Latest Fact-Checks In Missouri

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Peter Kinder
Peter Kinder
stated on March 17, 2016 a gubernatorial debate
"Youth unemployment in minority communities is about 40 to 45 percent."
Mostly True
By Katie Moeller • April 1, 2016
Catherine Hanaway
Catherine Hanaway
stated on March 17, 2016 a debate
"The barber regulation here in Missouri is 10,000 words long….the book of Revelation is (also) 10,000 words long."
True
By Andrew Kessel • March 31, 2016
Vicky Hartzler
Vicky Hartzler
stated on March 24, 2016 an interview with ABC17 News
"We have less Americans working now than in the ’70s."
Mostly False
By Conner Smith • March 26, 2016
Eric Greitens
Eric Greitens
stated on March 17, 2016 a gubernatorial debate
"We have ten different tax brackets and if you’re making $9,000, you’re already in the top tax bracket."
False
By Conner Smith • March 22, 2016
Kip Kendrick
Kip Kendrick
stated on February 4, 2016 a League of Women Voters Town Hall meeting
"Requiring photo ID would keep about 200,000 Missourians from voting."
Half-True
By Katie Moeller • March 21, 2016
Roy Blunt
Roy Blunt
stated on January 15, 2016 a news release
"The [Obama] administration’s regulatory assault on coal-fired energy has put thousands of Americans out of work"
Mostly False
By Mike Jenner • March 17, 2016
Caleb Rowden
Caleb Rowden
stated on March 4, 2016 a Columbia/Boone County League of Women Voters Town Hall
"Seventy percent of Missourians support voter photo ID legislation."
Mostly True
By Katie Moeller • March 14, 2016
Chris Koster
Chris Koster
stated on January 20, 2016 a tweet
"A single mother of two can’t qualify for basic healthcare through Medicaid if she makes more than $3,504 dollars a year."
Mostly True
By Katie Moeller • March 7, 2016
Todd Richardson
Todd Richardson
stated on January 10, 2016 comments on “This Week in Missouri Politics"
Says Missouri families’ "earning power is about $5,000 less today than it was at the turn of the century."
Mostly True
By Katie Moeller • February 20, 2016
Will Kraus
Will Kraus
stated on August 30, 2015 an episode of "This Week in Missouri Politics"
Says Missouri needs a voter I.D. law because "there’s over 16 people in the state of Missouri who have been convicted of some type of voter fraud."
Half-True
By Adam Aton • January 4, 2016
Vicky Hartzler
Vicky Hartzler
stated on October 9, 2015 an interview on ABC's "This Week"
"Twenty-five percent of our kids in foster care are there because their parents are involved in drugs."
True
By Sean Nelson • November 30, 2015
Roy Blunt
Roy Blunt
stated on September 4, 2015 at the Missouri State Fair
"The world food demand is going to double sometime between now and 2070."
True
By Sean Nelson • November 30, 2015
Peter Kinder
Peter Kinder
stated on November 12, 2015 in comments on Breitbart
"This incident of supposed feces depicting a swastika on the wall of a bathrooms in one of the halls ... has been supported by zero fact."
Pants on Fire!
By Allison Graves, Katherine Knott • November 22, 2015
Juan Williams
Juan Williams
stated on November 10, 2015 episode of Fox News' "The Five"
Says a car driving former University of Missouri System President Tim Wolfe "ran through the students, hit one of them" at the MU Homecoming Parade.
Mostly False
By Adam Aton • November 18, 2015
Peter Kinder
Peter Kinder
stated on October 16, 2015 a tweet
"After today, @GovJayNixon will have been overridden more times than all previous governors in #MO history #moleg"
True
By Allison Graves • October 28, 2015
Chris Koster
Chris Koster
stated on August 20, 2015 comments at the Missouri State Fair as quoted by the Columbia Daily Tribune
"Since 2001, higher education in the state has been cut or allowed to erode ... by 35 or 40 percent."    
Mostly True
By Adam Aton • October 23, 2015
Emanuel Cleaver
Emanuel Cleaver
stated on August 11, 2015 on 'Up to Date'
Two years ago motorists in Ferguson, a city of 20,000 people, "received 31,000 citations. That's at least one citation per person plus 10,000 for visitors. The city is still surviving only on traffic tickets; there's virtually no industry there."
Mostly False
By Sean Nelson • October 22, 2015
Claire McCaskill
Claire McCaskill
stated on August 21, 2015 comments to HBO host Bill Maher
"You wonder why you don't see Rand Paul as much; he's still shopping for his billionaire. He's like the only one who hasn't found a billionaire to fund his super PAC."
False
By Katherine Knott • October 20, 2015
National Republican Senatorial Committee
National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on September 14, 2015
Says Missouri Democratic Senate candidate Jason Kander is "attending fancy dinners all over the country."  
Mostly False
By Rachel Brooks • October 2, 2015
Jay Nixon
Jay Nixon
stated on August 20, 2015 comments at the Missouri State Fair
"Almost nine out of every 10 pennies that would be spent" turning a 200-mile stretch of Interstate 70 into a toll road "would be from folks outside Missouri."
Mostly False
By Allison Graves • September 29, 2015
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