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Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on July 29, 2016 a speech at Temple University:
Says Donald Trump "doesn't make a thing in America."
False
By Mark Dent • August 1, 2016
Ed Rendell
Ed Rendell
stated on July 27, 2016 an interview with Politico's Burgess Everett:
"I’m not one for name calling."
Pants on Fire!
By Cassie Owens • July 28, 2016
Tom Marino
Tom Marino
stated on July 18, 2016 a speech to the PA delegation at the RNC.:
"[Hillary Clinton]'s not trusted -- virtually at all."
Mostly False
By Anna Orso • July 20, 2016
Rick Saccone
Rick Saccone
stated on July 13, 2016 floor remarks during a House session:
"Illegal tobacco sales, price driven too high, has been connected to at least several cases of funding terrorism against us in multi-year investigations over the last decade and a half."
Mostly True
By Cassie Owens • July 18, 2016
Mike Turzai
Mike Turzai
stated on June 15, 2016 an op-ed for PennLive:
"Each [Corbett administration] budget finished in the black."
Half-True
By Cassie Owens • July 13, 2016
Pat Toomey
Pat Toomey
stated on June 27, 2016 a statement:
"Sanctuary cities such as Philadelphia refuse to cooperate with the federal government in locating suspected terrorists who are in their custody and are in the country illegally."
Half-True
By Anna Orso • July 8, 2016
Jim Kenney
Jim Kenney
stated on April 25, 2015:
On eliminating the influence of money in policy campaigns
Full Flop
By Cassie Owens • June 28, 2016
Jim Kenney
Jim Kenney
stated on June 23, 2016 remarks at the Better Bike Share conference:
My administration is "well represented both racially, ethnically and gender-wise."
Mostly False
By Cassie Owens • June 24, 2016
Katie McGinty
Katie McGinty
stated on June 13, 2016 in an interview with The Philadelphia Inquirer:
"He leant his name to a bill, did little or nothing three years ago to try to get it passed, (and) since then has done absolutely nothing other than disavow any attempt to move on the legislation."
Mostly False
By Anna Orso • June 15, 2016
Tom McCarey
Tom McCarey
stated on June 6, 2016 In a Penn Live editorial:
"Never mind that no red light camera, no speed camera, nor any radar gun has ever stopped one accident from occurring."
Pants on Fire!
By Mark Dent • June 14, 2016
Pat Toomey
Pat Toomey
stated on April 15, 2016:
Says Merrick Garland "authored an opinion that resulted in the release of 17 Guantanamo Bay prisoners who were part of a group of violent Islamist extremists the State Department had designated as terrorists."
Mostly False
By Cassie Owens • June 7, 2016
Katie McGinty
Katie McGinty
stated on June 3, 2016 On the 'About' page of McGinty's campaign website:
Says she was the first in her family to go to a four-year college.
Pants on Fire!
By Mark Dent • June 3, 2016
Pat Toomey
Pat Toomey
stated on May 19, 2016 an interview with Chris Stigall on Talk Radio 1210 WPHT:
It's entirely possible that the Democratic nominee, [Hillary Clinton], earned more money giving a single speech on Wall Street than I made the six years that I was there back in the 1980s… In fact, it’s quite likely.
Mostly False
By Loghan Thain • May 31, 2016
Job Itzkowitz
Job Itzkowitz
stated on May 11, 2016 In the Philadelphia Business Journal:
Old City in Philadelphia "used to have more than a dozen clubs and that's what we were known for and now we’re down to two."
Mostly True
By Mark Dent • May 25, 2016
Daniel Grace
Daniel Grace
stated on May 17, 2016 a statement:
A three-cents-per-ounce soda tax in Philadelphia "would result in the loss of 2,000 family-sustaining Teamster Union jobs and countless other jobs in the beverage industry."  
False
By Anna Orso • May 20, 2016
Tom Marino
Tom Marino
stated on May 13, 2016 In an MSNBC interview:
"I have had to fill out FEC reports for the past six years now, and they’re much more detailed than a tax return..."
False
By Loghan Thain • May 20, 2016
Pat Toomey
Pat Toomey
stated on April 27, 2016 Pennsylvania:
Says Katie McGinty "actually agrees with Hillary Clinton and the most liberal wing of the Democrats on everything."
Half-True
By Cassie Owens, Dávid Tvrdoň, Loghan Thain • May 16, 2016
Philadelphia Daily News
Philadelphia Daily News
stated on April 14, 2016 In an editorial:
If you don't buy cigarettes at your local supermarket, your grocery bill won't go up a dime. The same is true of the sugary drink tax. If passed, you can avoid paying the tax by not buying sugary drinks.
Half-True
By Mark Dent • May 11, 2016
Tom Marino
Tom Marino
stated on May 5, 2016 an interview on MSNBC.:
Twenty million Americans are "out of work."
Half-True
By Anna Orso, Louis Jacobson • May 9, 2016
Katie McGinty
Katie McGinty
stated on April 28, 2016 a press release.:
"Pat Toomey advocated for eliminating all corporate taxes."
True
By Anna Orso • April 29, 2016
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