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Latest Fact-Checks In California

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Phil Ting
Phil Ting
stated on January 21, 2018 in a newspaper article:
"Trump’s tax reform plan was nothing more than a middle-class tax increase."
False
By Chris Nichols • February 5, 2018
Steve Cortes
Steve Cortes
stated on January 23, 2018 in in an interview:
"We have right now, … in the state of California, 55 percent of all immigrants are on public assistance."
Half-True
By Manuela Tobias • January 29, 2018
Jerry Brown
Jerry Brown
stated on January 25, 2018 in a State of the State Address:
California’s prisons budget in 1970 "was about 3 percent of the general fund. Now, it’s 8.9 percent, about $12 billion."
True
By Chris Nichols • January 25, 2018
WorldNetDaily
WorldNetDaily
stated on January 21, 2018 in a headline:
"California To Register Illegal Aliens To Vote – Automatically."
Pants on Fire!
By Chris Nichols • January 24, 2018
Delaine Eastin
Delaine Eastin
stated on January 13, 2018 in a town hall :
California is 41st in the nation in per pupil K-12 spending, but "No. 1 in per prisoner" spending.
Mostly True
By Chris Nichols • January 17, 2018
Travis Allen
Travis Allen
stated on January 2, 2018 in interview on Fox News:
"Seventy four percent of Californians are absolutely against sanctuary state" policies.
False
By Chris Nichols • January 9, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on December 28, 2017 in a New York Times interview:
Said Dianne Feinstein said "there is no collusion" between the Trump campaign and Russia.
False
By Chris Nichols • January 2, 2018
USA In Front
USA In Front
stated on December 11, 2017 in a headline:
BREAKING: Illegal Muslim From Iran Arrested For Starting California Wildfire
Pants on Fire!
By Chris Nichols • December 20, 2017
Travis Allen
Travis Allen
stated on June 15, 2017 in a Repeal the Gas Tax campaign article:
"This new gas tax does not increase (road) capacity anywhere in the state. It will build no new lanes of freeways. If Californians didn’t like their traffic before, they’re going to like it even less when they’re stuck in the exact same traffic and paying more for their gas."
Mostly False
By Chris Nichols • December 15, 2017
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on November 27, 2017 in a tweet from her team's political account:
The GOP tax plan "Sabotages the health care of 13 MILLION Americans."
Half-True
By Chris Nichols • November 29, 2017
John Cox
John Cox
stated on October 21, 2017 in a Capital Public Radio interview:
Californians pay "the highest electricity bills" in the nation.
False
By Chris Nichols • November 16, 2017
Delaine Eastin
Delaine Eastin
stated on October 16, 2017 in an interview on Capital Public Radio:
Since 1965, California has built "six (college) campuses but 23 prisons."
False
By Chris Nichols • November 9, 2017
John Cox
John Cox
stated on October 19, 2017 in a San Francisco Chronicle op-ed.:
"It costs nearly five times as much in California to build and maintain a mile of road as it does in the rest of the nation."
False
By Chris Nichols • November 1, 2017
Delaine Eastin
Delaine Eastin
stated on October 11, 2017 in an op-ed:
"Ninety percent of people born in the 1940s ended up doing better financially than their parents. But those born in the 1980s, the much-maligned Millennials, have only a 50-50 chance of doing better (financially) than their parents, despite being the best-educated generation in our history."
True
By Chris Nichols • October 27, 2017
Breitbart
Breitbart
stated on October 17, 2017 in a news article:
An undocumented immigrant "was arrested on suspicion of arson in (the) Wine Country fires that have killed at least 40 residents."
False
By Chris Nichols • October 20, 2017
Antonio Villaraigosa
Antonio Villaraigosa
stated on July 31, 2017 in an interview on MSNBC:
"In the eight years that I was mayor, (there was a) nearly 50 percent drop in violent crime, gang crime — crime went down because we grew our police department, we focused on constitutional community policing, we did some of the most innovative prevention, intervention, job re-entry programs in the nation."
Mostly True
By Chris Nichols • October 18, 2017
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 9, 2017 in a speech at the University of California at Davis:
"There have been more than 270 mass shootings in the United States in the last year alone. That’s where four or more are killed."
False
By Chris Nichols • October 10, 2017
Antonio Villaraigosa
Antonio Villaraigosa
stated on September 20, 2017 in a newspaper article:
California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom was "for (high-speed rail), before he’s against it, and then he’s for it again."
Mostly True
By Chris Nichols • September 29, 2017
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on September 18, 2017 in a speech at Sacramento State University:
"Seventy-six percent of the American people support us passing the DREAM Act … with citizenship and legalization as part of it all. … More than 60 percent of Republicans support that."
True
By Chris Nichols • September 19, 2017
Dana Rohrabacher
Dana Rohrabacher
stated on September 14, 2017 in a news article:
Democrats "setup" and "manipulated" the political violence in Charlottesville
Pants on Fire!
By Chris Nichols • September 16, 2017
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