Latest Fact-Checks By Tom Mooney

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Robert Kando
Robert Kando
stated on March 7, 2013 in testimony before the R.I. House Oversight Committee:
Rhode Island is the last state still using the Optech III P voting machines and they don’t meet suggested federal standards.
Half-True
By Tom Mooney • March 16, 2013
Brendan Doherty
Brendan Doherty
stated on September 12, 2012 in in a news conference:
"The Providence Economic Development Partnership . . .which you [Cicilline] chaired, loaned $103,000 in taxpayer funds to one of your campaign workers. The worker never paid back the loan."
Mostly True
By Tom Mooney • September 18, 2012
Anthony Gemma
Anthony Gemma
stated on September 4, 2012 in a candidates debate:
Providence has "amongst the highest tax rate(s) in the entire country."
Mostly True
By Tom Mooney • September 7, 2012
David Cicilline
David Cicilline
stated on August 28, 2012 in a TV debate:
"We will spend $100 billion in Afghanistan this year, fixing roads, building bridges, training police officers, and more, [and] cutting the same things in our own country."
False
By Tom Mooney • September 5, 2012
Anthony Gemma
Anthony Gemma
stated on August 28, 2012 in a TV debate:
Says that as Providence’s mayor, David Cicilline said the city had a "world-class … school system. Not only did Providence not have a world-class school system but as measured, was amongst the last school system in the entire country."
False
By Tom Mooney • August 30, 2012
Michael Riley
Michael Riley
stated on August 16, 2012 in a post on Riley’s Facebook campaign page:
"President Obama is attacking Paul Ryan on Medicare even though it is his administration with the help of Jim Langevin who cut $716 billion from Medicare."
Half-True
By Tom Mooney • August 29, 2012
Gregory J. Costantino
Gregory J. Costantino
stated on August 12, 2012 in a television interview:
Rep. Peter Petrarca "voted on two pieces of legislation that helped auto body shops ... and at that point I think there is a conflict of interest."
Mostly True
By Tom Mooney • August 21, 2012
David Cicilline
David Cicilline
stated on August 9, 2012 in a campaign flier:
"(Brendan) Doherty wants to raise the eligibility age for Social Security benefits for anyone born after 1960, with no regard for the challenges it would cause for people working in physically demanding occupations."
False
By Tom Mooney • August 15, 2012
Allen West
Allen West
stated on August 1, 2012 in a radio interview:
In June 2012 "we actually had more people go on Social Security Disability [85,000] ... than the 80,000 jobs that were created."
True
By Tom Mooney • August 9, 2012
Michael J. Gardiner
Michael J. Gardiner
stated on July 26, 2012 in a debate:
After the 9/11 terrorist attacks grounded commercial air traffic, "there was a temperature drop while the airplanes weren't flying, for the week afterwards."
Mostly False
By Tom Mooney • August 1, 2012
John Robitaille
John Robitaille
stated on July 8, 2012 in a Tweet:
"Unemployment rate dropped in every state that elected a Republican gov. in 2010"
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson, Tom Mooney • July 11, 2012
Helio Melo
Helio Melo
stated on June 7, 2012 in a House floor debate:
"People who wash cars at home will use approximately 80 percent more water than they do in a car wash."
Pants on Fire!
By C. Eugene Emery Jr., Tom Mooney • July 1, 2012
Michael Chippendale
Michael Chippendale
stated on June 11, 2012 in speech on the RI House floor:
Rhode Island has the "worst maintained bridges in the United States of America . . . and we have the second worst maintained roads [behind] Alaska."
True
By Tom Mooney • June 22, 2012
John G. Edwards
John G. Edwards
stated on June 5, 2012 in a debate on the House floor:
Decriminalizing marijuana "will save the state anywhere from $4 (million) to $11 million dollars."
False
By Tom Mooney • June 17, 2012
Dennis Algiere
Dennis Algiere
stated on May 24, 2012 in a letter to the editor:
"The legislature was never given the opportunity to debate or vote on loaning $75 million to 38 Studios."
True
By Tom Mooney • June 1, 2012
Joseph McNamara
Joseph McNamara
stated on May 15, 2012 in a House debate:
"In the state of Rhode Island 25 percent of our current physicians are graduates of for-profit medical schools."
False
By Tom Mooney • May 29, 2012
Brendan Doherty
Brendan Doherty
stated on May 15, 2012 in a campaign website:
"Over the past five years the federal government has paid out $601 million in retirement and disability benefits to deceased former federal employees."
True
By Tom Mooney • May 23, 2012