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Tom Mooney is a general assignment reporter at The Providence Journal, specializing in narrative features. He has won numerous national and regional awards for his writing.

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Robert Kando
stated on March 7, 2013 in testimony before the R.I. House Oversight Committee:

Rhode Island is the last state still using the Optech III P voting machines and they don’t meet suggested federal standards.

By Tom Mooney • March 16, 2013
Brendan Doherty
stated on September 12, 2012 in in a news conference:

"The Providence Economic Development Partnership . . .which you [Cicilline] chaired, loaned $103,000 in taxpayer funds to one of your campaign workers. The worker never paid back the loan."

By Tom Mooney • September 18, 2012
Anthony Gemma
stated on September 4, 2012 in a candidates debate:

Providence has "amongst the highest tax rate(s) in the entire country."

By Tom Mooney • September 7, 2012
David Cicilline
stated on August 28, 2012 in a TV debate:

"We will spend $100 billion in Afghanistan this year, fixing roads, building bridges, training police officers, and more, [and] cutting the same things in our own country."

By Tom Mooney • September 5, 2012
Anthony Gemma
stated on August 28, 2012 in a TV debate:

Says that as Providence’s mayor, David Cicilline said the city had a "world-class … school system. Not only did Providence not have a world-class school system but as measured, was amongst the last school system in the entire country."

By Tom Mooney • August 30, 2012
Michael Riley
stated on August 16, 2012 in a post on Riley’s Facebook campaign page:

"President Obama is attacking Paul Ryan on Medicare even though it is his administration with the help of Jim Langevin who cut $716 billion from Medicare."

By Tom Mooney • August 29, 2012
Gregory J. Costantino
stated on August 12, 2012 in a television interview:

Rep. Peter Petrarca "voted on two pieces of legislation that helped auto body shops ... and at that point I think there is a conflict of interest."

By Tom Mooney • August 21, 2012
David Cicilline
stated on August 9, 2012 in a campaign flier:

"(Brendan) Doherty wants to raise the eligibility age for Social Security benefits for anyone born after 1960, with no regard for the challenges it would cause for people working in physically demanding occupations."

By Tom Mooney • August 15, 2012
Allen West
stated on August 1, 2012 in a radio interview:

In June 2012 "we actually had more people go on Social Security Disability [85,000] ... than the 80,000 jobs that were created."

By Tom Mooney • August 9, 2012
Michael J. Gardiner
stated on July 26, 2012 in a debate:

After the 9/11 terrorist attacks grounded commercial air traffic, "there was a temperature drop while the airplanes weren't flying, for the week afterwards."

By Tom Mooney • August 1, 2012

Truth be told, PolitiFact Rhode Island turns 3!

By Tim Murphy • July 5, 2013