Latest Half-True Fact-checks in Public Service
Jon Erpenbach
stated on December 12, 2021 in TV interview:
The push for high-speed internet for rural areas, from the start, "was a Democratic thing."
By Madeline Heim • December 28, 2021
stated on October 12, 2020 in a post:
Says Joe Biden told a factory worker, "I don't work for you!" while pointing a finger in the worker's face.
By Monique Curet • October 20, 2020
stated on September 24, 2017 in an interview at the Texas Tribune Festival:
"In 2017, I've done 17 town halls."
By W. Gardner Selby • October 4, 2017
stated on December 16, 2013 in an interview.:
"The largest enterprise in the world is the federal government of the United States of America"
By Nancy Madsen • January 24, 2014
Vincent Fort
stated on March 26, 2013 in a speech:
About 3 percent of Gov. Nathan Deal's appointments have been African-American.
By Eric Stirgus • April 23, 2013
George Nee
stated on October 19, 2011 in a pension forum:
"This is the first time in our state, and one of the first times in the country, where benefit reductions . . . has happened to people who are retired."
Ted Ferrioli
stated on April 26, 2011 in an opinion column:
"The Public Employee Retirement System is making more millionaires than the Oregon state lottery."
By Janie Har • June 16, 2011
Ed Turanchik
stated on December 9, 2010 in an interview with 'Creative Loafing':
"No one in the private sector gets unlimited accruals of vacation and sick leave."
By Lee Logan • January 28, 2011