Latest Fact Checks By Joe Guillen

Eric Kearney says a repeal of voter reform legislation that is the target of a referendum would be a first for Ohio

By Joe Guillen

April 9, 2012

An effort to repeal voting-reform legislation would be "the first time in Ohio history where a bill has been passed to stop a referendum."

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John Kasich says the state’s payroll is smaller and retirements have reduced employee numbers

By Joe Guillen

March 15, 2012

"The total (state) payroll has gone down. The total amount of the number of workers in the state has gone down. I like the fact…

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Jon Husted says statewide ballot issues each cost Ohio $1 million

By Joe Guillen

February 29, 2012

"Every time we put a ballot issue on, it costs a million dollars."

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Nickie Antonio says restrictive abortion laws actually drive up abortions and fatalities

By Joe Guillen

February 10, 2012

"Statistics bear out that any time a country, a state, makes more restrictive abortion laws ... fatalities go up and abortions actually increase."

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Ohio Right to Life says millions of federal aid went to the state’s Planned Parenthood affiliates

By Joe Guillen

December 9, 2011

"Ohio’s Planned Parenthood operations received millions of taxpayer dollars via federal grants in 2010 and 2011."

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Armond Budish says Dem-controlled Ohio House passed a bipartisan resolution to reform redistricting process

By Joe Guillen

November 23, 2011

Dem-controlled Ohio House voted "to change the process, to create objective criteria, to modify the Constitution" ... to "take politics out of the efforts to…

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John Kasich slams use of out-of-state arbitrators in contract talks with safety forces

By Joe Guillen

November 3, 2011

"They talk about this problem with binding arbitration. It doesn’t make a lot of sense to me to have somebody from Los Angeles fly into…

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Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel touts investment pool’s credit rating

By Joe Guillen

October 27, 2011

The STAR Ohio fund "just received the highest possible credit rating one of these funds can receive."

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We Are Ohio claims SB 5 would make it harder for nurses to care for patients

By Joe Guillen

October 10, 2011

"Senate Bill 5 makes it harder for nurses to give the patients the quality care they need."

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We Are Ohio says politicians “exploited a loophole exempting themselves” from collective bargaining law

By Joe Guillen

October 7, 2011

Says that politicians who approved collective bargaining restrictions for public employees "exploited a loophole exempting themselves from Senate Bill 5."

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We Are Ohio ad says Issue 2 would bar negotiations on firefighter numbers

By Joe Guillen

September 9, 2011

"Issue 2 makes it illegal for us to negotiate for enough firefighters to do the job."

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Rep. Marcia Fudge says state-approved voter legislation will unfairly invalidate some ballots

By Joe Guillen

September 2, 2011

"H.B. 194, the Voter Suppression Bill, invalidates a vote where a voter properly marks the ballot in support of a particular candidate, but also writes…

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