Latest Fact Checks By D.L. Davis

Evers’ special education funding claim passes the test

By D.L. Davis

September 20, 2018

"Special education categorical aid" from the state "hasn’t been raised in over a decade."

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GOP U.S. Senate candidate Vukmir refreshes claim about 2011 Capitol ‘riots’

By D.L. Davis

September 4, 2018

Says "I have been through the gauntlet, when we had riots in that Capitol."

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LGBTQ advocates back Sen. Baldwin’s statement on Trump stance on transgender people in the military

By D.L. Davis

August 20, 2018

"President Trump continues to disrespect patriotic transgender Americans who want to serve their country."

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Sen. Tammy Baldwin’s claim about Trump administration word ban a bit of a Scrabble

By D.L. Davis

August 17, 2018

Says the Trump administration "has banned the CDC even using the word ‘transgender.’ "

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Wisconsin GOP takes jabs at Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mahlon Mitchell

By D.L. Davis

August 9, 2018

Says Mahlon Mitchell "received a massive raise on the backs of hard-working firefighters and turned the union into his own personal political slush fund."

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Has gubernatorial candidate Matt Flynn been consistent on position to stop Foxconn deal?

By D.L. Davis

August 2, 2018

On whether he would seek to undo the Foxconn deal.

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Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Flynn says Foxconn won’t face wetlands oversight. Is he correct?

By D.L. Davis

July 11, 2018

"Foxconn will not face oversight from any federal, state, or local agency to guarantee it complies with our wetlands protection laws."  

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Gov. Scott Walker says state schools chief Tony Evers is ignoring his ability to take over schools

By D.L. Davis

July 5, 2018

"By law, Democrats gave the superintendent of public instruction, back in 2009, the ability to take over failing schools … The current superintendent has failed…

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President Trump makes some interesting claims about Wisconsin’s Republican voting history

By D.L. Davis

June 29, 2018

Says Wisconsin "hadn’t been won by a Republican since Dwight D. Eisenhower, in 1952. And I won Wisconsin. …  Ronald Reagan, remember, Wisconsin was the…

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U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin’s ‘very cheesy ad’ cuts the mustard

By D.L. Davis

June 7, 2018

Says that "when federal bureaucrats wanted to prohibit the use of wooden cheese boards, which help make tens of millions of pounds of cheese a year"…

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Mike Pence uses outdated figure in claiming large drop in illegal border crossings

By D.L. Davis

May 11, 2018

 "Illegal crossings at our southern border have been cut by over 40 percent."

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U.S. Senate hopeful Kevin Nicholson stretches definition of state resident

By D.L. Davis

May 4, 2018

Says conservative mega-donor Richard Uihlein is a Wisconsin resident.

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