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For Our Daughters RI
For Our Daughters RI
stated on January 2, 2014 an online petition
"Earlier this year, [John DePetro] was accused of sexually assaulting a female co-worker."
Pants on Fire!
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 5, 2014
Brett Smiley
Brett Smiley
stated on December 19, 2013 a campaign speech
"Of all cities in the United States with more than 100,000 people, Providence is the 183rd safest."
Mostly True
By John Hill • December 30, 2013
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
stated on December 11, 2013 an advertisement
"Rhode Island’s teen binge drinking rate is double the national average."
False
By John Hill • December 22, 2013
Pete Sessions
Pete Sessions
stated on December 15, 2013 an oped column
Federal law for Obamacare navigators "does not bar — or even require screening for — convicted felons, including individuals convicted of identity theft or fraud."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • December 20, 2013
Michael Chippendale
Michael Chippendale
stated on December 3, 2013 a radio interview
"The vast, overwhelming majority of [crimes that occur with a firearm] are committed by people who don’t legally possess that firearm in the first place."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 15, 2013
Dan Gelber
Dan Gelber
stated on November 26, 2013 Charlie Crist's campaign website
Gov. Charlie Crist "sought for and got approved the automatic restoration of felon rights for nonviolent offenders for the first time in Florida history."
False
By Amy Sherman • December 12, 2013
Jerry Patterson
Jerry Patterson
stated on November 19, 2013 an online campaign video
"Firearms homicides are down about 40 percent" since Texas passed concealed-gun permit law.
Mostly True
By Sue Owen • November 27, 2013
Allen West
Allen West
stated on November 25, 2013 comments on his blog
"Black people kill more black people every six months than the KKK did in 86 years."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • November 27, 2013
Larry Ashley
Larry Ashley
stated on November 7, 2013 a Florida House criminal justice subcommittee hearing
"Florida sheriffs unequivocally support" the "stand your ground" law.
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • November 15, 2013
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on November 8, 2013 in an interview on the "Tonight Show"
"Under President (George W.) Bush, prosecution of gun crimes was 30 percent higher than it is under President Obama."
Mostly False
By Julie Kliegman • November 15, 2013
David Dewhurst
David Dewhurst
stated on October 14, 2013 an interview with the Texas Observer
The White House had a live video feed of the Benghazi attacks as they occurred.
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • October 15, 2013
Gail Collins
Gail Collins
stated on October 3, 2013 her opinion column
Louie Gohmert of Texas "blamed the mass shooting at a movie theater in Colorado on ‘the ongoing attacks on Judeo-Christian beliefs.'"
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • October 10, 2013
Steve Lonegan
Steve Lonegan
stated on September 23, 2013 an interview on the John Gambling radio show
"Violent crime is up since the last year of Sharpe James’ administration. This year it’s higher. … The unemployment rate is almost 15 percent. The high school dropout rate is over 50 percent."
Half-True
By Caryn Shinske • October 10, 2013
X posts
X posts
stated on October 4, 2013 messages on Twitter
The Obama administration shut down the Amber Alert program because of the government shutdown.
False
By Jon Greenberg • October 7, 2013
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on September 29, 2013 an interview
Domestic violence "is seen as a pre-existing" health condition and "women had to pay 50 percent more for health care because of gender ratings," but under Obamacare, "all of that is over."  
Half-True
October 6, 2013
City of Atlanta
City of Atlanta
stated on September 23, 2013 a press release
The crime rate in some Atlanta neighborhoods has dropped by 35 to 51 percent.
False
By Eric Stirgus • October 2, 2013
Eddie Bernice Johnson
Eddie Bernice Johnson
stated on August 8, 2013 an opinion column in Fort Worth Star-Telegram
"Studies have shown that voter fraud is non-existent in Texas."
False
By Sue Owen • September 13, 2013
Doug Whitsett
Doug Whitsett
stated on August 16, 2013 a guest column
"Over the past twenty years, the number of homicides committed with a firearm in the United States has decreased by nearly 40 percent. The number of other crimes involving the use of a firearm has also plummeted, declining by nearly 70 percent."
True
By Janie Har • September 7, 2013
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on August 20, 2013 a Facebook post
"America’s gun-related homicide rate … would be about the same as Belgium’s if you left out California, Illinois, D.C. and New Jersey, places with some of the strictest gun control laws in the U.S."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • August 29, 2013
David Dewhurst
David Dewhurst
stated on August 3, 2013 a telephone call to the Allen, Texas, police department.
"I am every year the No.1 pick of all of the law enforcement agencies within Texas."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • August 27, 2013
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