Fact Check Posts – Page 9

Mahlon Mitchell
stated on January 17, 2018 a tweet:

"When @ScottWalker told firefighters we didn’t need to worry about Act 10, we said hell no, we stand with working Wisconsinites everywhere."

By Eric Litke • March 7, 2018

Jeff Greenfield
stated on February 14, 2018 a tweet:

"In the rest of the world, there have been 18 school shootings in the last twenty years. In the U.S., there have been 18 school shootings since January 1."

By Tom Kertscher • February 15, 2018

Scott Walker
stated on January 24, 2018 a speech:

"We invested" in our transportation system "$24 billion over eight years. That’s $3 billion more than what former Governor Jim Doyle spent on transportation over the same period of time."

By Tom Kertscher • February 6, 2018

Scott Walker
stated on January 11, 2018 a tweet:

Says Paul Soglin took Madison backward -- "businesses have left and murders have gone up."

By Tom Kertscher • January 31, 2018

Scott Walker
stated on December 18, 2017 a tweet:

"Road projects across the state are staying on track or getting done sooner thanks to the good work of the team at the Wisconsin Department of Transportation."

By D.L. Davis • January 26, 2018

Jeff Sessions
stated on December 18, 2017 a news conference:

In Milwaukee, "murder is up an astonishing 57 percent."

By Tom Kertscher • January 3, 2018

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."

By Tom Kertscher • December 6, 2017

Mahlon Mitchell
stated on November 19, 2017 an interview:

Wisconsin has "the fastest-shrinking middle class in the country."

By Kevin Crowe, Tom Kertscher • November 29, 2017

Paul Ryan
stated on September 27, 2017 an interview:

The Republican tax reform proposal is focused on tax breaks for the middle class "and not about people who are really high-income earners getting a tax break."

By Tom Kertscher • October 13, 2017

Ron Johnson
stated on September 25, 2017 an interview:

"California, New York and Massachusetts, they represent about 20 percent of the population, they get close to 36 percent of Obamacare funding. It's just simply inequitable."

By Tom Kertscher • September 29, 2017

X posts
stated on September 11, 2017 tweets:

"Paul Ryan doesn't know what the minimum wage is in Wisconsin."

By Tom Kertscher • September 11, 2017

Republican Party of Wisconsin
stated on August 21, 2017 a digital ad:

Says Tony Evers "allowed a middle-school teacher found guilty of spreading pornographic material at school to keep teaching students."

By Tom Kertscher • September 8, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on September 3, 2017 an op-ed in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

"In 1986, President Ronald Reagan" cut the business tax rate to 34 percent and "it worked -- our economy boomed, the middle class thrived and median family income increased."

By Tom Kertscher • September 6, 2017

Paul Ryan
stated on August 21, 2017 a town hall:

Says Aaron Rodgers "is not the highest tax rate payer" in Wisconsin, it's "the single mom getting 24 grand in benefits with two kids who will lose 80 cents on the dollar if she goes and takes a job."

By Tom Kertscher • September 1, 2017

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."

By Tom Kertscher • August 25, 2017

Scott Walker
stated on July 19, 2017 a tweet:

"We took Wisconsin from the Bottom 10 for business to the Top 10."

By Eric Litke • August 23, 2017

Andy Gronik
stated on July 14, 2017 a TV interview:

Says Scott Walker "has taken money away from internet expansion in our state."

By Devi Shastri • August 10, 2017

Sean Duffy
stated on July 20, 2017 an interview:

"You have almost half the counties in America that have one provider or no provider for insurance" on the Obamacare exchanges.

By Tom Kertscher • August 4, 2017

Save Our City, Milwaukeeans Can't Wait
stated on July 7, 2017 a recall filing:

Says Tom Barrett "has directed that tens of millions of City of Milwaukee tax dollars be used for the construction of a downtown trolley at the expense of: health and public safety; repair and replacement of public infrastructure; public education; and, job creation and economic development."

By Tom Kertscher • July 14, 2017

Scott Walker
stated on June 5, 2017 an interview:

When he was Milwaukee County executive, "eight years in a row we pushed through budgets that did not increase the tax levy from the previous year."

By Tom Kertscher • June 30, 2017

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