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Katrina Shankland
stated on January 29, 2016 a news release:

"Faced with $1 million in campaign debt," Scott Walker "is unloading his campaign security costs onto the backs of Wisconsin taxpayers."

Mostly False

By Tom Kertscher • February 5, 2016

State Public Service Announcement
stated on December 28, 2015:

By the end of 2015, more than 1,300 people will have died on Georgia roads. One of out evey four fatalities resulted from drunken driving.

Mostly True

By Nancy Badertscher • December 30, 2015

Chris Larson
stated on November 22, 2015 a TV interview:

The Milwaukee County bus system has "among the highest fares in the nation."

False

By Sarah Hauer • December 17, 2015

Uber
stated on November 7, 2015 a web post:

"Recent news reports indicate DWI crashes in Austin dropped 23 percent since ridesharing entered the market."

Mostly True

By W. Gardner Selby • December 16, 2015

Bryan Hughes
stated on December 1, 2015 a campaign press release:

"David Simpson actually voted for driver's licenses for illegal immigrants."

Mostly False

By W. Gardner Selby • December 11, 2015

David Simpson
stated on November 30, 2015 a campaign press release:

"I have always opposed driver's licenses for illegal aliens."

Mostly True

By W. Gardner Selby • December 11, 2015

George Will
stated on November 30, 2015 a TV talk show:

Despite attention on global warming, "fewer Americans carpool today to work than carpooled in 1980" and "SUVs have never been a larger proportion of the vehicles being sold in this country."

Mostly True

By Tom Kertscher • December 4, 2015

Chris Larson
stated on November 22, 2015 an interview:

The Milwaukee County executive can sell the public "museum, the airport and the zoo" -- all on his own, without County Board approval

Mostly True

By Tom Kertscher • December 3, 2015

Greg Abbott
stated on October 19, 2015 op-ed in Austin American-Statesman:

"Road congestion costs rush hour drivers in Austin and Dallas more than $1,000 a year. And in Houston, it’s even more -- almost $1,500 a year."

Mostly True

By Fauzeya Rahman • November 24, 2015

Jeff Morales
stated on October 29, 2015 a press conference:

"The actual (construction) contracts that we’ve awarded to date have come in several hundred million dollars below estimates."

Mostly True

By Chris Nichols • November 24, 2015

Chris Abele
stated on October 29, 2015 a TV interview:

Since he took office as Milwaukee County executive, "we have never raised" bus fares and "this year there’ll be a million route-miles more than there were five years ago."

Mostly True

By Sarah Hauer • November 23, 2015

Jim Patterson
stated on November 3, 2015 a news article:

"We now know these firms are unwilling to put up any private money," for California's high-speed rail project.

Mostly False

By Chris Nichols • November 23, 2015

Jennifer Shilling
stated on October 1, 2015 a tweet:

"71% of WI’s roads are in poor or mediocre condition and 14% of WI’s bridges are structurally deficient or functionally obsolete."

Mostly True

By Sarah Hauer • November 18, 2015

Luis Alejo
stated on September 25, 2015 a press release:

"Everyone on California’s roads is properly licensed, tested and insured."

Pants on Fire!

By Chris Nichols • November 9, 2015

Jerry Brown
stated on October 7, 2015 a speech:

"Smog was invented in Los Angeles. It was. The name was invented. There was a fellow at Caltech and he came up with the idea and they called it smog."

Half-True

By Chris Nichols • November 3, 2015

Don Francis
stated on October 28, 2015 an interview with Watchdog.org:

Electric car sales in Georgia have dropped dramatically since a $5,000 tax credit was eliminated and a $200 annual registration fee was imposed July 1.

True

By Nancy Badertscher • November 2, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on October 14, 2015 a speech:

"Sixty-one percent of our bridges are in trouble."

False

By Warren Fiske • October 26, 2015

Edward Flynn
stated on August 27, 2015 a forum:

In Milwaukee County, juveniles arrested for car theft "get sent immediately home, because under the point system in juvenile court" on holding suspects, "a stolen car gets zero points."

Mostly False

By Tom Kertscher • October 19, 2015

Erick Erickson
stated on October 9, 2015 a blog post:

"Paul Ryan is one of less than a dozen Republican congressmen to have voted for every bailout to come before Congress."

Mostly False

By Tom Kertscher • October 15, 2015

Jay Nixon
stated on August 20, 2015 comments at the Missouri State Fair:

"Almost nine out of every 10 pennies that would be spent" turning a 200-mile stretch of Interstate 70 into a toll road "would be from folks outside Missouri."

Mostly False

By Allison Graves • September 29, 2015

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