Latest Fact-Checks By Michael McKinney

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Peter Nightingale
Peter Nightingale
stated on May 8, 2013 in a web commentary:
"The UK has an unarmed police force and a firearm fatality rate that is 40 times lower per capita than in the U.S."
Mostly True
By Michael McKinney • May 31, 2013
Meals on Wheels of Rhode Island
Meals on Wheels of Rhode Island
stated on April 18, 2013 in a fundraising letter:
"Half of all hospitalized seniors are suffering from malnutrition so severe that it either caused their illness or it prevents them from getting better."
Mostly False
By Michael McKinney • May 26, 2013
Jack Reed
Jack Reed
stated on April 7, 2013 in a television interview:
North Korea has a "substantial standing army, one of the largest, certainly the largest per capita, in the world."
True
By Michael McKinney • May 10, 2013
David Cicilline
David Cicilline
stated on April 19, 2013 in an appearance on 10 News Conference:
"If you are a federally licensed gun dealer and your license is revoked because you've engaged in misconduct ... your entire inventory under prevailing law is deemed your personal collection. You then can sell it free from any background checks."
True
By Michael McKinney • May 4, 2013
Linda Finn
Linda Finn
stated on April 12, 2013 in a TV interview:
Right now, if Rhode Island police come across a young person with a gun, "they really don't legally have the right to take it away from them."
Half-True
By Michael McKinney • April 23, 2013
Ban the Box RI
Ban the Box RI
stated on March 20, 2013 in a video posted on YouTube:
"In Rhode Island, 28 percent of adults released from state prisons are re-incarcerated within a year."
True
By Michael McKinney • April 15, 2013
Susan Yoshihara
Susan Yoshihara
stated on March 21, 2013 in testimony before a R.I. Senate committee:
Assertions that it makes no difference whether children are raised by heterosexual or homosexual parents have been "shattered by the latest and best social science and research."
False
By Michael McKinney • April 7, 2013
SEIU
SEIU
stated on March 5, 2013 in a lawsuit:
"There is no clinical evidence that vaccinating healthcare workers protects patients."
False
By Michael McKinney • March 17, 2013
Christopher Blazejewski
Christopher Blazejewski
stated on February 28, 2013 in a news release:
"In 32 other states and Washington D.C., they [voters] can avoid the wait by voting before Election Day."
True
By Michael McKinney • March 10, 2013
Linda Finn
Linda Finn
stated on February 26, 2013 in a news release:
"Rhode Island could tell you who has a camper, but we couldn't figure out who has a gun."
Mostly True
By Michael McKinney • March 7, 2013
Nancy Denuccio
Nancy Denuccio
stated on February 20, 2013 in A news release:
In annual surveys of Rhode Island communities that receive Drug Free community grants, many report that more than 50 percent of youth surveyed do not think daily marijuana use poses any serious risk of harm.
Mostly True
By Michael McKinney • March 1, 2013
Kenneth Block
Kenneth Block
stated on January 24, 2013 in a television interview:
"More than 9,000 Rhode Island voters used the Moderate Party master lever mechanism and they didn't have a single Moderate on their ballot."
Mostly True
By Michael McKinney • February 22, 2013
Edith Ajello
Edith Ajello
stated on February 6, 2013 in an interview with The Providence Journal:
"Lots of studies seem to indicate that minors find it very easy to get marijuana, easier than to get alcohol."
False
By Michael McKinney • February 16, 2013
David Cicilline
David Cicilline
stated on January 26, 2013 in a speech:
More than 40 percent of sales nationally are made without background checks.
Half-True
By Michael McKinney • February 10, 2013
Patrick Kennedy
Patrick Kennedy
stated on January 8, 2013 in news story:
"Eighty percent of those who have applied for licenses have no cancer, no Parkinson's disease or glaucoma. They have nothing you would associate [with] the use of medical marijuana."
Half-True
By Michael McKinney • February 3, 2013
National Organization for Marriage
National Organization for Marriage
stated on January 17, 2013 in a newspaper ad:
"Religious groups like Knights of Columbus have been forced to allow same-sex marriage ceremonies in their facilities, against their beliefs."
Pants on Fire!
By Michael McKinney • January 27, 2013
Protect Families First
Protect Families First
stated on January 10, 2013 in a news release:
"The average age of first marijuana use is 12."
False
By Michael McKinney • January 20, 2013
Dawson Hodgson
Dawson Hodgson
stated on January 3, 2013 in a radio interview:
"The amount of money that we put into running our own state legislature is nearly as much as we put into the University of Rhode Island."
False
By Michael McKinney • January 13, 2013