Fact Check Posts – Page 6

Jackie Speier
stated on February 10, 2018 in a tweet:

"3 American women are murdered every day by their husband or boyfriend."

By Chris Nichols • February 19, 2018

Travis Allen
stated on February 1, 2018 in an interview on Capital Public Radio:

"Californians are overwhelmingly against this concept of the illegal sanctuary state."

By Chris Nichols • February 7, 2018

Phil Ting
stated on January 21, 2018 in a newspaper article:

"Trump’s tax reform plan was nothing more than a middle-class tax increase."

By Chris Nichols • February 5, 2018

Jerry Brown
stated on January 25, 2018 in a State of the State Address:

California’s prisons budget in 1970 "was about 3 percent of the general fund. Now, it’s 8.9 percent, about $12 billion."

By Chris Nichols • January 25, 2018

WorldNetDaily
stated on January 21, 2018 in a headline:

"California To Register Illegal Aliens To Vote – Automatically."

By Chris Nichols • January 24, 2018

Delaine Eastin
stated on January 13, 2018 in a town hall :

California is 41st in the nation in per pupil K-12 spending, but "No. 1 in per prisoner" spending.

By Chris Nichols • January 17, 2018

Travis Allen
stated on January 2, 2018 in interview on Fox News:

"Seventy four percent of Californians are absolutely against sanctuary state" policies.

By Chris Nichols • January 9, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on December 28, 2017 in a New York Times interview:

Said Dianne Feinstein said "there is no collusion" between the Trump campaign and Russia.

By Chris Nichols • January 2, 2018

USA In Front
stated on December 11, 2017 in a headline:

BREAKING: Illegal Muslim From Iran Arrested For Starting California Wildfire

By Chris Nichols • December 20, 2017

Travis Allen
stated on June 15, 2017 in a Repeal the Gas Tax campaign article:

"This new gas tax does not increase (road) capacity anywhere in the state. It will build no new lanes of freeways. If Californians didn’t like their traffic before, they’re going to like it even less when they’re stuck in the exact same traffic and paying more for their gas."

By Chris Nichols • December 15, 2017

Nancy Pelosi
stated on November 27, 2017 in a tweet from her team's political account:

The GOP tax plan "Sabotages the health care of 13 MILLION Americans."

By Chris Nichols • November 29, 2017

John Cox
stated on October 21, 2017 in a Capital Public Radio interview:

Californians pay "the highest electricity bills" in the nation.

By Chris Nichols • November 16, 2017

Delaine Eastin
stated on October 16, 2017 in an interview on Capital Public Radio:

Since 1965, California has built "six (college) campuses but 23 prisons."

By Chris Nichols • November 9, 2017

John Cox
stated on October 19, 2017 in a San Francisco Chronicle op-ed.:

"It costs nearly five times as much in California to build and maintain a mile of road as it does in the rest of the nation."

By Chris Nichols • November 1, 2017

Delaine Eastin
stated on October 11, 2017 in an op-ed:

"Ninety percent of people born in the 1940s ended up doing better financially than their parents. But those born in the 1980s, the much-maligned Millennials, have only a 50-50 chance of doing better (financially) than their parents, despite being the best-educated generation in our history."

By Chris Nichols • October 27, 2017

Breitbart
stated on October 17, 2017 in a news article:

An undocumented immigrant "was arrested on suspicion of arson in (the) Wine Country fires that have killed at least 40 residents."

By Chris Nichols • October 20, 2017

Antonio Villaraigosa
stated on July 31, 2017 in an interview on MSNBC:

"In the eight years that I was mayor, (there was a) nearly 50 percent drop in violent crime, gang crime — crime went down because we grew our police department, we focused on constitutional community policing, we did some of the most innovative prevention, intervention, job re-entry programs in the nation."

By Chris Nichols • October 18, 2017

Hillary Clinton
stated on October 9, 2017 in a speech at the University of California at Davis:

"There have been more than 270 mass shootings in the United States in the last year alone. That’s where four or more are killed."

By Chris Nichols • October 10, 2017

Antonio Villaraigosa
stated on September 20, 2017 in a newspaper article:

California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom was "for (high-speed rail), before he’s against it, and then he’s for it again."

By Chris Nichols • September 29, 2017

Nancy Pelosi
stated on September 18, 2017 in a speech at Sacramento State University:

"Seventy-six percent of the American people support us passing the DREAM Act … with citizenship and legalization as part of it all. … More than 60 percent of Republicans support that."

By Chris Nichols • September 19, 2017

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