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Amy Schumer
Amy Schumer
stated on April 28, 2016 an episode of "Inside Amy Schumer"
"You can absolutely get a gun if you have several felonies as long as you buy it on the Internet or at a gun show."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • April 29, 2016
Kofi Annan
Kofi Annan
stated on April 19, 2016 an op-ed in the Huffington Post
"Studies have consistently failed to establish the existence of a link between the harshness of a country’s drug laws and its levels of drug use."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • April 22, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 26, 2016 a speech
"Under the federal Controlled Substance Act, marijuana is listed in the same Schedule I as heroin," even though "marijuana is not a killer drug like heroin."  
Mostly True
April 22, 2016
Our City, Our Safety, Our Choice
Our City, Our Safety, Our Choice
stated on April 8, 2016 a fund-raising letter from female supporters
Austin’s Stop Abuse for Everyone has seen in its offices "sexual assault survivors that report being attacked by their ridesharing drivers, at a rate of one per month."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • April 15, 2016
Ellen Troxclair
Ellen Troxclair
stated on April 10, 2016 a voter forum hosted by the League of Women Voters of the Austin Area
Statistics show "you are about nine times more likely to be assaulted by a taxi driver" in Austin than a driver for a ride-hailing service.
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • April 15, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on March 29, 2016 a forum
About "1 percent of all the gun sellers are responsible for more than half of the guns that are used in crimes."
Half-True
April 15, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on April 11, 2016 an event in Port Washington, N.Y.
"The state that has the highest per capita number of … guns that end up committing crimes in New York come from Vermont."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 12, 2016
Frank Luntz
Frank Luntz
stated on April 6, 2016 a tweet
"Team Trump has accused Ted Cruz of fraud" in Iowa, Texas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Kansas, Maine, Utah and Wisconsin."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • April 11, 2016
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on April 7, 2016 during a campaign stop in Philadelphia
"Because of (the 1994 crime bill), we had a 25-year low in crime, a 33-year low in the murder rate, and listen to this, because of that and the background check law, a 46-year low in the deaths of people of gun violence."
Mostly False
By Anna Orso, Cassie Owens • April 8, 2016
Mark Pocan
Mark Pocan
stated on April 7, 2016 a blog post
"More people are struck by lightning than commit in-person voter fraud" by impersonation.
True
April 7, 2016
Chris Sgro
Chris Sgro
stated on March 17, 2016 a speech urging Charlotte's anti-discrimination ordinance be left intact
"There have not been any public safety issues" in cities that allow transgender people to use the bathroom of the gender they identify as.
Mostly True
By Will Doran • April 1, 2016
Gina Hinojosa
Gina Hinojosa
stated on February 26, 2016 a campaign mailer
"Texas has a higher incarceration rate than Russia or Iran."
Mostly True
By Emma Hinchliffe • March 23, 2016
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on March 14, 2016 responding to reporters
"The fact is voter fraud is rampant."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • March 17, 2016
Bill McCoshen
Bill McCoshen
stated on March 11, 2016 a talk show
Says when Bernie Sanders was in college, Sanders said "something very similar" to what conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley had written as a college student in the 1990s -- that "women have a legitimate role in date rape."
Half-True
March 17, 2016
Everytown for Gun Safety
Everytown for Gun Safety
stated on March 8, 2016 a Facebook meme
The rate of U.S. female homicide victims outnumbers 24 other developed countries by more than 2½ to 1.
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 14, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on February 28, 2016 comments on Meet the Press
"There have been multiple media reports about (Donald Trump's) business dealings with the mob, with the mafia."
True
By Linda Qiu • March 2, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on February 23, 2016 a TV ad
"African-Americans are more likely to be arrested by police and sentenced to longer prison terms for doing the same thing that whites do."
True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 26, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on February 11, 2016 a debate
Says Dontre Hamilton, who was killed during a confrontation with a Milwaukee police officer, was "unarmed."
Mostly True
February 18, 2016
Tim McGinty
Tim McGinty
stated on February 17, 2016 his campaign website
"We are almost halfway to our goal of 1,000 rapes prosecuted!"  
True
By Nadia Pflaum • February 17, 2016
Gary Cobb
Gary Cobb
stated on February 16, 2016 a video ad on his campaign website
Travis County residents "trusted me to take on Tom DeLay — and we won."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • February 17, 2016
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