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Sid Miller
Sid Miller
stated on August 23, 2017 an interview on Spectrum Cable's "Capital Tonight":
Says a poll showed 70 percent to 75 percent of people want to see Confederate statues "remain up and not taken down."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • September 6, 2017
Jeff Denham
Jeff Denham
stated on September 5, 2017 an interview on NPR:
Says Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton "all voted for" a border wall as senators.
Half-True
By Chris Nichols • September 6, 2017
Sean Duffy
Sean Duffy
stated on July 20, 2017 a TV interview:
"We're flying 1987 planes with 1987 technology."
Half-True
By Alan Hovorka • September 6, 2017
Brian Kemp
Brian Kemp
stated on August 23, 2017 a campaign email:
"Our conservative Georgia values are under attack" ... (People) are "calling for the removal of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson statues."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • August 30, 2017
Marco Rubio's heckler
Marco Rubio's heckler
stated on August 22, 2017 during Sen. Marco Rubio's speech to Seminole County GOP:
Says Marco Rubio took "three quarters of a million dollars from fossil fuel executives" during the 2016 Senate election.
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • August 29, 2017
Steve Adler
Steve Adler
stated on July 26, 2017 a tweet:
"Austin is the safest big city in Texas."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • August 24, 2017
Rick Baker
Rick Baker
stated on July 28, 2017 a Facebook post:
Says he "made St. Petersburg the state's best maintained large sewer system in 2007."
Half-True
By Allison Graves • August 18, 2017
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on July 18, 2017 an article on LinkedIn:
"70 million Americans have a criminal record — that’s one in three adults."
Half-True
By Dan Clark • August 18, 2017
Jennifer Shilling
Jennifer Shilling
stated on August 14, 2017 a press release:
"Foxconn tax break could exceed $1 million per job."  
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • August 16, 2017
One Wisconsin Now
One Wisconsin Now
stated on August 7, 2017 a tweet:
Wisconsin's $3 billion incentive offer to Foxconn is "the largest gift ever by a state to a foreign company."
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • August 15, 2017
Seamless Florida
Seamless Florida
stated on August 7, 2017 a television ad:
"When Rick Baker heard (racist remarks from another mayoral candidate), he went after Congemi. Rick Kriseman he just looked away. Tolerating bigotry in silence is no virtue; taking it on is."
Half-True
By Allison Graves • August 15, 2017
Rahm Emanuel
Rahm Emanuel
stated on July 31, 2017 a press conference:
"Every one of the financial bad management practices that I inherited, every one of them, have either been eliminated or cut significantly."
Half-True
By Matt Dietrich • August 14, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 8, 2017 a briefing on opioids:
"At the end of 2016, there were 23 percent fewer federal prosecutions than in 2011, so (prosecutors) looked at this scourge (opioid deaths) and they let it go by."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • August 9, 2017
Scott Wagner
Scott Wagner
stated on August 2, 2017 a campaign video.:
Eighty percent of the school tax bills in the state of Pennsylvania went up over last year.
Half-True
By Anna Orso • August 9, 2017
David Perdue
David Perdue
stated on July 28, 2017 a statement:
Because of the failure to pass a repeal bill, "Obamacare remains the law of the land ... This means more than 300,000 Georgians below the poverty line will still not have access to the insurance Obamacare promised."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 3, 2017
Paul Mango
Paul Mango
stated on July 24, 2017 a Facebook post:
"As Governor, Wolf has already proposed more than $8B in tax increases."
Half-True
By Sarah Anne Hughes • August 2, 2017
One Wisconsin Now
One Wisconsin Now
stated on July 28, 2017 a blog post:
Says Scott Walker "wants state taxpayers to dole out up to $250 million annually in incentives" to Foxconn "to lure a manufacturing plant to Wisconsin that he claims will generate $181 million in tax revenue."  
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • August 2, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 1, 2017 a tweet:
"Corporations have NEVER made as much money as they are making now."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 1, 2017
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on July 26, 2017 a tweet:
"Foxconn is bringing 13,000 high-tech jobs to Wisconsin."  
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • July 27, 2017
Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on March 31, 2017 a U.S. Senate campaign kickoff event in Dallas:
"I’m one of two members of Congress out of 535 that takes no corporate cash, no political action committee money."
Half-True
By Fauzeya Rahman • July 27, 2017
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