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Latest Fact-Checks In Wisconsin

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Chris Danou
Chris Danou
stated on October 20, 2015 remarks in Assembly debate
A Republican bill that would change John Doe criminal investigations is "creating exceptions in the law for politicians."
Mostly True
October 22, 2015
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on October 20, 2015 On support for the Export-Import Bank
On support for the Export-Import Bank
Full Flop
By James B. Nelson • October 20, 2015
Edward Flynn
Edward Flynn
stated on August 27, 2015 a forum
In Milwaukee County, juveniles arrested for car theft "get sent immediately home, because under the point system in juvenile court" on holding suspects, "a stolen car gets zero points."  
Mostly False
October 19, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on October 12, 2015 a tweet
Wisconsin’s Government Accountability Board "wanted to consider Mickey Mouse and Adolf Hitler as valid signatures on recall petitions."
False
By James B. Nelson • October 16, 2015
Erick Erickson
Erick Erickson
stated on October 9, 2015 a blog post
"Paul Ryan is one of less than a dozen Republican congressmen to have voted for every bailout to come before Congress."  
Mostly False
October 15, 2015
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on September 29, 2015 a speech
"60 percent of all Americans do not want to see Planned Parenthood defunded."
True
October 14, 2015
League of Conservation Voters
League of Conservation Voters
stated on September 1, 2015 a television ad
Says U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson "led the fight to let polluters release unlimited amounts of carbon pollution and took nearly $225,000 from polluters."
Mostly True
By James B. Nelson • October 9, 2015
Sean Duffy
Sean Duffy
stated on September 18, 2015 a speech
"Millions of dollars are spent by Planned Parenthood to elect Democrats to the House of Representatives and the Senate."  
Mostly True
October 8, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on September 25, 2015 comments to reporters
A state agency wanted to fire an employee who spent four hours per day watching pornography, but the state "employment commission reinstated the person."
Mostly True
October 7, 2015
Jon Erpenbach
Jon Erpenbach
stated on September 25, 2015 an interview
Says Scott Walker "said he wouldn't touch" the state civil service system but now supports overhauling it.
Mostly False
October 2, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on August 15, 2015 a radio interview
Israel has seen a "90 percent reduction in terrorist attacks" that it attributes to building a 500-mile fence.
Half-True
By Sarah Hauer • October 2, 2015
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on September 26, 2015 a speech
Student loans from the federal government issued between 2007 and 2012 are on target "to produce $66 billion in profits for the United States government."  
Half-True
October 1, 2015
stated on September 22, 2015 a speech
Every general City of Milwaukee employee "pays toward his or her pension, but approximately 88 percent of our police officers and firefighters do not."  
Mostly True
September 30, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on September 1, 2015 a television interview
Obamacare doesn’t require members of Congress "to abide by the same rules that all of the other Americans do."
False
By Sarah Hauer • September 28, 2015
Jennifer Shilling
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."
Mostly True
By James B. Nelson • September 25, 2015
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on September 23, 2015 an interview
"The pope and Donald Trump and Tammy Baldwin all agree" on eliminating the "carried-interest" tax break.  
Half-True
September 24, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on September 16, 2015 a debate
The Obama administration’s "own Environmental Protection Agency" has said its Clean Power Plan "will have a marginal impact on climate change."  
Half-True
September 21, 2015
Dale Kooyenga
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."
Mostly True
By James B. Nelson • September 18, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on September 14, 2015 a campaign proposal
Says he will pursue change in federal law to protect employees from "extortion from a union" because "the Supreme Court has ruled that federal prohibitions outlawing extortion usually do not apply to unions."  
Mostly False
September 17, 2015
Reid Ribble
Reid Ribble
stated on September 8, 2015 an interview
Says Donald Trump "wants to replace" Obamacare "with a single-payer system."
Half-True
September 11, 2015
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