Latest Fact Checks By Willoughby Mariano

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Chambliss: Debt ceiling deal creates largest increase in U.S. history

By Willoughby Mariano
August 8, 2011
The deal to raise the federal debt limit created the "largest debt ceiling increase in America’s history."
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Ex- APS Superintendent Hall says recent tests “given under the strictest security possible”

By Willoughby Mariano
August 5, 2011
Atlanta Public Schools’ 2011 CRCT tests were "given under the strictest security possible."
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Gingrey claims federal health care board can decide if you get dialysis, chemo

By Willoughby Mariano
August 2, 2011
Under last year’s health care reform, "a bunch of bureaucrats decide whether you get care, such as continuing on dialysis or cancer chemotherapy."
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Georgia Republican Tom Price says paying debtholders first will stave off default

By Louis Jacobson , Willoughby Mariano
July 26, 2011
"The U.S. won't default, because default means that you don't pay your creditors. And it takes about 10 percent of the money that's coming in…
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Olens accuses Mexico of having harsher immigration laws than Georgia

By Willoughby Mariano
July 26, 2011
"If you're from Guatemala and you are found illegally in Mexico, you are automatically jailed."
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FTA says Atlanta streetcar to create thousands of jobs

By Willoughby Mariano
July 25, 2011
The Atlanta streetcar is expected to create 930 jobs during construction, totaling more than 5,600 jobs over the next 20 years.
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Johns Creek mayor says transportation vote covers less than 10 percent of need

By Willoughby Mariano
July 20, 2011
"[L]ess than one-tenth of Atlanta's transportation needs are covered" in a referendum to levy a 1-cent sales tax.
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Ex-Mayor Franklin says small percent of educators named in APS cheating

By Willoughby Mariano
July 15, 2011
"95 percent of teachers and principals are not implicated in the [Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal] report at all."
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Ex-Mayor Franklin says former APS school chief improved district

By Willoughby Mariano
July 11, 2011
Former Atlanta Public Schools Superintendent Beverly Hall left the school district "significantly better than she found it."
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Gingrich says campaign problems “exactly the same” as Reagan’s

By Willoughby Mariano
July 8, 2011
Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign has "exactly the same" challenges as Ronald Reagan’s successful 1980 bid.
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Republicans blame Blue Dog Democrats for federal “spending spree”

By Willoughby Mariano
July 5, 2011
U.S. Reps. John Barrow and Sanford Bishop and their fellow Democrats "went on a spending spree and now their credit card is maxed out."
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Lawmaker compares immigration law to Black Codes

By Willoughby Mariano
July 1, 2011
Georgia’s illegal immigration crackdown laws should be called the "Brown Codes" because of their similarity to the "Black Codes" governing blacks after the Civil War.
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