Latest Fact-Checks By D.L. Davis

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Kleefisch off the mark with claim linking worker shortage and medical assistance enrollments

August 2, 2022

"There is absolutely no reason why Wisconsin should be facing a worker shortage to the level we are when there are 123,000 more able-bodied childless…

Trump back on hot seat with claim linking ballot box ruling to 2020 election

July 14, 2022

The Wisconsin Supreme Court decision declaring ballot drop boxes illegal "includes the 2020 Presidential Election."

Senior citizens

Democrats still exaggerating GOP backing of Scott’s plan on Social Security, Medicare, taxes

June 15, 2022

Republican politicians are pushing a plan "that could raise taxes on almost one in three Wisconsinites and sunset Social Security and Medicare in five years."

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GOP gubernatorial candidate Michels changes course on Wisconsin Elections Commission

June 8, 2022

On disbanding the Wisconsin Elections Commission

Madison office arson

Some Democrats did and some did not weigh in on Madison pro-life office arson

May 31, 2022

In the immediate wake of a fire and vandalism at the Madison headquarters of an anti-abortion group, Democrats had not condemned “activists who are engaging…

Kenosha police Blake protests

Democrat Evers is not ‘a big proponent’ of defunding police, as GOP challenger Kleefisch claims

May 20, 2022

Says Gov. Tony Evers is “a big proponent of this defund the police movement.”

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Yes, Democrats do need ‘more than a majority … to codify Roe vs. Wade’

May 11, 2022

Because of U.S. Senate rules, Democrats need "more than a majority ... to codify Roe vs. Wade."

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State Crime Lab doing less testing and generally taking longer than under previous AG

May 10, 2022

The state crime lab under Attorney General Josh Kaul "is testing significantly less items than former AG Brad Schimel and is still taking longer to…

Marijuana grow

Yes, it’s true cannabis reform supported in Wisconsin, including by Republicans

April 29, 2022

Cannabis reform "is supported by the majority of the residents of our state, including a majority of Republicans."

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Yes, gas tax hike plan would have added at least a dime per gallon at the pump

April 19, 2022

If Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers "had passed his (gas) tax increases ... fuel prices would be at least a dime higher.

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Baldwin pins blame for high insulin prices on big drug corporations, but there are other factors

April 8, 2022

"The price of insulin has been jacked up by Big Drug Corporations.”

Gas prices after Ukraine

Ad claiming Evers tried to ‘make us pay even more at the pump’ is running on half tank

April 1, 2022

Says Gov. Tony Evers "tried to make us pay even more at the pump by hiking the gas tax."

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