Latest Fact-Checks By Nancy Badertscher

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Fulton County Health and Wellness
Fulton County Health and Wellness
stated on June 16, 2015 in a press release:
Currently, almost 40 percent of people with HIV are not diagnosed until they already have developed AIDS. And that can be up to 10 years after they first are infected with HIV.
Mostly True
By Nancy Badertscher • June 19, 2015
Austin Scott
Austin Scott
stated on June 5, 2015 in press conference:
Ninety-seven percent of Americans do not receive subsidies for health care under the Affordable Care Act.
True
By Nancy Badertscher • June 15, 2015
State Farm Insurance
State Farm Insurance
stated on June 5, 2015 in televised story:
Georgia residents file the most insurance claims for lightning strikes in the country.
True
By Nancy Badertscher • June 10, 2015
Nathan Deal
Nathan Deal
stated on June 3, 2015 in press conference:
"Since 2010, eight children in Georgia have died due to vehicular heatstroke."
True
By Nancy Badertscher • June 5, 2015
Institute for Women's Policy Research
Institute for Women's Policy Research
stated on May 20, 2015 in a new report:
Georgia ranks 49th for women serving in elected state and federal offices.
True
By Nancy Badertscher • May 27, 2015
Akbar Al Baker
Akbar Al Baker
stated on March 16, 2015 in an interview:
The average age of planes in the Qatar Airways fleet is about four years while Delta Air Lines flies planes that are 35 years old.
Mostly False
By Nancy Badertscher • May 19, 2015
Senate Democrats
Senate Democrats
stated on March 31, 2015 in interviews:
The state budget will include scholarship money for minority students as a concession to Senate Democrats for supporting the GOP-initiated transportation bill.  
True
By Nancy Badertscher • May 13, 2015
Everytown for Gun Safety
Everytown for Gun Safety
stated on May 6, 2015 in a press release:
"Once again, a police officer has been killed with an illegal gun from Georgia – a state that last year did the NRA’s bidding and weakened its already lax gun laws."
Mostly False
By April Hunt, Nancy Badertscher • May 12, 2015
Danny Porter
Danny Porter
stated on May 4, 2015 in an interview with AM750 and 95.5 FM News/Talk WSB radio:
"A sitting sheriff cannot be charged except by a warrant issued by a Superior Court judge."
Half-True
By April Hunt, Nancy Badertscher • May 6, 2015
City of Atlanta
City of Atlanta
stated on August 8, 2014 in press release:
Tyler Perry’s plan to turn a majority of the former Fort McPherson into a film and television studio is expected "to add over 8,000 new jobs to Atlanta."
Half-True
By Nancy Badertscher • May 1, 2015
David Perdue
David Perdue
stated on April 15, 2015 in press release:
The Castro regime ‘violated international norms’ by secretly shipping weapons to North Korea in violation of a U.N. embargo.
Mostly True
By Nancy Badertscher • April 24, 2015
Viral BuzzFeed
Viral BuzzFeed
stated on April 20, 2015 in video:
Women make only 78 percent of what men make for the same job.  
Mostly False
By Jim Tharpe, Nancy Badertscher • April 22, 2015
Charlie Bethel
Charlie Bethel
stated on April 2, 2015 in Senate chamber:
Georgia has had the nation’s busiest Court of Appeals for a decade or more.
Half-True
By Nancy Badertscher • April 20, 2015
Nathan Deal
Nathan Deal
stated on January 14, 2015 in State of State:
This year’s state budget and my spending proposal for Fiscal Year 2016 represent an infusion of more than $1 billion in additional money for K-12 education.  
Half-True
By Nancy Badertscher • April 14, 2015
Martin Smith
Martin Smith
stated on March 23, 2015 in subcommittee hearing:
By allowing brewpubs to sell beer, Georgia could become like Mexico with only a couple of manufacturers controlling all aspects of market.  
False
By Nancy Badertscher • April 2, 2015
Trebor Banstetter
Trebor Banstetter
stated on March 1, 2015 in a newspaper article:
 Georgia has one of the nation’s highest jet fuel taxes.  
Mostly True
By Nancy Badertscher • March 31, 2015
Juda Engelmayer
Juda Engelmayer
stated on March 13, 2015 in interviews:
Creflo Dollar needed a $65 million Gulfstream G650 to carry thousands of pounds of food and other supplies -- as well as the Word of God -- worldwide.  
Pants on Fire!
By Nancy Badertscher • March 23, 2015
Tyrone Brooks
Tyrone Brooks
stated on January 20, 2015 in a statement:
State lawmakers are spending taxpayer money for parking that billionaire Arthur Blank could build while paying some state employees so little they are on food stamps.  
Half-True
By Nancy Badertscher • March 23, 2015
The Associated Press
The Associated Press
stated on March 9, 2015 in article:
Under legislation that has cleared the Georgia House, some children who are "legal refugees" could obtain state scholarships to attend private schools.    
True
By Nancy Badertscher • March 13, 2015
Georgia Craft Brewers Guild
Georgia Craft Brewers Guild
stated on March 9, 2015 in a statement:
Georgia is one of only five states where breweries can’t sell you a pint of beer to drink on premise or sell you a six-pack to go.  
Mostly True
By Nancy Badertscher • March 11, 2015
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