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Roanoke Mayor's race Fact Check: Bowers campaign mailer claims
While the facts listed in incumbent Roanoke Mayor David Bowers' first campaign mailer of the season were true, 10 On Your Side asked him if he can take credit for all the changes he listed as positive.
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Roanoke Mayor's race Fact check: Rasoul e-mail slams Bowers on jobs
The Rasoul campaign sent an e-mail to media members titled: "1,000 Roanoke jobs have been lost in less than a week under Bowers' watch." Yet many of the examples cited were from outside Roanoke City.
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PolitiFact Virginia rates Kaine statement "Mostly True"
PolitiFact Virginia's latest fact check on the recent Kaine-Allen debate rated a Kaine statement on Allen helping turn the biggest budget surplus in U.S. history into the biggest deficit in U.S. history "mostly true."
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Fact Check: Kaine claim on Allen's flat tax support
Rick Perry's plan for an optional flat tax of 20% has generated a lot of debate across the country and here in Virginia. In fact, it's the basis for Democrat Tim Kaine's latest attack on his likely Republican senate opponent, former Sen. George Allen.
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Ad attacking Obama-Solyndra connection is misleading
Solyndra asked for stimulus money before Obama took office.
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Fact Check on anti John Edwards ad
TV ad attacks Senator John Edwards' proposed gas tax
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Fact Check on pro John Edwards ad
TV ad defends Edward's record, and goes after Republican Dave Nutter
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Armstrong continues attacks against Appalachian Power
9th district delegate candidate Ward Armstrong held a press conference in front of Appalachian Power in Roanoke criticizing the utility company.
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Fact Check on Roscoe Reynolds "Broken Promises" ad on Bill Stanley
Ad attacks Stanley on uranium and taxes, but context shows the ad is leaving out a lot
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Campaign Promises: How has Gov. McDonnell performed on transportation?
During the 2009 campaign, by far, the dominate issue was transportation and how to fix our roads crisis. During the WSLS debate between Bob McDonnell and Creigh Deeds, it took up almost a quarter of the hour, with then candidate McDonnell making a lot of promises, including this: Anything that is going to get done in transportation is going to take leadership."
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Armstrong stands by ad attacking Appalachian Power
Politifact rated the ad as "pants on fire" for being misleading and overstating facts.
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Fact Check on Armstrong, Poindexter debate
The Ferrum College debate got testy at times, with both candidates throwing accusations across the aisle
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Governor McDonnell responds to campaign money accusation
Governor Bob McDonnell says he did not help electric companies funnell money to Charles Poindexter.
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Fact Check: RPV's claim against Sen. Puckett
In going after State Senator Phil Puckett (D-Russell), the Virginia Republican Party called him, “President Obama's lead cheerleader in Southwest Virginia." The June 16th news release went on to say, “He talks a good game on his campaign website, but when Southwest Virginia needed Puckett to stand up for coal jobs, Puckett stood up for President Obama. Phil voted NO on sending the EPA a message that they've gone too far, not once, but twice."
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Tracking how your tax dollars are being spent on schools
10 On Your Side found local school districts have lost big chunks of money over the past few years from the state government.
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Fact Check: Dem claim on redistricting and Robertson claim on Obama's religion
While Governor Bob McDonnell recently signed a redistricting plan into law, it took some compromising. In fact, McDonnell vetoed the first plan, which created two more Democratic districts.
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Fact Check: Griffith and the EPA
Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-Salem) has been a frequent critic of the EPA. He was during his campaign last year and that theme has continued now that he's serving in congress.
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Fact Check: McDonnell claim about transportation
The Virginia General Assembly passed Governor Bob McDonnell's $4 billion transportation plan, thanks in part to a strong sales pitch from Governor McDonnell. That pitch included a specific line that the governor delivered multiple times over the past few months, including during his January State of the Commonwealth Address.
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Fact Check: Boehner's jobs claim
Yesterday, Republican House Speaker John Boehner criticized President Obama's budget proposal. Playing offense, he said, “Over the last two years since President Barack Obama has taken office, the federal government has added 200,000 new federal jobs. And if some of those jobs are lost in this, so be it. We're broke. It's time for us to get serious about how we're spending the nation's money.”
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Fact Check: Claim by Allen foe is checked
It didn't take long for George Allen to start taking incoming fire from his political opponents. But instead of Democrats, this one is coming from a fellow Republican, or a Tea Party Organizer to be exact.
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Fact Check: The State of the Union Address
Politifact researchers have already gone through many of the claims made during last night’s State of the Union address by President Obama and the Republican response. Here’s their verdict on some of those claims.
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Fact Check: Moran's criticism of McDonnell's road plan
Former Democratic Delegate Brian Moran is only a few weeks into his new job as chair of the Democratic Party of Virginia, and already one of his statements is getting a closer review from Politifact Virginia.
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Fact Check: Kaine's defense of Obama's approval numbers
As chair of the Democratic National Committee, former Virginia Governor Tim Kaine's job these days is to promote the Democratic Party and defend President Obama. And, one of his latest defenses has come under the PolitifactVirginia microscope.
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Fact Check: McDonnell's jobs claim
During last week's State of the Commonwealth address, Republican Governor Bob McDonnell made this statement regarding job creation in Virginia: “Since February 2010, Virginia has added 67,900 net new jobs, the 3rd highest number in the nation. We ranked 35th in this same category in 2009.”
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Fact Check: VEA President's claim on teacher raises
Hoping to get a pay raise for Virginia teachers, the president of the Virginia Education Association, Kitty Boitnott, earlier this month said, “The men and women who teach Virginia's children, as well as those who support the education process in a variety of other vital jobs, are working for the third consecutive year -- some longer than that -- without salary increases.”
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