Latest Fact-Checks By Janie Har

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Oregon 2014
stated on September 17, 2013 in online campaign materials:

"In fiscal year 2011-2012, 4,191 abortions were paid for by taxpayers via the Oregon Health Plan."

True

By Janie Har • September 24, 2013

Doug Whitsett
stated on August 16, 2013 in a guest column:

"Over the past twenty years, the number of homicides committed with a firearm in the United States has decreased by nearly 40 percent. The number of other crimes involving the use of a firearm has also plummeted, declining by nearly 70 percent."

True

By Janie Har • September 7, 2013

Earl Blumenauer
stated on August 23, 2013 in a forum :

"The city of Portland has won more national Constitution contests than any city in America."

True

By Janie Har • September 3, 2013

Jim Francesconi
stated on August 7, 2013 in a guest column:

Half of Oregon university students are on Pell Grants.

Mostly True

By Janie Har • August 31, 2013

Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT)
stated on June 26, 2013 in an interview:

Portland Bureau of Transportation "barely break(s) even" ticketing motorists.

Half-True

By Janie Har • July 20, 2013

Jeff Kruse
stated on July 8, 2013 in a Senate floor speech:

Says that in Curry County, "if you make a 911 call you’re likely to wait for an hour for a response."

Half-True

By Janie Har • July 13, 2013

Jason Conger
stated on June 19, 2013 in a House floor speech:

Says "the mandate is 71 times that a child’s body will be injected with a disease" for immunizations.

False

By Janie Har • June 29, 2013

Amalgamated Transit Union
stated on June 13, 2013 in a newspaper ad:

Says TriMet spends "$10.3 million in police contracts" a year for 56 transit police who must respond to non-transit calls

Mostly True

By Janie Har • June 22, 2013

Oregon Republican Party
stated on May 29, 2013 in in a press release:

Says a group "estimates that the annual cost to Oregon taxpayers for government services to illegal aliens, after any income tax revenue from them, is $1 billion."

Mostly False

By Janie Har • June 15, 2013

Earl Blumenauer
stated on June 4, 2013 in a U.S. Ways and Means hearing:

Says "Having organizations parading as being social welfare organizations and then being involved in the political combat harkens back to why the statute a hundred years ago said that they were prohibited."

False

By Janie Har • June 13, 2013

Chain email
stated on June 3, 2013 in a chain email:

Says "At age 76 when you most need it, you are not eligible for cancer treatment" under Affordable Care Act.

Pants on Fire!

By Janie Har • June 8, 2013

National Republican Congressional Committee
stated on May 23, 2013 in a press release:

Says "With nearly 75 percent of Americans supportive of the construction of the pipeline, Schrader needs to explain to Oregon families why he voted against this needed project."

Mostly True

By Janie Har • June 1, 2013

Carolyn Tomei
stated on May 15, 2013 in a House floor speech:

Says, "In Oregon in 2010, 49 percent of all pregnancies were unintended."

Mostly True

By Janie Har • May 24, 2013

Family Forward Oregon
stated on May 8, 2013 in a flier:

Says paid family leave is "a program that is standard in all but five nations around the world."

Mostly True

By Janie Har • May 18, 2013

Portland Association of Teachers
stated on April 25, 2013 in a newsletter:

Says "Did you know that if you accepted the District's proposal today you would have NO pay increase for 4 years? Seven years of frozen wages = Disrespect."

Mostly False

By Janie Har • May 11, 2013

Ken Tanner
stated on April 24, 2013 in a radio news interview:

Says "The idea of one casino per tribe is a false one."

Half-True

By Janie Har • May 9, 2013

Metro
stated on April 24, 2013 in voters pamphlet:

Metro on whether it could use bond money for restoration.

Full Flop

By Janie Har • May 4, 2013

Oregon Health Authority
stated on April 24, 2013 in a draft report:

Says that in 2007, "Oregon ranked 25th -- or 7th from the bottom -- in percentage of children with untreated decay compared to 32 other states with similar data."

False

By Janie Har • May 2, 2013

Clean Water Portland
stated on April 8, 2013 in a campaign flier:

Says "If you compare the Portland Metro area to the CDC’s statewide cavity rates ... the Portland Metro area would actually rank as having the 15th lowest cavity rate in the U.S."

False

By Janie Har • April 20, 2013

Caddy McKeown
stated on April 4, 2013 in a House floor speech:

Says "A baby in Coos County is two times as likely to be born to a mother who is someone who used tobacco during her pregnancy as is the average baby born in Oregon or the U.S."

True

By Janie Har • April 12, 2013

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