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D.L. Davis is a member of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel staff, and a contributor to PolitiFact Wisconsin.

Featured Statements

Lisa Subeck
stated on February 16, 2024 in X, formerly Twitter:

“The United States is an outlier, one of only about half a dozen countries, without any guarantee of paid leave for new parents and/or other health care needs.”

By D.L. Davis • April 16, 2024
Tammy Baldwin
stated on February 1, 2024 in Facebook post:

“Big drug companies charge as little as $7 for an inhaler overseas and nearly $500 for the exact same one here in the US.”

By D.L. Davis • February 23, 2024
Robin Vos
stated on January 7, 2024 in TV interview:

“The law in Wisconsin (on abortion time limit) is 20 weeks. That is way outside the international bounds.”

By D.L. Davis • February 9, 2024
Cindi Duchow
stated on November 9, 2023 in Wisconsin Assembly:

"Unfortunately during COVID, the clerks in Madison and Milwaukee told their constituents that they were actually indefinitely confined and did not have to come and vote, which was incorrect."

By D.L. Davis • January 26, 2024
Ron Tusler
stated on September 12, 2023 in X, formerly Twitter:

Wisconsin Republicans are backing “a nonpartisan redistricting plan based off the Iowa Model. ... Republicans, Democrats, and the Governor pushed this plan last time redistricting happened in 2020.”

By D.L. Davis • December 8, 2023
Rebecca Cooke
stated on September 1, 2023 in X, formerly Twitter:

"Derrick Van Orden is one of the only members of Congress who participated in the deadly January 6th insurrection. He now serves in the building he tried to burn down."

By D.L. Davis • October 11, 2023
LaKeshia Myers
stated on June 6, 2023 in News release:

During the spring 2020 election in Milwaukee, a reduction to only five polling locations “came days before the election and was done without proper notice to voters.”

By D.L. Davis • September 8, 2023
Kelda Helen Roys
stated on April 26, 2023 in Twitter:

Infertility is treated differently than other issues and "often excluded from insurance coverage"

By D.L. Davis • May 26, 2023
Robin Vos
stated on March 9, 2023 in Podcast:

“When a basketball player or football or baseball player from another team plays in Wisconsin, that one game's salary, they pay Wisconsin income tax on it. ... So, if for some reason we do not have the Brewers in Wisconsin all of those player salaries that generate dollars for the State of Wisconsin go away."

By D.L. Davis • May 12, 2023
Paul Ryan
stated on February 23, 2023 in TV interview:

"WOW county swing suburban voters (in Wisconsin) don't vote for Donald Trump.”

By D.L. Davis • April 18, 2023