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Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on February 3, 2024 a newsletter for constituents
“Marijuana is currently classified in the same category of drugs as heroin and a more dangerous category than fentanyl or cocaine.”
True
By Conor Amendola, Brooke Johnpier • February 20, 2024
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on January 21, 2024 X, formerly Twitter
“Wisconsin had over 1,400 opioid overdose deaths in 2022.”
True
By Laura Schulte • February 6, 2024
Jill Billings
Jill Billings
stated on November 14, 2023 Assembly floor speech
“With school-based professional social workers, the recommendation is 400-to-1, and in Wisconsin, we’re almost triple that.”
True
By Tyler Katzenberger • December 13, 2023
West Virginia Republican Party
West Virginia Republican Party
stated on August 23, 2022 a tweet
“Overdoses reached an all-time high in 2021.”
True
By Courtney Clingan, Samuel Russ • October 13, 2022
Levar Stoney
Levar Stoney
stated on June 16, 2022 a tweet.
“In Virginia, Black people are eight times (8X) more likely than white people to die of gun homicide.”
True
By Warren Fiske • June 24, 2022
Kathy Hochul
Kathy Hochul
stated on February 27, 2022 a news conference
“We are No. 1 among all large states in having fully vaccinated teenagers. We are No. 2 in all large states for having fully vaccinated five- to 11- year-olds.”
True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • March 11, 2022
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on February 14, 2022 a tweet
"100,000 Americans died of an overdose in a single year."
True
By Nusaiba Mizan • February 21, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on October 13, 2021 a Facebook post
"Southwest Airlines announce they will no longer terminate employees over the mandate."
True
By Andy Nguyen • October 22, 2021
Kathryn Moffett Bradford
Kathryn Moffett Bradford
stated on September 1, 2021 comments at a WVU faculty meeting
“If you look at the hospitalizations at Ruby Memorial in West Virginia, and around the country, 90% to 95% of those hospitalized are unvaccinated.”
True
By Abigail Mulhern, Emma Copley • October 5, 2021
David McKinley
David McKinley
stated on August 10, 2021 a tweet
“Overdose deaths in WV are up 45% from the prior year.”
True
By Danny Kuhn, John Brumley • October 5, 2021
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on August 3, 2021 Twitter
“324,000 pregnant people experience domestic violence during their pregnancy.”
True
By Madeline Heim • August 13, 2021
Kevin Kiley
Kevin Kiley
stated on April 26, 2021 a tweet
“San Francisco had twice as many drug overdose deaths as COVID deaths last year.”
True
By Chris Nichols • April 29, 2021
Chris Kapenga
Chris Kapenga
stated on February 10, 2021 Twitter
“The National Academy of Medicine points to a significant correlation between marijuana and psychosis, schizophrenia, and other psychotic disorders, particularly in teenagers where the risk of developing schizophrenia increases three fold.”
True
By Haley BeMiller • March 5, 2021
Gordon Hintz
Gordon Hintz
stated on February 5, 2021 TV interview
“We know mask mandates work. There’s enough evidence out there between counties that have done it and counties that haven’t."
True
By Haley BeMiller • February 12, 2021
Kirk Cox
Kirk Cox
stated on January 13, 2021 a speech.
Virginia ranks “in the bottom third of states” in administering the COVID-19 vaccine.
True
By Warren Fiske • January 20, 2021
Mike Gallagher
Mike Gallagher
stated on December 7, 2020 a tweet
"New data shows in-person learning isn't driving spikes in cases."
True
By Eric Litke • December 18, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on October 4, 2020 a Facebook post
“Wisconsin Republicans have not passed a single bill in 6 months.”
True
By Eric Litke • October 7, 2020
Chris Larson
Chris Larson
stated on September 23, 2020 a tweet
“(Republicans) have the power to overturn the (state of emergency) order by joint resolution and they refuse to do it.”
True
By Eric Litke • September 25, 2020
Priorities USA Action
Priorities USA Action
stated on June 22, 2020 a digital ad
Says President Trump said coronavirus testing makes the U.S. look bad, "so I said to my people, ‘Slow the testing down.’"
True
By Eric Litke • June 24, 2020
Monica Wallace
Monica Wallace
stated on June 8, 2020 a newspaper interview
Significantly more people died of Covid-19 in two months than died of overdoses all of last year or the year before.
True
By John Pullano • June 18, 2020
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