Latest Fact-Checks In The 2018 California Governor's Race

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John Chiang
John Chiang
stated on May 12, 2018 in a campaign ad:
Antonio Villaraigosa's "recklessness (as mayor of Los Angeles)  ... left no funding to test 7,000 rape kits, putting public safety at risk."
False
By Chris Nichols • May 16, 2018
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on April 23, 2018 in in a campaign ad:
Gavin Newsom was "the first to take on the National Rifle Association and win."
False
By Chris Nichols • April 27, 2018
Travis Allen
Travis Allen
stated on February 1, 2018 in an interview on Capital Public Radio:
"Californians are overwhelmingly against this concept of the illegal sanctuary state."
False
By Chris Nichols • February 7, 2018
Travis Allen
Travis Allen
stated on January 2, 2018 in interview on Fox News:
"Seventy four percent of Californians are absolutely against sanctuary state" policies.
False
By Chris Nichols • January 9, 2018
John Cox
John Cox
stated on October 21, 2017 in a Capital Public Radio interview:
Californians pay "the highest electricity bills" in the nation.
False
By Chris Nichols • November 16, 2017
Delaine Eastin
Delaine Eastin
stated on October 16, 2017 in an interview on Capital Public Radio:
Since 1965, California has built "six (college) campuses but 23 prisons."
False
By Chris Nichols • November 9, 2017
John Cox
John Cox
stated on October 19, 2017 in a San Francisco Chronicle op-ed.:
"It costs nearly five times as much in California to build and maintain a mile of road as it does in the rest of the nation."
False
By Chris Nichols • November 1, 2017
Antonio Villaraigosa
Antonio Villaraigosa
stated on June 6, 2017 in a speech:
"Seventy-seven of the top 300 cities with the highest poverty rate" nationwide are in California.
False
By Chris Nichols • June 9, 2017