PolitiFact’s Top 5 for May 2015
Fact-checks of John Boehner, Jeb Bush, Mike Huckabee and Elizabeth Warren made the list.
• PolitiFact Rhode Island: Lincoln Chafee to run for president
Fact-checks of John Boehner, Jeb Bush, Mike Huckabee and Elizabeth Warren made the list.
• PolitiFact Rhode Island: Lincoln Chafee to run for president
MSNBC host Al Sharpton accused Texas Republicans of trying to slap a "scarlet letter" on people who use private health insurance under Obamacare.
So Lincoln Chafee — Rhode Island’s Republican-independent-Democrat — is running for President.
The former governor of the smallest — and at times quirkiest — state has a PolitiFact record that is as mixed as his political lineage. During the four years that the former Republican U.S. senator served as first the independent and then the Democratic governor of Rhode Island, only once did PolitiFact judge one of his statements Half True.
More often, the Truth-O-Meter swung back and forth from True to False as Chafee battled a stagnant economy and a hostile General Assembly.
Rick Perry, the former Texas governor expected to announce for president, has hammered the federal government for falling short of stopping illegal border crossings.
Meantime, Perry has misstated quite a bit about conditions on the Texas-Mexico border.
Just as the claims we’ve rated False or Pants On Fire point out when politicians got it wrong or played it fast and loose with the facts, the True-rated fact checks highlight when they did their homework and were right.
That was the aim five years and more than 1,000 fact checks ago when The Atlanta Journal-Constitution launched PolitiFact Georgia, a unique journalistic attempt to parse political truth from political fiction. Summaries of a few of our True fact checks through the years are below.
To comment on our rulings or suggest one of your own, go to our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/politifact.georgia). You can also follow us on Twitter through our Twitter handle @politifactga.
McConnell has suggested that Patriot Act opponents are confusing people on whether calls are being monitored.
Also: PolitiFact Rhode Island reviews Lincoln Chafee's Truth-O-Meter record.
Count on Rick Perry, expected to announce his candidacy for president on Thursday, to mention job gains in Texas on his watch.
Here's our primer on employment changes in Perry's 14-year tenure as governor.
PolitiFact Georgia continues celebrating its fifth anniversary today by showcasing some head-turning claims we’ve fact-checked over the years from politicians, newsmakers and social media.
Some of the hard-to-believe claims proved to be true, and those easy to accept were sometimes shown to be rather outlandish. But all of them provided interesting fodder for our fact-checkers. Summaries of a few of our favorites are below.
To comment on our rulings or suggest one of your own, go to our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/politifact.georgia). You can also follow us on Twitter through our Twitter handle @politifactga.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., is joining the ever-growing field of 2016 Republican presidential contenders. Here's a look back at his Truth-O-Meter record so far.
• Orlando preview: Fact-checking GOP presidential contenders on the economy
Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, Scott Walker and Rick Perry are among the speakers at Gov. Rick Scott’s economic summit in Orlando.
False, False, False, Pants on Fire.
May 2015 was kind of a rough month for some folks on PolitiFact Wisconsin's Truth-O-Meter.
Gina Hinojosa joined others at the Capitol calling for billions in additional school spending.
Money is needed, the president of the Austin school district's board of trustees said, because district teachers are paid less than Texas peers near and far.