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Latest Fact-Checks In Ohio

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Richard Cordray
stated on July 25, 2018 in a Facebook ad:
“Education Secretary Betsy DeVos owes Ohio $5.3 million for campaign finance violations and Mike DeWine’s office refuses to collect the fine.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • August 7, 2018
Jim Renacci
stated on July 10, 2018 in a press conference:
Says Sherrod Brown “votes 97 percent with Chuck Schumer, almost 95 plus percent with Elizabeth Warren.”
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • July 31, 2018
Mike DeWine
stated on July 9, 2018 in a web video:
“Richard Cordray wants to raise your taxes by reversing President Trump’s tax reform.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • July 24, 2018
Mike DeWine
stated on July 11, 2018 in a news conference:
On maintaining Medicaid expansion in Ohio as part of the Affordable Care Act
Full Flop
By Amy Sherman • July 20, 2018
For Our Future PAC
stated on July 2, 2018 in a website:
“Repealing the Affordable Care Act — and with it, Ohio’s Medicaid expansion — could cost Ohio more than 81,000 jobs, jeopardize nearly 1 million Ohioans’ health care coverage, and leave more than 220,000 Ohioans with mental illness or substance use disorders without insurance.”  
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • July 10, 2018
Ohio Republican Party
stated on June 12, 2018 in a tweet:
Says Sherrod Brown in 1978 “voted for stricter removal standards (for voter registration) and then enforced them as Secretary of State.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • June 29, 2018
Bloggers
stated on June 12, 2018 in a blog post:
“Burka clad woman runs over baby, gets away with crime for one stunning reason …”
False
By Bill McCarthy • June 26, 2018
Richard Cordray
stated on June 4, 2018 in an event in Springfield:
On Mike DeWine’s record as attorney general: “Opioid deaths have tripled on his watch and there have been cuts to funds for first responders and people in the community fighting the crisis.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • June 12, 2018
Richard Cordray
stated on May 17, 2018 in a tweet:
“Ohio’s (payday lending) laws are now the worst in the nation. Things have gotten so bad that it is legal to charge 594 percent interest on loans.”
True
By Amy Sherman • June 8, 2018
Sherrod Brown
stated on May 18, 2018 in a TV ad:
“Jim Renacci has been a lobbyist even while in Congress” and “voted to make it easier for lobbyists to hold key government positions and harder to investigate conflicts of interest.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • May 31, 2018
Keith Faber
stated on May 11, 2018 in a statement to the press:
“Thanks to the strong charter school reforms put in place while I was Senate President” the online charter school ECOT “was caught and is out of business.”  
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • May 17, 2018
Donald Trump
stated on May 5, 2018 in a speech in Cleveland:
A “catch and release” immigration policy “is a Democrat rule, Sherrod Brown, this is a Democrat rule.”
False
By Amy Sherman • May 11, 2018
Jim Renacci
stated on April 25, 2018 in a radio interview:
“President Trump is still supported by almost 85 percent of the Republican Party in the state of Ohio, and that’s from recent polling, and still has a 58 percent approval rating in Ohio.”
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • May 4, 2018
Dennis Kucinich
stated on April 19, 2018 in a radio interview:
Says of disclosing his $20,000 speech about Syria, “there was no hiding. I released it.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • April 26, 2018
Sherrod Brown
stated on April 9, 2018 in a speech to the City Club of Cleveland:
“Right now in Ohio 200,000 people are getting opioid treatment because they have insurance under the Affordable Care Act.”
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • April 20, 2018
Richard Cordray
stated on April 2, 2018 in a campaign website:
“Since 1999, firearm deaths in Ohio have risen 58 percent.”
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • April 12, 2018
Mike DeWine
stated on March 20, 2018 in a TV ad:
Says Mary Taylor has a work schedule that is “almost untraceable.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • April 3, 2018
Mike Gibbons
stated on February 20, 2018 in an interview:
“A lot” of Sen. Sherrod Brown’s policies “reflect that interest in Marxism” and a fondness for communism.
False
By Amy Sherman • March 27, 2018
Onward Ohio
stated on March 20, 2018 in a TV ad:
“In the Senate, (Mike) DeWine voted with Hillary Clinton to let illegal immigrants receive Social Security. And in Ohio, DeWine allowed illegal immigrants to receive driver’s licenses.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • March 23, 2018
Dennis Kucinich
stated on January 29, 2018 in on a campaign website:
The default rate for college students has grown from 40 percent 10 years ago to about 50 percent today, and “perhaps as many as 800,000 young Ohioans are facing default on their student loans.”
False
By Amy Sherman • March 20, 2018
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