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Tony Capezza
Tony Capezza
stated on January 26, 2016 testimony at General Assembly
"In New England, Rhode Island has the second highest number of police officers being assaulted."
Mostly False
By Mark Reynolds • February 14, 2016
John O'Bannon
John O'Bannon
stated on February 1, 2016 a constituent survey
Says "some Planned Parenthood chapters have been selling the body parts of aborted fetuses for profit."
False
By Warren Fiske • February 8, 2016
EMILY's List
EMILY's List
stated on December 31, 2015 a fundraising email
As part of legislative fights over abortion rights, "Mike Coffman co-sponsored a bill to redefine rape."
Mostly True
By Alan Gathright • February 3, 2016
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on January 28, 2016 a Republican debate
"A third of the budget for the city of Ferguson (Missouri) was being reaped by civil fines."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 29, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on January 15, 2016 a Republican presidential debate in North Charleston, S.C.
Says President Barack Obama "appointed Eric Holder as attorney general. Eric Holder said he viewed his mission as brainwashing the American people against guns."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 15, 2016
Carly Fiorina
Carly Fiorina
stated on December 17, 2015 a column posted on Medium
"When we held recent economic dialogues with China, we agreed on over 100 different things  —  including wildlife trafficking and volcano research. None of these 100-plus points of agreement addressed cybersecurity."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • January 7, 2016
Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick
stated on January 3, 2016 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
"Everywhere that we have more citizens carrying guns, crime is less. There's a study showing that where states have open carry or concealed carry, but particularly open carry, the crime is down 25 percent."
Mostly False
By Linda Qiu • January 3, 2016
State Public Service Announcement
State Public Service Announcement
stated on December 28, 2015
By the end of 2015, more than 1,300 people will have died on Georgia roads. One of out evey four fatalities resulted from drunken driving.  
Mostly True
By Nancy Badertscher • December 30, 2015
André Carson
André Carson
stated on December 13, 2015 an interview on ABC News' "This Week"
"Our larger domestic threat is from racial supremacist groups."  
False
By Jon Greenberg • December 18, 2015
Uber
Uber
stated on November 7, 2015 a web post
"Recent news reports indicate DWI crashes in Austin dropped 23 percent since ridesharing entered the market."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • December 16, 2015
Joe Donald
Joe Donald
stated on December 2, 2015 an interview
"We lock up close to 2.4 million people in this country. We're locking up more people than China and Russia."
Mostly True
December 9, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on November 30, 2015 a radio interview with Hugh Hewitt
"Here’s the simple and undeniable fact: The overwhelming majority of violent criminals are Democrats."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • December 1, 2015
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on November 22, 2015 a tweet
Says crime statistics show blacks kill 81 percent of white homicide victims.  
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • November 23, 2015
Peter Kinder
Peter Kinder
stated on November 12, 2015 in comments on Breitbart
"This incident of supposed feces depicting a swastika on the wall of a bathrooms in one of the halls ... has been supported by zero fact."
Pants on Fire!
By Allison Graves, Katherine Knott • November 22, 2015
Greenville Gazette
Greenville Gazette
stated on February 1, 2015 an article
Texas legislation "would allow… teachers to kill their students if they felt it was needed."
Half-True
By Andy East • November 6, 2015
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 6, 2015 a Snopes.com tweet recapping a Facebook post
A Texas police department bought an ad telling drug dealers, "We can take your competition off the streets for FREE."  
True
By W. Gardner Selby • October 30, 2015
Chris Danou
Chris Danou
stated on October 20, 2015 remarks in Assembly debate
A Republican bill that would change John Doe criminal investigations is "creating exceptions in the law for politicians."
Mostly True
October 22, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 15, 2015 a speech in San Antonio
"We lose an average of 90 Americans every day because of guns."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • October 21, 2015
Edward Flynn
Edward Flynn
stated on August 27, 2015 a forum
In Milwaukee County, juveniles arrested for car theft "get sent immediately home, because under the point system in juvenile court" on holding suspects, "a stolen car gets zero points."  
Mostly False
October 19, 2015
Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly
stated on October 7, 2015 a commentary
From 2014 to 2015, Austin’s "murder rate is up a whopping 83 percent."
Mostly False
By Philip Jankowski, W. Gardner Selby • October 16, 2015
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