Latest Fact-Checks By Dan Clark

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Anthony Brindisi
Anthony Brindisi
stated on May 26, 2017 in a press release:
"State economic development dollars were used to support a project where goods were manufactured in China."
False
By Dan Clark • June 2, 2017
Chris Collins
Chris Collins
stated on April 28, 2017 in an interview with Bloomberg:
Farmers "are now dumping milk into the ditches" because of a trade dispute with Canada
False
By Dan Clark • May 18, 2017
Thomas Croci
Thomas Croci
stated on April 27, 2017 in a press release:
In some cases, a sex offender "who appears on the New York State Sex Offender Registry" would be able to drive for Uber or Lyft when ride-hailing is allowed upstate in July
True
By Dan Clark • May 8, 2017
Club for Growth
Club for Growth
stated on April 15, 2017 in an ad aired on radio and television:
The conservative proposal to replace the Affordable Care Act "lowers premiums by giving New York the freedom to end Obamacare’s costly and ridiculous rules."
Mostly False
By Dan Clark • April 22, 2017
Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on March 27, 2017 in an interview in the Press-Republican newspaper in Plattsburgh:
The Keystone XL pipeline "doesn’t even have any oil for America."
Mostly False
By Dan Clark • April 16, 2017
Michael Kearns
Michael Kearns
stated on April 11, 2017 in a press conference:
There were "76 deaths in three years" at the Buffalo Psychiatric Center
Pants on Fire!
By Dan Clark • April 12, 2017
Brian Higgins
Brian Higgins
stated on March 30, 2017 in a memo to the Train Station Site Selection Committee and press release on his website:
Two options for a new train station site in Buffalo are at Canalside
Mostly False
By Dan Clark • April 9, 2017
Patrick Gallivan
Patrick Gallivan
stated on March 27, 2017 in a press conference:
Of "30,000 individuals arrested a year for crimes that are 16 or 17, over 95 percent of them do not result in a criminal conviction. Only 1.5 percent of them ultimately go to state prison."
Mostly True
By Dan Clark • April 3, 2017
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on March 29, 2017 in posts since 2013, flagged by Facebook to fact-check:
"A New York man has allegedly infected 240 people with the HIV virus by sleeping with men and women."
Pants on Fire!
By Dan Clark • April 2, 2017
Chris Collins
Chris Collins
stated on March 16, 2017 in a CNN town hall:
In New York state, "you cannot charge an older person even one dollar more than a younger person" for health insurance.
True
By Dan Clark • March 31, 2017
Marc Butler
Marc Butler
stated on March 1, 2017 in a press conference to repeal the SAFE Act:
"We have counties where there have been one arrest under the SAFE Act. It indicates there's not a whole lot of interest in enforcing this in our upstate counties."
Half-True
By Dan Clark • March 24, 2017
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on February 23, 2017 in and in several other statements over the past two months.:
The proposed state budget contains "an additional tax cut for the middle class."
Mostly False
By Dan Clark • March 17, 2017
Bill de Blasio
Bill de Blasio
stated on February 13, 2017 in his 2017 State of the City address:
"We raised the minimum wage to $15 first in city government. Now, working together with people in Albany, it's the law of the state."
Half-True
By Dan Clark • March 8, 2017
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on March 1, 2017 in remarks at a student rally for the Orthodox Union:
"I’ve given the religious schools in my budget more money than ever before in history."
True
By Dan Clark • March 6, 2017
Sean Ryan
Sean Ryan
stated on March 1, 2017 in a press conference:
"Just last year, over 5,000 refugees came to New York state, and 94 percent settled outside of New York City."
True
By Dan Clark • March 4, 2017
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on February 7, 2017 in remarks at a rally at Buffalo State College:
New York state subsidizes private colleges "probably more than any other state except maybe one."
True
By Dan Clark • February 16, 2017
Martin Golden
Martin Golden
stated on January 30, 2017 in a press conference announcing the Community Heroes Protection Act:
"Just last year, alone, 710 police officers" were assaulted in New York state.
Mostly True
By Dan Clark • February 11, 2017
Byron Brown
Byron Brown
stated on January 30, 2017 in a state budget hearing on local governments:
Graduation rates in Buffalo’s school district, which were "around 48 percent are now up to 64 percent" since Say Yes Buffalo launched.
True
By Dan Clark • February 10, 2017
Deborah Glick
Deborah Glick
stated on January 17, 2017 in a debate in the Assembly chamber:
"New York state law says you are alive when you begin to breathe."
Mostly True
By Dan Clark • January 30, 2017
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on January 17, 2017 in his executive budget presentation:
"Thirty years ago we were the most college-educated country on the globe. Today we are No. 11."
Half-True
By Dan Clark • January 27, 2017
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