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Clay Wirestone

PolitiFact reporter

Clay Wirestone is a reporter and editor at the Concord Monitor.

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Kelly Ayotte
stated on May 18, 2016 a press release

Says Maggie Hassan was "out of state on 30 days over the last three months."

Mostly True

By Clay Wirestone • May 27, 2016

Maggie Hassan
stated on April 12, 2016 a press release

"Kelly Ayotte has voted four times against the federal Paycheck Fairness Act."

Mostly True

By Clay Wirestone • April 29, 2016

Jack Falanagan
stated on March 10, 2016 a speech

Says New Hampshire’s second congressional district includes two counties where "almost 5 percent if not more" of residents are enrolled in the state’s expanded Medicaid program.

True

By Clay Wirestone • April 15, 2016

Jennifer Horn
stated on March 16, 2016 a press release

"For more than 80 years, there has not been a nomination and confirmation of a Supreme Court Justice in a presidential election year. This is simply not the time to break with decades of bipartisan practice."

Half-True

By Clay Wirestone • March 18, 2016

New Hampshire Republican Party
stated on February 16, 2016 an online petition

"Given the results of the primary, the vote of one New Hampshire superdelegate is equal to the votes of about 10,000 grassroots activists."

Mostly True

By Clay Wirestone • March 18, 2016

New Hampshire Democratic Party
stated on February 16, 2016 a press release

Blocking a U.S. Supreme Court nomination during the remaining months of President Obama’s term "would leave the nation’s highest court with an unprecedented year-long vacancy."

Mostly False

By Clay Wirestone • February 19, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on February 2, 2016 a campaign event in Keene, N.H.

Says Goldman Sachs CEO said Congress would "have to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid and give huge tax breaks to the wealthy and the large corporations."

Half-True

By Clay Wirestone • February 5, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on February 4, 2016 a Democratic presidential debate in Durham, N.H.

Says a Sanders campaign ad "never said ... a newspaper endorsed us that did not."

False

By Clay Wirestone, Louis Jacobson • February 5, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on February 3, 2016 a campaign ad

Says he was endorsed by the Valley News newspaper.

False

By Clay Wirestone • February 4, 2016

Jeb Bush
stated on January 21, 2016 an editorial board interview with the Concord Monitor

"90 percent of all pain medications are prescribed in the United States."

Mostly True

By Clay Wirestone • February 4, 2016

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