Fact Check Posts – Page 2

Silvestre Reyes
stated on May 22, 2012 in a TV ad:

Says Beto O’Rourke "has a criminal record that includes DWI and burglary arrests."

By W. Gardner Selby • August 22, 2018

Justin Nelson
stated on May 29, 2018 in a tweet:

Says "our indicted Attorney General Ken Paxton is back to being the only statewide official in the country under indictment."

By W. Gardner Selby • June 7, 2018

Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on April 20, 2018 in a tweet:

"Black and Latino people in NYC are arrested at TEN times the rate of white people for virtually the same rate of marijuana usage."

By Dan Clark • April 25, 2018

John Chiang
stated on March 29, 2018 in a letter to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions:

"A majority of Americans now live in states where they have decided to legalize cannabis," including recreational and medical marijuana.

By Chris Nichols • April 20, 2018

Jerry Brown
stated on April 11, 2018 in a letter to the Trump administration:

"Here are the facts: there is no massive wave of migrants pouring into California. Overall immigrant apprehensions on the border last year were as low as they’ve been in nearly 50 years (and 85 percent of the apprehensions occurred outside of California)."

By Chris Nichols • April 13, 2018

Rebecca Dallet
stated on January 19, 2018 in an interview:

Says that as a judge, she has "presided over more than 10,000 cases."

By Tom Kertscher • February 16, 2018

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."

By Chris Nichols • January 25, 2018

Kamala Harris
stated on July 18, 2017 in a speech:

"It costs us about $33,000 a year (on average nationally) to lock somebody up. In California it costs about $75,000 a year."

By Chris Nichols • August 9, 2017

Charles Schumer
stated on May 18, 2017 in a Senate floor speech:

"President Obama became the first president since Carter to leave the White House with a smaller federal prison population than when he took office."

By Louis Jacobson • May 18, 2017

Sheriff David Clarke for U.S. Senate
stated on April 5, 2017 in a fund-raising email:

Says Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. has said Black Lives Matter "is a terrorist movement, a hate group and calls it, Black LIES Matter."

By Tom Kertscher • April 17, 2017

Gwen Moore
stated on November 18, 2016 in an interview:

Says Donald Trump "thinks stop-and-frisk is fine."

By Tom Kertscher • December 9, 2016

Virginia "Jennie Lou" Leeder
stated on October 17, 2016 in an interview with the Austin American-Statesman:

Texas spends "more per day to house an inmate than we do on a student."

By Fauzeya Rahman • November 18, 2016

Tim Kaine
stated on October 4, 2016 in the vice presidential debate:

Says Philando Castile "had been stopped by police 40 or 50 times before that fatal incident."

By Jon Greenberg • October 5, 2016

Charley Wilkison
stated on July 15, 2016 in an interview with Laura Rice for the Texas Standard:

"Texas has lost the most law enforcement officers in the line of duty of any state in America."

By Rye Druzin • September 19, 2016

Sean Hannity
stated on August 23, 2016 in a slide presented on Hannity’s show during an Austin interview of Donald Trump:

Says that in 2015, "illegal" immigrants accounted for 75 percent of federal drug possession convictions and 5 percent to 30 percent of convictions for murder and kidnapping plus two other crimes.

By W. Gardner Selby • September 2, 2016

Tim Kaine
stated on July 27, 2016 in a speech:

"We fixed a loophole in the (gun) background record check system so that we could make our commonwealth safer."

By Sean Gorman • July 29, 2016

ACLU of North Carolina
stated on June 29, 2016 in a press release:

Proposed NC law for body camera footage gives police "broad authority to keep video footage secret – even from individuals who are filmed."

By Will Doran • July 1, 2016

Catherine Hanaway
stated on March 17, 2016 in a debate:

"As a former federal prosecutor, I prosecuted over 4,000 cases."

By Tyler Adkisson • April 25, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on March 22, 2016 in a speech at Stanford University.:

When it comes to fighting terrorism, "Another thing we know that does not work, based on lots of empirical evidence, is torture."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 30, 2016

Richard Ferruccio
stated on February 23, 2016 in a legislative hearing :

"We do not have an overcrowding problem. As a matter of fact, Rhode Island has one of the lowest incarceration rates in the country."

By Jacqueline Tempera • March 20, 2016

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