Latest Fact-Checks By Anna Orso

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Donald Trump
stated on April 21, 2016 in a campaign rally speech:

"Pennsylvania has lost 35 percent of its manufacturing jobs since 2001" and "Harrisburg has lost 40 percent of its manufacturing jobs since 2001."

Mostly True

By Anna Orso • April 22, 2016

Steve Santarsiero
stated on April 2, 2016 in a campaign mailer.:

"Steve Santarsiero wrote PA’s Gun Safety Law."

False

By Anna Orso • April 21, 2016

Bill Clinton
stated on April 7, 2016 in during a campaign stop in Philadelphia:

"Because of (the 1994 crime bill), we had a 25-year low in crime, a 33-year low in the murder rate, and listen to this, because of that and the background check law, a 46-year low in the deaths of people of gun violence."

Mostly False

By Anna Orso, Cassie Owens • April 8, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on April 6, 2016 in a speech to the AFL-CIO Convention:

When mentioning Villanova’s buzzer-beating win in the national championships, Hillary Clinton said: "I love those come-from-behind victories."

Mostly False

By Anna Orso, Dan Levy • April 6, 2016

Stephen Zappala
stated on March 22, 2016 in in a new ad.:

Stephen Zappala is "the only DA in our state to convict an on-duty police officer of criminal homicide."

Half-True

By Anna Orso • March 28, 2016

Joe Pitts
stated on February 25, 2016 in in a Medium post.:

"More people were killed by terrorists in 2015 than in any other year ever, after an 80 percent increase from 2014."

Mostly True

By Anna Orso • March 22, 2016

Jim Kenney
stated on March 10, 2016 in a budget address to City Council:

"When the City and the Fairmount Park Conservancy invested $5 million in Hunting Park, crime went down 89 percent within a half mile radius of the park over the next three years."

True

By Anna Orso • March 10, 2016

Tom Wolf
stated on February 9, 2016 in his budget proposal address:

If the General Assembly does not address the state's structural deficit, "more than 23,000 education professionals will be immediately yanked out of Pennsylvania schools."

Mostly False

By Anna Orso • February 12, 2016

Joe Sestak
stated on January 25, 2016 in a talk with the Pennsylvania Press Club:

Says Pat Toomey visited Joe Sestak and other veterans in 2002 "and then came home and voted against every veterans appropriations bill."

Mostly False

By Anna Orso • February 8, 2016

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