Dawson Hodgson

Clearly not nearly

"The amount of money that we put into running our own state legislature is nearly as much as we put into the University of Rhode Island."

Promise: Grant same-sex couples same rights that heterosexual couples have in adoption, foster care, etc.

Update: Executive order cleared parenting rights for same-sex couples

James Bennett

But key number is dropping like a rock

"Our numbers are going up at the airport."

Kenneth Block

Is shorter session better?

"Eleven states complete their [legislative] sessions within three calendar months, and another five only meet biennially."

Facebook posts

Gun claim is a Swiss miss

"Switzerland (where the government) issues every household a gun . . . has the lowest gun related crime rate of any civilized country in the world!!!"

Deepwater Wind

When the wind blows, the price will drop

"Did U know? Block Island Wind Farm would mean 40% est. drop in BI electric rates."

Facebook posts

Ancient numbers, but trend persists.

"Last year, handguns killed 48 people in Japan, 8 in Great Britain, 34 in Switzerland, 52 in Canada, 58 in Israel, 21 in Sweden, 42 in West Germany and 10,728 in the United States."

Barack Obama

It's households, not families

"If the House of Representatives fails to extend the middle-class tax cuts, 400,000 middle-class Rhode Island families will see their federal income taxes increase."

Pew Environment Group

30 years ago is "recent"?

"In recent years, menhaden numbers along our coast have plummeted by 90 percent."

Promise: Develop master plan for use of state-owned property

Update: Can't have a 'master plan' without putting it in writing

Lincoln Chafee

A sign of things to come?

"The five economic indicators that the federal government tracks - for the first time since August 2006 - were positive this October."

Mark S. Zaccaria

One in four? More like one in nine.

Public employees receive "something like 25 percent of the paychecks that are issued in Rhode Island."

Association of Mature American Citizens

Claim suffers from chronic incorrectness

"If you and I fail to defund ObamaCare now, some 16,000 new IRS agents will be begin prying into our private medical records, eyeing each and every one of our treatments and prescriptions for "violations’."

Sheldon Whitehouse

Green industries are a gusher for U.S. jobs

"We have more people working in clean and green energy than in oil and gas in this country."  

Promise: Make major infrastructure improvements, including super high-speed Internet access

Update: Chafee keeps the ball rolling on super-high-speed Internet

Patricia Morgan

Even with broad definition of welfare, number is high

"Our welfare system now consumes 42 percent of our budget."

Carolyn Medeiros

Released felons can - and do - vote

Three thousand felons voted in Rhode Island in 2008.

People's Majority

Super PAC has zero evidence

"Sheldon Whitehouse [got] a secret closed-door briefing, warning of the [2008 economic] crash."

Sheldon Whitehouse

The lie that will not die

"The Ryan budget gets rid of Medicare in 10 years and turns it into a voucher program."

Barry Hinckley

The tax is Obamacare. And the rich pay most. Over 10 years

Sheldon Whitehouse voted for a "$525-billion tax increase on the middle class."