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Peter Kinder
stated on March 17, 2016 in a gubernatorial debate:

"Youth unemployment in minority communities is about 40 to 45 percent."

Mostly True

By Katie Moeller • April 1, 2016

Catherine Hanaway
stated on March 17, 2016 in 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
stated on March 24, 2016 in 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
stated on March 17, 2016 in 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
stated on February 4, 2016 in 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
stated on January 15, 2016 in a news release:

"The [Obama] administration’s regulatory assault on coal-fired energy has put thousands of Americans out of work"

Mostly False

By Mary McIntyre • March 17, 2016

Caleb Rowden
stated on March 4, 2016 in 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
stated on January 20, 2016 in 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
stated on January 10, 2016 in 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
stated on August 30, 2015 in 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
stated on October 9, 2015 in 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
stated on September 4, 2015 in 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
stated on November 12, 2015 in 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
stated on November 10, 2015 in 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
stated on October 16, 2015 in 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
stated on August 20, 2015 in 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
stated on August 11, 2015 in 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
stated on August 21, 2015 in 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
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
stated on August 20, 2015 in 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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