Fact Check Posts – Page 8

Gina Raimondo
stated on October 7, 2014 in in television commercial:

"I fought 38 Studios from the beginning."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 30, 2014

Ernest Almonte
stated on October 19, 2014 in a television commercial:

Seth Magaziner "plans to spend billions more of your money."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 29, 2014

Allan Fung
stated on October 21, 2014 in a Providence Journal-WPRI-12 debate:

"Governor Carcieri has not been campaigning with me."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 24, 2014

Ernest Almonte
stated on October 5, 2014 in an interview on WLNE's "On the Record":

"I was speaking out on pension reform almost 17 years ago."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 20, 2014

Peter Kilmartin
stated on October 2, 2014 in an interview on Rhode Island Public Radio:

"In the past three years, we have prosecuted or brought more cases on access to public records than in the previous 12 years combined."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 18, 2014

American LeadHERship PAC
stated on October 8, 2014 in a TV commercial:

"As mayor, [Allan Fung] raised taxes three times."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 14, 2014

Allan Fung
stated on September 29, 2014 in a TV commercial:

In the 38 Studios deal, "Wall Street investors took a risk, and went bust."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 12, 2014

Jorge Elorza
stated on September 30, 2014 in a Providence Journal-WPRI debate:

"We have a retiree that is collecting a $17,000 paycheck a month . . . tax free."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 5, 2014

Vincent "Buddy" Cianci
stated on September 21, 2014 in an interview on WPRI-TV's "Newsmakers.":

"In 2001 and '02 . . . we had the pension system funded at (the) 100% level in that year, and we did for two years at that point."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • September 28, 2014

Rhue Reis
stated on September 7, 2014 in a TV debate:

"You have 200,000 to 400,000 military veterans on the street in this country on any given day."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • September 16, 2014

Angel Taveras
stated on August 19, 2014 in a commercial:

Says Gina Raimondo's "venture capital firm secured a secret no-bid contract funded by taxpayers."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • September 14, 2014

Vincent "Buddy" Cianci
stated on September 10, 2014 in a radio interview:

Jorge Elorza "wants to impose a municipal income tax."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr., Karen Lee Ziner • September 12, 2014

Gina Raimondo
stated on August 26, 2014 in a debate:

"The pension fund in the city of Providence is only 30 percent funded, about the same level as when he [Taveras] took office."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 31, 2014

American LeadHERship PAC
stated on August 27, 2014 in a campaign mailing:

"There have been at least 100 shootings each year [Angel Taveras] has been mayor" of Providence.

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 29, 2014

John Carlevale
stated on August 10, 2014 in an interview on WPRI's "Newsmakers" program:

"Over 60 percent of the provisional ballots cast in [the 2012] election were disqualified because those folks were not duly registered as voters."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 26, 2014

Allan Fung
stated on August 18, 2014 in a news release:

"Nazi imagery [was used] by the Block for Governor campaign to describe supporters of Allan Fung for Governor."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 24, 2014

Mark S. Zaccaria
stated on August 3, 2014 in an interview on "10 News Conference.":

Sen. Jack Reed "cast the deciding vote in the Senate for the Affordable Care Act."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 17, 2014

Cormick Lynch
stated on August 3, 2014 in a debate on WPRI's Newsmakers:

The cost of "college education has gone up 1,200 percent since 1978."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 10, 2014

Seth Magaziner
stated on July 13, 2014 in a debate on WPRI-TV:

Rhode Island's state pension system "underperformed the median three out of the four years that Mr. [Frank] Caprio was in office."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 3, 2014

Angel Taveras
stated on July 12, 2014 in an interview with The Providence Journal:

"If you look at what we’ve done over the last several years, the crime rate has actually gone down in [Providence] and . . . the number of shootings has been going down."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 24, 2014

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