Trade barb off target
Leah Vukmir
Says Sen. Tammy Baldwin "claims to support a 'Buy America' philosophy, but her actions speak louder than her empty words."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Monday, March 12th, 2018
Businesses 'consume' insurance, he says
Tim Burns
Says he is "one of America's leading consumer lawyers."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Thursday, February 15th, 2018
Not exactly
Dane County Republican Party
"The KKK was founded as the military arm of the Democratic Party."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Monday, October 23rd, 2017
States could let insurers raise rates, provide less coverage
Ron Johnson
The GOP’s health bill will protect people with pre-existing conditions "every bit as well as Obamacare did."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Friday, September 22nd, 2017
Program was never implemented
Sean Duffy
Vermont had to "scrap" its single-payer health insurance program because it was "going bankrupt."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Wednesday, September 20th, 2017
No, but could be hundreds of thousands
Melissa Sargent
On Foxconn deal, "3,000 jobs cost #WI taxpayers more than $3 billion in tax giveaways. Break it down: more than $1 million in taxpayer dollars per job."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Friday, August 11th, 2017
Several modern presidents have signed more
Donald Trump
"We’ve signed more bills -- and I’m talking about through the legislature -- than any president ever."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Thursday, July 20th, 2017
Evidence absolutely lacking for meddling on such a scale
Reince Priebus
"It's an absolute fact" that China and North Korea "have consistently over many, many years" meddled in U.S. elections.
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Thursday, July 13th, 2017
Latest federal study contradicts claim
Gwen Moore
"There are so many data that demonstrate that poor people, surprisingly, are less likely to use drugs than people with means."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Friday, July 7th, 2017
Cites wrong statistic
Paul Soglin
Since he and Scott Walker took office in 2011, "60,000 new jobs have been created in this state -- 40,000 of them were created in Madison and the Madison area."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Wednesday, July 5th, 2017
Settled science says it's 4.5 billion years old
Jesse Kremer
"The Earth is 6,000 years old, that’s a fact."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Thursday, June 8th, 2017
Private school tax break has nothing to do with voucher program
Mark Pocan
In Wisconsin’s school voucher program, "two-thirds of the money" in the "tax vouchers" went to people "making more than $100,000."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Wednesday, May 31st, 2017
Over 10 years, hundreds of billions of dollars
The Republican replacement for Obamacare does not give massive tax cuts to wealthy Americans.
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Friday, May 12th, 2017
Ad misses on timing, circumstances of the deaths
Americas PAC
Says Tammy Baldwin was told by a whistleblower about "overmedicated veterans," she made "deadly mistakes" and "three veterans died" at the Tomah VA hospital.
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Friday, May 5th, 2017
Memo he signed has limited effect, doesn't apply to Keystone
"All pipelines that are coming into this country from now on has to be American steel."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Thursday, April 20th, 2017
Saying no legal basis goes too far
"There is no legal basis" for Donald Trump's "missile strike against Syrian military assets."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Friday, April 7th, 2017
More like 45 percent
Tony Evers
A study of where teachers apply to work found that "less than 5 percent wanted to work in rural Wisconsin."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Friday, March 31st, 2017
One letter to one man deemed a threat
Citizen Action of Wisconsin
Says "people who come to" their dissent actions "get a ‘cease and desist’ letter" from Ron Johnson's office.
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Thursday, March 2nd, 2017
Wrong on many levels
Restore American Freedom and Liberty
Says Tammy Baldwin "wants to require children starting at age 5 to learn about gay sex!"
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Monday, February 27th, 2017
Timing and phrasing are off
David A. Clarke Jr.
Says Michelle Obama "said she was never proud of her country til they elected her husband POTUS."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Thursday, February 23rd, 2017