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Latest Fact-Checks In Rhode Island

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Ian Lang
Ian Lang
stated on May 18, 2011 in a state Senate committee hearing:
"Rhode Island continues to have the highest rates of substance abuse in the country."
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By Richard Salit • June 9, 2011
Rhode Island ACLU
Rhode Island ACLU
stated on May 4, 2011 in a news release:
"No other Northeastern state has passed a photo ID law"
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By Richard Salit • May 22, 2011
Richard Licht
Richard Licht
stated on April 3, 2011 in TV interview:
Proposed fees for Rhode Island beaches will still be "less than some of the town beaches."
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By Richard Salit • April 10, 2011
James Roosevelt
James Roosevelt
stated on April 1, 2011 in a segment of WPRI's Newsmakers program:
Three courts have found the new health care law constitutional and two have found it unconstitutional.
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 6, 2011
Gina Raimondo
Gina Raimondo
stated on February 18, 2011 in a radio interview:
The law has not established whether Rhode Island public employees have property rights to their pensions.
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By Peter Lord • February 27, 2011
Jack Reed
Jack Reed
stated on November 4, 2010 in a letter to a Senate committee:
"New England already has access to ample supplies of natural gas."
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By Peter Lord • January 23, 2011
Jamie Samons
Jamie Samons
stated on November 17, 2010 in a Providence Journal story:
"We were one of the first states in the U.S. to build sewers, to bring the treatment plant on line."
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By Edward Fitzpatrick • November 28, 2010
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on September 27, 2010 in a speech on the Senate floor.:
"The law, right now, permits companies that close down American factories and offices and move those jobs overseas to take a tax deduction for the costs associated with moving the jobs to China or India or wherever."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 21, 2010
John Robitaille
John Robitaille
stated on October 15, 2010 in a biography on Robitaille's campaign website:
His biography says he was the top ROTC officer in the nation.
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By Cynthia Needham • October 17, 2010
John Robitaille
John Robitaille
stated on October 4, 2010 in an interview on WHJJ's Helen Glover Show:
"Rhode Island has a very generous unemployment compensation rate compared to most other states."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 6, 2010
Kernan
Kernan "Kerry" King
stated on August 21, 2010 in an interview on WPRI-TV's "Newsmakers:
In Rhode Island "there are 150 different pension plans for public workers."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 30, 2010
Kenneth Block
Kenneth Block
stated on June 19, 2010 in a TV and Internet commercial:
"(I) helped to invent a system that saved over a billion dollars on welfare."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 29, 2010
David Cicilline
David Cicilline
stated on July 13, 2010 in a debate:
Providence has "the lowest crime rate in three decades."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 19, 2010
Gina Raimondo
Gina Raimondo
stated on July 1, 2010 in a video on her web page:
The company I created, Point Judith Capital, "is the only venture capital firm in Rhode Island."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 9, 2010
Democratic Governors Association
Democratic Governors Association
stated on July 23, 2010 in Democratic Governors Association website:
Democrats say Chafee wants to tax equipment that enables amputee veterans to drive
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By Cynthia Needham • July 5, 2010
Mark S. Zaccaria
Mark S. Zaccaria
stated on June 2, 2010 in a posting on his website:
Langevin votes "the party line about 98 percent of the time."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 27, 2010
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