“Says Sara Gideon "voted to defund" the Freeport police "and gave the money to a nonprofit she helped run.”
What PolitiFact found
Gideon voted to consolidate police dispatch services with a neighboring community, saving the town money. Gideon didn’t give town funds to the nonprofit for which she served as a board member.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Susan Collins (U.S. senator, R-Maine) made this claim around 14 September 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 25 September 2020, 11 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Susan Collins has 3 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 1 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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