Latest Fact-Checks By Anthony Cave

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Arizona Grassroots Action PAC
Arizona Grassroots Action PAC
stated on April 20, 2016 in a political advertisement:
Says former state Sen. Kelli Ward "wanted to ban our intelligence agencies from operating in Arizona."
Mostly False
By Anthony Cave • May 11, 2016
Arizona Grassroots Action PAC
Arizona Grassroots Action PAC
stated on March 1, 2016 in an online advertisement:
Says Ann Kirkpatrick "votes with her party nearly 90 percent of the time."
Mostly True
By Anthony Cave • April 29, 2016
Trent Franks
Trent Franks
stated on April 14, 2016 in a legislative hearing:
"Today in America, between 40 and 50 percent of all African-American babies, virtually 1-in-2, are killed before they are born."
Mostly False
By Anthony Cave • April 26, 2016
Doug Ducey
Doug Ducey
stated on April 13, 2016 in a press conference on fire season:
"90 percent of fires in Arizona are human-caused."
Half-True
By Anthony Cave • April 19, 2016
Jan Brewer
Jan Brewer
stated on March 28, 2016 in an interview with Fox Business :
"Senate Bill 1070, simply, just mirrors federal law."
Mostly False
By Anthony Cave • April 13, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 5, 2016 in a plan on his campaign website:
Mexico receives "approximately $24 billion a year in remittances from Mexican nationals working in the United States. The majority of that amount comes from illegal aliens."
Half-True
By Anthony Cave • April 8, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on March 21, 2016 in a rally at a Phoenix high school:
"The economy always does better when there’s a Democrat in the White House."
Half-True
By Anthony Cave • April 6, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 19, 2016 in a rally in Fountain Hills, Ariz. :
The 2016 federal omnibus spending bill "funds illegal immigrants coming in and through your border, right through Phoenix."
Pants on Fire!
By Anthony Cave • April 2, 2016
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on March 20, 2016 in a campaign rally for Hillary Clinton:
"80 percent of the American people haven’t gotten a pay raise since the crash."
Mostly True
By Anthony Cave • March 24, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on March 15, 2016 in a political advertisement that aired in Arizona.:
"Arizona schools rank 45th in the nation, dead last in funding per student."
Mostly True
By Anthony Cave • March 17, 2016
Jeff Flake
Jeff Flake
stated on February 22, 2016 in a statement:
"One would have to go back more than a century to find a scenario where a president’s nominee for the Supreme Court was confirmed by the opposition party in the Senate when the vacancy occurred during an election year."  
True
By Anthony Cave • March 14, 2016
Jeff DeWit
Jeff DeWit
stated on February 22, 2016 in an interview with CNN's Carol Costello.:
"Now we have ISIS coming over the (U.S.-Mexico) border."
False
By Anthony Cave • March 10, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on February 25, 2016 in remarks during the GOP debate at the University of Houston:
"Spending on welfare, on prisons, and education, all of those have dropped by hundreds of millions of dollars" because of Arizona’s immigration laws that drove out undocumented immigrants.
Mostly False
By Anthony Cave • March 4, 2016
John McCain
John McCain
stated on January 4, 2016 in a newspaper interview:
The Every Student Succeeds Act "did away basically with Common Core."
Mostly False
By Anthony Cave • February 29, 2016
Diane Douglas
Diane Douglas
stated on February 4, 2016 in remarks made during a state Senate Education Committee meeting.:
The Arizona State Board of Education’s "failure to report teachers whose certifications have been revoked or suspended ... resulted in the death of a student."
Mostly True
By Anthony Cave • February 19, 2016
John McCain
John McCain
stated on February 8, 2016 in remarks made on the Fox News segment, Outnumbered:
North Korea’s missiles are "not going to have a capability to reach the United States anytime real soon."
True
By Anthony Cave • February 16, 2016
Michael M. Crow
Michael M. Crow
stated on January 26, 2016 in front of the state Senate Appropriations Committee:
Arizona is spending "less on a per-capita basis than every single state in this country in higher education."
Mostly True
By Anthony Cave • February 5, 2016
John McCain
John McCain
stated on January 27, 2016 in a committee hearing:
"Today Russia holds many of our most precious national security satellites at risk before they ever get off the ground."
Mostly True
By Anthony Cave • January 30, 2016
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