The latest statements we've reviewed for PolitiFact Oregon
"Newgard owed more than $13,000 for unpaid taxes on his $1 million Milwaukie apartment complex."
Says she "oversaw an audit that won the city $2 million in franchise fees."
Says "tax revenues are the lowest they have been since World War II."
Says "Portland has higher standards than feds on allowed police use of force."
Ben Unger supported a 15 percent property tax increase on Oregon seniors.
Says it will cost $220 per square foot in hard construction costs to rebuild Portland Public high schools.
Says Measures 82 and 83 authorize just one more casino.
Says "One of the state’s largest governments made charging this tax one of their top priorities just this year."
"Their New York casino deal was called ‘rigged’ and ‘corrupt.’"
"Portland Schools spend $500K to deem PB&J sandwiches racist."
The reason 29 states no longer have a death tax "is that the tax damaged their economic competitiveness."
"We just don't want to get to be like Louisiana, where you have drive-up daiquiri shops."
Says "under Oregon law, girls from 15 years of age and up are given complete control over whether to be sterilized or not."
Says "Bruce Starr voted to throw 6,000 Oregonians off unemployment."
Clackamas County Commissioners "approved a re-negotiated agreement to lower the county’s contribution to TriMet’s Portland-Milwaukie Light Rail project to $19.9 million from $25 million."
Says "cities save an estimated $38 in dental costs for every $1 invested in fluoridation."
Says she does the jobs of state auditor, secretary of state and lieutenant governor "for less than the price of one of them" in Washington state.
Says library district would come "at no direct cost to the city budget."
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