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Latest Fact-Checks In Rhode Island

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Robert Kando
Robert Kando
stated on March 7, 2013 in testimony before the R.I. House Oversight Committee:
Rhode Island is the last state still using the Optech III P voting machines and they don’t meet suggested federal standards.
Half-True
By Tom Mooney • March 16, 2013
David Cicilline
David Cicilline
stated on January 26, 2013 in a speech:
More than 40 percent of sales nationally are made without background checks.
Half-True
By Michael McKinney • February 10, 2013
Patrick Kennedy
Patrick Kennedy
stated on January 8, 2013 in news story:
"Eighty percent of those who have applied for licenses have no cancer, no Parkinson's disease or glaucoma. They have nothing you would associate [with] the use of medical marijuana."
Half-True
By Michael McKinney • February 3, 2013
Peter Palumbo
Peter Palumbo
stated on January 22, 2013 in a news release:
Driving with a dog in your lap is dangerous, in part, because it could fly forward in a crash. "An 80-pound dog at only 30 mph packs a 2,400-pound punch."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 30, 2013
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on December 15, 2012 in an internet message:
"Last year, handguns killed 48 people in Japan, 8 in Great Britain, 34 in Switzerland, 52 in Canada, 58 in Israel, 21 in Sweden, 42 in West Germany and 10,728 in the United States."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 23, 2012
Patricia Morgan
Patricia Morgan
stated on November 6, 2012 in a campaign flier:
"Our welfare system now consumes 42 percent of our budget."
Half-True
By John Hill • November 25, 2012
James Langevin
James Langevin
stated on October 9, 2012 in a debate:
"Under the Obama administration, we are drilling and producing more domestic energy supplies than we ever had before."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 16, 2012
Michael Riley
Michael Riley
stated on August 16, 2012 in a post on Riley’s Facebook campaign page:
"President Obama is attacking Paul Ryan on Medicare even though it is his administration with the help of Jim Langevin who cut $716 billion from Medicare."
Half-True
By Tom Mooney • August 29, 2012
Mike Stenhouse
Mike Stenhouse
stated on July 29, 2012 in a commentary in The Providence Journal:
Rhode Island has "the most burdensome level of health-insurance mandates in the nation."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 12, 2012
Patrick Kennedy
Patrick Kennedy
stated on July 13, 2012 in a radio interview:
"The largest number of bankruptcies in our country are really as a result of health care."
Half-True
By Edward Fitzpatrick • July 29, 2012
John Robitaille
John Robitaille
stated on July 8, 2012 in a Tweet:
"Unemployment rate dropped in every state that elected a Republican gov. in 2010"
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson, Tom Mooney • July 11, 2012
Elizabeth Roberts
Elizabeth Roberts
stated on July 29, 2012 in a panel discussion on "A Lively Experiment":
"Two thirds to three quarters of people without [health] insurance in Rhode Island work."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 8, 2012
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on June 19, 2012 in a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate:
"No one in Rhode Island -- not just children, no one in Rhode Island -- should eat more than one serving of freshwater fish caught in our state each month."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 2, 2012
John Matson
John Matson
stated on April 26, 2012 in an interview on State of the State:
"Jimmy Langevin is having a fundraiser . . . to retire the debt from his campaign for secretary of state, which was 12 years ago."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 20, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on April 11, 2012 in a campaign speech:
"The number of new businesses started per year has dropped by 100,000 during this president’s term."
Half-True
By Alex Kuffner • April 22, 2012
Jeffrey Hernandez
Jeffrey Hernandez
stated on March 23, 2012 in a letter to the Providence School District.:
Says his reform efforts improved performance at all 10 low-performing schools in Palm Beach, Florida.
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 8, 2012
Chain email
Chain email
stated on March 23, 2012 in a message via the Internet:
"Having an entirely Democrat congressional delegation in 2009, when the [federal stimulus] bill passed, increases the per capita stimulus dollars that the state receives per person by $460."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 3, 2012
John Elkhay
John Elkhay
stated on March 21, 2012 in a rally.:
If Rhode Island raises the meal and beverage tax to 10 percent, it would be the "fourth-highest in the nation."
Half-True
By Alex Kuffner • April 1, 2012
Brendan Doherty
Brendan Doherty
stated on March 11, 2012 in a TV news show.:
"We have $60 billion in 2010 in Medicare fraud."
Half-True
By Alex Kuffner • March 20, 2012
Beatrice Lanzi
Beatrice Lanzi
stated on February 24, 2012 in "an appearance on A Lively Experiment.":
"One out of four of our young people say they are victims of this (dating) violence."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 4, 2012
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