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Chris Sgro
Chris Sgro
stated on May 4, 2016 in a press release:
"We've already lost $500 million in economic impact" from HB2 fallout in North Carolina.
False
By Will Doran • May 16, 2016
Tim Moore
Tim Moore
stated on May 5, 2016 in a conversation with reporters:
Says 80 percent of North Carolinians support "the concept that men should not be in women’s restrooms, changing rooms, bathrooms, etc."
Half-True
By Will Doran • May 14, 2016
Pat McCrory
Pat McCrory
stated on May 3, 2016 in a radio talk show appearance on the John Boy and Billy Big Show:
Says Bruce Springsteen "only had 8,000 tickets sold" for a Greensboro show and canceled after "they didn’t get the ticket sales they wanted."
Pants on Fire!
By Will Doran • May 4, 2016
Pat McCrory
Pat McCrory
stated on April 17, 2016 in in interview on Meet The Press with Chuck Todd:
The Human Rights Campaign is "more powerful than the NRA."
False
By Will Doran • April 21, 2016
Paul
Paul "Skip" Stam
stated on April 11, 2016 in a newspaper interview:
"There are 31 other states and 10,000 other cities that have the same type of policies that we just passed," referring to North Carolina’s House Bill 2.
Half-True
By Will Doran • April 13, 2016
Chris Sgro
Chris Sgro
stated on March 17, 2016 in a speech urging Charlotte's anti-discrimination ordinance be left intact:
"There have not been any public safety issues" in cities that allow transgender people to use the bathroom of the gender they identify as.
Mostly True
By Will Doran • April 1, 2016
Pat McCrory
Pat McCrory
stated on March 26, 2016 in a list of rebuttals to criticism over the law:
Despite the passage of HB2, "towns, cities and counties in North Carolina are still allowed to set stricter non-discrimination policies for their own employees if they choose."
Half-True
By Will Doran • March 31, 2016
Pat McCrory
Pat McCrory
stated on March 28, 2016 in a speech in Clayton, N.C.:
"We have not taken away any rights that have currently existed in any city in North Carolina" with the passage of HB2.
False
By Will Doran • March 30, 2016
Pat McCrory
Pat McCrory
stated on March 26, 2016 in a list of rebuttals to criticism over the law:
"Will (HB2) threaten federal funding for public schools under Title IX? No, according to a federal court which has looked at a similar issue."
Half-True
By Will Doran • March 29, 2016
Bill McCoshen
Bill McCoshen
stated on March 11, 2016 in a talk show:
Says when Bernie Sanders was in college, Sanders said "something very similar" to what conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley had written as a college student in the 1990s -- that "women have a legitimate role in date rape."
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • March 17, 2016
Occupy Democrats
Occupy Democrats
stated on January 12, 2016 in a blog post.:
Says Virginia Del. Mark Cole "wants schools to check children’s genitals before using bathroom."
False
By Sean Gorman • January 18, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on November 19, 2015 in an interview with Steven Crowder:
The "federal government is going after school districts, trying to force them to let boys shower with little girls."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • December 4, 2015
John Bel Edwards
John Bel Edwards
stated on November 11, 2015 in a campaign ad:
Says David Vitter "answered a prostitute’s call minutes after he skipped a vote honoring 28 soldiers who gave their lives in defense of our freedom."
Mostly True
By Charles Maldonado • November 19, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on August 3, 2015 in a video:
Says Scott Walker's defunding of Planned Parenthood "left women across the state stranded with nowhere else to turn" for cancer screenings, breast exams and birth control.
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • August 7, 2015
Aziz Ansari
Aziz Ansari
stated on June 16, 2015 in comments on "The Daily Show":
"46 percent of women between the age of 16 to 24 despise sexual contact" in Japan.
True
By Katie Sanders • June 23, 2015
Rebecca Quigley
Rebecca Quigley
stated on May 14, 2015 in a comment on a "State of the State" TV program.:
"Once a woman enters into the sex trade, her average life expectancy is seven years."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 31, 2015
Garnet Coleman
Garnet Coleman
stated on May 6, 2015 in a committee hearing:
"Transgender individuals in the U.S. have a 1-in-12 chance of being murdered."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • May 13, 2015
Jason Rae
Jason Rae
stated on April 21, 2015 in an interview:
Wisconsin's non-discrimination law "doesn't protect members of the trans-gender community."  
True
By Tom Kertscher • May 8, 2015
Susan Stimpson
Susan Stimpson
stated on March 28, 2015 in a Facebook post.:
Virginia House Speaker Bill Howell is "allied to group pushing MIXED SEX BATHROOMS in Stafford Schools."
False
By Sean Gorman • April 6, 2015
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on March 4, 2015 in an interview on CNN:
"A lot of people who go into prison straight, and when they come out they’re gay."
False
By Lauren Carroll • March 4, 2015
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