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Tim Moore
Tim Moore
stated on May 5, 2016 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
March 17, 2016
Occupy Democrats
Occupy Democrats
stated on January 12, 2016 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 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 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 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
August 7, 2015
Aziz Ansari
Aziz Ansari
stated on June 16, 2015 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 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 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 an interview
Wisconsin's non-discrimination law "doesn't protect members of the trans-gender community."  
True
May 8, 2015
Susan Stimpson
Susan Stimpson
stated on March 28, 2015 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 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
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 8, 2015 a public-service video during the Grammys
"Nearly one in five women in America has been a victim of rape or attempted rape."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • February 16, 2015
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