Greg Abbott strikes out on his ethics campaign promises
The baseball saying is wait til next year. Greg Abbott has said wait til 2017 for lawmakers to revisit his ethics campaign promises.
Now we've marked those Abbott promises as BROKEN.
The baseball saying is wait til next year. Greg Abbott has said wait til 2017 for lawmakers to revisit his ethics campaign promises.
Now we've marked those Abbott promises as BROKEN.
Here's a selection of recent reader emails about such topics as voting rights, income inequality and the metric system.
• Were the founding fathers 'ordinary people'?
As Independence Day approaches, PolitiFact Wisconsin examines a statement often made by Gov. Scott Walker on the campaign trail that the founders were "ordinary people."
• Jim Webb on the Truth-O-Meter
• Ted Cruz critiques PolitiFact, gets things wrong
• Is health insurance through work $1,800 less because of the Affordable Care Act?
We examine a statement, often made by Gov. Scott Walker on the campaign trail, that the founders were "ordinary people."
PolitiFact and PunditFact have published more than 400 fact-checks dealing with immigration since 2007. Here are five myths about the hot-topic issue.
The nation's founding fathers were just ordinary people, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker sometimes says.
PolitiFact Wisconsin wondered about that.
Meantime, we hope you enjoy Independence Day.
Claims surrounding Gov. Scott Walker, a top GOP presidential contender, once again dominated the High Five for June.
We may be making Ted Cruz sick.
That seems to be what the Texas senator and Republican presidential candidate thinks about PolitiFact and our fact checks, according to his just-published book, "A Time for Truth."
Cruz calls PolitiFact a "new, particularly noxious species of yellow journalism that is beginning to infect what passes for modern political discourse." And there’s more.
See Cruz’s full Truth-O-Meter report card here. COMMENT on our Facebook page.
We dig into the evidence behind this statement from President Barack Obama: "If your family gets insurance through your job -- so you're not using the Affordable Care Act -- you're still paying about $1,800 less per year on average than you would be if we hadn't done anything."
• Ted Cruz critiques PolitiFact, gets things wrong
The tweet quoted Eric Bolling, but Bolling's own network butchered his point. Read how.
Donald Trump--speaking before the U.S. Supreme Court acted on a Texas challenge to abortion clinic restrictions put in motion by lawmakers in 2013--said polls show U.S. support for a woman's right to choose an abortion "is going down a little bit."
PolitiFact in Washington, D.C. found otherwise.
See our separate look into the number of Texas abortion clinics here.
We look back at our fact-checks on gay and lesbian issues, as well as what candidates had to say about the recent court ruling.