Latest Fact Checks By Madeline Heim

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Macco is mostly right on tax claim, but off base on how Evers sought to raise them

By Madeline Heim
May 6, 2022
Says Gov. Tony Evers "wanted to increase your taxes by $1 billion just for heating your homes. Instead, Republicans cut your taxes by more than…
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Nurse tends to a hospital patient in acute care

Godlewski off-base with claim on Johnson’s view on coverage for those with pre-existing conditions

By Madeline Heim
April 15, 2022
"Ron Johnson is trying to let insurance companies deny coverage to people with pre-existing conditions like cancer, depression, pregnancy, diabetes—or even COVID.”
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Wisconsin Evers and Nicholson

No, Evers didn’t refuse to remove vets board chair who was charged with possession of child porn

By Madeline Heim
April 8, 2022
“Over the course of two months, Tony Evers refused to remove (Curtis Schmitt Jr.) from the (state’s veterans) Board despite having the authority to do…
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Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin interior

Yes, Evers gave COVID relief money to Planned Parenthood — but it’s not being used to fund abortions

By Madeline Heim
March 25, 2022
Says Gov. Tony Evers gave $2.4 million in COVID relief money to Planned Parenthood affiliates throughout Wisconsin “to bail them out and fund abortions."
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Claim that Evers brought Republicans and Democrats together on tax cut doesn’t tell full story

By Madeline Heim
March 22, 2022
“Gov. Tony Evers brought Republicans and Democrats together to cut income taxes for the middle class.”
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No, vaccination does not cause COVID-19 to mutate faster

By Madeline Heim
March 1, 2022
“Over-vaccination causes faster mutation of the (COVID-19) virus, which causes a super virus we may not have the ability to fight off.”
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Wisconsin Assembly session

Republican leaders have made clear they don’t think Wisconsin’s electoral votes can be rescinded

By Madeline Heim
February 28, 2022
“Republican leadership has not been clear about whether they support Rep. Ramthun’s illegal and undemocratic resolution” on the 2020 election.
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Pelosi and Schumer sign ARPA

Senate Republicans mostly right on amount of ARPA, CARES money Evers has gotten out the door

By Madeline Heim
February 25, 2022
Gov. Tony Evers has “only gotten one-third of the money meant for COVID relief out the door. He is sitting on $930 million in ARPA…
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Democrats made early moves on high-speed internet access, but at local level, it’s not partisan

By Madeline Heim
December 28, 2021
The push for high-speed internet for rural areas, from the start, “was a Democratic thing.”
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Pfizer vaccine vial

Johnson falsely says unvaccinated people around the world are being put into ‘internment camps’

By Madeline Heim
December 13, 2021
Around the world, people who exercise their "health autonomy" and don't get vaccinated are being put "basically into internment camps."
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Bewley wrong that Legislative maps could be drawn to provide a statehouse of half GOP, half Dems

By Madeline Heim
November 23, 2021
“Wisconsin is almost equally divided on partisan lines” and therefore new Legislative maps could be drawn to “represent that 50-50 split.”
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FBI Associated Press

Kleefisch misses mark with claim that the FBI will be targeting parents on critical race theory

By Madeline Heim
November 9, 2021
The Biden Department of Justice “would use the FBI to target parents who speak out against critical race theory.”
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