Latest Fact-Checks By Peter Lord

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Roberto DaSilva
Roberto DaSilva
stated on March 21, 2011 in a news release:
"We’re paying out-of-state residential facilities hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not more," to house children in state custody
Mostly True
By Peter Lord • April 8, 2011
George Nee
George Nee
stated on March 20, 2011 in a television interview:
"Public sentiment in favor of collective bargaining and in favor of the unions has actually gone up as these governors, I think, have overreached and gone too far and tried to destroy the labor movement."
Mostly False
By Peter Lord • March 31, 2011
Jon Brien
Jon Brien
stated on March 22, 2011 in a news release:
Woonsocket needs a garbage-burning power plant because "residents are paying through the nose for electricity that’s fueled by foreign oil, at prices that are skyrocketing."
Pants on Fire!
By Peter Lord • March 27, 2011
Richard Ferruccio
Richard Ferruccio
stated on March 8, 2011 in a radio interview:
"What we have now is the most generous, in my opinion, 'good time' bill in the entire United States."
False
By Peter Lord • March 21, 2011
Direct Action for Rights & Equality
Direct Action for Rights & Equality
stated on March 9, 2011 in an online petition:
"Roughly 25% of RI has a criminal record"
Pants on Fire!
By Peter Lord • March 10, 2011
Kenneth McKay
Kenneth McKay
stated on February 27, 2011 in a TV interview:
Says Sheldon Whitehouse said on Senate floor: "Everybody in Rhode Island who disagrees with me about Obamacare is an Aryan, is a white supremacist."
Pants on Fire!
By Peter Lord • March 6, 2011
Peter Palumbo
Peter Palumbo
stated on January 25, 2011 in a news release:
"There are nearly 500,000 registered sex offenders across the country and at any one time about 100,000 are unaccounted for."
Mostly False
By Peter Lord • March 3, 2011
Gina Raimondo
Gina Raimondo
stated on February 18, 2011 in a radio interview:
The law has not established whether Rhode Island public employees have property rights to their pensions.
True
By Peter Lord • February 27, 2011
Chain email
Chain email
stated on February 17, 2011 in a chain e-mail:
Welfare programs caused more long-term damage to Detroit than the atomic bomb caused to Hiroshima
Pants on Fire!
By Peter Lord • February 18, 2011
Ocean State Policy Research Institute
Ocean State Policy Research Institute
stated on January 20, 2011 in a report:
"The most significant driver of out-migration [from Rhode Island] is the estate tax."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr., Peter Lord • February 13, 2011
National Organization for Marriage
National Organization for Marriage
stated on February 5, 2011 in a mailing to Rhode Island voters:
"Massachusetts public schools teach kids as young as kindergartners about gay marriage."
False
By Peter Lord • February 10, 2011
Peter Kilmartin
Peter Kilmartin
stated on January 11, 2011 in a news release:
Secure Communities "has a proven track record of enhancing public safety by focusing on violent offenders and those that pose a threat to our communities and our national security."
Half-True
By Peter Lord • January 30, 2011
Jack Reed
Jack Reed
stated on November 4, 2010 in a letter to a Senate committee:
"New England already has access to ample supplies of natural gas."
True
By Peter Lord • January 23, 2011