Fact Check Posts – Page 3

Nicholas Mattiello
stated on January 18, 2015 an interview on "10 News Conference":

"There haven't been tax cuts for the rich" in Rhode Island.

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 8, 2015

Anne Nolan
stated on November 12, 2014 a Journal commentary:

"In Rhode Island, a recent study showed that among a group of people who had been homeless for a year or more, Medicaid costs averaged about $60,000 per person."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 23, 2014

Ernest Almonte
stated on October 19, 2014 a television commercial:

Seth Magaziner "plans to spend billions more of your money."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 29, 2014

Scott Walker
stated on October 17, 2014 a debate:

"The next state budget will begin with a surplus of over half a billion dollars -- $535 million to be exact."

By Dave Umhoefer • October 22, 2014

Nathan Deal
stated on October 13, 2014 television attack ad:

"Jason Carter’s plan: increase spending by $12.5 billion."

By April Hunt, Nancy Badertscher • October 20, 2014

Republican Party of Florida
stated on October 8, 2014 a TV ad:

Says Charlie Crist "is embroiled in a fraud case for steering taxpayer money to a de facto Ponzi scheme."

By Amy Sherman • October 13, 2014

Allan Fung
stated on September 29, 2014 a TV commercial:

In the 38 Studios deal, "Wall Street investors took a risk, and went bust."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 12, 2014

One Wisconsin Now
stated on September 26, 2014 a news release:

Scott Walker was elected governor on a promise not to take campaign contributions "from the date of his inauguration until the signing of the state budget," but broke it by taking nearly $5.6 million.

By Tom Kertscher • September 29, 2014

Chris Larson
stated on September 8, 2014 a news release:

"Over the next two years, this $1.8 billion deficit will cost individual Wisconsinites $300 each, or $1,200 for families of four."

By Tom Kertscher • September 11, 2014

Mike Hymes
stated on July 16, 2014 a TV ad:

Del. Ben Chafin "took money away" from Southwest Virginia schools while voting to build a "politician's palace."

By Nancy Madsen • August 11, 2014

Mary Burke
stated on July 9, 2014 a news release:

Says a $12.5 million incentive deal she approved for Abbott Laboratories contained "strong protections for taxpayers if job creation goals were not met."

By Dave Umhoefer • August 3, 2014

Scott Walker
stated on July 27, 2014 a campaign TV ad:

Mary Burke "wasted 12.5 million dollars on a vacant lot" in a move that "could cost taxpayers nearly $25 million."

By Dave Umhoefer • July 31, 2014

Jon Richards
stated on June 16, 2014 a video:

"Last year, I was involved with an effort to to help prosecutors get their first pay raise in more than 10 years."

By Tom Kertscher • July 24, 2014

Scott Walker
stated on June 20, 2014 a campaign TV ad:

"When Jim Doyle was governor and Mary Burke was commerce secretary," Wisconsin saw "billions in middle-class tax hikes on nursing home beds, gas, phones and garbage."

By Dave Umhoefer • June 26, 2014

Nicholas Mattiello
stated on April 6, 2014 a television interview:

The Pell bridge "is a tourism bridge essentially and not a commuter bridge."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 11, 2014

Scott Walker
stated on April 1, 2014 an interview:

A poll taken "a few months ago" found "70 percent approval or higher" for the Act 10 collective bargaining law.

By Tom Kertscher • April 6, 2014

Mike Collier
stated on March 18, 2014 a campaign email blast:

"Glenn Hegar promised to eliminate the property tax."

By Sue Owen • April 3, 2014

Republican Party of Wisconsin
stated on March 13, 2014 a website ad:

Says Mary Burke's "2007-'09 state budget had a tax hike of $1.8 billion -- costing every man, woman and child in the state an extra $310."

By Tom Kertscher • March 16, 2014

Scott Walker
stated on February 23, 2014 a TV interview:

"Federal government reneging" on Medicaid payments to Wisconsin caused about $240 million in extra costs in the 2013-’15 state budget.

By Dave Umhoefer • February 28, 2014

Scott Walker
stated on November 19, 2013 a book:

Protesters in La Crosse blocked an exit and surrounded a State Patrol car carrying the governor and were "beating on the windows and rocking the vehicle." When the car was "extricated" from the crowd, a truck blocked a second exit.

By James B. Nelson • December 23, 2013

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