Latest Fact-Checks In Message Machine 2012

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Josh Mandel
Josh Mandel
stated on October 2, 2012 in a campaign commercial:
Sherrod Brown "voted six times to raise his own pay."
False
By Tom Feran • October 29, 2012
Let Freedom Ring
Let Freedom Ring
stated on October 15, 2012 in a Web video:
Says GM used taxpayer dollars to prop up operations in China.
False
By Jon Greenberg • October 25, 2012
Workers' Voice
Workers' Voice
stated on October 1, 2012 in a campaign flier:
Says U.S. Senate candidate Tommy Thompson supports a plan for "privatizing Social Security."
False
By Dave Umhoefer • October 25, 2012
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
stated on October 24, 2012 in a television ad:
Says Jim Renacci "opposed increasing combat bonuses for our troops."
False
By Tom Feran • October 24, 2012
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
stated on September 19, 2012 in a TV ad:
Says the "public option" considered in the health care law backed by U.S. Senate candidate Tammy Baldwin was "wildly unpopular."  
False
By Dave Umhoefer • October 1, 2012
Government is Not God PAC
Government is Not God PAC
stated on September 23, 2012 in a newspaper ad:
Says Obama is only president in history who has deliberately removed the words "endowed by their Creator" when referring to the Declaration of Independence.
False
By Molly Moorhead • September 27, 2012
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on September 8, 2012 in a campaign commercial:
Josh Mandel "is lying about his own record. The rating of Ohio's investment fund has NOT improved."
False
By Tom Feran • September 26, 2012
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
stated on September 12, 2012 in a TV ad:
Says U.S. Senate candidate Tommy Thompson "admitted" that Washington, D.C., "changed" him into an insider selling his influence to make millions from powerful special interests.
False
By Dave Umhoefer • September 21, 2012
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
stated on August 29, 2012 in a TV ad:
Says Republican U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy "voted against paying our soldiers" and "against increasing combat pay" while voting "to protect his own pay."
False
By Dave Umhoefer • September 16, 2012
Charles Bass
Charles Bass
stated on August 27, 2012 in an August 27, 2012 advertisement, “Not Working,” aired in and around New Hampshire.”:
Ann Kuster "supports the government takeover of healthcare, which robs Medicare of over $700 billion."
False
By Jake Berry • September 12, 2012
Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund
Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund
stated on August 15, 2012 in a web video:
The Obama administration "leaked information, deliberately or otherwise, that led to the identification of the Pakistani doctor that helped us in achieving our goals and killing bin Laden."
False
By Jon Greenberg • August 22, 2012
Americans for Prosperity
Americans for Prosperity
stated on August 14, 2012 in an Americans for Prosperity attack ad:
Says President Obama said of the national debt, "If I don't have this done in three years, then there's going to be a one-term proposition."
False
By Joshua Gillin • August 16, 2012
American Future Fund
American Future Fund
stated on August 9, 2012 in an advertisement:
Says U.S. Rep. Martin Heinrich "spent a trillion of our tax dollars on a stimulus for failed companies here and jobs overseas."
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 14, 2012
stated on July 26, 2012 in a radio ad:
Says Tommy Thompson favors Obama's health care mandate, was publicly thanked by Obama for health reform support and that Thompson "says we can't repeal 'Obamacare.'"
False
August 10, 2012
Priorities USA Action
Priorities USA Action
stated on August 7, 2012 in campaign ad:
Says Mitt Romney and Bain Capital are to blame in a woman’s premature death when they closed the plant where her husband worked.
False
By Jon Greenberg • August 9, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on July 18, 2012 in a campaign commercial:
Says stimulus money went to buy electric cars from Finland as a payback to Obama supporters.
False
By Jon Greenberg • July 20, 2012
American Commitment
American Commitment
stated on July 10, 2012 in a television ad:
The health care law could cost up to $2 trillion, "double what we were promised."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 11, 2012
MoveOn.org
MoveOn.org
stated on June 27, 2012 in an email:
Gov. Rick Scott "tried to kick 180,000 people off the voter rolls."
False
By Amy Sherman • July 10, 2012
MoveOn.org
MoveOn.org
stated on June 27, 2012 in an email:
"Every one of the 67 supervisors of elections" in Florida refused to carry out the effort to remove noncitizens from the voter rolls.
False
By Amy Sherman • July 10, 2012
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 3, 2012 in on the Internet:
"75 percent of the Obamacare tax falls on the middle class."
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 9, 2012
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