Fact Check Posts – Page 2

Brad Schimel
stated on April 9, 2017 a TV interview

There is no ‘backlog’ of untested rape kits in Wisconsin.

By Eric Litke • May 19, 2017

Bloggers
stated on March 27, 2017

"The Notebook is finally getting a sequel. Producers of the upcoming film confirmed .... that filming will begin in Jacksonville, North Carolina this summer."

By Will Doran • April 2, 2017

Dan Forest
stated on February 14, 2017 a written statement

"If Governor Cooper's proposed bill for repealing HB2 becomes law, it will create a state-sanctioned 'Look But Don't Touch' policy in our bathrooms."

By Will Doran • February 17, 2017

If You Only News
stated on December 4, 2016 a news-entertainment web post

"Emboldened by election, Texas Republicans kill Medicaid funding for kids with disabilities."

By W. Gardner Selby • December 21, 2016

Chris Sununu
stated on October 31, 2016 a radio interview

"The Democrats are very sly. … (in New Hampshire) we have same day voter registration, and to be honest, when Massachusetts elections are not very close, they’re busing them in all over the place."

By Ella Nilsen • November 5, 2016

Chris Malone
stated on September 28, 2016

Says Democratic challenger for his N.C. House seat "raised taxes on clothing, school supplies – even baby diapers!"

By Will Doran • October 28, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on October 17, 2016 a speech in Green Bay, Wisconsin

"It’s possible that non-citizen voters were responsible for Obama’s 2008 victory in North Carolina."

By Will Doran • October 19, 2016

Pat McCrory
stated on May 3, 2016 a radio talk show appearance on the John Boy and Billy Big Show

Says Bruce Springsteen "only had 8,000 tickets sold" for a Greensboro show and canceled after "they didn’t get the ticket sales they wanted."

By Will Doran • May 4, 2016

Greg Abbott
stated on January 8, 2016 a 90-page manifesto decrying federal overreach

"While states used to have regulatory power over fishing, federal law now regulates down to the tenth of the inch the minimum size of fish that anglers can keep."

By Dylan Baddour • February 10, 2016

Democratic Party of Wisconsin
stated on January 14, 2016 a news release

Wisconsin dropped "from second in the country to 41st" among states where more than half the students took the ACT exam.

January 15, 2016

Reader
stated on October 24, 2015 a Tweet to PolitiFact Georgia

"How is a misogynist bigot of epic proportions (like U.S. Rep. Steven Smith) allowed to serve?"

By April Hunt • October 28, 2015

Dan Patrick
stated on February 25, 2015 an interview on KLBJ AM in Austin

Texas this fiscal year will "have more money in reserve than the other 49 states combined."

By W. Gardner Selby • March 5, 2015

Wallace Hall
stated on December 6, 2014 a speech

Texas House Speaker Joe Straus said, ‘I do not care if Wallace Hall swings from a tree.’

By W. Gardner Selby • December 17, 2014

Chain email
stated on June 18, 2014

Barack Obama is the "first president to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect."

By Louis Jacobson • June 18, 2014

Andrew Napolitano
stated on April 23, 2014 an interview on "Hannity"

"The Constitution simply does not authorize the federal government to own any of this land (in the Western states)."

By Jon Greenberg • April 28, 2014

Amardeep Kaleka
stated on October 20, 2013 an interview

Wisconsin sold fresh water to California, helping that state's dairy industry, and "lost a bunch of jobs (and) a bunch of farmland."

October 28, 2013

Paul LePage
stated on October 14, 2013 a speech in Falmouth, Maine

"About 47 percent of able-bodied people in the state of Maine don’t work."

By Louis Jacobson • October 23, 2013

Richard Saslaw
stated on January 15, 2013 a news conference.

Except for Virginia, "the other 49 states keep raising their gas tax."

By Sean Gorman • February 11, 2013

Leon Young
stated on January 19, 2013 a news article

Wisconsin state lawmakers worked seven days in 2012 but got "paid for a whole year."

February 6, 2013

Chain email
stated on February 19, 2012 an email

Says Texas retained the right to have a navy when it joined the United States.

April 4, 2012

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