Latest Fact-Checks By Karen Lee Ziner

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Vincent
Vincent "Buddy" Cianci
stated on September 10, 2014 in a radio interview:
Jorge Elorza "wants to impose a municipal income tax."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr., Karen Lee Ziner • September 12, 2014
Clay Pell
Clay Pell
stated on August 26, 2014 in a TV debate:
"My campaign alone has created more jobs in the state of Rhode Island than Narragansett Beer."
Mostly True
By Karen Lee Ziner • August 28, 2014
Gina Raimondo
Gina Raimondo
stated on August 7, 2014 in a campaign ad:
"Before I was state treasurer, my Rhode Island business helped create over 1,000 jobs."
True
By Karen Lee Ziner • August 21, 2014
Ralph Mollis
Ralph Mollis
stated on August 10, 2014 in a TV debate:
"The per-pupil cost in the [Blackstone Valley Prep] Mayoral Academy far outweighs the per-pupil cost in Cumberland public schools."
Mostly False
By Karen Lee Ziner • August 7, 2014
Kenneth Block
Kenneth Block
stated on July 15, 2014 in a radio debate:
"The increase in the garbage tax that [Mayor Allan Fung] imposed in Cranston for some people has been as much as $200."
False
By Karen Lee Ziner • July 27, 2014
Brett Smiley
Brett Smiley
stated on June 25, 2014 in a campaign brochure:
There are "approximately 20,000 annual gun purchases in Rhode Island."  
True
By Karen Lee Ziner • July 20, 2014
Angel Taveras
Angel Taveras
stated on July 25, 2014 in a campaign video:
"Providence graduation rates are up."
Mostly True
By Karen Lee Ziner • July 16, 2014
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on May 27, 2014 in a newspaper commentary:
"There are already more American jobs in the solar industry than in coal mining."
True
By Karen Lee Ziner • July 6, 2014
Clay Pell
Clay Pell
stated on April 30, 2014 in a campaign website:
"Rhode Island has the highest dropout rate in New England at twenty-three percent."
Half-True
By Karen Lee Ziner • June 1, 2014
Robert Malin
Robert Malin
stated on April 20, 2014 in a TV interview:
"Fifty percent of Americans will go hungry at some time in their lives."
Mostly False
By Karen Lee Ziner • May 18, 2014
Robert Healey
Robert Healey
stated on October 18, 2010 in a commentary in The Providence Journal:
"Of the states that have a lieutenant governor, many are currently discussing the need for such an obsolete office."
Mostly False
By Karen Lee Ziner, Cynthia Needham • October 30, 2010