Warren Fiske
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Republican gubernatorial nominee Glenn Youngkin says recent Democratic governors have pushed Virginia into economic decline and people are moving out. PolitiFact found the economic impact largely came from the federal government and free market housing policies - not state leaders - but he's not wrong about people leaving the state. -
Although former Gov. Terry McAuliffe did turn around a bad financial situation, it's not true that he inherited a large deficit from his GOP predecessor.
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Republican gubernatorial nominee Glenn Youngkin says that Terry McAuliffe, the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination, wants to restrict Virginia schools from teaching about the 4th of July and the Pledge of Allegiance.
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“The very first Republican convention after the Civil War was held in Virginia in a Black church,” Winsome Sears said during a May 13 interview on Fox News. Her historical claim was new to us, and we decided to fact check it.
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Glenn Youngkin, the Republican nominee for governor, says there’s nothing new about his recent proclamations that President Joe Biden was legitimately elected to the office. PolitiFact says that's not quite true.
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Former and perhaps future Gov. Terry McAuliffe recently said that student performance in Peterburg, one of Virginia’s most financially troubled cities, vastly improved when he led the state from 2014 to 2018.
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U.S. Rep. Ben Cline (R-Va.) claimed last month the Green New Deal will cost the average American household about $75,000 each year.
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After an inaccurate story about the Virginia Department of Education and plans for advanced math courses broke last week, it quickly took off on social media.
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No Republican in the General Assembly voted for a coming law on July 1 that will legalize possession of an ounce of marijuana in Virginia. Beyond the legalization, their list of objections includes what they say are light penalties for people possessing much more than an ounce of the drug.
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McAuliffe: “I restored felons’ rights - 173,000 - more than any governor in the history of America.”Former Gov. Terry McAuliffe said he restored voting rights to more people convicted of a felony than any governor in history. Is he right?
