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Latest Fact-Checks In Wisconsin

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Glenn Grothman
Glenn Grothman
stated on April 30, 2017 a town hall meeting
"Planned Parenthood is the biggest abortion provider in the country."
True
By Dave Umhoefer • May 15, 2017
Ron Kind
Ron Kind
stated on February 16, 2017 a radio interview
"We're experiencing a net outflow of illegal, undocumented workers from America back to Mexico."  
True
By Eric Litke • April 26, 2017
Sheriff David Clarke for U.S. Senate
Sheriff David Clarke for U.S. Senate
stated on April 5, 2017 a fund-raising email
Says Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. has said Black Lives Matter "is a terrorist movement, a hate group and calls it, Black LIES Matter."
True
April 17, 2017
Erin Forrest
Erin Forrest
stated on April 2, 2017 an interview
"75 percent of the town boards in Wisconsin have no women on them at all."  
True
April 7, 2017
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on March 21, 2017 an interview
The GOP’s Obamacare replacement would reduce subsidies that help lower-income people buy health insurance, but also "expand the entitlement" by giving subsidies to higher-income people "that Obamacare never helped."
True
March 23, 2017
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on January 5, 2017 a tweet
The federal government is prohibited "from negotiating lower prescription drug prices for our senior citizens."
True
January 17, 2017
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on January 10, 2017 In a speech
Wisconsin property taxes, as a percentage of personal income, "are the lowest that they've been since the end of World War II."
True
January 13, 2017
Russ Feingold
Russ Feingold
stated on October 7, 2016 a debate
Social Security "was basically invented" at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; "that's where Franklin Roosevelt got the idea."
True
By Jonathan Anderson • December 16, 2016
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on November 18, 2016 an interview
Says Donald Trump "thinks stop-and-frisk is fine."
True
December 9, 2016
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
stated on October 28, 2016 an ad
Says Russ Feingold said that with Obamacare, "we could keep our doctors and our plans, it was rated as the Lie of the Year."  
True
November 4, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on November 1, 2016 a speech
"Wisconsin is one of several states where you can change your early ballot if you think you've made a mistake."  
True
November 2, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 10, 2016 a tweet
Says Paul Ryan "is still endorsing Trump."
True
October 11, 2016
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on September 26, 2016 a tweet
"Repeated requests for additional security in Benghazi were routinely denied" by Hillary "Clinton’s State Department."  
True
October 7, 2016
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on August 23, 2016 in a campaign ad
Says Russ Feingold broke his 1992 promise to always get the majority of funding from Wisconsin residents.
True
By Eric Litke • September 7, 2016
Dana Wachs
Dana Wachs
stated on July 15, 2016 a tweet
Says Scott Walker's "listening sessions" are "invite-only and excluding the press."  
True
August 24, 2016
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on June 27, 2016 a letter to Department of Transportation officials
"For decades, the state’s gas tax has been among the highest in the nation."
True
By Sarah Hauer • July 20, 2016
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on June 26, 2016 a TV interview
The United States is "the oldest democracy" in the world.
True
By Sarah Hauer • July 11, 2016
Brad Schimel
Brad Schimel
stated on June 6, 2016 an opinion piece
"More people now die in Wisconsin from drug overdoses than car crashes."
True
By Cara Lombardo • July 8, 2016
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on May 16, 2016 a radio interview
Since 1978, college "tuition nationwide has gone up something like four times the rate of inflation."
True
By Sarah Hauer • June 9, 2016
Robin Vos
Robin Vos
stated on May 26, 2016 a an online opinion-piece
"The Chicago Bears have had more starting quarterbacks in the last 10 years than the total number of tenured (UW) faculty fired during the last two decades."
True
By Cara Lombardo • June 3, 2016
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