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Latest Fact-Checks In Wisconsin

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Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on November 20, 2021 a Facebook post
“The gas station where they initially attacked” Kyle Rittenhouse “is owned by his grandparents.”
False
November 24, 2021
Janet Bewley
Janet Bewley
stated on November 5, 2021 News release
“Wisconsin is almost equally divided on partisan lines” and therefore new Legislative maps could be drawn to “represent that 50-50 split.”
Mostly False
By Madeline Heim • November 23, 2021
Meagan Wolfe
Meagan Wolfe
stated on November 5, 2021 TV interview
"Only a court can decide that somebody is incompetent to vote" -- the state Election Commission "cannot force facilities, private facilities, to allow special voting deputies" inside.
Mostly True
By D.L. Davis • November 18, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on November 15, 2021 a post on Facebook
“500 National Guardsmen being called to Kenosha ahead of the Rittenhouse verdict. Had they done this in the first place, there wouldn’t have been a trial.”
False
By Monique Curet • November 17, 2021
Viral image
Viral image
stated on November 15, 2021 a Facebook post
Timothy Simpkins, a Black teen shooter, got 1 day in jail and $75,000 bail, while Kyle Rittenhouse, a white teen, got 2 months in jail and $2 million bail. “I think it’s pretty evident ... that white privilege is a myth.”
Half-True
November 17, 2021
Viral image
Viral image
stated on November 13, 2021 a viral image
Kyle Rittenhouse’s mother “drove him across state lines and dropped him off in the middle of a riot armed with an assault rifle” in Kenosha.
False
November 15, 2021
Bryan Steil
Bryan Steil
stated on October 28, 2021 Twitter
Says President Joe Biden “is in talks to pay illegal immigrants $450,000.”
Half-True
By Laura Schulte • November 12, 2021
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on October 30, 2021 TV interview
“If you’re a low-wage worker and you’re single and don’t have children, we’re literally taxing you into poverty."
Mostly True
By D.L. Davis • November 11, 2021
Rebecca Kleefisch
Rebecca Kleefisch
stated on October 23, 2021 Campaign email
The Biden Department of Justice “would use the FBI to target parents who speak out against critical race theory.”
False
By Madeline Heim • November 9, 2021
Aaron Rodgers
Aaron Rodgers
stated on November 5, 2021 an interview on the Pat McAfee Show
"This idea that it's the pandemic of the unvaccinated, it's just a total lie."
False
By Gabrielle Settles • November 8, 2021
Wisconsin Senate Republicans
Wisconsin Senate Republicans
stated on October 26, 2021 Twitter
“States run elections, not the federal government.”
Mostly False
By Laura Schulte • November 3, 2021
Kelda Helen Roys
Kelda Helen Roys
stated on September 28, 2021 Email
Says gubernatorial candidate Rebecca Kleefisch “worked with Scott Walker to sign five abortion restrictions into law that took away services and threatened doctors with prison time for providing safe and legal abortions.”
True
By Madeline Heim • November 2, 2021
Tom Tiffany
Tom Tiffany
stated on August 8, 2021 Twitter
“The seasonal cold and flu is actually more dangerous for kids than the Coronavirus” and “there is very low transmissibility from children to their families and communities.”
Mostly False
By Allison Garfield • October 28, 2021
Ben Wikler
Ben Wikler
stated on September 23, 2021 Twitter
Says Rebecca Kleefisch played a key role in the Foxconn deal, “the largest attempted government handout to a foreign company in American history."
Mostly True
By Madeline Heim • October 26, 2021
Democratic Party of Wisconsin
Democratic Party of Wisconsin
stated on September 13, 2021 Instagram
“The Walker-Kleefisch administration slashed $800 million from public schools."
Mostly False
By D.L. Davis • October 22, 2021
Bryan Steil
Bryan Steil
stated on September 24, 2021 Twitter
Says Joe Biden's IRS reform proposals "would require banks and credit unions to hand over private information about routine transactions to the IRS."
Mostly False
By D.L. Davis • October 15, 2021
Mark Pocan
Mark Pocan
stated on October 3, 2021 Twitter
“The annual Pentagon budget hovers over $750 billion annually, twice that of the much debated Build Back Better Act that costs about $350 billion annually as currently proposed.”
True
By Laura Schulte • October 14, 2021
Patrick Testin
Patrick Testin
stated on August 29, 2021 TV interview
"The vast majority of the (refugees) coming into Fort McCoy are not the SIVs" and some have "no documentation at all."
Mostly True
By Alan Hovorka • October 13, 2021
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on October 4, 2021 TV interview
“We do not have an approved (COVID) vaccine in America … the Pfizer vaccine available in the U.S. is not FDA approved.”
False
By Allison Garfield • October 5, 2021
Tony Evers
Tony Evers
stated on September 22, 2021 Public statement
On tax cuts and repealing Wisconsin’s personal property tax on businesses.
Half Flip
By D.L. Davis • October 5, 2021
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