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The comeback to Pittsburgh vs. Paris
"Fact: Hillary Clinton received 80% of the vote in Pittsburgh."
— PolitiFact Pennsylvania on Friday, June 2nd, 2017
But let’s consider the last decade, too.
"Michael Untermeyer has been a Democrat for more than 40 years."
— PolitiFact Pennsylvania on Friday, May 12th, 2017
That’s not exactly the case. At least not anymore.
"Larry Krasner is the only candidate running for District Attorney who explicitly pledges to never seek the death penalty."
— PolitiFact Pennsylvania on Wednesday, May 3rd, 2017
Legally true, but he could use some clarification
"In my 30 year career including dozens of capital cases, not a single client of mine has ever been sentenced to death."
— PolitiFact Pennsylvania on Tuesday, May 2nd, 2017
Guess they forgot about New Year's Eve
"The Wawa Welcome America festival (features) . . . America's largest free concert."
— PolitiFact Pennsylvania on Friday, April 21st, 2017
vehicle theft not the top crime
"Data shows that vehicle break-in is the No. 1 crime in the city, but also the No. 1 crime in the South Side Flats, and it’s closely followed by assault."
— PolitiFact Pennsylvania on Tuesday, April 11th, 2017
The math checks out
House Bill 991 "could lead to the opening of as many as 2,000 new liquor stores."
— PolitiFact Pennsylvania on Friday, April 7th, 2017
Don't get carried away in fundraising messages
"Finally, I will continue to fight against Republicans like Martina White, who like Trump, wants to deport all of our hard working immigrant brothers and sisters and white wash America."
— PolitiFact Pennsylvania on Wednesday, April 5th, 2017
Uspoln went too far.
Says former Sen. Rick Santorum said, "Sometimes pregnancy is God’s way of comforting rape victims."
— PolitiFact Pennsylvania on Saturday, April 1st, 2017
Nope, not getting closer to the sun
"...the earth moves closer to the sun every year – you know the rotation of the earth. We’re moving closer to the sun."
— PolitiFact Pennsylvania on Friday, March 31st, 2017
The city misreported the stat
"Immigrants are responsible for 96 percent of our small biz growth since 2000."
— PolitiFact Pennsylvania on Tuesday, March 28th, 2017
A sweetened beverage tax wouldn't include unsweetened drinks
"We offer a tremendous amount of low calorie, no calorie options, like waters, unsweetened products, low calorie diet items. All of which unfortunately are taxed by this tax."
— PolitiFact Pennsylvania on Friday, March 24th, 2017
That's not exactly what he's done.
On whether or not the Philadelphia DA's office will recommend the possibility of parole for all juvenile lifers.
— PolitiFact Pennsylvania on Thursday, March 16th, 2017
He's in DC for his daughter
He’s only there for one purpose and one purpose only, and that is to run a shadow government that is gonna totally upset the new agenda.
— PolitiFact Pennsylvania on Tuesday, March 14th, 2017
Layoffs are not the same as attrition.
ShopRite will lose about 300 employees "voluntarily and through layoffs" due to the beverage tax.
— PolitiFact Pennsylvania on Monday, March 13th, 2017
Studies say otherwise
Inner-city students "fall back and don’t succeed, whereas if there was a less intensive track, they would."
— PolitiFact Pennsylvania on Monday, February 27th, 2017
That's some funny math, there
"Obamacare covers 24 million fewer people than it was expected to, and the projected price tag has more than doubled at $2 trillion."
— PolitiFact Pennsylvania on Friday, February 24th, 2017
Amtrak does have more riders than ever
"More than ever our nation and the traveling public rely on Amtrak for mobility."
— PolitiFact Pennsylvania on Tuesday, February 21st, 2017
Of the two examples, one was before Kenney's time
"From the release of a child rapist from the Dominican Republican to that of an Italian drug smuggler, Philadelphians have already been put in direct danger by Mayor Kenney’s policy of blocking local law enforcement from participating with federal immigration authorities."
— PolitiFact Pennsylvania on Tuesday, January 31st, 2017
They were the third-lowest last year since 1990
"Here in Philadelphia murder has been steady — I mean — just terribly increasing."
— PolitiFact Pennsylvania on Thursday, January 26th, 2017