Fact Check Posts – Page 28

John Chiang
stated on May 12, 2018 a campaign ad:

Antonio Villaraigosa's "recklessness (as mayor of Los Angeles) ... left no funding to test 7,000 rape kits, putting public safety at risk."

By Chris Nichols • May 16, 2018

LoveThisPic.com
stated on February 3, 2018 a headline:

"Smoking in cars with children is illegal starting January 30, 2018."

By Amy Sherman • February 8, 2018

Paul Krugman
stated on September 30, 2017 a tweet:

Said there is cholera in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.

By Jon Greenberg • October 2, 2017

Ron Johnson
stated on September 20, 2017 an interview:

The GOP’s health bill will protect people with pre-existing conditions "every bit as well as Obamacare did."

By Tom Kertscher • September 22, 2017

Sean Duffy
stated on September 14, 2017 a Facebook Live town hall:

Vermont had to "scrap" its single-payer health insurance program because it was "going bankrupt."

By Tom Kertscher • September 20, 2017

Kevin McCarthy
stated on July 11, 2017 an interview with Fox Business:

"More people, almost twice as many, pay the penalty or take the waiver than signed up for (Obamacare)."

By Chris Nichols • July 21, 2017

Maram Museitif
stated on May 24, 2017 as quoted in a Central Health press release:

Says Arabic "is the third most-common language in Austin."

By W. Gardner Selby • June 5, 2017

Sean Duffy
stated on May 9, 2017 an interview:

The Republican replacement for Obamacare does not give massive tax cuts to wealthy Americans.

By Tom Kertscher • May 12, 2017

Bill Zedler
stated on April 25, 2017 his responses to a physician testifying before the Texas House Committee on Public Health:

Says a federal program that collects reported side-effects of vaccinations doesn’t accept possible outcomes extending to road accidents, heart attacks or suicides.

By W. Gardner Selby • May 11, 2017

Claire McCaskill
stated on March 28, 2017 a tweet:

"We have 5 percent of world population. 80 percent of opioids."

By Gary Garrison • May 10, 2017

Americas PAC
stated on April 27, 2017 a radio ad:

Says Tammy Baldwin was told by a whistleblower about "overmedicated veterans," she made "deadly mistakes" and "three veterans died" at the Tomah VA hospital.

By Tom Kertscher • May 5, 2017

William Ruto
stated on September 9, 2016 a speech at a political rally:

"Cancer and matters to do with kidney failure kill more people in Kenya today than malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS combined."

By Jon Greenberg • October 13, 2016

Daily Caller
stated on September 19, 2016 an article in the Daily Caller:

"Former President Bill Clinton and his Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) distributed ‘watered-down’ HIV/AIDS drugs to patients in sub-Saharan Africa."

By Jon Greenberg • September 23, 2016

Marco Rubio
stated on September 7, 2016 a statement by a spokeswoman:

Says "Patrick Murphy is the only candidate to have voted against every measure to fund Zika."

By Joshua Gillin • September 14, 2016

David A. Clarke Jr.
stated on June 13, 2016 a speech:

"Doctors kill about 250,000 people a year in botched surgeries."

By Tom Kertscher • June 29, 2016

Freedom Partners Action Fund
stated on May 2, 2016 a TV ad:

"Russ Feingold got a memo in 2009 that outlined veteran harm" at a Wisconsin VA facility "and nothing was done."

By Tom Kertscher • May 11, 2016

Joe Biden
stated on April 29, 2016 a speech at the Vatican:

"In the United States alone we lose more than 3,000 people a day to cancer."

By Louis Jacobson • May 9, 2016

Club for Growth
stated on March 17, 2016 a political ad:

Says Donald Trump promised "to take care of everybody (through government-run healthcare and) the government's going to pay for it."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 21, 2016

Centre for Research on Globalization
stated on February 4, 2016 an article posted on the group's website:

"The most likely triggering cause of (microcephaly)" is the "DTaP shot, a vaccine that had been recently mandated by the Brazilian government to be injected into pregnant women."

By Jon Greenberg • February 16, 2016

Ora Houston
stated on September 8, 2015 an Austin City Council meeting about the city budget:

"HIV/AIDS among women is skyrocketing in Austin."

By Mary Ann Roser • October 2, 2015

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