Fact Check Posts – Page 164

Progressive Change Campaign Committee
stated on February 14, 2011 an email blast to supporters

Says Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker "has threatened to call out the National Guard if workers protest against" changes to bargaining laws.

By Tom Kertscher • February 16, 2011

Tom DeLay
stated on January 13, 2011 an interview.

Says Travis County, home to Austin, is the most liberal county in the United States.

By W. Gardner Selby • February 16, 2011

Donald Trump
stated on February 10, 2011 a speech at the CPAC conference

"The people that went to school with (Barack Obama), they never saw him, they don't know who he is."

By Robert Farley • February 14, 2011

Scott Suder
stated on January 28, 2011 a news release

Four state Assembly Democrats "scored a death blow to northeast Wisconsin’s economy" by killing hundreds of jobs at a potential Bass Pro Shops near Green Bay.

By James B. Nelson • February 13, 2011

Chain email
stated on February 7, 2011 a chain e-mail

Foreign Trade Zones allow U.S. "land to be inhabited by Chinese communists -- communists straight from China! They are to set up little towns and live here."

By Louis Jacobson • February 9, 2011

Lee Holloway
stated on January 21, 2011 a statement at a candidate forum

The city building code violations on my properties only involve exterior issues; "within the households, it’s fine."

By James B. Nelson • February 7, 2011

Ron Paul
stated on January 20, 2011 an interview on MSNBC

"The last Christians are about to leave" Iraq.

February 7, 2011

Terry Gorman
stated on January 6, 2011 a radio interview

"Illegal aliens cost the state of Rhode Island $400 million a year."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 6, 2011

William G. Batchelder
stated on January 4, 2011 an interview on WCPN 90.3 FM

Says getting ex-cons to successfully return to society is important "so we are not always faced constantly with recidivism, which is a big problem in the penitentiary today – in the 70 to 80 percent range."

By Mark Naymik • February 5, 2011

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
stated on January 31, 2011 a radio ad.

Congressman Robert Hurt has a plan to cut education by 40 percent.

By Jacob Geiger • February 4, 2011

One Wisconsin Now
stated on January 28, 2011 a news release

"Gov. Scott Walker and the Republican-controlled state legislature have added over $140 million in new special interest spending"

By Tom Kertscher • February 1, 2011

William G. Batchelder
stated on January 3, 2011 a speech in the Ohio House of Representatives

Says a "Canadian provincial prime minister came to Ohio for his medical treatment because of the delay in Canadian health care which would have endangered his life."

By Aaron Marshall • January 26, 2011

Victoria Taft
stated on December 27, 2010 a website posting

Says a Portland school gives Muslim students "their own school provided prayer room, prayer rugs," and lets them "out of class five times a day to pray to Allah."

By Ian K. Kullgren • January 23, 2011

Brian Moran
stated on January 12, 2011 a news release.

The governor has made a "commitment to billions of dollars in debt and new spending without any explanation of how he plans to pay that money back."

By Jacob Geiger • January 21, 2011

Chain email
stated on January 20, 2011 a chain email and -- briefly -- a union web site

Gov. Scott Walker hired convicted Assembly Speaker Scott Jensen to oversee a raid on the state employee retirement system to help balance the state budget.

By James B. Nelson • January 21, 2011

Laurence Ehrhardt
stated on January 3, 2011 a commentary in The Providence Journal

If the Stamp Farm wind turbine is built, the "health risk of 'flicker' impact created by shadows of blades of turbines poses real and significant health risks, particularly seizures."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 19, 2011

Chain email
stated on January 7, 2011 a chain e-mail

Members of Congress and their families and staff are exempt from repaying student loans.

By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 11, 2011

Ray McBerry
stated on December 15, 2010 a radio interview

"You’ll find blacks in almost every regiment throughout the South who fought right alongside white Southerners," during the Civil War.

By Willoughby Mariano • January 7, 2011

Rick Perry
stated on December 19, 2010 an interview

Says the state's Medicaid waiver proposal "has languished in a file cabinet at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for more than two years."

By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • January 6, 2011

Chain email
stated on December 20, 2010 a message via the Internet

Unemployment and the housing and auto industry crises can be fixed by giving a million dollars to every worker over age 50 to retire.

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 22, 2010

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