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Sam Adams

Sam Adams

Sam Adams is the mayor of Portland. Before that he was a city commissioner and , for 11 years, was chief of staff to then-Mayor Vera Katz.

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Latest Fact-Checks By Sam Adams

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Sam Adams
Sam Adams
stated on December 20, 2012 a term review document.
Says "last year the graduation rate for our combined six-district footprint jumped 5.5 percent."
Half-True
By Ian K. Kullgren • January 4, 2013
Sam Adams
Sam Adams
stated on November 13, 2012 a budget meeting
Says, "In the last four years we’ve cut $36 million in ongoing revenue."
False
By Janie Har • December 15, 2012
Sam Adams
Sam Adams
stated on November 9, 2012 a proposed ordinance.
Says the initial Portland plastic bag ban represented "only a modest share of total single-use checkout bag use."
Mostly False
By Ian K. Kullgren • November 20, 2012
Sam Adams
Sam Adams
stated on September 25, 2012 a tweet.
Says "Portland has higher standards than feds on allowed police use of force."
True
By Ian K. Kullgren • October 5, 2012
Sam Adams
Sam Adams
stated on June 26, 2012 in a press statement
Says "TriMet's own analysis shows that YouthPass does not actually add to the transit agency's costs."
Mostly True
By Janie Har • June 27, 2012
Sam Adams
Sam Adams
stated on June 7, 2012 in a tweet.
Says "only 18 percent of Portland elementary schools have art instruction compared to 83 percent nationally."
True
By Ian K. Kullgren • June 11, 2012
Sam Adams
Sam Adams
stated on February 28, 2012 a commentary article.
Says "traffic fatalities have fallen dramatically, even as population has risen. You are more likely to stay alive biking, walking and driving around Portland than you were before" he took over the Portland Bureau of Transportation.
Half-True
By Ian K. Kullgren • March 9, 2012
Sam Adams
Sam Adams
stated on August 12, 2011 in a speech
Says there's $4 billion in private investment along the streetcar. 
Mostly False
By Janie Har • October 22, 2011
Sam Adams
Sam Adams
stated on October 13, 2011 in a press conference
Says "There are now Occupy Wall Street camps in hundreds of cities across the United States."
Mostly False
By Janie Har • October 15, 2011
Sam Adams
Sam Adams
stated on August 10, 2011 an article on his website
Says "of the 2,000 Portland households in the year-long (composting) pilot, 87 percent of participants reported being satisfied with the overall system."
Half-True
By Ian K. Kullgren • August 14, 2011
Sam Adams
Sam Adams
stated on May 18, 2011 a City Council meeting
The city’s 30 percent set aside for affordable housing in urban renewal areas is calculated citywide -- not district by district
False
By Ian K. Kullgren • June 2, 2011
Sam Adams
Sam Adams
stated on February 22, 2011 a video online
Says "for the equivalent cost of a single mile of freeway, we have a bike infrastructure."
Mostly True
By Ian K. Kullgren • March 19, 2011
Sam Adams
Sam Adams
stated on February 8, 2011 his blog
Says city of Portland has a one-time $22 million surplus
Half-True
By Ian K. Kullgren • March 7, 2011
Sam Adams
Sam Adams
stated on December 1, 2010 a city council meeting
Four out of 10 homicides are committed by gun in this city.
True
By Janie Har • December 23, 2010
Sam Adams
Sam Adams
stated on September 7, 2010 John Canzano's radio show
Says "$30 million gap" in stadium funding forced the Portland Beavers to leave.
Half-True
By Brad Schmidt • September 29, 2010
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Latest Fact-Checks About Sam Adams

Don McIntire
Don McIntire
stated on June 26, 2012 a radio show
"We’re spending $12,000 bucks a kid a year in the school system."
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By Janie Har • July 3, 2012
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