Claim: "However, it took $19.5 million in Oregon Lottery funds for the Port of Newport to eventually land the new NOAA Marine Operations Center-Pacific."
Fact-check: Did it really take Oregon Lottery money to "land" the NOAA operations center in Newport? 
Verdict: half-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Janie Har
Date published: 2012-03-21T00:00:00