Fact Check Posts – Page 112

Florida News Flash
stated on March 29, 2015 a website headline:

"Suntrust Bank cancels account because company sells guns."

By Joshua Gillin • April 8, 2015

Sid Miller
stated on March 10, 2015 a symposium on water hosted by the Texas Tribune:

"We have towns in West Texas that are out of water, that are having to truck in water."

By W. Gardner Selby • April 8, 2015

Foundation for a Secure and Prosperous America
stated on April 7, 2015 an ad:

"Rand Paul supports Obama's negotiations with Iran."

By Lauren Carroll • April 7, 2015

Scott Walker
stated on March 23, 2015 a tweet:

Under Barack Obama, "the average cost of family health care premiums has increased by $4,154."

By Tom Kertscher • April 7, 2015

Greater Wisconsin Committee
stated on March 30, 2015 a radio ad:

An April 7, 2015 referendum would take "the choice of chief justice" of the Wisconsin Supreme Court "away from the people."

By Tom Kertscher • April 3, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on March 23, 2015:

"Today roughly half of born-again Christians aren’t voting. They’re staying home."

By W. Gardner Selby • March 30, 2015

Dave Brat
stated on March 17, 2015 a news release.:

"Since President Obama took office in January 2009, the federal government has issued more than 468,500 pages of regulations."

By Sean Gorman • March 30, 2015

Lindsey Graham
stated on March 8, 2015 a speech in Concord, N.H.:

"If you took every penny of the 1 percent, including their dog, you wouldn't even begin to balance the budget."

By Clay Wirestone • March 27, 2015

Rand Paul
stated on March 24, 2015 an interview on the Kelly File:

Says according to recent polls, no Republican candidate "is doing better against Hillary Clinton than myself."

By Katharina Fiedler, Lauren Carroll • March 25, 2015

Bloggers
stated on March 16, 2015 a blog post:

"Obama has been sending taxpayer dollars, at least $350,000 to fund anti-Likud, anti-Netanyahu groups in Israel for (the) election."

By Jon Greenberg • March 25, 2015

Greg Gutfeld
stated on March 10, 2015 a commentary on Fox News.:

Under New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, homicides are up by 20 percent, and subway delays have soared 45 percent.

By Jon Greenberg • March 23, 2015

Florida Students for Concealed Carry
stated on March 16, 2015 Florida Senate higher education committee hearing:

"According to the state of Florida, you are almost twice as likely to be attacked by an alligator than by someone who happens to carry a conceal-and-carry permit."

By Amy Sherman • March 23, 2015

Ron Dermer
stated on March 22, 2015 comments on NBC's "Meet the Press":

Says Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "didn't change his position" on a two-state solution.

By Katie Sanders • March 22, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on March 17, 2015 an interview on "Late Night with Seth Meyers":

"Many of the alarmists on global warming, they’ve got a problem because the science doesn’t back them up. In particular, satellite data demonstrate for the last 17 years, there’s been zero warming."

By Lauren Carroll • March 20, 2015

H. Marlene O'Toole
stated on March 12, 2015 House Education Appropriations Committee Hearing:

The delay in school testing "was not that of a vendor, the problem was not that of the test materials itself, it was the product of a cyber attack."

By Amy Sherman • March 16, 2015

Tom Cotton
stated on March 9, 2015 an interview on Fox News:

Says that "Susan Rice, the president's national security adviser, has already conceded that Iran will have a robust uranium enrichment capability."

By Louis Jacobson • March 16, 2015

Juan Williams
stated on March 15, 2015 comments on "Fox News Sunday":

There was "just about zero press coverage" of the 2007 Bush White House email controversy.

By Lauren Carroll • March 15, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on March 11, 2015 an interview with Hugh Hewitt:

"Here, we have Thanksgiving, we have Christmas, we have the 4th of July. Every year in Iran, they celebrate Death to America day."

By W. Gardner Selby • March 13, 2015

David Shuster
stated on March 10, 2015 a Hillary Clinton press conference:

Said former U.S. Ambassador to Kenya Scott Gration "was forced to resign two years ago because of his personal use of emails."

By Jon Greenberg • March 11, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on February 27, 2015 a CPAC appearance:

Eliminating affirmative action in admissions in Florida led to "more African American and Hispanic kids attending our university system" than before.

By Joshua Gillin • March 11, 2015

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