Latest Fact-Checks By Mark Reynolds

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Rhode Island Center for Freedom and Prosperity
stated on July 30, 2015 in news release:

"Rhode Island will become just the second state to mandate the vaccine … and the only state to do so by regulatory fiat, without public debate, and without consideration from the elected representatives of the people."

Half-True

By Mark Reynolds • August 23, 2015

Coast Guard
stated on July 20, 2015 in news release:

"Every year the First Coast Guard District saves 350 lives in the Northeast."

Mostly True

By Mark Reynolds • August 2, 2015

Lincoln Chafee
stated on June 14, 2015 in Campaign speech :

"One of the reasons I believe we’re in trouble in Yemen is we lost the population on drone strikes issues. That’s what stirred up the population. That’s what is happening in Yemen."

Half-True

By Mark Reynolds • July 26, 2015

Gina Raimondo
stated on May 27, 2015 in news conference:

"It’s commercial vehicles, 18 wheelers and above … that cause 90 plus percent of the damages on our highways and bridges."

Half-True

By Mark Reynolds • July 19, 2015

Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on May 18, 2015 in U.S. Senate:

"This March, for the first time in human history, the monthly average carbon dioxide in our atmosphere exceeded 400 parts per million. The range had been 170-300 parts per million for hundreds of thousands of years."

True

By Mark Reynolds • June 21, 2015

Patricia Morgan
stated on May 27, 2015 in a news conference:

The Convention Center "was sold as a building that would never cost taxpayers a dime."

Mostly True

By Mark Reynolds • June 7, 2015

Kathleen Sullivan
stated on April 29, 2015 in testimony before the House Judiciary Committee:

"The proportion of Rhode Islanders entering substance abuse treatment primarily due to marijuana use has reached its highest point in 20 years."

False

By Mark Reynolds • May 17, 2015

Lincoln Chafee
stated on May 10, 2015 in an interview on CNN:

"We had the biggest drop of the rate of unemployment (in) all but 4 states."

Mostly False

By Mark Reynolds • May 10, 2015

Rose Mary Grant
stated on March 29, 2015 in a Providence Journal commentary.:

Rhode Island "charter schools are nationally recognized as outperforming their counterparts across the country."

Mostly True

By Mark Reynolds • April 30, 2015

Mackubin Thomas Owens
stated on March 18, 2015 in a commentary in The Providence Journal:

"In the early 1980s, Sen. Edward Kennedy secretly offered to help Soviet leaders counter the Reagan administration’s position on nuclear disarmament."

Mostly False

By Mark Reynolds • April 12, 2015

Donna Nesselbush
stated on March 6, 2015 in a commentary:

"In an average grocery store, roughly 75 percent of processed foods contain genetically modified organisms, or GMOs."

Half-True

By C. Eugene Emery Jr., Mark Reynolds • March 22, 2015

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