“My intent with that foundation is to help young people who are growing up in the inner city or otherwise in difficult circumstances and help them go to college with scholarships. And, you know, we have a process, a committee that looks at applications and makes those selections each year.”
Corky Messner
NH Senate candidate (NH). remarks during a Merrimack County (N.H.) Republican Committee Happy Hour. Claim dated 27 May 2020.
Washington Post rated thisFour Pinocchios
What Washington Post found
The foundation offered a scholarship to only one student over ten years and also gave money to an elite private school.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Corky Messner (NH Senate candidate (NH)) made this claim around 27 May 2020. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 31 July 2020, 65 days later. Its rating was “Four Pinocchios”.
Where the claim appeared
- washingtonpost.comhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/corky-messner-discusses-his-foundation-at-n…
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