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Statement: Opponent Holly Benson said that "Just because you're poor doesn't mean you're unhealthy, it just means you have a lot more time to go running.
Speaker: pam bondi
About the speaker: Pam Bondi, a former Hillsborough County prosecutor, was elected Floriday Attorney General on Nov. 2, 2010 and re-elected Nov. 4, 2014. After leaving office, she joined Ballard Partners lobbying firm in Washington D.C.
Date: July 15, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: candidate biography;health care
Context: a campaign mail piece
Fact-check justification: "Thank you sir, I apologize for that. As soon as I said it, I regretted it," Benson says according to the audio recording. "I mistook something that Ms. Menzel said and meant that there's no reason that anybody couldn't be healthy at any time." Bondi quotes Benson accurately in the campaign mailer, but Benson tried to walk back her comment right away and apologized for it later in the same radio interview. We rate Bondi's statement  .
Statement: U.S. Rep. Bill Young "has accepted $737,000 from lobbyists and recipients of his earmarks.
Speaker: charlie justice
About the speaker: Sen. Charlie Justice is a Democrat representing St. Petersburg.
Date: April 14, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: candidate biography;elections;message machine 2010
Context: a web ad
Fact-check justification: Back to Justice's . In a web ad, he claims that U.S. Rep. Bill Young "has accepted $737,000 from lobbyists and recipients of his earmarks," and offers two documents totaling more than 80 pages to back up his . We checked the research and, quite frankly, find it a little squirrely. We know that Justice can only track earmarks back to 2008 because prior to that they were largely inserted anonymously, but he includes campaign contributions dating back to 1998. That's not a  apples to apples comparison. And the numbers don't add up. We don't know where Justice got the $737,000 from -- originally we tallied more than $1 million in contributions (though a lot of that was double counted). Then, Justice's campaign provided us with a second document with another $1 million in contributions (and again, a lot of that was double counted). Granted, the number still totals nearly $800,000 when you add both documents together and only count unique contributions. But Justice's  is shaky because he is relying on two leaps of logic -- that any contributor who happens to be employed by a company is a "recipient" and that any lobbyist with a firm that did work for a recipient is tied to the earmark. Both create holes in his . We find it .
Statement: California voters to be able to download ballots at home for recall election, sparking security concerns.
Speaker: larry elder
About the speaker: Larry Elder announced April 20 that he is running as a Republican for president. He lost the California gubernatorial recall election in 2021 and is a conservative radio talk show host.
Date: August 19, 2021
Location: california
Topics: disability;elections
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: County elections officials then match that signature with the ones on file to verify each ballot.   Elder’s campaign did not respond to a request for  to support the  about security concerns. The article he tweeted out doesn’t include anyone raising concerns about the remote voter program.   We rated the  Elder tweeted out as .    – The statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression.
Statement: John McCain's chief economic adviser during the '08 race … estimated that Trump's promises would cause America to lose 3.5 million jobs.
Speaker: tim kaine
About the speaker: Tim Kaine is a U.S. senator representing Virginia, elected to the Senate in 2012. He was the 2016 Democratic nominee for vice president.
Kaine was governor from 2006 to 2010, lieutenant governor from 2002 to 2006, mayor of Richmond from 1998 to 2001, and city councilman of Richmond beginning in 1994. He was also the chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2009 to 2011.
Kaine was born in St. Paul, Minn. He earned a bachelor's degree in economics in 1979 from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and a law degree from Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass., in 1983. He took a year-long break during law school to work with the Jesuit order as a Catholic missionary in Honduras, becoming fluent in Spanish.
 
Date: July 27, 2016
Location: national
Topics: economy
Context: Philadelphia
Fact-check justification: Kaine said "John McCain’s chief economic adviser during the ’08 race … estimated that Trump’s promises would cause america to lose 3.5 million jobs." The Moody’s report concluded that Trump’s economic proposals, if adopted in full, could cost 3.5 million jobs. And Zandi was a donor and economic adviser to the McCain campaign. But he was not the chief adviser, and this isn’t the full picture of his political affiliations. As it turns out, Zandi is a registered Democrat and donated the maximum amount to Clinton’s primary campaign. Zandi is a well-respected economist, and we are not in this fact-check casting doubt on the credibility of his Trump report or his work generally. He has advised and worked on issues for politicians on both sides of the aisle for many years. But to identify Zandi only as a former adviser of McCain leaves out a lot of the story about Zandi’s political affiliations. We rate Kaine’s  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/097b24d4-9ee7-492a-abbe-ea4ea40bd86f
Statement: Says that in 2015, "illegal" immigrants accounted for 75 percent of federal drug possession convictions and 5 percent to 30 percent of convictions for murder and kidnapping plus two other crimes.
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: August 23, 2016
Location: texas
Topics: immigration;criminal justice;crime
Context: a slide presented on Hannity’s show during an Austin interview of Donald Trump
Fact-check justification: Hannity's slide states that in fiscal 2015, "illegal immigrants" represented 5 percent to 75 percent of U.S. residents convicted of five federal crimes ranging from murder to simple drug possession. Those figures accurately reflect federal data though a comprehensive picture would arguably fold in individuals convicted on similar state and local charges. We rate the statement .  – The statement is accurate and there’s nothing significant missing. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check. https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/8cea2cab-94b1-4f22-bd4e-b23a515342cf
Statement: The sequester is not something that I've proposed. It is something that Congress has proposed.
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: October 22, 2012
Location: national
Topics: debates;federal budget;military
Context: a presidential debate
Fact-check justification:     Obama said that the sequester -- and the defense cuts that would result from it -- was not his proposition. "It is something that Congress has proposed," he said in the debate. But it was Obama’s negotiating team that came up with the idea for defense cuts in 2011, though they were intended to prod Congress to come up with a better deal for reining in the deficit, not as an effort to make those cuts reality.     Meanwhile, members of both parties in Congress voted for the legislation that set up the possibility of sequestration. Obama’s position is that Congress should now act to avoid those across-the-board cuts.     Obama can’t rightly say the sequester isn’t his, but he did need cooperation from Congress to get to this point. We rate the statement .
Statement: There were not chemical irritants" used to clear a crowd. Pepper balls are "not a chemical irritant.
Speaker: william barr
About the speaker: William Barr was the United States Attorney General during President Donald Trump's administration for most of 2019 and 2020.
Date: June 7, 2020
Location: national
Topics: civil rights
Context: an interview on CBS News' Face the Nation
Fact-check justification: Barr said federal officers used no chemical irritants to clear people away from a D.C. church Trump planned to visit. He said pepper balls are not chemical irritants. The Park Police used impact munitions made by the PepperBall company. Those munitions contain PAVA, a synthetic chemical that causes extreme eye pain. The Justice Department says pepper balls contain "highly irritating pepper powder." We rate Barr’s  .
Statement: California state Sen. Scott Wiener "doesn't just want to sterilize California kids, but sterilization of kids everywhere!
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: October 23, 2022
Location: california
Topics: lgbtq;facebook fact-checks
Context: Instagram post
Fact-check justification: An Instagram video claimed that Wiener, a California state lawmaker,  "doesn’t just want to sterilize California kids, but sterilization of kids everywhere!" The post refers to Senate Bill 107, which Wiener sponsored and establishes California as a haven for families of trans youth seeking gender-affirming health care by choice. It does not call for forced sterilization, which is widely considered a human rights violation.  We rate this  . RELATED: New California law on transgender youths doesn’t remove a parent’s custody
Statement: I've gotten to see the commercials that they did on you. And I've gotten to see some of the most vicious commercials I've ever seen of Michelle Obama talking about you, Hillary.
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 9, 2016
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography
Context: St. Louis
Fact-check justification: Trump said, "I've gotten to see the commercials that they did on you. And I've gotten to see some of the most vicious commercials I've ever seen of Michelle Obama talking about you, Hillary." Trump is  to imply that Michelle Obama’s criticism came in an ad her husband ran against Hillary Clinton. Instead, it came from an ad made by a pro-Trump super PAC. And, the comments from Michelle Obama are somewhat oblique. They might be about Hillary Clinton, but they also might be simple pro-family sentiments. We rate Trump’s statement .
Statement: Almost nine out of every 10 pennies that would be spent" turning a 200-mile stretch of Interstate 70 into a toll road "would be from folks outside Missouri.
Speaker: jay nixon
About the speaker: Jay Nixon, re-elected governor of Missouri in November 2012, previously served as attorney general and as a state senator.
Date: August 20, 2015
Location: missouri
Topics: state budget;transportation
Context: comments at the Missouri State Fair
Fact-check justification: Nixon claimed that "nine out of every 10 pennies" spent on the proposed I-70 toll road would come from non-Missourians. His office later clarified that the remark was "part of an extemporaneous answer" to a question from a reporter. In reality, it’s a guess. The report Nixon’s office cited includes many interesting traffic figures, but none of them support his specific . And while the federal highway trust fund would cover much of the work, some of that money comes from gas taxes paid by Missourians. Nixon has a point that a toll road would bring in a good chunk of revenue from out-of-state drivers and  the federal government. But 90 percent? That’s an unsubstantiated guess. We rate this  .
Statement: Odds of winning the Monopoly Millionaire instant win game are 1 in 3.27.
Speaker: georgia lottery
About the speaker: Georgia Lottery logo
Date: January 24, 2013
Location: georgia
Topics: lottery
Context: on a ticket
Fact-check justification: These prizes may not count for Lynn, but they sure do for lottery experts, other lottery players and the Georgia Lottery. A free ticket is considered an item of material value, and it is therefore inherently considered a prize, just like cash, a car or any other prize offered by the gaming operator. The Georgia Lottery’s stated odds printed on the Monopoly Millionaire instant game are accurate. We give the lottery a  on this one. And we wish Lynn better luck next time.
Statement: This is the worst jobs recovery since the Great Depression.
Speaker: herman cain
About the speaker: Herman Cain is an author, columnist and talk radio host. Cain, a former pizza franchise CEO, ran for president as a Republican in 2012.
Date: September 15, 2011
Location: georgia
Topics: economy
Context: an op-ed
Fact-check justification: The data do show that this one is weaker than most. In this regard, Cain does have a point. But it’s  for Cain to say, "This is the worst jobs recovery since the Great Depression." It’s a weak recovery, but not the worst. We therefore rate Cain’s  .
Statement: Says Gov. Rick Scott lost Florida 331,247 jobs.
Speaker: pink slip rick
About the speaker: PinkSlipRick.com is an attack website that was created to measure the jobs Florida Gov. Rick Scott is eliminating or causing the state of Florida to lose by his decisions.
Date: April 2, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: jobs
Context: picket signs at a parade
Fact-check justification: Prison and DCF jobs depend on what the Legislature does, and that's still an unknown.  As for high-speed rail, yes, we've ruled that those jobs won't be coming -- but there were only 21,600 of them at the peak of construction. So Pink Slip Rick has pulled together a bunch of numbers but is misrepresenting what they mean. You can't just lump the governor's cost-saving proposals, which need legislative approval and will undergo tinkering by lawmakers, and vague estimates stemming from rumored policy decisions into one sum and label it "Jobs Lost." We rate Pink Slip Rick's  .
Statement: For the first time in history, (Thor's) hammer is being held by a woman.
Speaker: whoopi goldberg
About the speaker: Whoopi Goldberg is an award-winning actress and comedian who co-hosts ABC's daytime talk show, The View.
Date: July 15, 2014
Topics: pop culture;punditfact
Context: a segment on "The View"
Fact-check justification: Goldberg said Thor "is no longer worthy to hold that damn hammer of his. And for the first time in history that hammer is being held by a woman." It appears Goldberg mixed up her talking points. While this is the first time a woman will be Thor, it’s not the first time a woman has held Thor’s hammer. Storm, Rogue, DC’s Wonder Woman and Jane Foster are among the female characters who have held Thor’s hammer,  in alternate storylines. By Odin’s beard, it’s tough to do this. But Whoopi, your  rates .
Statement: Four out of 10 homicides are committed by gun in this city.
Speaker: sam adams
About the speaker: Sam Adams is the mayor of Portland. Before that he was a city commissioner and , for 11 years, was chief of staff to then-Mayor Vera Katz.
Date: December 1, 2010
Location: oregon
Topics: crime;guns
Context: a city council meeting
Fact-check justification: We also asked Jeff Bock, the Oregon Uniform Crime Reporting manager with the Oregon State Police, to check homicide causes in other cities in the state. Again, firearms led the way, with knives and other sharp tools trailing behind. Of 373 homicides 2006-2009 in Portland, Gresham, Beaverton, Hillsboro, Eugene and Salem, nearly half involved firearms and 25 percent involved knives or other sharp-edged instruments. We find the statement made by Adams to be . Comment on this item.
Statement: Final election 2016 numbers: Trump won" the popular vote.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: November 12, 2016
Location: national
Topics: elections
Context: web posts
Fact-check justification: Social media was abuzz with the  that the "final election 2016 numbers" showed that Trump had won won both the popular and Electoral College contests. Trump certainly won the Electoral College vote, and as a result, he will become president. But he clearly trails in the popular vote. As of this writing, Clinton is ahead by nearly 800,000 votes, a margin that is likely to expand further as late returns trickle in from California, Oregon and Washington state, all of which are strong Clinton states. We rate the  .
Statement: Gov. Romney cut off kosher meals for Jewish senior citizens who were on Medicaid to save $5 a day.
Speaker: newt gingrich
About the speaker: Newt Gingrich is a political adviser and author. A former Georgia congressman, Gingrich served as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. Gingrich sought the GOP nomination for president in 2012.
Date: January 30, 2012
Location: national
Topics: medicaid;religion;retirement
Context: Tampa, Fla
Fact-check justification: Gingrich claimed that as governor of Massachusetts, "Romney cut off kosher meals for Jewish senior citizens who were on Medicaid to save $5 a day." It’s  that one Massachusetts nursing home said in 2002 that it would close its kosher kitchen. But that decision was made based on a state funding decision before Romney took office. And that nursing home still planned to offer kosher meals to its residents — just not from an in-house facility. It’s also  that when lawmakers rallied to provide money to make sure nursing homes didn’t have to make that choice, Romney attempted to veto extra funding, saying it would boost nursing home rates. But his veto was quickly overridden. There's no  any senior citizens were denied kosher food. We rate Gingrich’s  .
Statement: Says according to the FBI, more people are killed each year with hammers and clubs than rifles.
Speaker: greg abbott
About the speaker: Greg Abbott won election as governor of Texas in November 2014, carrying 59 percent of the vote. Abbott was re-elected in 2018. Abbott, a former member of the Texas Supreme Court, served three terms as the state's attorney general before being succeeded by Ken Paxton in early 2015.
Date: January 3, 2013
Location: texas
Topics: crime;guns
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Like an older Facebook item, Abbott’s tweet uses data selectively, ignoring the significant role of handguns in gun violence. That said, it is correct that FBI data indicates that in 2011, more people were killed with "clubs and hammers" than with any type of rifle. We rate his statement as .   Clarification: This story originally posted with the "speaker" identified as "Facebook posts" instead of Greg Abbott. Updated 2:54 p.m. Jan. 30, 2012.
Statement: Says Royce West stood with Wendy Davis "to support painful late-term abortions.
Speaker: john cornyn
About the speaker: John Cornyn is a U.S. senator from Texas, former Texas attorney general and former justice on the Texas Supreme Court. He earlier served as a Bexar County state district judge.
Date: July 22, 2019
Location: texas
Topics: abortion
Context: an advertisement
Fact-check justification: Our Ruling An advertisement from Cornyn’s campaign said that West, one of his Democratic challengers, stood with Wendy Davis "to support painful late-term abortions." It’s  that West supported Davis in her effort to kill a bill that would ban abortions at 20 weeks post-fertilization, but the legislation did much more than that. Opponents worried that it would close abortion clinics, which offer other health care services to women. Davis has said she opposes late-term abortions and officials with her team said she filibustered the legislation because it would force clinics to close — which it did. We rate this  .
Statement: Says if elected, he would be the first Mayor who lives east of 82nd.
Speaker: jefferson smith
About the speaker: Jefferson Smith represents Oregon State House District 47.  He is a native of east Portland, the district he represents.
Date: November 1, 2011
Location: oregon
Topics: elections
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: Smith, for his part, lives east of Interstate 205 on Northeast Pacific Street, according to voting and campaign records. All of this is to say that Smith was right on. If Portlanders select him as their next mayor, he’ll be the first to reside east of 82nd Avenue. We give this  a . Return to OregonLive to comment on this PolitiFact ruling.
Statement: Two-thirds of the (Hurricane Sandy relief) bill had nothing to do with Sandy.
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: August 28, 2017
Location: national
Topics: federal budget;natural disasters 
Context: an MSNBC interview
Fact-check justification: Cruz said that two-thirds of Hurricane Sandy relief money had nothing to do with Sandy. The numbers don’t back that up. Cruz might have been focused on the difference between immediate emergency relief and longer term reconstruction, but his words skipped over that distinction. The data and the assessment of experts show that the bulk of the funds went to the places hit hardest by Sandy. There was a leaky bucket, but not at the level Cruz declared. We rate this  .
Statement: In Rhode Island, 28 percent of adults released from state prisons are re-incarcerated within a year.
Speaker: ban the box ri
About the speaker: Ban the Box RI is a group that supports legislation prohibiting employers from including questions about criminal records on job applications.
Date: March 20, 2013
Location: rhode island
Topics: criminal justice;economy;jobs;legal issues;crime;government regulation;public safety;privacy issues
Context: a video posted on YouTube
Fact-check justification: The group Ban the Box RI, in its video says that "in Rhode Island, 28 percent of adults released from state prisons are re-incarcerated within a year." That was an accurate citation of a Department of Corrections figure at the time. The figure was revised to 31 percent -- close enough for us to rule  . (If you have a  you’d like PolitiFact Rhode Island to check, e-mail us at [email protected] And follow us on Twitter: @politifactri.)