Promise: Increase funding for Virginia Teaching Scholarship Program

Update: Plan alters for recruiting STEM teachers

Terry McAuliffe

Virginia teachers aren't that gray

 "Of our 98,000 teachers who are K-12, over 53,000 of those teachers today are over 50 years old."

Ron Meyer

Misinterprets data

"Only three in 10 young Americans under 30 -- 30 percent under 30 -- have full-time work."

Promise: Reduce still births, low birth weights and improve child health care

Update: Birth weights are up, stillbirths down

Ken Cuccinelli

Except in 2001

"We have never gone a year in Virginia -- ever -- without passing a budget -- ever."

Randy Forbes

Sweeping claim about an isolated event

The U.S. Army had a training program that put "evangelical Christians, Catholics and Mormons in the same category of religious extremism as we do al-Qaida."

Bob Goodlatte

Sure, but Bush's numbers were already microscopic

Federal prosecutions for lying on background checks to buy guns are "down 40 percent" under President Barack Obama.

Susan B. Anthony List

Downplays major changes for abortion clinics

New Virginia regulations on abortion clinics "provide the same sanitary environment we expect of dental offices."

Randy Forbes

In 2025, unless funding improves

Says the U.S. fleet of attack submarines is scheduled to fall below the 48 boats that Navy says it needs to carry out current missions.

Promise: Appoint public school turnaround leader

Update: Plan goes through changes

Dwight Jones

Half will also see water bills rise

Says under his utility rate plan, "An estimated 50 percent of our residential households will see a decrease in their water and wastewater bills."

Promise: Consolidate workforce training programs

Update: Programs under central supervision

Virginia Society for Human Life

Policy holders, not government, would have paid for option

Under Obamacare, Virginia taxpayers would have been "forced to pay for abortions" if the General Assembly had not recently intervened.  

NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia

Old, disputed study

Abortion coverage is a standard insurance benefit "in nearly 90 percent of private plans sold in the U.S."

Bobby Scott

Budget is based on Obamacare taxes coming in

Paul Ryan’s budget "keeps the Obamacare taxes and spending cuts that paid for Obamacare, but then cuts all of the benefits."

Pete Snyder

Overstates findings

"A study by the University of Virginia pulls back the curtain on Medicaid’s tragically bad outcomes, including ‘increased risk of adjusted mortality.’"

National Association for Gun Rights

No ammo

U.S. Rep. Scott Rigell "wants gun owners in a federal registration system."

Jamie Radtke

Not when inflation is considered

The transportation package passed by the General Assembly would impose the "largest tax increase in Virginia’s history."

Eric Cantor

Employment tenure has increased

"Over the last 20 years, the world has changed. It used to be that one could make a career out of working for one company. Today, the average worker stays at his or her job for barely four years."

Promise: Audit the Department of Medical Assistance Services

Update: One audit complete, another in the works