Fact Check Posts – Page 4

John Cornyn
stated on August 3, 2015 a tweet

"In FY 2014 Planned Parenthood performed 327,653 abortions while receiving $528 million from taxpayers, in violation" of "the Hyde amendment."

By W. Gardner Selby • August 7, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on July 25, 2015 a speech

Under Gov. Scott Walker, Wisconsin "projected a $1 billion (budget) surplus and it turns out to be a deficit of $2.2 billion."

July 28, 2015

Greg Abbott
stated on June 12, 2015 a press release

A Texas law "will repatriate $1 billion of gold bullion from the Federal Reserve in New York to Texas."

By W. Gardner Selby • June 26, 2015

Children's Defense Fund-Texas
stated on April 28, 2015 a press release

"In the last 24 months, 10 rural Texas hospitals have been forced to shut their doors because state leaders" chose not to expand Medicaid.

By W. Gardner Selby • May 15, 2015

Rick Scott
stated on May 6, 2015 an interview in Washington, D.C.

"The families that are covered through the Low Income Pool is a different group of individuals than are covered by Obamacare."

By Joshua Gillin • May 11, 2015

Van Taylor
stated on March 25, 2015 a press release

I "helped pass what, if enacted, would be the largest tax cut in Texas history through the State Senate."

By W. Gardner Selby • May 5, 2015

Mike Huckabee
stated on May 1, 2015 a video

Says he "raised average family income by 50 percent" during his tenure as Arkansas governor.

By Louis Jacobson • May 4, 2015

Scott Walker
stated on April 27, 2015 an interview

Says the recall elections that aimed to remove him and other Republican officials from office "cost tens of millions of dollars to run."

May 4, 2015

Joe Morrissey
stated on March 25, 2015 a campaign flier.

"Rosalyn Dance voted against President Obama’s Medicaid expansion."

By Sean Gorman • April 23, 2015

Richard Corcoran
stated on April 16, 2015 an email to constituents

"Medicaid patients were 97 percent more likely to die than those with private insurance."

By Joshua Gillin • April 22, 2015

Gina Raimondo
stated on February 18, 2015 a presentation

Rhode Island has invested less in tourism, economic development and economic development personnel than four nearby states.

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 1, 2015

Scott Walker
stated on December 17, 2014 remarks to reporters

"The difference over the (previous) four years between where things were headed and where we brought them to over the last four years is a total of $816 in saved property tax money."

January 9, 2015

Gina Raimondo
stated on October 7, 2014 in television commercial

"I fought 38 Studios from the beginning."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 30, 2014

Charlie Crist
stated on October 27, 2014 a TV ad

"Rick Scott vetoed funding for 30 Florida rape crisis centers. Scott said the centers weren’t needed."

By Amy Sherman • October 28, 2014

Scott Walker
stated on October 17, 2014 a debate

The projected $1.8 billion state budget shortfall for 2015-’17 "actually comes from an assumption based on zero growth. That just doesn’t happen."

By Dave Umhoefer • October 23, 2014

Wisconsin Professional Police Association
stated on September 25, 2014 a news conference

Data on violent crime shows Wisconsin "has become less safe than it was when Scott Walker took office."

October 2, 2014

Charlie Crist
stated on September 16, 2014 a TV ad

Says Rick Scott cut education by over a billion dollars, meaning thousands of teachers "lost their jobs" and "class sizes went up."

By Amy Sherman • September 22, 2014

Mary Burke
stated on September 10, 2014 an interview

Says Scott Walker's jobs agency gives financial incentives that lead "Wisconsin companies to look at shipping jobs elsewhere. ... A company got $4.6 million in taxpayer money and actually reduced its jobs by 300 people."

September 19, 2014

Matt Mackowiak
stated on September 8, 2014 an opinion column

In Texas public schools, "we spend an average of $12,000 per pupil per year."

By W. Gardner Selby • September 12, 2014

Truth in Accounting
stated on August 4, 2014 a recent report

Each Georgia taxpayer would have to send $5,000 to the treasury to cover the state’s debt.

By April Hunt • August 27, 2014

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