Statements we say are Half-True

Competition was not stiff

Rick Baker

Says he "made St. Petersburg the state's best maintained large sewer system in 2007."

— PolitiFact Florida on Friday, August 18th, 2017

Depends on how you define 'criminal record'

Andrew Cuomo

"70 million Americans have a criminal record — that’s one in three adults."

— PolitiFact New York on Friday, August 18th, 2017

Math works, but numbers cherry picked

Jennifer Shilling

"Foxconn tax break could exceed $1 million per job."

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Wednesday, August 16th, 2017

Figure is right, but hardly a gift

One Wisconsin Now

Wisconsin's $3 billion incentive offer to Foxconn is "the largest gift ever by a state to a foreign company."

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Tuesday, August 15th, 2017

Kriseman denounced the comments on social media the next day

Seamless Florida

"When Rick Baker heard (racist remarks from another mayoral candidate), he went after Congemi. Rick Kriseman he just looked away. Tolerating bigotry in silence is no virtue; taking it on is."

— PolitiFact Florida on Tuesday, August 15th, 2017

There's some truth behind the spin

Rahm Emanuel

"Every one of the financial bad management practices that I inherited, every one of them, have either been eliminated or cut significantly."

— PolitiFact Illinois on Monday, August 14th, 2017

Two unrelated points

Donald Trump

"At the end of 2016, there were 23 percent fewer federal prosecutions than in 2011, so (prosecutors) looked at this scourge (opioid deaths) and they let it go by."

— PolitiFact Florida on Wednesday, August 9th, 2017

Lucky for Wagner, his guess wasn't far off.

Scott Wagner

Eighty percent of the school tax bills in the state of Pennsylvania went up over last year.

— PolitiFact Pennsylvania on Wednesday, August 9th, 2017

ACA Medicaid expansion could enroll even more

David Perdue

Because of the failure to pass a repeal bill, "Obamacare remains the law of the land ... This means more than 300,000 Georgians below the poverty line will still not have access to the insurance Obamacare promised."

— PolitiFact Georgia on Thursday, August 3rd, 2017

The truth behind a new GOP gov hopeful’s Wolf nickname: ‘Thomas the Tax Engine’

Paul Mango

"As Governor, Wolf has already proposed more than $8B in tax increases."

— PolitiFact Pennsylvania on Wednesday, August 2nd, 2017

Numbers on target, but more to the story

One Wisconsin Now

Says Scott Walker "wants state taxpayers to dole out up to $250 million annually in incentives" to Foxconn "to lure a manufacturing plant to Wisconsin that he claims will generate $181 million in tax revenue."

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Wednesday, August 2nd, 2017

Not as a percentage of GDP

Donald Trump

"Corporations have NEVER made as much money as they are making now."

— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, August 1st, 2017

More than promising, less than hiring

Scott Walker

"Foxconn is bringing 13,000 high-tech jobs to Wisconsin."

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Thursday, July 27th, 2017

Accepted PAC bucks through 2014

Beto O'Rourke

"I’m one of two members of Congress out of 535 that takes no corporate cash, no political action committee money."

— PolitiFact Texas on Thursday, July 27th, 2017

High-end estimate, no easy answer

Mark Pocan

"More than 15,000 transgender Americans" are "serving in the military today."

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Wednesday, July 26th, 2017

Different ways to rank new business starts

Andy Gronik

Wisconsin is "dead-last in creating new businesses" for "three years in a row."

— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Wednesday, July 26th, 2017

There's something rotten about this claim

Bloggers

"Over $13 million worth of crops have ROTTED in California, all because no one is willing to work jobs vacated by migrants."

— PunditFact on Monday, July 24th, 2017

He supported complex 2013 bill

Tony Fabrizio

Says Adam Putnam "was for amnesty."

— PolitiFact Florida on Monday, July 24th, 2017

Potential, not real savings

Mike Pence

Says President Donald Trump "has signed more laws cutting through federal red tape than any president in American history and has already saved businesses and families up to $18 billion in red tape costs every year."

— PolitiFact National on Friday, July 21st, 2017

One ranking, not the only one

Casey Cagle

Says of Georgia, "for four years in a row, we are the No. 1 state to do business in."

— PolitiFact Georgia on Wednesday, July 19th, 2017