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Jeff Merkley
Jeff Merkley
stated on May 28, 2014 an interview
"400,000 Oregonians have gained access to health care" through the Affordable Care Act.
Half-True
By Dana Tims • May 30, 2014
Monica Wehby
Monica Wehby
stated on May 21, 2014 a campaign news release
"Jeff Merkley was the deciding vote on Obamacare, which in Oregon has been an unmitigated disaster."
False
By Dana Tims • May 23, 2014
Jim Francesconi
Jim Francesconi
stated on April 15, 2014 a campaign website statement
"Economic inequality in Multnomah County has a face -- and a name. It has 90,000 faces and names -- the number of county residents who are still unemployed, or underemployed, in the wake of the 2008 Wall Street crash."
False
By Dana Tims • May 16, 2014
John Kitzhaber
John Kitzhaber
stated on May 7, 2014 an email to supporters
"Oregon today has 100,000 more jobs than it did when I was elected."
Mostly True
By Dana Tims, Louis Jacobson • May 13, 2014
Deborah Kafoury
Deborah Kafoury
stated on April 15, 2014 a campaign website statement
"When Deborah took office, the (Sellwood Bridge) project had languished for years, with only $11 million in funds. With her leadership the remaining funding was secured that got the project moving forward."
Mostly True
By Dana Tims • May 8, 2014
Brian Wilson
Brian Wilson
stated on April 28, 2014 a campaign email
Jules Bailey "was instrumental in creating the Business Energy Tax Credit that let companies like Wal-Mart profit by $11 million while costing the Oregon general fund $33 million."
Pants on Fire!
By Dana Tims • May 1, 2014
Betsy Miller-Jones
Betsy Miller-Jones
stated on April 4, 2014 a newsletter
"Did you know that in 2013 over 50 percent of all babies born in Oregon were Hispanic?"
False
By Dana Tims • April 17, 2014
National Partnership for Women & Families
National Partnership for Women & Families
stated on April 8, 2014 a news release
"Women in Oregon are paid 79 cents for every dollar paid to men. If the wage gap was eliminated, a working woman in Oregon would have enough money for 2,877 gallons of gas, 72 more weeks of food for her family or nearly 12 more months of rent."
True
By Dana Tims • April 10, 2014
Andy Duyck
Andy Duyck
stated on April 4, 2014 a public presentation
"We’ve dedicated more money from (Washington County’s) transportation budget to bike and ped projects under my watch than at any time in the history of Washington County."
Mostly True
By Dana Tims • April 4, 2014
Hemant Mehta
Hemant Mehta
stated on March 11, 2014 a blog post
"In Oregon, students are skipping math class to learn about the Bible."
True
By Dana Tims • March 19, 2014
Seneca Jones
Seneca Jones
stated on March 2, 2014 newspaper ads
Seneca Jones Timber Co., aiming to increase logging and allay fears that old growth will be cut, says mills have shifted to second-generation trees. An ad from the company asks: "Do you know that most all mills in Oregon have retooled over the past 20 years?"
True
By Dana Tims • March 14, 2014
Brian Clem
Brian Clem
stated on February 28, 2014 a newspaper story
Oregon has never before tried to create a land-use plan for "what it should look like for 50 years."
True
By Dana Tims • March 6, 2014
Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense In America
Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense In America
stated on February 14, 2014 a news release
Gun "marketplaces" on Facebook mean "ANYONE can broker a deal on a gun online, meet the seller in a parking lot somewhere, and walk away with a weapon."
Mostly True
By Dana Tims • February 27, 2014
Gordon Challstrom
Gordon Challstrom
stated on January 15, 2014 a campaign website statement
"Oregon and the federal government now have more than one million acres of burnt land and millions of trees are being left to rot."
Half-True
By Dana Tims • February 21, 2014
Brad Avakian
Brad Avakian
stated on January 31, 2014 a campaign website statement
"In Oregon, women earn an average of 79 cents for every dollar that men earn for doing the same job. That’s just wrong."
Mostly True
By Dana Tims • February 19, 2014
Oregon Citizens Lobby
Oregon Citizens Lobby
stated on February 6, 2014 a legislative hearing tweet
Kip Kinkel and Clackamas Town Center shootings "both where citizen with gun stopped the crime"
False
By Dana Tims • February 12, 2014
Monica Wehby
Monica Wehby
stated on January 10, 2014 a town meeting in La Grande
Some businesses in Oregon "are having to shrink back their businesses as a result of the law."
True
By Dana Tims • February 6, 2014
Justin Barasky
Justin Barasky
stated on January 15, 2014 a DSCC news release
Monica Wehby and Jason Conger are "causing devastating consequences" for nearly 23,000 Oregonians looking for work.
Pants on Fire!
By Dana Tims • January 28, 2014
Rod Monroe
Rod Monroe
stated on January 15, 2014 an Oregon Senate work session
"We have the lowest beer tax in the nation."
False
By Dana Tims • January 24, 2014
Bob Terry
Bob Terry
stated on January 8, 2014 an Oregon Public Broadcasting interview
"And we’ve constantly been the lowest unemployed county in the state."
False
By Dana Tims • January 21, 2014
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