Latest Fact-Checks In Wisconsin

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Mahlon Mitchell
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."
Mostly False
By Eric Litke • March 7, 2018
Jeff Greenfield
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."
Mostly False
February 15, 2018
Scott Walker
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."
Mostly False
February 6, 2018
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on January 11, 2018 a tweet
Says Paul Soglin took Madison backward -- "businesses have left and murders have gone up."  
Mostly False
January 31, 2018
Scott Walker
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."  
Mostly False
By D.L. Davis • January 26, 2018
Jeff Sessions
Jeff Sessions
stated on December 18, 2017 a news conference
In Milwaukee, "murder is up an astonishing 57 percent."  
Mostly False
January 3, 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
Paul Ryan
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."  
Mostly False
October 13, 2017
Ron Johnson
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."  
Mostly False
September 29, 2017
X posts
X posts
stated on September 11, 2017 tweets
"Paul Ryan doesn't know what the minimum wage is in Wisconsin."  
Mostly False
September 11, 2017
Republican Party of Wisconsin
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."  
Mostly False
September 8, 2017
Donald Trump
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."  
Mostly False
September 6, 2017
Paul Ryan
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."  
Mostly False
September 1, 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
Andy Gronik
Andy Gronik
stated on July 14, 2017 a TV interview
Says Scott Walker "has taken money away from internet expansion in our state."
Mostly False
By Devi Shastri • August 10, 2017
Sean Duffy
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.  
Mostly False
August 4, 2017
Save Our City, Milwaukeeans Can't Wait
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."  
Mostly False
July 14, 2017
Scott Walker
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."  
Mostly False
June 30, 2017
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