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Ismael Ozanne
Ismael Ozanne
stated on June 7, 2014 a speech
"I’m running the second-largest county district attorney’s office … at 1985 staffing levels."
Half-True
July 23, 2014
Brett Smiley
Brett Smiley
stated on June 25, 2014 a campaign brochure
There are "approximately 20,000 annual gun purchases in Rhode Island."  
True
By Karen Lee Ziner • July 20, 2014
Cokie Roberts
Cokie Roberts
stated on July 13, 2014 comments on ABC's "This Week"
"In New York, your chances of getting murdered are 1 in 25,000. In Honduras, it’s 1 in 14."
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • July 16, 2014
Dan Sullivan
Dan Sullivan
stated on June 20, 2014 a radio ad
"As Alaska’s attorney general, (U.S. Senate candidate Dan) Sullivan successfully fought to protect our Second Amendment rights and passed ‘stand your ground.’ "
False
By Lauren Carroll • July 2, 2014
John Chisholm
John Chisholm
stated on June 2, 2014 a letter
Says Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke has "deputies collecting overtime while sitting passively in chairs watching courthouse security personnel work."
Mostly True
June 30, 2014
Progressive Choice Florida
Progressive Choice Florida
stated on June 23, 2014 a radio ad
Says Charlie Crist signed "the nation’s harshest marijuana laws."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman, Joshua Gillin • June 27, 2014
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on June 26, 2014 a billboard message
"Wendy Davis’ legal work is currently under FBI investigation."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • June 27, 2014
Battleground Texas
Battleground Texas
stated on June 10, 2014 an interview on Bloomberg TV
Says Dan Patrick has "called immigration into Texas an invasion" and "said immigrants coming into Texas bring ‘third-world diseases.’"
True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 20, 2014
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 17, 2014 an interview on Fox & Friends
A record number of immigrants not from Mexico are "being apprehended at the border."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 18, 2014
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on June 1, 2014 a TV interview
Under Wisconsin law, "anyone who knows anything about a John Doe" secret criminal investigation "can't talk about it."
Half-True
June 12, 2014
Robin Vos
Robin Vos
stated on May 30, 2014 a radio interview
"In the city of Milwaukee, we’ve still got a mayor and a police chief who are furloughing police officers at a time when we have violence all across the city."
Mostly True
By James B. Nelson • June 11, 2014
Americans for Safe Access
Americans for Safe Access
stated on June 5, 2014 a TV ad
Judging by a recent vote, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz "thinks it's okay for medical marijuana patients to go to federal prison."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • June 10, 2014
Lamar Smith
Lamar Smith
stated on May 31, 2014 a letter to the editor of the San Antonio Express-News
"Last year," Obama "administration officials released into our neighborhoods more than 36,000 criminal immigrants who had nearly 88,000 convictions. The crimes included hundreds of convictions for murder, rape and kidnapping and thousands of drug-related crimes."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 10, 2014
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on May 29, 2014 remarks on the House floor
"Milwaukee has the second-highest" number of children recovered from sex trafficking.  
False
June 1, 2014
Pierre Thomas
Pierre Thomas
stated on May 25, 2014 a broadcast of ABC's "This Week"
From 2000 to 2008, we averaged "about five mass shootings a year. We're now averaging 15. So that's a three-fold increase."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • May 28, 2014
David A. Clarke Jr.
David A. Clarke Jr.
stated on May 19, 2014 a news release
Milwaukee has seen "an uptick in violence" since 2010, and "the only period of calm we get is when winter sets in."
Mostly True
By Dave Umhoefer • May 23, 2014
Julián Castro
Julián Castro
stated on April 15, 2014 Univision debate on immigration
Says Dan Patrick "proposed Arizona-style show-me-your-papers legislation."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • May 14, 2014
Van Jones
Van Jones
stated on May 4, 2014 a roundtable on ABC's "This Week"
In some states, African-Americans are three times more likely to be sentenced to death than whites for the same crime.
Half-True
By Katie Sanders • May 7, 2014
Tom Coburn
Tom Coburn
stated on May 1, 2014 an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe"
The death penalty "is a deterrent that does affect and impact people."
Mostly False
By Julie Kliegman • May 6, 2014
Dawson Hodgson
Dawson Hodgson
stated on March 27, 2014 a TV interview
The Rhode Island Parole Board "never received an objection from the attorney general" to the parole of  convicted murder Alfred Brissette.
True
By John Hill • April 30, 2014
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