Latest Fact Checks By Matt Dietrich

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“Scholarship,” “voucher,” “tax shelter for the wealthy:” What’s really in IL school funding bill?

By Matt Dietrich
September 12, 2017
The new Illinois school funding formula "created a tax shelter for the wealthy and a voucher program…"
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Bruce Rauner Fox News 8-11-17

Immigrant tale twists branches of Bruce Rauner’s family tree

By Bob Secter , Matt Dietrich
September 5, 2017
"My grandparents were proud immigrants to the United States of America, here to Illinois in the late 1800s. My grandparents did not speak English when…
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Illinois schools as immigrant “sanctuaries?” If only they read the bill

By Matt Dietrich
August 28, 2017
Public schools, colleges and state-funded day care centers "will be made into sanctuaries by Bruce Rauner signing SB 31."
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Jeff Sessions stretches to link “criminal aliens” and Chicago crime

By Matt Dietrich
August 16, 2017
Chicago city officials "have adopted an official policy of protecting criminal aliens who prey on their own residents."
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Rahm Emanuel press conference 7-31-17

Scoop, toss and spin: Digging into Rahm Emanuel’s budget claim

By Matt Dietrich
August 14, 2017
"Every one of the financial bad management practices that I inherited, every one of them, have either been eliminated or cut significantly."
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Chicago soda tax throws a batting practice fastball to Illinois Policy Institute

By Matt Dietrich
August 7, 2017
The new tax will make soda sold in Chicago among the most expensive in the country.
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Rauner’s Chicago schools “bailout” claim rooted in political histrionics, not numbers

By Matt Dietrich
August 1, 2017
As written, the (Illinois school funding) bill includes a bailout of Chicago’s broken teacher pension system.
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Fake news alert: Vin Diesel names Rockford his favorite city

By Matt Dietrich
April 13, 2017
Said Vin Diesel declared his love of Rockford, Ill., after locals provided him car help and hospitality.
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Trump no marksman when aiming at Chicago gun laws

By Matt Dietrich
November 3, 2016
In Chicago, which has the toughest gun laws in the United States, probably you could say by far, they have more gun violence than any…
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Bruce Rauner pits father against daughter in Illinois workers’ comp battle

By Matt Dietrich
October 3, 2016
Even our attorney general who is a strong Democrat, she has said that we need causation in our workers’ comp system. That’s the No. 1…
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Tammy Duckworth hits Mark Kirk for military embellishments

By Matt Dietrich
September 15, 2016
Mark Kirk’s claim of national security expertise is "based on his military record which he lied about at least 10 times."
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Bruce Rauner Governor's Day, Illinois State Fair, 2016

Bruce Rauner’s school funding cut charge no more accurate today than in 2014

By Matt Dietrich
September 1, 2016
Democrats "are cutting our school funding. Four times in the last 10 years before we came into office."
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