Fact Check Posts – Page 136

Americans for Prosperity: Florida
stated on March 10, 2015 a news release:

Recent solar energy policies in Georgia "have resulted in rate hikes and did not result in solar becoming any more economically viable."

By Joshua Gillin • March 24, 2015

Juda Engelmayer
stated on March 13, 2015 interviews:

Creflo Dollar needed a $65 million Gulfstream G650 to carry thousands of pounds of food and other supplies -- as well as the Word of God -- worldwide.

By Nancy Badertscher • March 23, 2015

Dan Patrick
stated on February 25, 2015 an interview on KLBJ AM in Austin:

Texas this fiscal year will "have more money in reserve than the other 49 states combined."

By W. Gardner Selby • March 5, 2015

Facebook posts
stated on February 7, 2015 a meme supposedly quoting Sheila Jackson Lee:

Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas said: ‘Hey, all you wrinkly, white-aged has-beens: It’s time for you to die and let the next generation have your spot on the planet.’

By W. Gardner Selby • February 24, 2015

Joe Biden
stated on February 17, 2015 remarks at a White House summit:

"There is a very identifiable Somali community" back home in Delaware.

By Lauren Carroll • February 19, 2015

Dana Perino
stated on February 9, 2015 a broadcast of "The Five" on Fox News:

On climate change, "the temperature readings have been fabricated, and it's all blowing up in their (scientists') faces."

By Jon Greenberg • February 13, 2015

Alcee Hastings
stated on February 5, 2015 a telephone interview with CNN:

A Texas law says "that you can’t shoot bears out of the second floor of a window."

By W. Gardner Selby • February 12, 2015

Mike Adams
stated on February 10, 2015 a story making the rounds on social media:

Mercury is used in vaccines, and there is no safe level of mercury.

By April Hunt • February 11, 2015

Urban Intellectuals
stated on January 15, 2015 an article posted on Urban Intellectuals:

"Sheriffs Call For Obama’s Lynching While Leader Meets With GOP Senators"

By Jon Greenberg • February 9, 2015

Scott Walker
stated on February 4, 2015 a tweet:

Fundamental changes made to the language describing the Wisconsin Idea in the University of Wisconsin System's mission statement were the result of a "drafting error."

By Tom Kertscher • February 6, 2015

Rush Limbaugh
stated on February 3, 2015 a broadcast of the "Rush Limbaugh Show":

The children coming across the southern U.S. border "were never examined after they got here and quarantined if they had a disease. They were just sent out across the country. Many of them had measles ... We now have an outbreak of it all because of our immigration policy."

By Jon Greenberg • February 5, 2015

Scott Walker
stated on January 21, 2015 an interview:

"Documents released from the Soviet Union" show "the Soviet Union started treating" President Ronald Reagan more seriously after Reagan fired the air traffic controllers.

By Tom Kertscher • January 28, 2015

Rick Perry
stated on January 26, 2015 a breakfast talk in Iowa:

The U.S. unemployment rate has "been massaged, it’s been doctored."

By W. Gardner Selby • January 26, 2015

Alfonso Lopez
stated on January 19, 2015 a floor speech.:

On assault weapon violence: "Ducks have more protection than people in Virginia."

By Warren Fiske • January 26, 2015

John Kasich
stated on January 25, 2015 comments on "Fox News Sunday":

"You cannot build a little guy up by tearing a big guy down -- Abraham Lincoln said it."

By Lauren Carroll • January 25, 2015

Steven Emerson
stated on January 10, 2015 an interview on Fox News:

"There are actual cities" like Birmingham, England, "that are totally Muslim where non-Muslims just simply don’t go in."

By Katie Sanders • January 14, 2015

Facebook posts
stated on December 11, 2014 social media postings:

"Newly Elected Republican Senators Sign Pledge to Eliminate Food Stamp Program in 2015."

By Louis Jacobson • January 6, 2015

NaHa Daily
stated on January 4, 2015 a website article:

"Fox News airs Stuart Scott R.I.P. tribute with picture of Stephen A. Smith."

By Jon Greenberg • January 6, 2015

Chain email
stated on January 1, 2015 a chain email:

New tax increases that went into effect on Jan. 1, 2015, "all passed under the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare."

By Louis Jacobson • January 5, 2015

Rudy Giuliani
stated on December 21, 2014 an interview on Fox News:

Says President Barack Obama has said "that everybody should hate the police."

By Lauren Carroll • December 23, 2014

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