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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
By Tom Kertscher • September 30, 2015
Ruth's List Florida
Ruth's List Florida
stated on September 22, 2015 an email to voters:
"Twenty-six men named William have been elected to statewide office and only seven women have had the honor."  
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • 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
Stephen Colbert
Stephen Colbert
stated on September 21, 2015 an interview with Ted Cruz:
Says Ronald Reagan "reversed his world’s ‘largest tax cut’ and raised taxes when revenues did not match the expectations."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • September 25, 2015
Don Zimmerman
Don Zimmerman
stated on September 1, 2015 an Austin City Council meeting:
Salaries of Austin residents who don't work for city government "have not been going up 3 percent a year for the last several years."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • September 25, 2015
Jay Nixon
Jay Nixon
stated on August 12, 2015 a post on Twitter:
Missouri is "#1 in the nation for holding down tuition increases at public universities."
Mostly True
By Arthur Cook • September 24, 2015
Martin O'Malley
Martin O'Malley
stated on September 10, 2015 interview with Democracy Now!:
Says "the cascading effects" of climate change contributed to the rise of ISIS.
Mostly True
By Linda Qiu • September 23, 2015
Matthew Dowd
Matthew Dowd
stated on September 20, 2015 a panel discussion on ABC News' "This Week with George Stephanopoulos":
Says Pope Francis "took the name of a saint who basically reached out to Muslims."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • September 22, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on September 19, 2015 remarks at the 2015 New Hampshire Democratic Party State Convention:
"Under Republicans, recessions happen four times as frequently as under Democrats."  
Mostly True
By Lauren Carroll • September 22, 2015
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 16, 2015 the second GOP primary debate:
When Carly Fiorina says Hewlett-Packard "revenues went up, that's because she bought Compaq. It was a terrible deal."
Mostly True
By Linda Qiu • September 21, 2015
Carly Fiorina
Carly Fiorina
stated on September 16, 2015 the CNN debate:
Says Donald Trump was "forced to file for bankruptcy not once, not twice, four times."
Mostly True
By Clayton Youngman, Lauren Carroll • September 21, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on September 14, 2015 a speech.:
"The top 1/10th of 1 percent today in America owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent."
Mostly True
By Sean Gorman, Tom Kertscher • September 21, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on September 20, 2015 an interview on "This Week.":
"We had a three-hour debate, no discussion about the national debt, very little about the economy."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • September 20, 2015
Karl Rove
Karl Rove
stated on September 20, 2015 comments on "Fox News Sunday":
At this point in 2012, "Rick Perry was ahead at 29.9 percent, and we had seven more leads before it finally settled on Mitt Romney."  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • September 20, 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
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on September 16, 2015 a presidential debate:
"There's never been a direct Supreme Court case on people who were here illegally, whether or not their kids are citizens."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • September 18, 2015
Barry DuVal
Barry DuVal
stated on September 25, 2015 an interview:
"We're the only major oil-producing nation in the world with a self-imposed ban on exporting our crude oil to other nations."
Mostly True
By Sean Gorman • September 17, 2015
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 16, 2015 the second GOP primary debate.:
Says Marco Rubio has "the worst voting record there is today."
Mostly True
By Linda Qiu • September 17, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on September 16, 2015 comments during the CNN debate:
"A majority of the men and women on this stage have previously and publicly embraced amnesty. I am the only candidate on this stage who has never supported amnesty."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • September 17, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on September 16, 2015 the CNN debate:
"When he (Donald Trump) asked Florida to have casino gambling, we said no."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman, Linda Qiu • September 17, 2015
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