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Mike DeWine
Mike DeWine
stated on October 20, 2018 an ad:
"During the Strickland-Cordray era, taxes were raised by $800 million and Ohio lost 400,000 jobs."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • October 29, 2018
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on June 19, 2018 a TV ad:
Says he made "a record investment in schools."  
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • August 3, 2018
Mahlon Mitchell
Mahlon Mitchell
stated on June 19, 2018 an interview:
Says Scott Walker "has cut more from public education than he's put back in, obviously. He took $1.6 billion and some change away and then puts back $630 million and he's calling that progress."
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • August 1, 2018
JB Pritzker
JB Pritzker
stated on June 7, 2018 a campaign ad:
"$1 billion—that’s how much Bruce Rauner has wasted with his budget crisis."
Mostly False
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • June 25, 2018
Richard Cordray
Richard Cordray
stated on June 4, 2018 an event in Springfield:
On Mike DeWine's record as attorney general: "Opioid deaths have tripled on his watch and there have been cuts to funds for first responders and people in the community fighting the crisis."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • June 12, 2018
Tony Evers
Tony Evers
stated on March 23, 2018 an interview:
Says that despite a recent increase in school funding, Scott Walker "has taken over a billion dollars from the public schools."  
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • April 20, 2018
Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick
stated on January 16, 2018 a campaign video:
"Last year, I proposed directing more of the education budget to teacher salaries, a move that would have resulted in an average $10,000 raise for teachers."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • February 23, 2018
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on January 24, 2018 a speech:
"We invested" in our transportation system "$24 billion over eight years. That’s $3 billion more than what former Governor Jim Doyle spent on transportation over the same period of time."
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • February 6, 2018
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on December 18, 2017 a tweet:
"Road projects across the state are staying on track or getting done sooner thanks to the good work of the team at the Wisconsin Department of Transportation."  
Mostly False
By D.L. Davis • January 26, 2018
Parker Briden
Parker Briden
stated on November 13, 2017 a St. Louis Post-Dispatch article:
"We've seen funding increases for schools. We haven't seen a corresponding performance increase."
Mostly False
By Katelyn Brown • December 26, 2017
Travis Allen
Travis Allen
stated on June 15, 2017 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
Bruce Rauner
Bruce Rauner
stated on December 4, 2017 a press conference:
"The candidates controlled by Madigan, all of them have said, ‘The answer to our problems is a massive income tax hike.’ "
Mostly False
By Matt Dietrich • December 14, 2017
Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs
Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs
stated on October 5, 2017 an op-ed in the "Tulsa World":
"State government spending is at an all-time high. The state is on track to spend more in this fiscal year — more than $17.9 billion — than at any time in state history."  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • October 17, 2017
Crystal Quade
Crystal Quade
stated on August 9, 2017 a letter:
"The governor’s cuts would kick over 8,000 people out of their homes."
Mostly False
By Allie Pecorin, Katie Parkins • September 10, 2017
Jim Patterson
Jim Patterson
stated on May 22, 2017 a press release:
California Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget "cuts funds for local tree mortality efforts from $52.7 million to just $2 million."
Mostly False
By Chris Nichols • May 25, 2017
Melissa Melendez
Melissa Melendez
stated on May 11, 2017 a press release and a tweet:
California Gov. Jerry Brown has proposed "diverting 30 percent of the funding" from the state’s gas tax increase "to non-road related projects like building parks and job training for felons."
Mostly False
By Chris Nichols • May 19, 2017
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on February 8, 2017 his budget speech:
"We are investing more money into education than ever before in the history of Wisconsin."
Mostly False
By Alison Dirr • May 17, 2017
Eric Greitens
Eric Greitens
stated on February 2, 2017 a budget speech at Nixa’s Early Childhood Center:
  "K-12 education is getting more money this year than they did last year. ... It is a total increase of 4.1 percent."
Mostly False
By Jen Para • March 28, 2017
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on February 23, 2017 and in several other statements over the past two months.:
The proposed state budget contains "an additional tax cut for the middle class."
Mostly False
By Dan Clark • March 17, 2017
Phil Berger
Phil Berger
stated on March 13, 2017 a the GOP response to Roy Cooper's State of the State speech:
Says Republican legislators in North Carolina raised the average teacher's pay "by more than 15 percent in just three years."
Mostly False
By Will Doran • March 16, 2017
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