“Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper accepted donations from an oil and gas company and "let them get away" without fines or prosecution after a fatal home explosion in 2017.”
What FactCheck.org found
Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission issued a record fine against the company, but waited for federal investigators to issue a report, which occurred after Hickenlooper left office.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
National Republican Senatorial Committee (Official party committee) made this claim around 16 July 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 23 July 2020, 7 days later. Its rating was “Distorts the Facts”.
National Republican Senatorial Committee has 18 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 7 of them false or fake, 9 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
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