Latest Fact-Checks By Matt Dietrich

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Joe Berrios
Joe Berrios
stated on December 11, 2017 in a campaign ad:
"(Fritz) Kaegi managed a fund that invested nearly $30 million in private prisons."
Mostly False
By Matt Dietrich • December 29, 2017
Bruce Rauner
Bruce Rauner
stated on December 4, 2017 in a press conference:
"The candidates controlled by Madigan, all of them have said, ‘The answer to our problems is a massive income tax hike.’ "
Mostly False
By Matt Dietrich • December 14, 2017
JB Pritzker
JB Pritzker
stated on December 6, 2017 in a candidate forum:
"I released way more (tax) information than Bruce Rauner has."
False
By Matt Dietrich • December 11, 2017
Daniel Biss
Daniel Biss
stated on November 27, 2017 in a tweet:
These guys are now pretty much living up to the @BruceRauner standard. And falling dismally short of the @MittRomney standard. Even Romney released his full tax returns.
True
By Matt Dietrich • December 4, 2017
Michael Madigan
Michael Madigan
stated on October 31, 2017 in a committee hearing:
"The Legislative Ethics Commission continues to function."
Mostly False
By Matt Dietrich • November 9, 2017
Eric Holcomb
Eric Holcomb
stated on October 24, 2017 in a campaign ad:
"We’re growing union jobs faster than Illinois."
True
By Matt Dietrich • November 3, 2017
Bruce Rauner
Bruce Rauner
stated on October 20, 2017 in a press conference:
"To be clear, all my investments are in a trust that I don’t control."
Half-True
By Matt Dietrich • October 27, 2017
Rahm Emanuel
Rahm Emanuel
stated on October 18, 2017 in a speech:
"And over the last six years, Chicago’s economy has grown faster than the economies of New York City, Washington, D.C., or the national average."
Mostly False
By Matt Dietrich • October 20, 2017
Bruce Rauner
Bruce Rauner
stated on September 28, 2017 in a press conference:
"I personally am pro-choice. I always have been. And I made no qualms about that when I was elected governor."
True
By Matt Dietrich • October 10, 2017
Sarah Huckabee Sanders
Sarah Huckabee Sanders
stated on October 2, 2017 in a press conference:
"I think if you look to Chicago, where you had over 4,000 victims of gun-related crimes last year, they have the strictest gun laws in the country. That certainly hasn’t helped there."
Pants on Fire!
By Matt Dietrich • October 3, 2017
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg
stated on September 18, 2017 in a website:
"The soda tax can make a difference by reducing consumption of unhealthy soda pop and sugary beverages."
Mostly True
By Matt Dietrich • October 2, 2017
Bruce Rauner
Bruce Rauner
stated on September 7, 2017 in in a press release:
"Even with a permanent income tax increase... the budget is more than $1 billion out of balance…"
Mostly True
By Matt Dietrich • September 20, 2017
Karen Lewis
Karen Lewis
stated on September 4, 2017 in a blog post:
The new Illinois school funding formula "created a tax shelter for the wealthy and a voucher program…"
Half-True
By Matt Dietrich • September 12, 2017
Bruce Rauner
Bruce Rauner
stated on August 28, 2017 in a bill signing event:
"My grandparents were proud immigrants to the United States of America, here to Illinois in the late 1800s. My grandparents did not speak English when they were young."
Pants on Fire!
By Bob Secter, Matt Dietrich • September 5, 2017
Illinois Family Institute
Illinois Family Institute
stated on August 19, 2017 in a blog post:
Public schools, colleges and state-funded day care centers "will be made into sanctuaries by Bruce Rauner signing SB 31."
False
By Matt Dietrich • August 28, 2017
Jeff Sessions
Jeff Sessions
stated on August 7, 2017 in a press release:
Chicago city officials "have adopted an official policy of protecting criminal aliens who prey on their own residents."
False
By Matt Dietrich • August 16, 2017
Rahm Emanuel
Rahm Emanuel
stated on July 31, 2017 in a press conference:
"Every one of the financial bad management practices that I inherited, every one of them, have either been eliminated or cut significantly."
Half-True
By Matt Dietrich • August 14, 2017
Illinois Policy Institute
Illinois Policy Institute
stated on August 3, 2017 in a tweet:
The new tax will make soda sold in Chicago among the most expensive in the country.
True
By Matt Dietrich • August 7, 2017
Bruce Rauner
Bruce Rauner
stated on July 22, 2017 in a press release:
As written, the (Illinois school funding) bill includes a bailout of Chicago’s broken teacher pension system.
False
By Matt Dietrich • August 1, 2017
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on March 13, 2017 in a blog post:
Said Vin Diesel declared his love of Rockford, Ill., after locals provided him car help and hospitality.
Pants on Fire!
By Matt Dietrich • April 13, 2017
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