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Latest Fact-Checks In Wisconsin

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Joe Donald
Joe Donald
stated on December 2, 2015 an interview
"We lock up close to 2.4 million people in this country. We're locking up more people than China and Russia."
Mostly True
December 9, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on December 3, 2015 a tweet
"From 2010-2014, median household income" in Wisconsin "has actually gone up 7.4 percent."  
Mostly False
By Kevin Crowe • December 7, 2015
George Will
George Will
stated on November 30, 2015 a TV talk show
Despite attention on global warming, "fewer Americans carpool today to work than carpooled in 1980" and "SUVs have never been a larger proportion of the vehicles being sold in this country."
Mostly True
December 4, 2015
Chris Larson
Chris Larson
stated on November 22, 2015 an interview
The Milwaukee County executive can sell the public "museum, the airport and the zoo" -- all on his own, without County Board approval  
Mostly True
December 3, 2015
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on November 5, 2015 a radio interview
"Probably less than 4 percent" of Wisconsin residents "are enjoying the subsidies" from Obamacare.
True
By Sarah Hauer • December 2, 2015
National Republican Senatorial Committee
National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on November 10, 2015 a TV ad
Says Russ Feingold "wanted to get money out of politics. Now he's profiting from that same dark money."
Half-True
November 27, 2015
Russ Feingold
Russ Feingold
stated on November 12, 2015 an interview
"Ron Johnson said specifically that he hopes the first steps occur to privatize the" Veterans Administration.  
Half-True
November 27, 2015
Martha McSally
Martha McSally
stated on November 17, 2015 a news conference
The United States has "10,000 IRS agents making sure that you don't take an improper charity deduction," but to fight terrorism, it has "less than two dozen people focusing on countering violent extremism at home."    
Mostly False
November 25, 2015
Chris Abele
Chris Abele
stated on October 29, 2015 a TV interview
Since he took office as Milwaukee County executive, "we have never raised" bus fares and "this year there’ll be a million route-miles more than there were five years ago."
Mostly True
By Sarah Hauer • November 23, 2015
Glenn Grothman
Glenn Grothman
stated on October 30, 2015 an interview
Wisconsin’s 6th congressional "district has more manufacturing jobs than almost any other" in the nation.
True
By James B. Nelson • November 20, 2015
Jennifer Shilling
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."
Mostly True
By Sarah Hauer • November 18, 2015
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on November 10, 2015 a debate
Says Marco Rubio is proposing a new $1 trillion "welfare program" in tax credits and "$1 trillion in new military spending."  
Mostly True
November 12, 2015
Chris Abele
Chris Abele
stated on November 2, 2015 a TV ad
Says he balanced the Milwaukee County budget "without raising taxes five years in a row."
Half-True
November 10, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on November 6, 2015 a series of tweets
Wisconsin’s Government Accountability Board "ignored their duties and did not regularly audit" voters to remove felons "for a span of 16 elections.
Half-True
By Sarah Hauer • November 6, 2015
Glenn Grothman
Glenn Grothman
stated on November 6, 2015
On support for the Export-Import Bank
Full Flop
By James B. Nelson • November 6, 2015
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on October 31, 2015 a campaign email
"‘Dark money’ spending" in the 2016 election cycle "is 10 times what it was at the same point in the 2012 election cycle," when it topped $308 million.
True
November 5, 2015
Rebecca Kleefisch
Rebecca Kleefisch
stated on October 21, 2015 a public forum
"Most Americans are now getting their news from Facebook."  
False
October 29, 2015
Constitutional Rights PAC
Constitutional Rights PAC
stated on October 14, 2015 a news release
Paul Ryan "is one of only six House Republicans who voted for Teddy Kennedy's bill to force Christian employers to hire LGBT employees."
False
October 28, 2015
Russ Feingold
Russ Feingold
stated on August 13, 2015 an interview
On receiving campaign contributions from out-of-state donors
Full Flop
By James B. Nelson • October 28, 2015
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on October 7, 2015 an interview
Some 8.1 million of the estimated 11 million to 12 million people "in this country illegally are working."
Mostly True
October 23, 2015
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