Latest Fact-Checks By Nancy Madsen

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Jim Moran
Jim Moran
stated on November 22, 2014 in a Facebook post.:
Graduation rates of players at major football colleges "are still twenty points below their male campus peers and worsened in the past three years."
Half-True
By Nancy Madsen • December 30, 2014
Jim Moran
Jim Moran
stated on November 22, 2014 in a Facebook post:
Only 20 colleges and universities "have athletic departments with revenue exceeding expenses."
True
By Nancy Madsen • December 22, 2014
Jim Moran
Jim Moran
stated on November 22, 2014 in a Facebook post:
"We have a system now where in 40 states, the highest-paid public employee is the state university’s head football or basketball coach."
Mostly True
By Nancy Madsen • December 22, 2014
Susan Stimpson
Susan Stimpson
stated on December 2, 2014 in a news release.:
"Bill Howell has been the consistent force behind every major tax increase in Virginia in the last decade."
Mostly True
By Nancy Madsen • December 15, 2014
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on November 20, 2014 in a news release.:
"Every president since Eisenhower has taken executive action to address immigration issues."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson, Nancy Madsen • November 30, 2014
David Hallock
David Hallock
stated on November 12, 2014 in a forum:
In rural Virginia, "Sen. Warner ran 8-10 points ahead of a traditional Democrat -- ahead of Senator Kaine, ahead of Governor McAuliffe."
False
By Nancy Madsen, Warren Fiske • November 21, 2014
Jack Trammell
Jack Trammell
stated on October 20, 2014 in a TV ad.:
Dave Brat said "the best way to fix Social Security would be to give seniors back what they paid in and no more."
Mostly False
By Nancy Madsen • November 2, 2014
Dave Brat
Dave Brat
stated on October 28, 2014 in a debate:
"In K-12 education, our kids are scoring at the bottom of science and mathematics right now in the industrialized world -- at the bottom."
False
By Nancy Madsen • November 2, 2014
Mark Warner
Mark Warner
stated on October 20, 2014 in a TV ad.:
Ed Gillespie’s "firm even lobbied for five foreign governments, including a dictator now awaiting trial for war crimes."
Half-True
By Nancy Madsen • October 24, 2014
Mark Warner
Mark Warner
stated on September 30, 2014 in a TV ad.:
Says PolitiFact has ruled that Ed Gillespie’s ads are false and misleading.
Half-True
By Nancy Madsen • October 13, 2014
National Rifle Association
National Rifle Association
stated on September 8, 2014 in a mailer.:
Says Mark Warner "has supported restrictions on veterans’ second amendment rights."
Mostly True
By Nancy Madsen • October 6, 2014
Democratic Party of Virginia
Democratic Party of Virginia
stated on September 16, 2014 in a news release.:
"Hospitals have already begun layoffs, a direct result of Republican inaction" on Medicaid expansion.
Half-True
By Nancy Madsen • October 6, 2014
Mark Warner
Mark Warner
stated on September 29, 2014 in :
On opposing legislation that would take away existing health care plans.
Half Flip
By Nancy Madsen, Warren Fiske • September 29, 2014
Mark Obenshain
Mark Obenshain
stated on August 13, 2014 in a newsletter.:
Virginia Democrats recently enforced voter ID rules that were "considerably more stringent than those contained in the state law they denounce."
Half-True
By Nancy Madsen • September 9, 2014
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on August 20, 2014 in a tweet.:
Pinnacle Overlook in Southwest Virginia is "closer to eight other state capitals than to Richmond."  
Mostly True
By Nancy Madsen, Sean Gorman • September 1, 2014
Mark Warner
Mark Warner
stated on July 26, 2014 in :
On offshore drilling for energy
No Flip
By Nancy Madsen • August 18, 2014
Mike Hymes
Mike Hymes
stated on July 16, 2014 in a TV ad:
Del. Ben Chafin "took money away" from Southwest Virginia schools while voting to build a "politician's palace."
False
By Nancy Madsen • August 11, 2014
George Barker
George Barker
stated on July 26, 2014 in statement:
Uncompensated care has "gone down by 30 percent just in the first few months" of Medicaid expansion in the states that adopted it.
True
By Nancy Madsen • August 10, 2014
Ed Gillespie
Ed Gillespie
stated on July 26, 2014 in a debate.:
"This administration is slashing the Navy to pay for more Obamacare."
Pants on Fire!
By Nancy Madsen • August 3, 2014
Ed Gillespie
Ed Gillespie
stated on June 13, 2014 in interviews:
On immigration reform
No Flip
By Nancy Madsen • July 21, 2014
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