Fact Check Posts – Politifact

Donald Trump
stated on August 5, 2016 a campaign speech

Says Hillary Clinton once "wanted a wall" on the Mexican border.

By Sarah Hauer • August 15, 2016

Paul Ryan
stated on July 18, 2016 a speech

"The poverty rates in America today aren’t much better than when we started the War on Poverty."

By Sarah Hauer • August 5, 2016

Scott Walker
stated on June 27, 2016 a letter to Department of Transportation officials

"For decades, the state’s gas tax has been among the highest in the nation."

By Sarah Hauer • July 20, 2016

Paul Ryan
stated on June 26, 2016 a TV interview

The United States is "the oldest democracy" in the world.

By Sarah Hauer • July 11, 2016

Tammy Baldwin
stated on June 17, 2016 a radio interview

The Orlando shooter used "a weapon of war."

By Sarah Hauer • July 1, 2016

Scott Walker
stated on June 3, 2016 a tweet

"Despite the rhetoric from Democrat politicians, more people are employed this year than at any point in the history of Wisconsin."

By Sarah Hauer • June 27, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on May 26, 2016 a fundraising letter

Says Russ Feingold’s "campaign is powered by small-dollar contributions like ours."

By Sarah Hauer • June 22, 2016

Russ Feingold
stated on June 3, 2016 a speech

The average student debt "coming out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison is something like 28,000 dollars."

By Sarah Hauer • June 17, 2016

Scott Walker
stated on May 16, 2016 a radio interview

Since 1978, college "tuition nationwide has gone up something like four times the rate of inflation."

By Sarah Hauer • June 9, 2016

Vicki Martin
stated on May 12, 2016 a presentation at a panel discussion

Only 50 percent of students from Milwaukee public high schools "go on to a two-or four-year college."

By Sarah Hauer • May 27, 2016

Sean Duffy
stated on April 22, 2016 a radio ad

On how to respond to Puerto Rico’s debt crisis.

By Sarah Hauer • May 13, 2016

Tammy Baldwin
stated on February 14, 2016 a television interview

"Hedge fund managers and others in private equity pay much lower (tax) rates on their income than do truck drivers and teachers and nurses."

By Sarah Hauer • April 13, 2016

Paul Ryan
stated on February 22, 2016 a television interview

"70 percent of Americans believe that we are on the wrong path."

By Sarah Hauer • March 22, 2016

Tammy Baldwin
stated on January 24, 2016 a tweet

"Over 32,000 people die from #GunViolence every year. Yet, (The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) is banned from researching ways to prevent this."

By Sarah Hauer • March 9, 2016

Glenn Grothman
stated on November 20, 2015 a radio interview

Says "Barack Obama is apparently not for vetting people and saying just anybody can come" to the United States.

By Sarah Hauer • February 26, 2016

Chris Larson
stated on November 22, 2015 a TV interview

The Milwaukee County bus system has "among the highest fares in the nation."

By Sarah Hauer • December 17, 2015

Ron Johnson
stated on November 5, 2015 a radio interview

"Probably less than 4 percent" of Wisconsin residents "are enjoying the subsidies" from Obamacare.

By Sarah Hauer • December 2, 2015

Chris Abele
stated on October 29, 2015 a TV interview

Since he took office as Milwaukee County executive, "we have never raised" bus fares and "this year there’ll be a million route-miles more than there were five years ago."

By Sarah Hauer • November 23, 2015

Jennifer Shilling
stated on October 1, 2015 a tweet

"71% of WI’s roads are in poor or mediocre condition and 14% of WI’s bridges are structurally deficient or functionally obsolete."

By Sarah Hauer • November 18, 2015

Scott Walker
stated on November 6, 2015 a series of tweets

Wisconsin’s Government Accountability Board "ignored their duties and did not regularly audit" voters to remove felons "for a span of 16 elections.

By Sarah Hauer • November 6, 2015

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