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Latest Fact-Checks On Scott Fitzgerald

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Scott Fitzgerald
Scott Fitzgerald
stated on December 21, 2021 in Twitter:
"Mask mandates on children lead to learning loss that harms early childhood development."
Mostly False
By D.L. Davis • January 19, 2022
Scott Fitzgerald
Scott Fitzgerald
stated on February 27, 2021 in a press release:
“More than 91% of the spending in this $1.9 trillion package is not used for pandemic relief.”
Mostly False
By Eric Litke • March 1, 2021
Scott Fitzgerald
Scott Fitzgerald
stated on November 8, 2020 in a TV interview:
The 2020 election is in “recount territory” and “I’ve seen elections change as a result of” recounts.
Half-True
By Eric Litke, Nusaiba Mizan • November 18, 2020
Scott Fitzgerald
Scott Fitzgerald
stated on April 26, 2020 in a TV interview:
Wisconsin has “no tracing program going on that we can speak of."
Mostly False
By Eric Litke • May 4, 2020
Scott Fitzgerald
Scott Fitzgerald
stated on September 22, 2019 in a TV interview:
Universal background checks involve asking people "to submit the serial numbers to their guns to a state or federal official," and that violates the Second Amendment.
Mostly False
By Eric Litke • October 4, 2019
Scott Fitzgerald
Scott Fitzgerald
stated on May 21, 2011 in a speech at the state GOP convention:
One of every two Wisconsin residents are "on some kind of government handout."
False
By Tom Kertscher • May 26, 2011
Scott Fitzgerald
Scott Fitzgerald
stated on March 3, 2011 in a statement at a news conference:
Wisconsin was embroiled in a "constitutional crisis" brought on by the Democratic senators fleeing the state for Illinois to block Gov. Scott Walker's budget-repair bill.  
Mostly False
By James B. Nelson • March 24, 2011
Scott Fitzgerald
Scott Fitzgerald
stated on March 10, 2011 in a radio interview:
On the night of the Wisconsin state Senate vote on the budget package, "a mob showed up and busted down the door and took over the Capitol."
Half-True
By James B. Nelson • March 11, 2011
Scott Fitzgerald
Scott Fitzgerald
stated on December 9, 2010 in an interview with a newspaper editorial board:
"We continue to see these isolated incidents of people trying to vote five, six times a day."
False
By Dave Umhoefer • December 23, 2010