Fact Check Posts – Page 4

Jennifer Shilling
stated on October 1, 2015 a tweet

"71% of WI’s roads are in poor or mediocre condition and 14% of WI’s bridges are structurally deficient or functionally obsolete."

By Sarah Hauer • November 18, 2015

Chris Koster
stated on August 20, 2015 comments at the Missouri State Fair as quoted by the Columbia Daily Tribune

"Since 2001, higher education in the state has been cut or allowed to erode ... by 35 or 40 percent."

By Adam Aton • October 23, 2015

Jennifer Shilling
stated on September 16, 2015 a tweet

A "voucher school that closed after 9 days this year collected $5.4 million in taxpayer subsidies since first opening."

By James B. Nelson • September 25, 2015

Jay Nixon
stated on August 12, 2015 a post on Twitter

Missouri is "#1 in the nation for holding down tuition increases at public universities."

By Arthur Cook • September 24, 2015

Dale Kooyenga
stated on August 31, 2015 a radio interview

The University of Wisconsin System "is larger than any business in the state of Wisconsin."

By James B. Nelson • September 18, 2015

Scott Walker
stated on August 18, 2015 a speech

Says he "turned down a Medicaid expansion under Obamacare," but because of actions he took, for the first time in Wisconsin's history "everyone living in poverty is covered under Medicaid."

September 2, 2015

Americans for Prosperity
stated on August 11, 2015 TV ad

Gov. Maggie Hassan’s budget proposal "raises taxes on small businesses and increases taxes and fees by $100 million."

By Clay Wirestone • August 27, 2015

John Kasich
stated on August 6, 2015 comments at a GOP debate in Cleveland

"I took the state of Ohio from an $8 billion hole … to a $2 billion surplus."

By Louis Jacobson • August 7, 2015

Scott Walker
stated on June 8, 2015 an opinion piece

"Our last budget committed the highest level of need-based financial aid in state history."

By Lucas Daprile • July 31, 2015

Donna Howard
stated on June 25, 2015 a press release

Texas has "the nation's highest rate and highest number of uninsured."

By W. Gardner Selby • July 1, 2015

Patricia Morgan
stated on May 27, 2015 a news conference

The Convention Center "was sold as a building that would never cost taxpayers a dime."

By Mark Reynolds • June 7, 2015

Chris Taylor
stated on April 15, 2015 a press release

Says Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed state budget contained 110 pages of errors -- an unusually high number -- "and millions of dollars’ worth of mistakes" that were corrected with a follow-up document.

By James B. Nelson • June 1, 2015

Scott Walker
stated on May 9, 2015 a speech

"For our next two years in my state, we will end with a structural surplus of $499 million."

By Dave Umhoefer • May 26, 2015

Debbie Mayfield
stated on May 4, 2015 a tweet

"Florida sends $135 billion and D.C. returns $150 billion."

By Joshua Gillin • May 14, 2015

Steve Crisafulli
stated on April 28, 2015 an op-ed in the Tampa Bay Times

"If we choose Obamacare expansion, 600,000 will lose eligibility for their subsidies, of which 257,000 would be forced into Medicaid."

By Joshua Gillin • April 30, 2015

Debbie Dooley
stated on March 31, 2015 a Twitter post

The recently passed transportation funding bill is a billion-dollar tax increase for Georgians.

By April Hunt • April 27, 2015

US Uncut
stated on March 31, 2015 a Facebook post

Says Indiana Gov. Mike Pence "provides zero state funding for homeless shelters."

By Jon Greenberg • April 6, 2015

Trebor Banstetter
stated on March 1, 2015 a newspaper article

Georgia has one of the nation’s highest jet fuel taxes.

By Nancy Badertscher • March 31, 2015

Gina Raimondo
stated on March 13, 2015 a television interview

"Rhode Island has the second highest per enrollee (Medicaid) cost of any state in the country, which is 60 percent higher than the national average."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 29, 2015

Peter Barca
stated on March 12, 2015 a televised interview

"The average faculty member at UW-Madison brings in close to a quarter million dollars a year" in grant money.

By Dave Umhoefer • March 23, 2015

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