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Angel Taveras
Angel Taveras
stated on July 25, 2014 in a campaign video:
"Providence graduation rates are up."
Mostly True
By Karen Lee Ziner • July 16, 2014
Allan Fung
Allan Fung
stated on June 26, 2014 in a letter to taxpayers:
Cranston's 2014-2015 "budget funds 100 percent of the local police and fire pension and other retiree benefit costs."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 9, 2014
Kenneth Block
Kenneth Block
stated on June 17, 2014 in a debate:
Republican candidate for governor Allan Fung "donated to Democrats like Congressman David Cicilline, disgraced (House) speaker Gordon Fox and even Mr. Obamacare, Harry Reid."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 29, 2014
Jack Reed
Jack Reed
stated on May 1, 2014 in a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate:
In the 1950s and 1960s, "the minimum wage was such that it would lift you out of poverty."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 15, 2014
Linda Finn
Linda Finn
stated on March 18, 2014 in a speech during a rally at the Rhode Island state house:
"By a two-to-one margin, Rhode Islanders want to ban assault weapons and we have a very small percentage of gun owners in this state, less than 13 percent."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 6, 2014
Occupy Democrats
Occupy Democrats
stated on December 26, 2013 in a Facebook post:
"Nine out of the 10 poorest states are Red states."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 28, 2014
Clay Pell
Clay Pell
stated on February 2, 2014 in an interview on WPRI-TV's "Newsmakers.":
"The budget I managed at the Department of Education was more than $60 million."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 23, 2014
David Cicilline
David Cicilline
stated on February 11, 2014 in a House floor speech:
"According to one study, the minimum wage today is worth $2 less than in 1968."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 21, 2014
Daniel Harrop
Daniel Harrop
stated on December 15, 2013 in an appearance on WPRI-TV's Newsmakers:
"We see a quarter-billion dollars in a pension fund that needs to be funded at $1.2 billion."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 9, 2014
Rhode Island Senate
Rhode Island Senate
stated on January 15, 2014 in a Senate resolution:
"The (New England) Patriots were led by an explosive offense that scored the second most points in the NFL."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 17, 2014
Jonathan Harris
Jonathan Harris
stated on December 24, 2013 in a newspaper commentary:
"You don’t see Norway losing population, and its taxes are astronomical."
Mostly True
By John Hill • January 7, 2014
Brett Smiley
Brett Smiley
stated on December 19, 2013 in a campaign speech:
"Of all cities in the United States with more than 100,000 people, Providence is the 183rd safest."
Mostly True
By John Hill • December 30, 2013
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on December 17, 2013 in a speech on the Senate floor:
"61 percent of non-tea party Republicans actually agree...there is 'solid evidence the earth is warming,' ...[but] 70 percent of tea partiers, contrarily, say there is 'no solid evidence' the earth is warming."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 28, 2013
Michael Chippendale
Michael Chippendale
stated on December 3, 2013 in a radio interview:
"The vast, overwhelming majority of [crimes that occur with a firearm] are committed by people who don’t legally possess that firearm in the first place."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 15, 2013
Daniel McKee
Daniel McKee
stated on November 13, 2013 in a campaign speech:
The town of Cumberland has "its highest bond rating in history."
Mostly True
By John Hill • December 13, 2013
James Langevin
James Langevin
stated on December 3, 2013 in a news release:
Passing a federal firearms "background check through the NICS database . . . typically takes 90 seconds."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 8, 2013
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on November 13, 2013 in a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate:
In a poll, "53 percent of young Republican voters . . . under age 35 said that they would describe a climate [change] denier as 'ignorant,' 'out of touch' or 'crazy.'"
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 25, 2013
Allan Fung
Allan Fung
stated on November 4, 2013 in a campaign speech:
"We have created new jobs here in Cranston -- more than 1,000."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 10, 2013
Gina Raimondo
Gina Raimondo
stated on October 21, 2013 in a fundraising letter.:
"Providence has more of its pension fund invested in hedge funds and is less transparent" about it than the state.
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 3, 2013
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on October 10, 2013 in an appearance on CNN's "Crossfire.":
"Thirteen hundred" applicants in Rhode Island signed up for insurance through Obamacare.
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 17, 2013
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