Latest Fact-Checks In State Budget

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Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on February 7, 2017 a statement to press
"When the House wants to stop Enterprise Florida ... they’re hurting our rural communities."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • February 22, 2017
Travis Allen
Travis Allen
stated on February 13, 2017 a press release
"The Oroville dam failure was entirely avoidable: California passed a $7.5 Billion water bond in 2014 but Jerry Brown didn't spend $1 on new water storage or improvements to existing infrastructure like Oroville."
Mostly False
By Chris Nichols • February 16, 2017
Kurt Schaefer
Kurt Schaefer
stated on November 13, 2016 an ad in the Columbia Daily Tribune
The 2016 and 2017 Missouri budget includes more funding for the University of Missouri than any time in the last 15 years.
Mostly False
By Ellen Cagle • December 19, 2016
National Republican Congressional Committee
National Republican Congressional Committee
stated on September 22, 2016 a TV ad
Says Colorado Democratic congressional candidate Morgan Carroll "racked up $11 billion in new spending" in the state Legislature.
Mostly False
By Alan Gathright • September 28, 2016
Roy Cooper
Roy Cooper
stated on August 29, 2016 posts on social media
"Under Pat McCrory, (North Carolina) has fallen to 41st in teacher pay."
Mostly False
By Will Doran • September 2, 2016
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on August 8, 2016 a town hall in Broward County
Says Gov. Rick Scott "cut nearly $1 million from mosquito control and closed down the state’s mosquito research lab a few years ago."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • August 9, 2016
Kelly Cassidy
Kelly Cassidy
stated on May 31, 2016 a Facebook post
"Then, the Republican leader theatrically introduced new bills with stopgap budget language, declaring that we could stay until midnight and pass this compromise. Except under our constitution, a bill has to be read on 3 different days, so that's not possible."
Mostly False
By Matt Dietrich • August 4, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 22, 2016 a speech in Raleigh, NC
"Thanks to (North Carolina’s) governor and the legislature, the average teacher salary can barely support a family."
Mostly False
By Will Doran • June 28, 2016
LGBT Progress
LGBT Progress
stated on March 23, 2016 a tweet
North Carolina spent "almost as much as it spends on government rape crisis programs in a year" to convene a special session for HB2.
Mostly False
By Will Doran • April 1, 2016
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on March 26, 2016 a Tampa Bay Times interview
"Florida is investing record amounts of funding for HIV/AIDS prevention."
Mostly False
By Joshua Gillin • March 31, 2016
Danny Tarkanian
Danny Tarkanian
stated on February 9, 2016 an interview on Ralston Live
Nevada Republicans "didn’t do one single thing to cut spending" in 2015.
Mostly False
By Riley Snyder • March 22, 2016
Tom Wolf
Tom Wolf
stated on February 9, 2016 his budget proposal address
If the General Assembly does not address the state's structural deficit, "more than 23,000 education professionals will be immediately yanked out of Pennsylvania schools."
Mostly False
By Anna Orso • February 12, 2016
Katrina Shankland
Katrina Shankland
stated on January 29, 2016 a news release
"Faced with $1 million in campaign debt," Scott Walker "is unloading his campaign security costs onto the backs of Wisconsin taxpayers."  
Mostly False
February 5, 2016
Conservative Solutions PAC
Conservative Solutions PAC
stated on January 4, 2016 an attack ad
Says Chris Christie "instituted an Internet sales tax."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 14, 2016
Terry McAuliffe
Terry McAuliffe
stated on December 17, 2015 a speech.
"We are taking Virginia’s investment in public education to the highest level in the commonwealth’s history."
Mostly False
By Warren Fiske • January 11, 2016
Terry McAuliffe
Terry McAuliffe
stated on November 2, 2015 a TV interview.
"When I became governor, I inherited a large deficit. You know what? We just turned that into the largest surplus in Virginia history."
Mostly False
By Warren Fiske • November 16, 2015
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on October 14, 2015 a press conference
"We have the highest funding in (the) K-12 system in the history of the state."
Mostly False
By Joshua Gillin • October 15, 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
Jay Nixon
Jay Nixon
stated on August 20, 2015 comments at the Missouri State Fair
"Almost nine out of every 10 pennies that would be spent" turning a 200-mile stretch of Interstate 70 into a toll road "would be from folks outside Missouri."
Mostly False
By Allison Graves • September 29, 2015
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on August 26, 2015 comments to reporters
Says Scott Walker "brags a lot about having an independent agency investigate police shootings. Of course, he didn’t fund it."
Mostly False
September 1, 2015
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