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Chain email
Chain email
stated on February 2, 2012 in a message via the Internet:
"If you sell your house after 2012 you will pay a 3.8 percent sales tax on it."
Pants on Fire!
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 7, 2012
Barry Hinckley
Barry Hinckley
stated on January 17, 2012 in a YouTube video:
"Sheldon Whitehouse's failure of leadership, the adding of almost $8 trillion in debt in his first full term, is shameful..."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 31, 2012
Travis Rowley
Travis Rowley
stated on January 21, 2012 in an opinion column:
"Martin Luther King was a Republican."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 29, 2012
Stephanie DeSilva
Stephanie DeSilva
stated on January 11, 2012 in a news release:
"[Mitt] Romney and [Brendan] Doherty certainly have a lot in common, like flip-flopping on abortion -- in Doherty's case, in a little over a week."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 19, 2012
John DePetro
John DePetro
stated on January 13, 2012 in an assertion on his WPRO radio show:
"[The] ACLU and atheists in Denver are demanding the NFL stop [Tim Tebow] from praying on the sidelines."
Pants on Fire!
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 18, 2012
Einer Elhauge
Einer Elhauge
stated on January 5, 2012 in a commentary in the New England Journal of Medicine:
"In 1790, the first Congress, which was packed with framers, required all ship owners to provide medical insurance for seamen; in 1798, Congress also required seamen to buy hospital insurance for themselves. In 1792, Congress enacted a law mandating that all able-bodied citizens obtain a firearm."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 13, 2012
Thomas Sgouros Jr.
Thomas Sgouros Jr.
stated on December 30, 2011 in an appearance on Rhode Island PBS's "A Lively Experiment":
"[If] you apply for a job, the chances are 1 in 7 that you are going to be denied that job unfairly if everybody is forced to use E-Verify."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 10, 2012
David Cicilline
David Cicilline
stated on December 25, 2011 in an appearance on WPRI's Newsmakers:
"I think with the exception of the last year or maybe the last two years, we were at 100 percent" when it came to contributing to the Providence pension fund.
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 6, 2012
Chain email
Chain email
stated on December 10, 2011 in a message via the Internet:
"What is the proper collective noun for a group of baboons? Believe it or not . . . a Congress!"
Pants on Fire!
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 2, 2012
Barry Hinckley
Barry Hinckley
stated on December 4, 2011 in an appearance on WPRI's "Newsmakers" program:
"Our tax code is . . . 80,000 pages."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 27, 2011
Theresa Price
Theresa Price
stated on December 10, 2011 in a speech during a rally on homelessness:
"Rhode Island is leading our nation in foreclosures."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 20, 2011
Chain email
Chain email
stated on November 28, 2011 in a message via the Internet:
While CEOs of some large charities have big salaries, the heads of some veterans groups do the job for free.
Pants on Fire!
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 11, 2011
Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart
stated on December 6, 2011 in a segment of "The Daily Show":
"When the country was founded, Congress had exactly the same attitude about the sanctity of Christmas celebrations that a 7-Eleven does today: 'Yeah, we're open.'"
Pants on Fire!
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 9, 2011
Lisa Baldelli-Hunt
Lisa Baldelli-Hunt
stated on November 17, 2011 in a General Assembly debate on pension overhaul:
"Eighty-five percent . . . of Rhode Island tax returns that were filed for the year 2010 . . . were from individuals who earned $30,000 or less."
Pants on Fire!
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 1, 2011
John DePetro
John DePetro
stated on November 29, 2011 in a talk-show discussion:
"For the past eight years, Gov. Carcieri and Mrs. Carcieri would host the lighting of the State House Christmas tree."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 30, 2011
Jack Reed
Jack Reed
stated on November 10, 2011 in a speech on the Senate floor:
In Rhode Island, "only 5 percent of ozone pollution is from local or in-state sources. . . Ninety-five percent comes from outside of our borders, particularly the Midwest."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 27, 2011
Philip Keefe
Philip Keefe
stated on November 13, 2011 in an appearance on 10 News Conference:
"If they made no changes whatsoever, the [state employees pension] plan still had enough money to go forward for approximately the next 16 years."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 18, 2011
David Mellon
David Mellon
stated on October 27, 2011 in testimony at a state pension hearing:
"The job [of correctional officer] lowers your life expectancy . . . Metropolitan did a study in, I believe it was 1998, and the life expectancy was 58."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 16, 2011
Paul Valletta
Paul Valletta
stated on October 27, 2011 in testimony at a General Assembly pension hearing:
Rhode Island Treasurer Gina Raimondo "raised the mortality rate from 65 to 87" and "used a 1994 annuity chart" to create the pension crisis.
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 6, 2011
Helen Glover
Helen Glover
stated on October 24, 2011 in an introduction to a radio interview:
"The State of Rhode Island has the worst state-funded pension in the country."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 30, 2011
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