Latest Fact-Checks In States

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Jeff Sessions
Jeff Sessions
stated on March 7, 2018 a speech in Sacramento
"California won’t let law enforcement officers like you and your people transfer prisoners to ICE custody or even to communicate with ICE that you’re about to release them from your custody — people that ICE is looking for."
Mostly False
By Chris Nichols • March 7, 2018
JD Vance
JD Vance
stated on December 31, 2017 an interview on Face the Nation
Says "50 percent of venture capital goes to California. Most of the rest of it goes to New York and Massachusetts."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • February 20, 2018
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on February 6, 2018 a headline
"Just in: 45 states just banned Sharia law"
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • February 8, 2018
Travis Allen
Travis Allen
stated on February 1, 2018 an interview on Capital Public Radio
"Californians are overwhelmingly against this concept of the illegal sanctuary state."
False
By Chris Nichols • February 7, 2018
WorldNetDaily
WorldNetDaily
stated on January 21, 2018 a headline
"California To Register Illegal Aliens To Vote – Automatically."
Pants on Fire!
By Chris Nichols • January 24, 2018
Delaine Eastin
Delaine Eastin
stated on January 13, 2018 a town hall
California is 41st in the nation in per pupil K-12 spending, but "No. 1 in per prisoner" spending.
Mostly True
By Chris Nichols • January 17, 2018
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on December 19, 2017 Senate floor debate of federal tax legislation
"Every taxpayer, their taxes are going down, except rich people in Manhattan and San Francisco. Some of them, their taxes may go up."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 5, 2018
Gordon Hintz
Gordon Hintz
stated on November 21, 2017 an interview
Wisconsin's Lincoln Hills youth prison has a "66 percent recidivism rate," while "states like Missouri, that have more of a regional model -- 8 percent."
Mostly False
December 6, 2017
Mahlon Mitchell
Mahlon Mitchell
stated on November 19, 2017 an interview
Wisconsin has "the fastest-shrinking middle class in the country."  
Mostly False
By Kevin Crowe • November 29, 2017
Missouri Department of Economic Development
Missouri Department of Economic Development
stated on October 19, 2017 a proposal to Amazon.com
Among states, Missouri ranks "3rd (in) average yearly growth of high-tech industries."
Mostly True
By Kathryn Hardison • November 27, 2017
John Cox
John Cox
stated on October 21, 2017 a Capital Public Radio interview
Californians pay "the highest electricity bills" in the nation.
False
By Chris Nichols • November 16, 2017
John Cox
John Cox
stated on October 19, 2017 a San Francisco Chronicle op-ed.
"It costs nearly five times as much in California to build and maintain a mile of road as it does in the rest of the nation."
False
By Chris Nichols • November 1, 2017
New Leadership PAC
New Leadership PAC
stated on October 19, 2017 a press release
Says county parties representing more than half the state’s Republican voters approved resolutions "demanding changes" in Texas House leadership.
True
By W. Gardner Selby • November 1, 2017
Charlie Geren
Charlie Geren
stated on September 18, 2017 a tweet
"Less than half of Texans ages 18-24 are registered to vote."
Half-True
By Jasper Scherer • October 26, 2017
Colin Jost
Colin Jost
stated on October 7, 2017 a Weekend Update report on NBC-TV's "Saturday Night Live"
"There is a real law in Texas that says it’s illegal to own more than six dildos."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • October 13, 2017
Joyce Mauk
Joyce Mauk
stated on October 3, 2017 an Austin American-Statesman news story
"One in 10 babies born in this country is born in Texas."  
True
By W. Gardner Selby • October 12, 2017
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on July 28, 2017 an interview
Says Foxconn didn't keep a promise to build a plant in Pennsylvania because "Pennsylvania changed governors."  
Mostly False
August 25, 2017
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on July 19, 2017 a tweet
"We took Wisconsin from the Bottom 10 for business to the Top 10."
Mostly False
By Eric Litke • August 23, 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
August 15, 2017
Chris Sununu
Chris Sununu
stated on July 10, 2017 an interview on New Hampshire Public Radio
California and New York are "the two biggest polluting states in the country."
Mostly False
By Nick Reid • July 28, 2017
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