Latest Fact-Checks By Nancy Badertscher

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Doug Collins
Doug Collins
stated on March 3, 2015 in in a newspaper article:
President Obama said "22 times" he could not authorize immigration reform by executive order.  
Mostly True
By Nancy Badertscher • March 6, 2015
Tom Graves
Tom Graves
stated on February 24, 2015 in a press release:
President Barack Obama's veto of the Keystone XL pipeline killed "42,000 jobs."
Half-True
By Nancy Badertscher • March 2, 2015
The Associated Press
The Associated Press
stated on February 21, 2015 in in a newspaper article:
Georgia’s share of money from the Federal Highway Trust Fund declined 12 percent between 2008 and 2013.
True
By Nancy Badertscher • February 25, 2015
Trebor Banstetter
Trebor Banstetter
stated on February 2, 2015 in in a statement:
A bill to eliminate Delta Air Lines’ jet fuel tax breaks "violates federal law and puts the state at risk of losing critical funding from the Federal Aviation Administration."
True
By Nancy Badertscher • February 23, 2015
Nathan Deal
Nathan Deal
stated on February 12, 2015 in an interview:
Ninety-six percent of failing schools are spending above $8,400, the average annual per student expenditure, and 26 percent spend considerably more than that.  
Half-True
By Nancy Badertscher • February 17, 2015
Alan Essig
Alan Essig
stated on January 22, 2015 in blog post:
The governor’s budget proposal reduces the state austerity cut to education to under $500 million for 2016.
True
By Nancy Badertscher • February 6, 2015
Georgia Department of Transportation
Georgia Department of Transportation
stated on January 24, 2015 in overhead sign on I-85 South:
"GEORGIA ROADWAY FATALITIES THIS YEAR: 59 PLEASE DRIVE SAFELY"  
True
By Nancy Badertscher • February 2, 2015
Nathan Deal
Nathan Deal
stated on January 14, 2015 in State of the State address:
Since Gov. Nathan Deal office in 2011, the state’s rainy day fund has grown by 643 percent.
True
By Nancy Badertscher • January 27, 2015
GSU Alumni Association
GSU Alumni Association
stated on January 13, 2015 in mass email:
The merger of Georgia State University and Georgia Perimeter College will make GSU one of the largest universities in the nation, with more than 54,000 students.
True
By Nancy Badertscher • January 23, 2015
Claire Suggs
Claire Suggs
stated on January 9, 2015 in at Media Symposium:
The state covered a smaller percentage of the cost of K-12 education in 2013 than it did in 2002.
Mostly True
By Nancy Badertscher • January 20, 2015
Mark Drewniak
Mark Drewniak
stated on January 6, 2015 in in a press interview:
Mercedes said high taxes and the cost of doing business in New Jersey worked to Georgia’s advantage in landing the company's USA corporate headquarters.  
True
By April Hunt, Nancy Badertscher • January 14, 2015
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on January 12, 2015 in a Facebook post:
"In 1913, it was legal to mail children."
Mostly False
By Nancy Badertscher • January 13, 2015
Hank Huckaby
Hank Huckaby
stated on December 16, 2014 in civic club speech:
Only 42 percent of young Georgians have a college certificate or degree, but soon 60 percent of jobs will require some college credential.
True
By Nancy Badertscher • January 7, 2015
L.C.
L.C. "Buster" Evans
stated on November 12, 2014 in in a press release:
"It has been many years, if ever, since an inmate has completed his or her high school diploma while incarcerated in a state correctional facility for adults."
Mostly True
By Nancy Badertscher • December 16, 2014
Mike Dudgeon
Mike Dudgeon
stated on November 18, 2014 in newspaper article:
Thirty-eight states -- Georgia not included -- have appointed, rather than elected, state school superintendents.
True
By Nancy Badertscher • December 6, 2014
Edward Lindsey
Edward Lindsey
stated on November 10, 2014 in an Atlanta Journal-Constitution story:
Georgia has some of the highest gas taxes in the Southeast but one of the lowest taxes on gasoline for transportation in the nation.
Mostly True
By April Hunt, Nancy Badertscher • November 18, 2014
Johnny Isakson
Johnny Isakson
stated on November 21, 2014 in press release:
Georgia has the country’s second highest number of fraudulent tax refund claims.  
Half-True
By April Hunt, Nancy Badertscher • November 14, 2014
Sloan Roach
Sloan Roach
stated on November 6, 2014 in a television interview:
Georgia has led the nation in student fatalities caused by motorists illegally passing stopped school buses.
True
By April Hunt, Nancy Badertscher • November 11, 2014
Zell Miller
Zell Miller
stated on October 27, 2014 in television ad:
Nathan Deal saved the HOPE scholarship program.
Mostly True
By April Hunt, Nancy Badertscher • October 31, 2014
Jason Carter
Jason Carter
stated on October 7, 2014 in forum:
On an income cap for recipients of the popular HOPE scholarship
Full Flop
By Nancy Badertscher • October 28, 2014
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