Fact Check Posts – Page 101

Blake Rocap
stated on February 16, 2016 a voter mailer:

"When Republican extremists tried to take away abortion rights … Blake Rocap stopped them."

By W. Gardner Selby • February 27, 2016

Marco Rubio
stated on February 25, 2016 comments during the Houston GOP debate:

"When they passed Obamacare, they put a bailout fund in Obamacare. … We led the effort and wiped out that bailout fund."

By Joshua Gillin • February 26, 2016

Gavin Newsom
stated on December 5, 2015 a campaign email:

"So far in 2015, there have been more mass shootings than days."

By Chris Nichols • February 23, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on February 21, 2016 an interview on "Meet the Press":

With Obamacare, "You have no options .. you can't get competitive bidding."

By Jon Greenberg • February 21, 2016

New Hampshire Democratic Party
stated on February 16, 2016 a press release:

Blocking a U.S. Supreme Court nomination during the remaining months of President Obama’s term "would leave the nation’s highest court with an unprecedented year-long vacancy."

By Clay Wirestone • February 19, 2016

Empower Texans
stated on January 28, 2016 a web page:

In 2005 and 2007, " Joe Straus received a 100 percent rating by NARAL (the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League)."

By Filipa Ioannou • February 18, 2016

Gary Cobb
stated on February 16, 2016 a video ad on his campaign website:

Travis County residents "trusted me to take on Tom DeLay — and we won."

By W. Gardner Selby • February 17, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on February 14, 2016 on ABC's "This Week":

Says "the one person (Donald Trump) has suggested that would make a good justice is his sister, who is a court of appeals judge appointed by Bill Clinton. She is a hardcore pro-abortion liberal judge."

By Lauren Carroll • February 16, 2016

Sheri Gallo
stated on January 28, 2016 an Austin City Council meeting:

Since January 2015, the "majority of our" Austin City Council "meetings have extended past 10 p.m." and "many of our meetings have gone past midnight."

By Mary Huber • February 15, 2016

Terry McAuliffe
stated on February 3, 2016 a TV interview.:

"Under Virginia law, if you are a non-federally licensed (gun) dealer, you cannot get a background check even if you want one."

By Warren Fiske • February 15, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on February 14, 2016 a Republican debate in South Carolina:

Says Jeb Bush "said he would take his pants off and moon everybody ... Nobody reports that."

By Amy Sherman • February 14, 2016

Marco Rubio
stated on February 13, 2016 a debate in Greenville, S.C.:

"It has been over 80 years since a lame-duck president appointed a Supreme Court justice."

By Amy Sherman • February 14, 2016

Tony Capezza
stated on January 26, 2016 testimony at General Assembly :

"In New England, Rhode Island has the second highest number of police officers being assaulted."

By Mark Reynolds • February 14, 2016

Tom Wolf
stated on February 9, 2016 his budget proposal address:

If the General Assembly does not address the state's structural deficit, "more than 23,000 education professionals will be immediately yanked out of Pennsylvania schools."

By Anna Orso • February 12, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on January 26, 2016 comments at the University of Iowa:

"We’re spending tremendous amounts of money to educate our kids. In the world, we're No. 1 per pupil by a factor of four."

By Daniel Lathrop • February 9, 2016

Joe Sestak
stated on January 25, 2016 a talk with the Pennsylvania Press Club:

Says Pat Toomey visited Joe Sestak and other veterans in 2002 "and then came home and voted against every veterans appropriations bill."

By Anna Orso • February 8, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on February 7, 2016 comments on Meet the Press:

"Tell me what Madeleine Albright’s position was on the War on Iraq. I wouldn’t be surprised if she supported it."

By Linda Qiu • February 7, 2016

Marco Rubio
stated on February 6, 2016 an ABC Republican debate in New Hampshire:

"The American people will not support doing anything about people that are in this country illegally until the law is enforced first."

By Amy Sherman • February 7, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on February 6, 2016 a Republican presidential debate in Manchester, N.H.:

Regarding the Iraq War, "I was the one that said, ‘Don’t go, don’t do it, you’re going to destabilize the Middle East.’ "

By Lauren Carroll • February 7, 2016

Ted Strickland
stated on December 10, 2016 a Facebook post:

"With 320,000 net Ohio manufacturing jobs lost, (Sen. Rob) Portman calls NAFTA a ‘proven success’."

By Nadia Pflaum • February 5, 2016

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