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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 Mary McIntyre • 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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