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Texas Association of School Boards
Texas Association of School Boards
stated on April 24, 2013 in an advertisement.:
"Texas ranks 49th in per-pupil funding among the states."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • April 24, 2013
Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick
stated on April 9, 2013 in a state Senate committee hearing April 9, 2013:
Says 315,000 mostly minority Texas students are enrolled in failing schools.
Mostly True
By Sue Owen • April 24, 2013
Marcia Fudge
Marcia Fudge
stated on April 9, 2013 in a Facebook posting:
"Women in Ohio earn on average 77 cents for every dollar earned by a man."
Mostly True
By Sabrina Eaton • April 24, 2013
Randi Weingarten
Randi Weingarten
stated on April 2, 2013 in a news release:
"Schools in some states are spending up to 100 days a year doing test-prep or actual testing."
Mostly False
By Janel Davis • April 24, 2013
Christopher L. Smith
Christopher L. Smith
stated on April 21, 2013 in a column in the South Florida Sun Sentinel:
The election bill "allows persons to correct an absentee ballot if they did not sign it and requires an extra two hours a day for early voting. Everything else in this bill is discretionary."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • April 23, 2013
Louie Gohmert
Louie Gohmert
stated on April 17, 2013 in an interview on C-SPAN.:
Says al Qaeda has camps with the drug cartels in Mexico.
False
By W. Gardner Selby • April 23, 2013
Peter King
Peter King
stated on April 22, 2013 in an interview with MSNBC:
The Boston Marathon bombing "is the fifth case" in which U.S. government officials examined individuals potentially involved in terrorism "and felt they were no threat and they went on to carry out terrorist murders."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 23, 2013
Vincent Fort
Vincent Fort
stated on March 26, 2013 in a speech:
About 3 percent of Gov. Nathan Deal’s appointments have been African-American.
Half-True
By Eric Stirgus • April 23, 2013
Linda Finn
Linda Finn
stated on April 12, 2013 in a TV interview:
Right now, if Rhode Island police come across a young person with a gun, "they really don't legally have the right to take it away from them."
Half-True
By Michael McKinney • April 23, 2013
Carlos Gimenez
Carlos Gimenez
stated on April 10, 2013 in a county commission meeting:
The Miami Dolphins "are the only NFL team in the entire nation that pays property taxes."
False
By Amy Sherman • April 22, 2013
Dianne Feinstein
Dianne Feinstein
stated on April 17, 2013 in a speech on the Senate floor:
"No poll done this year ... shows less than a majority to reinstate a federal ban on assault weapons."
Mostly True
By Becky Bowers • April 22, 2013
Georgia Department of Transportation
Georgia Department of Transportation
stated on April 11, 2013 in a press release:
"Demand for public transportation is reaching record levels in Wisconsin."
False
By Dave Umhoefer • April 22, 2013
Dwight Jones
Dwight Jones
stated on March 12, 2013 in a statement.:
Says under his utility rate plan, "An estimated 50 percent of our residential households will see a decrease in their water and wastewater bills."
Mostly True
By Sean Gorman • April 22, 2013
Ohio Public Defender's Office
Ohio Public Defender's Office
stated on April 12, 2013 in a newspaper interview:
"The sex-offender registry has been around for a long time, and the research that's out there says that it has no positive impact on the public safety."
Mostly True
By Tom Feran • April 22, 2013
John Barrow
John Barrow
stated on April 5, 2013 in a letter:
Congress has spent 66 of the first 100 days of this term in recess.
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • April 22, 2013
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on April 11, 2013 in a speech:
Says Abraham Lincoln supported an agreement that allowed slavery in New Mexico "and a law to return runaway slaves to their owners."
Half-True
April 21, 2013
Michael Chippendale
Michael Chippendale
stated on April 12, 2013 in a debate on WPRI's "Newsmakers program":
If an individual is determined "to commit suicide, the availability of a gun is not a factor" because they will find a way.
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 21, 2013
Clean Water Portland
Clean Water Portland
stated on April 8, 2013 in a campaign flier:
Says "If you compare the Portland Metro area to the CDC’s statewide cavity rates ... the Portland Metro area would actually rank as having the 15th lowest cavity rate in the U.S."
False
By Janie Har • April 20, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 17, 2013 in remarks in the White House Rose Garden:
A "wide majority of NRA households ... supported this legislation" on gun background checks.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 19, 2013
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on April 17, 2013 in blog posts on the Internet:
Proposed immigration legislation would give new immigrants "a taxpayer-funded cellular phone."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 19, 2013
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