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Latest Fact-Checks On Scott Walker

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Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on January 21, 2024 TV interview:
"(The) top issue for college students is the economy."
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By Hope Karnopp • February 2, 2024
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on May 30, 2019 a tweet:
"Wisconsin is a Top 10 state for health care coverage."
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By Eric Litke • June 25, 2019
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on May 31, 2018 a tweet:
"Since taking office, we have enacted more than $8 billion in cumulative tax relief."  
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By Tom Kertscher • June 22, 2018
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on May 17, 2017 a radio interview:
Tax cuts approved and those proposed in his state budget "will exceed $8 billion by the time the budget is done."  
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By Alan Hovorka • July 12, 2017
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on January 10, 2017 In a speech:
Wisconsin property taxes, as a percentage of personal income, "are the lowest that they've been since the end of World War II."
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By Tom Kertscher • January 13, 2017
Scott Walker
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."
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By Sarah Hauer • July 20, 2016
Scott Walker
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."
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By Sarah Hauer • June 9, 2016
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on December 3, 2015 an interview:
"Here in Wisconsin, we've put in previous budgets more money into mental health services than any governor has in the last 25 years."  
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By Tom Kertscher • December 23, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on September 13, 2015 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":
"I'm the only governor in America ... who signed a law that says there needs to be an independent investigation any time there's a death of someone in police custody."
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By Jon Greenberg • September 13, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on August 17, 2015 a radio interview:
"By the end of this budget I'm in right now, taxes will have been cut $4.7 billion in my state." 
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By Lucas Daprile • August 28, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on August 3, 2015 a candidates forum:
Wisconsin’s "rainy day fund" is "165 times bigger than when we first took office."
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By Tom Kertscher • August 7, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on March 14, 2015 a speech:
Says he "paid one dollar for" a sweater at Kohl’s.
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By James B. Nelson • April 3, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on February 6, 2015 a speech:
Six of the nation’s 10 wealthiest counties, "according to median income, are in and around the Washington, D.C. area."  
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By Tom Kertscher • March 2, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on December 12, 2014 a tweet:
"My property taxes went down largely because my technical college portion went down 35.5% because of the money we put in at state."
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By Dave Umhoefer • December 18, 2014
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on November 7, 2014 an interview:
"The president of the United States came in the Tuesday before the election in a ward that went 99% for him in the last election and they couldn't even (increase) the vote there."
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By Dave Umhoefer • November 12, 2014
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on September 14, 2014 a campaign news release:
Since I took office, "Wisconsin ranks 11th in the nation in total business establishment growth compared to 47th in the years Mary Burke was Commerce secretary."
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By Dave Umhoefer • September 17, 2014
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on July 30, 2014 a tweet:
"Wisconsin is #1 in the Midwest for personal income growth over the year."  
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By Dave Umhoefer • August 14, 2014
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on March 4, 2014 a statement to reporters:
"Once our Blueprint for Prosperity is signed into law, we will have delivered $2 billion" in tax relief.
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By Dave Umhoefer • March 12, 2014
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on November 13, 2013 a book:
"During my eight years as county executive, we cut the number of county workers by 20 percent."
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By Dave Umhoefer • November 14, 2013
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on July 29, 2013 a speech:
Says President Franklin Delano Roosevelt "felt there wasn’t a need in the public sector to have collective bargaining because the government is the people."
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By Dave Umhoefer • August 14, 2013
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