Wednesday, October 29th, 2014

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• The biggest whoppers of the 2014 campaign

• PunditFact: Fact-checks about Ebola

The Latest from PolitiFact

Mostly False

Her house is pricey, but not that pricey

Facebook posts

Says Sen. Elizabeth Warren "lives in a $5.4 million mansion."

False

No position does not equal opposition

Greater Wisconsin Committee

Greater Wisconsin Committee

"Scott Walker opposed a plan to help Wisconsin students refinance their student loans."

— PolitiFact Wisconsin

Mostly True

Money now or money later

Wendy Davis

Wendy Davis

Greg Abbott has benefitted from "payday lenders who have given him $300,000 and then received a ruling from him that they can operate in a loophole in the law that allows them to charge unlimited rates and fees."

— PolitiFact Texas

Mostly True

So you're telling me there's a chance

Barack Obama

Barack Obama

"You cannot get (Ebola) from just riding on a plane or bus."

Mostly True

The numbers add up -- for now

Scott Walker

Scott Walker

Figures for September 2014’s job growth in Wisconsin mark the "largest private-sector job creation we've had in the month of September in more than a decade"

— PolitiFact Wisconsin

Mostly True

What a difference 58 years makes

Facebook posts

Says the 1956 Republican Party platform supported equal pay, the minimum wage, asylum for refugees, protections for unions and more.

Mostly False

Veto followed by later funding increases

Charlie Crist

Charlie Crist

"Rick Scott vetoed funding for 30 Florida rape crisis centers. Scott said the centers weren’t needed."

— PolitiFact Florida

Half-True

More to it than that

Mary Burke

Mary Burke

Says Scott Walker "gave $6 million in tax breaks to a corporation and told them that they can keep that money even if they lay off half their workforce."

— PolitiFact Wisconsin

Half-True

Puffs up an old story

Tucker Carlson

Tucker Carlson

Democrats give "Newports to the homeless to get them to the polls."

— PunditFact

False

Cultural factors bigger than economic ones, scholars say

Don Young

Don Young

Suicide comes from federal government largesse "saying you are not worth anything but you are going to get something for nothing."

True

Cuts not for the faint of heart

Doug Muder

Doug Muder

Says Sen. Rand Paul’s 2011 budget "included a big cut in the CDC."

— PunditFact

Mostly False

The Ebola scare continues

Rand Paul

Rand Paul

Ebola is "incredibly contagious," "very transmissible" and "easy to catch."

Mostly True

But not your traditional origami

Rand Paul

Rand Paul

"$2.4 million of the NIH dollars was spent on ‘origami’ condoms."

— PolitiFact Virginia

Mostly False

State near the top but at it

Nathan Deal

Nathan Deal

Georgia has elected more African-American leaders than any other state in the country.

— PolitiFact Georgia

False

Not close to half

Adam Kinzinger

Adam Kinzinger

Says Rand Paul "has put out budgets to cut the military in half."

False

As far as we know, his temperature was fine

Darrell Issa

Darrell Issa

Says Thomas Eric Duncan came into the United States "with an elevated temperature."

Mostly False

Paved the way for ... not really anything

Scott Brown

Scott Brown

Says Jeanne Shaheen "voted to pave the way for a new national energy tax."

— PolitiFact New Hampshire

Mostly False

His partisan-voting score is even higher

National Republican Congressional Committee

National Republican Congressional Committee

Rep. Carol Shea-Porter "votes with Nancy Pelosi’s Democrats 95 percent of the time," but Frank Guinta "will take on both parties" and has "independent New Hampshire values."

— PolitiFact New Hampshire

False

Two different bills on two separate subjects

Charlie Crist

Charlie Crist

Says property insurance rates are going up because Rick Scott signed a bill preventing the state from regulating insurance.

— PolitiFact Florida

Half-True

Important context missing

Mark Warner

Mark Warner

Ed Gillespie’s "firm even lobbied for five foreign governments, including a dictator now awaiting trial for war crimes."

— PolitiFact Virginia