Latest Fact-Checks In Wisconsin

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Sarah Godlewski
Sarah Godlewski
stated on May 8, 2022 Newspaper opinion piece
"Fifty-four percent of Wisconsinites live in a child care desert."
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By Alan Hovorka • July 20, 2022
Mike Gallagher
Mike Gallagher
stated on April 12, 2022 News release
“Inflation has gone up every month of the Biden presidency and just hit another 40-year high.”
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By Laura Schulte • April 22, 2022
Tony Kurtz
Tony Kurtz
stated on April 7, 2022 Twitter
If Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers "had passed his (gas) tax increases ... fuel prices would be at least a dime higher.
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By D.L. Davis • April 19, 2022
Sarah Godlewski
Sarah Godlewski
stated on February 18, 2022 Campaign statement
"Here in Wisconsin, prescription drug costs grew at a pace of nearly twice as much as the average Wisconsinite's income from 2015-2019."
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By D.L. Davis • March 8, 2022
Wisconsin Senate Republicans
Wisconsin Senate Republicans
stated on February 2, 2022 Twitter
Gov. Tony Evers has “only gotten one-third of the money meant for COVID relief out the door. He is sitting on $930 million in ARPA funds left unspent. In fact, he still has CARES Act money from two years ago.”
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By Madeline Heim • February 25, 2022
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on November 6, 2021 Panel discussion
“Within two years, there were two 500-year (storm) events” in Wisconsin.
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By Laura Schulte • November 30, 2021
Meagan Wolfe
Meagan Wolfe
stated on November 5, 2021 TV interview
"Only a court can decide that somebody is incompetent to vote" -- the state Election Commission "cannot force facilities, private facilities, to allow special voting deputies" inside.
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By D.L. Davis • November 18, 2021
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on October 30, 2021 TV interview
“If you’re a low-wage worker and you’re single and don’t have children, we’re literally taxing you into poverty."
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By D.L. Davis • November 11, 2021
Ben Wikler
Ben Wikler
stated on September 23, 2021 Twitter
Says Rebecca Kleefisch played a key role in the Foxconn deal, “the largest attempted government handout to a foreign company in American history."
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By Madeline Heim • October 26, 2021
Patrick Testin
Patrick Testin
stated on August 29, 2021 TV interview
"The vast majority of the (refugees) coming into Fort McCoy are not the SIVs" and some have "no documentation at all."
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By Alan Hovorka • October 13, 2021
Alberta Darling
Alberta Darling
stated on August 25, 2021 Twitter
“Wisconsin Governor (Tony) Evers wanted to raise your taxes by $1 billion in a pandemic. Republicans stopped him and delivered the largest tax CUT in state history.”
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By Madeline Heim • September 24, 2021
Eric Toney
Eric Toney
stated on August 22, 2021 TV interview
"I'm the only front-line prosecutor in this race that's actually used the resources of the Wisconsin Crime Lab in the prosecution of cases."
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By Alan Hovorka • September 13, 2021
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on May 5, 2021 Statement
The Biden administration’s American Jobs Plan will be “the biggest non-defense investment in research and development in the history of our country.”
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By Laura Schulte • May 28, 2021
Wisconsin Assembly GOP
Wisconsin Assembly GOP
stated on May 7, 2021 Twitter
“Republicans on the Joint Finance Committee removed more than $8 billion in spending increases from Gov. Evers' budget proposal.”
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By Haley BeMiller • May 18, 2021
Tony Evers
Tony Evers
stated on April 14, 2021 Twitter
“Regulating and taxing marijuana—much like we do alcohol—would generate more than $165M in revenue starting in 2022”
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By D.L. Davis • May 12, 2021
Jill Underly
Jill Underly
stated on April 11, 2021 TV interview
For mitigating COVID-19 spread, “masks (are) the number one way to do so."
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By D.L. Davis • April 23, 2021
Rick Gundrum
Rick Gundrum
stated on March 29, 2021 Twitter
Says Gov. Tony Evers’ 2021-22 state budget "increases taxes $1 billion +"
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By D.L. Davis • April 6, 2021
Julian Bradley
Julian Bradley
stated on March 15, 2021 news article
The latest stimulus package "sends stimulus checks to imprisoned murderers, rapists, and child molesters.”
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By Haley BeMiller • March 26, 2021
Tom Nelson
Tom Nelson
stated on March 7, 2021 TV interview
“Right now, two-thirds of the U.S. Senate is composed of millionaires.”
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By Laura Schulte • March 25, 2021
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on January 21, 2021 Facebook post
The shutdown of the Keystone Pipeline project will mean “nearly 2,000 (union jobs lost) with Wisconsin companies”
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By Nusaiba Mizan • February 26, 2021
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