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Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on April 16, 2012 in a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate:
"If you put the $47 billion in revenue (raised over 10 years by the Buffett rule) into infrastructure you could create 611,000 infrastructure jobs."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 6, 2012
Barry Hinckley
Barry Hinckley
stated on April 21, 2012 in an interview on State of the State:
President Obama gave Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood one and a half billion dollars.
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 27, 2012
Harold Metts
Harold Metts
stated on March 14, 2012 in a news release:
Says when Rhode Island Lottery was proposed, "state residents were enticed to vote for it with the promise that the money would be used for education." 
False
By Edward Fitzpatrick • March 28, 2012
Stephen Laffey
Stephen Laffey
stated on March 2, 2012 in a radio interview:
Giant companies like Toyota will not locate in a state that has not passed a right-to-work law
False
By Edward Fitzpatrick • March 11, 2012
David Silverman
David Silverman
stated on February 17, 2012 in a story on TV website:
"There are more atheists in the country right now than Jews, Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists combined and doubled."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 26, 2012
Travis Rowley
Travis Rowley
stated on January 21, 2012 in an opinion column:
"Martin Luther King was a Republican."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 29, 2012
Lincoln Chafee
Lincoln Chafee
stated on January 11, 2012 in a news conference:
The InterLink at T.F. Green Airport is the closest air-rail link in the country.
False
By Alex Kuffner • January 26, 2012
Thomas Sgouros Jr.
Thomas Sgouros Jr.
stated on December 30, 2011 in an appearance on Rhode Island PBS's "A Lively Experiment":
"[If] you apply for a job, the chances are 1 in 7 that you are going to be denied that job unfairly if everybody is forced to use E-Verify."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 10, 2012
Barry Hinckley
Barry Hinckley
stated on December 4, 2011 in an appearance on WPRI's "Newsmakers" program:
"Our tax code is . . . 80,000 pages."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 27, 2011
Michael Chippendale
Michael Chippendale
stated on December 16, 2011 in a public forum:
"Hydrogen sulfide . . . [was] used in the genocide of Jews in Germany. "
False
By Alex Kuffner • December 21, 2011
Theresa Price
Theresa Price
stated on December 10, 2011 in a speech during a rally on homelessness:
"Rhode Island is leading our nation in foreclosures."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 20, 2011
John DePetro
John DePetro
stated on November 29, 2011 in a talk-show discussion:
"For the past eight years, Gov. Carcieri and Mrs. Carcieri would host the lighting of the State House Christmas tree."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 30, 2011
Philip Keefe
Philip Keefe
stated on November 13, 2011 in an appearance on 10 News Conference:
"If they made no changes whatsoever, the [state employees pension] plan still had enough money to go forward for approximately the next 16 years."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 18, 2011
David Mellon
David Mellon
stated on October 27, 2011 in testimony at a state pension hearing:
"The job [of correctional officer] lowers your life expectancy . . . Metropolitan did a study in, I believe it was 1998, and the life expectancy was 58."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 16, 2011
Kathleen Connell
Kathleen Connell
stated on October 26, 2011 in a hearing:
"Sixty-percent of the state retirees...don’t get Social Security.’’
False
By Lynn Arditi • November 13, 2011
Lincoln Chafee
Lincoln Chafee
stated on October 24, 2011 in in a hearing:
"If Rhode Island does a hybrid [retirement] plan we’ll be the first state in the nation to do this.’’
False
By Lynn Arditi • November 2, 2011
Occupy Providence
Occupy Providence
stated on October 19, 2011 in a protest sign:
"Minimum wage = $16,000/year CEO-Goldman Sachs (Lloyd Blankfein) $16,000/Hour."
False
By Lynn Arditi • October 26, 2011
James Langevin
James Langevin
stated on September 21, 2011 in a speech:
"Foster children are disproportionately victims of identity theft."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 20, 2011
Jorge Elorza
Jorge Elorza
stated on October 2, 2011 in a TV interview:
"The reality is that we have roughly 15,000 undocumented immigrants living in the state..."
False
By Lynn Arditi • October 11, 2011
Doreen Costa
Doreen Costa
stated on August 10, 2011 in a radio interview:
"The studies have shown us that [drug testing for welfare recipients] will be saving us money"
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 26, 2011
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