leaving office.
Date: April 2, 2014
Location: national
Topics: campaign finance
Context: a Senate floor speech
Fact-check justification: Reid said the Koch brothers are "the richest people in the world. Individually they're only fifth. Put them together they're the richest in the world." If you look at families -- which is what Reid is essentially doing -- then Charles and David Koch rank second internationally to six members of the Walton family, at least according to Forbes . That’s still pretty close to the top of the list. We rate his statement .
Statement: New York has passed "the best paid family leave" program in the United States of America.
Speaker: andrew cuomo
About the speaker: Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, was elected to his first term as governor of New York in 2010.
Date: December 17, 2018
Location: new york
Topics: families;states;workers
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Gov. Andrew Cuomo called New York’s paid family leave policy the "best" in the country. Experts generally agreed that major features of New York’s policy, such as duration, wage replacement, eligibility, and job protection are more favorable for employees on leave than programs in other states. Other states that have approved but not yet activated paid leave programs will offer more generous benefits in certain respects than New York does. It’s also worth noting that while workers eligible for and interested in paid leave may think one program is "best," their colleagues and employers may disagree. We rate Cuomo’s statement .