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0% 26 Checks
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Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on October 1, 2023 in a Facebook video:
New York Attorney General Letitia James and Judge Arthur Engoron valued Mar-a-Lago at $18 million.
False
By Amy Sherman • October 6, 2023
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on September 28, 2021 in an Instagram post:
The audit of the 2020 presidential election in Maricopa County, Ariz., “cost the taxpayers $6 million.”
Mostly False
September 30, 2021
Van Wanggaard
Van Wanggaard
stated on April 19, 2021 in Statement:
Foxconn “is the largest taxpayer in Racine County.”
True
By Haley BeMiller • April 27, 2021
Debbie Mucarsel-Powell
Debbie Mucarsel-Powell
stated on September 17, 2020 in a campaign website:
Says Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez “approved a 67% pay raise for himself and increased his own pension. He makes $250,000 a year, more than almost every big-city Mayor in the country. He also kept his taxpayer-funded Mercedes-Benz after slashing $400 million in government jobs and spending.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • September 30, 2020
Debbie Mucarsel-Powell
Debbie Mucarsel-Powell
stated on August 21, 2020 in an ad:
After a bridge collapse killed six people, Carlos Gimenez extended a $130 million contract to the construction company, where one of his sons worked and for which another lobbied.
Half-True
September 4, 2020
Jeanette Kowalik
Jeanette Kowalik
stated on June 14, 2020 in an appearance on WISN-TV's "UpFront":
"Our health department, our city and our county declared racism as a public health crisis last year.”
True
By Lawrence Andrea • June 18, 2020
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on July 21, 2018 in a debate:
"In December of 2017, the Prince William board of supervisors had a meeting ... (Corey Stewart) skipped that meeting to go campaign in Alabama for Roy Moore to be a U.S. senator … You haven't disavowed Roy Moore's name yet."
True
By Bill McCarthy • July 24, 2018
Edward Cox
Edward Cox
stated on May 1, 2018 in an interview on The Capital Pressroom:
Marc Molinaro "has cut taxes, his budget now is lower than it was six years ago" in Dutchess County
Half-True
By Dan Clark • May 24, 2018
Travis Forward
Travis Forward
stated on October 23, 2017 in a mailer advocating voter approval of Travis County bond propositions:
"The Travis County propositions will not raise your taxes! If you are 65 or older, your property taxes are frozen."  
False
By W. Gardner Selby • October 25, 2017
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on June 5, 2017 in an interview:
When he was Milwaukee County executive, "eight years in a row we pushed through budgets that did not increase the tax levy from the previous year."  
Mostly False
June 30, 2017
Mike McCabe
Mike McCabe
stated on May 21, 2017 in an interview:
"When you look at all the state and local taxes we pay in Wisconsin, the wealthiest 1 percent pay the lowest overall tax rate."
Mostly True
June 2, 2017
Chris Abele
Chris Abele
stated on May 18, 2017 in an interview:
Says David Clarke reduced the number of Milwaukee County sheriff's deputies "from about 700 and something to 300 and something."  
Half-True
May 26, 2017
Sean Duffy
Sean Duffy
stated on December 1, 2016 in an interview:
Wisconsin has only one county, Dane, "that's hand counting the votes" in the 2016 presidential recount.  
Pants on Fire!
December 9, 2016
Austin Board of Realtors PAC
Austin Board of Realtors PAC
stated on October 29, 2016 in a mailer spotted by an Austin voter:
Says Gerald Daugherty is endorsed by the Austin American-Statesman.
False
By W. Gardner Selby • November 1, 2016
Gerald Daugherty
Gerald Daugherty
stated on October 17, 2016 in his campaign website:
Says he’s "taken an 8% pay decrease in each of the nine years he has been in office."
Half-True
By Rachel Rice • October 24, 2016
Pat McCrory
Pat McCrory
stated on March 26, 2016 in a list of rebuttals to criticism over the law:
Despite the passage of HB2, "towns, cities and counties in North Carolina are still allowed to set stricter non-discrimination policies for their own employees if they choose."
Half-True
By Will Doran • March 31, 2016
Pat McCrory
Pat McCrory
stated on March 28, 2016 in a speech in Clayton, N.C.:
"We have not taken away any rights that have currently existed in any city in North Carolina" with the passage of HB2.
False
By Will Doran • March 30, 2016
Charlotte Nash
Charlotte Nash
stated on November 17, 2015 in a statement:
Since 2008, Gwinnett County’s population has grown 15 percent, while the county government staff has increased only 1 percent.
True
By Nancy Badertscher • December 11, 2015
Chris Larson
Chris Larson
stated on November 22, 2015 in an interview:
The Milwaukee County executive can sell the public "museum, the airport and the zoo" -- all on his own, without County Board approval  
Mostly True
December 3, 2015
Chris Abele
Chris Abele
stated on November 2, 2015 in a TV ad:
Says he balanced the Milwaukee County budget "without raising taxes five years in a row."
Half-True
November 10, 2015
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