Fact Check Posts – Page 131

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stated on January 27, 2016 comments on YouTube

"Bioweapon! Zika virus is being spread by GMO mosquitos (sic)"

By Linda Qiu • February 9, 2016

Loretta Sanchez
stated on January 20, 2016 a Capital Public Radio interview

"Nothing was done. I mean, $25 million was spent, but we don’t have that (gun ownership) database."

By Chris Nichols • February 4, 2016

Bob Donovan
stated on January 29, 2016 a Facebook post

"This is the true picture of ‘Milwaukee's Renaissance’ after 12 years of Mayor Tom Barrett's leadership."

February 2, 2016

B.o.B.
stated on January 25, 2016 in a Jan. 25 tweet

"You've been tremendously deceived" by people who say the Earth is not flat.

By Lauren Carroll • February 1, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on January 28, 2016 comments during the Iowa Republican presidential debate

Obamacare "is the biggest job-killer in this country -- millions of Americans have lost their jobs, have been forced into part-time work."

By Jon Greenberg • January 29, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on January 21, 2016 a New Hampshire appearance

"Blue Cross Blue Shield cancelled all their individual (health care) policies in the state of Texas, effective Dec. 31."

By W. Gardner Selby • January 22, 2016

Mike Rogers
stated on January 12, 2016 a roundtable discussion on CNN

"Donald Trump is appealing as much to Democrats as he is to Republicans."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 21, 2016

Marco Rubio
stated on January 18, 2016 an exchange with voters at an Iowa campaign event

Says his much-discussed boots are "made in Wisconsin."

By Joshua Gillin • January 19, 2016

Marco Rubio
stated on January 17, 2016 an interview on "Meet the Press"

Hostages were released as soon as Ronald Reagan took office because Iran perceived that America was "no longer under the command of someone weak."

By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • January 17, 2016

Democratic Party of Wisconsin
stated on January 14, 2016 a news release

Wisconsin dropped "from second in the country to 41st" among states where more than half the students took the ACT exam.

January 15, 2016

Nancy Pelosi
stated on January 13, 2016 an interview on CNN

Until the new Iran deal, China and Russia "have never voted with us at the U.N. on any sanctions on Iran in the past."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 13, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on January 4, 2016 a television ad

A Trump television ad shows Mexicans swarming over "our southern border."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr., Louis Jacobson • January 4, 2016

My City Bikes
stated on December 7, 2015 news release

"Bicycle ownership drops by half while obesity in Rhode Island rises by 154 percent"

By Mark Reynolds • January 3, 2016

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stated on December 26, 2015 a Facebook post

Says U.S. Rep. Ted Yoho said "African Americans should only be given three-fifths of a vote."

By Joshua Gillin • December 30, 2015

Rand Paul
stated on December 15, 2015 in the CNN debate in Las Vegas

Says Marco Rubio "is the one for an open border."

By Amy Sherman • December 16, 2015

Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on December 9, 2015 an interview on CNN

Says Marco Rubio said "we should be considering internment" of Muslims, and "maybe we should close down cafes and diners where Muslims gather and in fact compared them to the Nazi party."

By Amy Sherman • December 10, 2015

Facebook posts
stated on November 13, 2013 multiple posts

Barack Obama’s Columbia University ID says he was a foreign student and went by "Barry Soetoro."

By Clayton Youngman • December 9, 2015

Alan Grayson
stated on November 25, 2015 an interview on the "Alan Colmes Show" on Fox News

"Technically, (Ted Cruz is) not even an American."

By Jon Greenberg • December 8, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on November 14, 2015 a rally in Beaumont, Texas

President Barack Obama "wants to take in 250,000 (people) from Syria."

By Fauzeya Rahman • December 1, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on November 22, 2015 a tweet

Says crime statistics show blacks kill 81 percent of white homicide victims.

By Jon Greenberg • November 23, 2015

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