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Latest Fact-Checks In Wisconsin

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Tony Evers
Tony Evers
stated on April 22, 2018 an appearance on UpFront with Mike Gousha
Says Wisconsin ‘could compel’ Foxconn to install solar panels that would power 33,000 homes.
Mostly False
By Eric Litke • June 6, 2018
Kathleen Vinehout
Kathleen Vinehout
stated on May 1, 2018 an interview
Says Wisconsin "doesn't even give" released prison inmates "a bus ticket to get home."  
Mostly False
June 1, 2018
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on April 17, 2018 an online ad
"Property and income taxes will be lower in 2018 than they were in 2010."
Mostly True
May 30, 2018
Bob Donovan
Bob Donovan
stated on May 23, 2018 a news release
"Since 2015, the City of Milwaukee has spent more than $22 million on settlements with litigants accusing police of misconduct."  
Mostly True
May 24, 2018
Andy Gronik
Andy Gronik
stated on May 13, 2018 a candidates forum
"I’ve lived" in Milwaukee "all 61 years of my life."  
Mostly False
May 23, 2018
Leah Vukmir
Leah Vukmir
stated on May 14, 2018 an interview
Says Tammy Baldwin is "more worried about the mastermind of 9/11" than supporting CIA director nominee Gina Haspel.  
Pants on Fire!
May 18, 2018
Tom Palzewicz
Tom Palzewicz
stated on May 14, 2018 a tweet
Says Jim Sensenbrenner "has been in office for 40 years" and "he's led on exactly one bill," the Patriot Act.
Pants on Fire!
May 17, 2018
Randy Bryce
Randy Bryce
stated on May 6, 2018 an interview
Says he’s not a politician.
Mostly False
May 16, 2018
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on April 25, 2018 a speech
 "Illegal crossings at our southern border have been cut by over 40 percent."
False
By D.L. Davis • May 11, 2018
Kevin Nicholson
Kevin Nicholson
stated on May 4, 2018 an interview
"Tammy Baldwin cosponsored legislation that wanted to establish the Department of Peace and Nonviolence."  
Mostly True
May 9, 2018
Mahlon Mitchell
Mahlon Mitchell
stated on April 30, 2018 a website campaign statement
Says he was "instrumental to passing two (recent) pieces of legislation that were a huge victory for firefighters across the state."
Mostly False
By Eric Litke • May 7, 2018
Kevin Nicholson
Kevin Nicholson
stated on April 19, 2018 news release
Says conservative mega-donor Richard Uihlein is a Wisconsin resident.
False
By D.L. Davis • May 4, 2018
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on April 17, 2018 a news conference
Says that on the tax reform law, Democratic leaders "are promising to take it all away."
Half-True
May 2, 2018
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on April 3, 2018 a radio interview
"We have laws on the books where people can walk right up to our ports of entry, say ‘I have a credible fear of persecution,’ and we bring them in. We don’t send them back."
Mostly False
By D.L. Davis • April 27, 2018
Randy Bryce
Randy Bryce
stated on March 14, 2018 an interview
"Our campaign staff was the first to unionize in the history of politics."
Mostly True
April 25, 2018
Tony Evers
Tony Evers
stated on March 23, 2018 an interview
Says that despite a recent increase in school funding, Scott Walker "has taken over a billion dollars from the public schools."  
Mostly False
April 20, 2018
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on April 4, 2018 a tweet
"Our bold reforms have Wisconsin’s unemployment rate down to an all-time LOW of 2.9 percent, and the number of people working at an all-time HIGH!"  
Half-True
April 18, 2018
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on April 9, 2018 an interview
Says "Eric Holder and his group came in and made" the Wisconsin Supreme Court race "highly partisan."
Mostly False
April 11, 2018
Giffords
Giffords
stated on March 13, 2018 an ad
"Paul Ryan has blocked all action to strengthen our gun laws."  
Mostly False
April 6, 2018
Ronna McDaniel
Ronna McDaniel
stated on March 28, 2018 a radio interview
The census "for years and years and years, decades, has asked, ‘Are you a citizen of the United States of America?’"
Mostly True
By D.L. Davis • April 3, 2018
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