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Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on September 25, 2015 comments to reporters
A state agency wanted to fire an employee who spent four hours per day watching pornography, but the state "employment commission reinstated the person."
Mostly True
October 7, 2015
John DePetro
John DePetro
stated on September 20, 2015 blog
"Remember that developers are forced to use the ‘195 land union’ contractors, so tap an extra $10 million into any construction project."  
False
By Mark Reynolds • October 4, 2015
Jon Erpenbach
Jon Erpenbach
stated on September 25, 2015 an interview
Says Scott Walker "said he wouldn't touch" the state civil service system but now supports overhauling it.
Mostly False
October 2, 2015
stated on September 22, 2015 a speech
Every general City of Milwaukee employee "pays toward his or her pension, but approximately 88 percent of our police officers and firefighters do not."  
Mostly True
September 30, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on September 14, 2015 a campaign proposal
Says he will pursue change in federal law to protect employees from "extortion from a union" because "the Supreme Court has ruled that federal prohibitions outlawing extortion usually do not apply to unions."  
Mostly False
September 17, 2015
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on September 5, 2015 a Facebook post
Says Scott Walker said "Labor unions don’t deserve to have a national holiday" due to their damage to the economy. And the holiday "should be replaced by Patriots Day, celebrated every year on 9/11."
Pants on Fire!
By James B. Nelson • September 10, 2015
Viral image
Viral image
stated on September 6, 2015 a Facebook post
"Unions did not create" the eight-hour work day and the 40-hour work week. "Henry Ford did."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 9, 2015
Russ Feingold
Russ Feingold
stated on August 18, 2015 a speech
Says Ron Johnson "opposes entirely a federal minimum wage," except perhaps for "guest workers."
True
August 27, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on August 6, 2015 a debate
"The rate in which people are working (in Wisconsin) is almost five points higher than it is nationally."
Mostly True
By James B. Nelson • August 21, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on July 27, 2015 an interview
Says his political opponents "brought 100,000 protesters into our state."
False
July 30, 2015
Wisconsin State AFL-CIO
Wisconsin State AFL-CIO
stated on July 8, 2015 a Facebook post
Says "Scott Walker’s bad budget includes: No weekend for workers."
False
By Sarah Hauer • July 21, 2015
Tom Toles
Tom Toles
stated on June 18, 2015 an editorial cartoon
A "working woman" will earn $7.70 on $10.
Mostly True
By April Hunt • July 10, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 25, 2015 a speech about the Affordable Care Act.
"By one leading measure, what business owners pay out in wages and salaries is now finally growing faster than what they spend on health insurance" for the first time in 17 years.
Mostly True
By Linda Qiu • June 30, 2015
Mark Warner
Mark Warner
stated on June 4, 2015 an interview.
Millennials "will be 75 percent of the workforce in the next 10 years."
Mostly False
By Sean Gorman • June 15, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on June 2, 2015 a speech
Thanks to the Act 10 collective bargaining law that took effect four years ago, ACT scores in Wisconsin "are now second-best in the country for states where more than half the kids take the exam."
Mostly False
June 12, 2015
Protect American Jobs
Protect American Jobs
stated on May 5, 2015 a television ad
A measure to repeal the state’s prevailing wage law would "make it easier for state contractors to hire illegal workers for Wisconsin construction jobs" through an "illegal worker loophole in the state budget."
False
By James B. Nelson • June 5, 2015
Lincoln Chafee
Lincoln Chafee
stated on May 10, 2015 an interview on CNN
"We had the biggest drop of the rate of unemployment (in) all but 4 states."
Mostly False
By Mark Reynolds • May 10, 2015
City of Atlanta
City of Atlanta
stated on August 8, 2014 press release
Tyler Perry’s plan to turn a majority of the former Fort McPherson into a film and television studio is expected "to add over 8,000 new jobs to Atlanta."
Half-True
By Nancy Badertscher • May 1, 2015
Viral BuzzFeed
Viral BuzzFeed
stated on April 20, 2015 video
Women make only 78 percent of what men make for the same job.  
Mostly False
By Jim Tharpe, Nancy Badertscher • April 22, 2015
Mark Pocan
Mark Pocan
stated on March 10, 2015 an interview
Wisconsin is "dead last in the Midwest for job creation."   
Mostly True
March 16, 2015
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