Latest Fact-Checks By Lynn Arditi

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FreedomCrossroads.us
stated on June 20, 2017 in Internet posts:

Says investigators have found remains of missing women in steel barrels buried on Bill and Hillary Clinton’s property.

Pants on Fire!

By Joshua Gillin, Lynn Arditi • June 26, 2017

David Cicilline
stated on November 18, 2011 in a fundraising letter:

Enacting the Right-to-Carry Act would amount to "expanding the rights of sex offenders, terrorists, child predators, and abusers to carry concealed weapons across state lines.’’

Half-True

By Lynn Arditi • January 1, 2012

Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on September 21, 2011 in a speech:

"The American healthcare system burns 18 percent of our national GDP. Nobody else is close."

True

By Lynn Arditi • November 20, 2011

Kathleen Connell
stated on October 26, 2011 in a hearing:

"Sixty-percent of the state retirees...don’t get Social Security.’’

False

By Lynn Arditi • November 13, 2011

Lincoln Chafee
stated on October 24, 2011 in in a hearing:

"If Rhode Island does a hybrid [retirement] plan we’ll be the first state in the nation to do this.’’

False

By Lynn Arditi • November 2, 2011

Occupy Providence
stated on October 19, 2011 in a protest sign:

"Minimum wage = $16,000/year CEO-Goldman Sachs (Lloyd Blankfein) $16,000/Hour."

False

By Lynn Arditi • October 26, 2011

Edith Ajello
stated on October 14, 2011 in commentary piece:

"Nearly half of all pregnancies in the U.S. are unintended."

True

By Lynn Arditi • October 21, 2011

David Quiroa
stated on October 3, 2011 in a news release:

"Under Governor Almond the RI DMV had a program that allowed undocumented [people to] use their Personal Tax Identification Number . . . to apply [for] and receive a RI driver’s license."

True

By Lynn Arditi • October 16, 2011

Jorge Elorza
stated on October 2, 2011 in a TV interview:

"The reality is that we have roughly 15,000 undocumented immigrants living in the state..."

False

By Lynn Arditi • October 11, 2011

Terry Gorman
stated on September 21, 2011 in a TV interview:

"[Federal] law says that you can't give in-state tuition to an illegal alien … unless you first offer it to any other student regardless of their state of residence."

Mostly False

By Lynn Arditi • October 2, 2011

Rhode Island Retirement Security Coalition
stated on September 9, 2011 in a YouTube video:

"In the past six years alone, changes to the pension formula … have saved over half a billion dollars."

Mostly False

By Lynn Arditi • September 25, 2011

David Cicilline
stated on September 4, 2011 in a letter posted on a blog :

Says an amendment specifying when military members may use deadly force "does nothing to change existing rules of engagement for American service members."

True

By Lynn Arditi • September 18, 2011

Vincent "Buddy" Cianci
stated on September 1, 2011 in a talk show discussion:

"Mike Trainor...still owes $250,000 to the state."

Mostly True

By Lynn Arditi • September 11, 2011

James Parisi
stated on August 21, 2011 in a TV news show:

A national study of 2,500 charter schools shows that "maybe 20 percent do better than the community public schools, 40 percent or so do worse and the rest are not having any significant difference."

True

By Lynn Arditi • September 1, 2011

Joseph Andriole
stated on August 2, 2011 in a TV story:

The Central Falls fire department is "one of the lowest, if not the lowest, paid fire departments in the state and entire region."

Mostly True

By Lynn Arditi • August 28, 2011

Stephen Lisauskas
stated on July 19, 2011 in a public meeting:

Thirty-seven percent of Central Falls’ retired police officers and firefighters are out on disability pensions; in most municipalities, about 5 percent of retirees collect disability pensions.

False

By Lynn Arditi • August 18, 2011