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CAMPAIGN 2012.
WITH THE ELECTION LESS
THAN TWO WEEKS AWAY...
THE RACES ARE REALLY
HEATING UP.
TONIGHT - OUR NEWS
PARTNERS AT THE
PROVIDENCE JOURNAL
ARE SEPARATING
POLITICAL FACT FROM
FICTION - IN THE FIRST
CONGRESSIONAL
DISTRICT.
DEMOCRATIC INCUMBENT
DAVID CICILLINE...
IS SQUARING OFF
AGAINST REPUBLICAN
CHALLENGER BRENDAN
DOHERTY.
EYEWITNESS NEWS
REPORTER ANDREW
ADAMSON IS IN THE
NEWSROOM WITH THE
DETAILS.
CAMPAIGN SEASON IS REALLY
STARTING TO HEAT UP. THE
POLITIFACT TEAM IS BACK TO
HELP YOU SEE THROUGH THE
SPIN. THEY'RE RATING
STATEMENTS MADE BY
CANDIDATES FROM TRUE, TO
FALSE, TO PANTS ON FIRE.
WE BEGIN WITH THIS QUOTE
FROM BRENDAN DOHERTY, THE
REPUBLICAN 1ST
CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT
CHALLENGER. IN AN INTERVIEW
QUESTION ABOUT HIS
DEMOCRATIC OPPONENT DAVID
CICILLINE, DOHERTY SAID
"CONGRESSMAN CICILLINE,
WHEN HE WAS THE MAYOR OF
PROVIDENCE, ESPOUSED A
SANCTUARY CITY."
"So some cities for example, San
Francisco, New Haven have taken
action to become Sanctuary
cities.
Providence never did. In fact,
Mayor
Cicilline argued against those
actions. Mr. Doherty never
offered
any evidence that Ciccilline did
this
so we ruled this false."
OUR SECOND STATEMENT OF
THE WEEK COMES FROM
DOHERTY'S COUNTERPART
DAVID CICILLINE. IN A DEBATE
SEEN RIGHT HERE ON WPRI ON
OCTOBER 16, CICILLINE SAID
"THERE ARE MORE OIL RIGS IN
OPERATION IN THE UNITED
STATES THAN THE REST OF THE
WORLD COMBINED."
"Mr. Cicilline was relying on a
study
that found that there were 1800
oil
rigs in the US 1600 in the rest
of the
world. Unfortunately, that study
did
not count Russia and China which
has thousands of oil rigs. So
that was
just plain wrong. We found this
false."
YOU CAN CHECK OUT THE
COMPLETE LIST OF POLITIFACT
STATEMENTS AND RATINGS ON
PROVIDENCEJOURNAL.COM.
THAT LINK IS ON OUR WEBSITE
WPRI.COM. IN THE NEWSROOM
ANDREW ADAMSON EWN.
(SR)
THERE'S MORE