PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Mark Zaccaria, the outgoing chairman of Rhode Island's Republican Party, was on WJAR-Channel 10's "News Conference" program recently, commenting on the November election.
The GOP took a beating, dropping from 18 Republicans out of a 113-member General Assembly in 2010 to 11 in the session that will begin in January.
Zaccaria said the party's poor showing was due in part to support Democrats receive from state and local government employees and their unions.
"If you add the members of the teachers unions, if you add the other public service employees all around the state that are municipally based," he said, "it comes to something like 25 percent of the paychecks that are issued in Rhode Island."
PolitiFact Rhode Island examined Zaccaria's claim and ruled it False. Read the complete analysis here.