Fact Check Posts – Page 346

Michelle Obama
stated on October 7, 2014 in a speech:

"The unemployment rate for young people is down from a 10.6 percent high in 2009 to 2.6 percent today."

By Tom Kertscher • October 12, 2014

Allan Fung
stated on September 29, 2014 in 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

Pat Roberts
stated on October 1, 2014 in a Web video:

"20,000 Kansans lost their health insurance because of (Obamacare)."

By Lauren Carroll • October 9, 2014

Nik Kovac
stated on September 30, 2014 in a TV interview:

Milwaukee police and firefighters "are routinely getting 4 percent raises annually while everybody else is either getting zero or one percent raises."

By Dave Umhoefer • October 9, 2014

Scott Walker
stated on October 8, 2014 in a campaign TV ad:

"In the last year, Wisconsin ranked third in Midwest job growth."

By Dave Umhoefer • October 9, 2014

Alison Lundergan Grimes
stated on October 6, 2014 in a campaign ad:

"The only candidate pocketing big money from people who want to destroy coal is Mitch McConnell."

By Steve Contorno • October 8, 2014

Mary Burke
stated on September 29, 2014 in a radio interview:

Job creation has gotten worse each year that Scott Walker has been governor.

By James B. Nelson • October 8, 2014

Ben Affleck
stated on October 3, 2014 in an interview on "Real Time with Bill Maher":

The Islamic State is so small it "couldn't fill a Double A ballpark in Charleston, W. Va."

By Katie Sanders • October 7, 2014

George Will
stated on October 5, 2014 in comments on "Fox News Sunday":

"The last time there was a sustained surge of confidence in government's competence was under Ronald Reagan."

By Jon Greenberg • October 5, 2014

Greg Abbott
stated on September 19, 2014 in a debate in the Rio Grande Valley.:

"I’ve been involved in prosecuting a terrorist member of ISIS."

By Dylan Baddour • October 3, 2014

Mary Burke
stated on September 23, 2014 in a television ad:

New jobs numbers are in, and Wisconsin has "fallen to dead last in Midwest job growth."

By James B. Nelson • October 3, 2014

Republican Governors Association
stated on September 23, 2014 in a campaign TV ad:

Mary "Burke’s record: 130,000 fewer jobs."

By Dave Umhoefer • October 3, 2014

Dan Patrick
stated on September 29, 2014 in a debate in Austin:

Leticia Van de Putte "voted to give illegal immigrants in this country free health care--not emergency health care but total free health care."

By W. Gardner Selby • October 2, 2014

Joni Ernst
stated on September 28, 2014 in a debate:

Says Bruce Braley "threatened to sue a neighbor over chickens that came onto (his) property."

By Lauren Carroll • October 2, 2014

Bruce Braley
stated on September 28, 2014 in a debate:

"I recently had the opportunity to vote to give the president limited authority to begin strikes against terrorists in Iraq and Syria."

By Louis Jacobson • October 1, 2014

Jane Harman
stated on September 28, 2014 in a panel on "Fox News Sunday":

The Justice Department’s Fast and Furious gun-walking program "started in the Bush administration."

By Katie Sanders • September 30, 2014

One Wisconsin Now
stated on September 26, 2014 in 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

Laura Ingraham
stated on September 28, 2014 in comments on ABC's "This Week":

This Congress "adjourned earliest of any time in congressional history before an election."

By Jon Greenberg • September 28, 2014

Vincent "Buddy" Cianci
stated on September 21, 2014 in an interview on WPRI-TV's "Newsmakers.":

"In 2001 and '02 . . . we had the pension system funded at (the) 100% level in that year, and we did for two years at that point."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • September 28, 2014

Ed Gillespie
stated on September 9, 2014 in a TV ad.:

Says Mark Warner told PolitiFact National's "Lie of the Year" in 2013.

By Warren Fiske • September 28, 2014

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