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stated on August 6, 2015 a Snopes.com tweet recapping a Facebook post
A Texas police department bought an ad telling drug dealers, "We can take your competition off the streets for FREE."  
True
By W. Gardner Selby • October 30, 2015
Emanuel Cleaver
Emanuel Cleaver
stated on August 11, 2015 on 'Up to Date'
Two years ago motorists in Ferguson, a city of 20,000 people, "received 31,000 citations. That's at least one citation per person plus 10,000 for visitors. The city is still surviving only on traffic tickets; there's virtually no industry there."
Mostly False
By Sean Nelson • October 22, 2015
Chris Danou
Chris Danou
stated on October 20, 2015 remarks in Assembly debate
A Republican bill that would change John Doe criminal investigations is "creating exceptions in the law for politicians."
Mostly True
October 22, 2015
Edward Flynn
Edward Flynn
stated on August 27, 2015 a forum
In Milwaukee County, juveniles arrested for car theft "get sent immediately home, because under the point system in juvenile court" on holding suspects, "a stolen car gets zero points."  
Mostly False
October 19, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on October 18, 2015 an interview on NBC's 'Meet the Press'
"Republican leadership took the lead confirming Loretta Lynch as attorney general."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • October 18, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 7, 2015 a town hall-style campaign event in Iowa
The gun industry is "the only business in America that is wholly protected from any kind of liability."
False
By Lauren Carroll • October 16, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on October 12, 2015 a tweet
Wisconsin’s Government Accountability Board "wanted to consider Mickey Mouse and Adolf Hitler as valid signatures on recall petitions."
False
By James B. Nelson • October 16, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on October 13, 2015 a Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas
"We are imprisoning or giving jail sentences to young people who are smoking marijuana."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • October 14, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 13, 2015 the first Democratic presidential debate
Says Edward Snowden "could have gotten all of the protections of being a whistleblower."  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • October 14, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on September 25, 2015 comments to reporters
A state agency wanted to fire an employee who spent four hours per day watching pornography, but the state "employment commission reinstated the person."
Mostly True
October 7, 2015
Jon Erpenbach
Jon Erpenbach
stated on September 25, 2015 an interview
Says Scott Walker "said he wouldn't touch" the state civil service system but now supports overhauling it.
Mostly False
October 2, 2015
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on September 16, 2015 a presidential debate
"There's never been a direct Supreme Court case on people who were here illegally, whether or not their kids are citizens."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • September 18, 2015
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on September 16, 2015 the CNN Republican debate
The government "made accommodation to the Fort Hood shooter to let him grow a beard" for religious reasons.  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • September 17, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on September 14, 2015 a campaign proposal
Says he will pursue change in federal law to protect employees from "extortion from a union" because "the Supreme Court has ruled that federal prohibitions outlawing extortion usually do not apply to unions."  
Mostly False
September 17, 2015
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Viral image
stated on September 7, 2015 a Facebook post
Says the case of a Texas judge who refused to perform heterosexual weddings exposes a double standard in the case against Kentucky clerk Kim Davis.
False
By Jon Greenberg • September 14, 2015
Juan Williams
Juan Williams
stated on September 9, 2015 a discussion on Fox News' "The Five"
When it comes to classified information at the State Department, Hillary Clinton’s "the decider."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • September 11, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on August 21, 2015 speaking to reporters in Iowa
"It has been the law since the beginning of the country that the children of American citizens born ... abroad are American citizens by birth."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • September 4, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on August 12, 2015 web site
"African Americans are twice as likely to be arrested and almost four times as likely to experience the use of force during encounters with the police."  
Mostly True
By Mark Reynolds • August 30, 2015
Sid Miller
Sid Miller
stated on August 16, 2015 a meme posted on his Facebook page
"To vote in Mexico every eligible Mexican citizen has to have a tamper-proof photo-ID card with a thumbprint and an embossed hologram."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • August 26, 2015
David Ralston
David Ralston
stated on July 13, 2015 an interview
There is debate among constitutional scholars about whether the First Amendment will continue to protect faith leaders from being forced to perform marriages against their religious beliefs.
Mostly False
By Nancy Badertscher • August 12, 2015
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