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Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on April 16, 2012 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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