Latest Fact-Checks By David DeCamp

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Jeff Brandes
Jeff Brandes
stated on October 12, 2010 in a campaign video:
Bill Heller "raises taxes. Property taxes. Small business taxes. He even wants to tax the Internet. Mr. Heller said no to balancing the federal budget, that puts more debt on our kids."
Mostly True
By David DeCamp • October 28, 2010
Jeff Brandes
Jeff Brandes
stated on September 26, 2010 in a campaign video:
Company may close, "all because government essentially says if they don't hire a lifeguard to watch their workers, they can't stay open."
Half-True
By David DeCamp • October 28, 2010
Bob Hackworth
Bob Hackworth
stated on September 14, 2010 in a candidates forum in Dunedin:
"The downsizing of Pinellas County government resulted in about 1,200 people being laid off in a 12 percent unemployment market. … I can tell you that every one of them was hired from the time that Ms. Latvala went into office in 2000."
False
By David DeCamp • September 25, 2010
Susan Latvala
Susan Latvala
stated on September 14, 2010 in a candidates forum in Dunedin:
"One of the other inaccuracies ... is that we have raised taxes multiple times and run up the budget. Absolutely not true. One tax increase since I’ve been in office. It was a quarter mill tax in the unincorporated area only."
False
By David DeCamp • September 25, 2010
John McCain
John McCain
stated on October 15, 2008 in a debate in Hempstead, N.Y.:
"He voted twice for a budget resolution that increases the taxes on individuals making $42,000 a year."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan, David DeCamp • October 15, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on October 15, 2008 in a debate in Hempstead, N.Y.:
"Congressman John Lewis, an American hero, made allegations that Sarah Palin and I were somehow associated with ... the worst chapter in American history. ... And, Senator Obama, you didn't repudiate those remarks."
True
By David DeCamp • October 15, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on October 7, 2008 in a debate in Nashville, Tenn.:
Obama "voted for ... $3-million for an overhead projector at a planetarium in Chicago."
Half-True
By David DeCamp • October 10, 2008
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on October 2, 2008 in St. Louis:
"Barack Obama ... 96 percent of his votes have been solely along party line."
True
By David DeCamp • October 2, 2008
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on October 2, 2008 in St. Louis, Mo.:
"You ... said that Barack Obama was not ready to be commander in chief."
True
By David DeCamp • October 2, 2008
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on August 27, 2008 in a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver:
Three years ago, John McCain said, "Afghanistan — we don't read about it anymore in papers because it succeeded."
True
By David DeCamp • August 28, 2008
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 28, 2008 in a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver:
"Today, we import triple the amount of oil than we had on the day Senator McCain took office."
True
By David DeCamp • August 28, 2008
John McCain
John McCain
stated on January 24, 2008 in a debate in Boca Raton.:
"I won the majority of the Republican vote in both New Hampshire and South Carolina."
False
By David DeCamp • January 24, 2008
Chris Dodd
Chris Dodd
stated on October 30, 2007 in a debate in Philadelphia:
"The fact of the matter is that my colleague from New York, Senator Clinton, there are 50 percent of the American public that say they're not going to vote for her."
Mostly True
By David DeCamp • January 2, 2008
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 19, 2007 in :
Former business partner Robert Gay says: "The man who helped save my daughter was Mitt Romney."
True
By David DeCamp • December 28, 2007
Tom Tancredo
Tom Tancredo
stated on October 9, 2007 in Detroit:
"For every single illegal immigrant family in this country, it costs $20,000 — it costs us $20,000; $20,000 in infrastructural costs. They pay about $10,000 in taxes."
Mostly False
By David DeCamp • December 11, 2007
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on November 15, 2007 in Las Vegas:
"Right now, an employer has more of a chance of getting hit by lightning than be prosecuted for hiring an undocumented worker. That has to change."
False
By David DeCamp • November 16, 2007
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 30, 2007 in Philadelphia:
"The Alternative Minimum Tax was never intended to hit people in middle income, upper middle income. It was meant for people who are rich and evading taxes."
True
By David DeCamp • November 1, 2007
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on September 5, 2007 in a newspaper column:
"The Alternative Minimum Tax...was created by Congress in 1969 to affect 155 wealthy Americans. Because it was never indexed for inflation, those original 155 taxpayers has increased to affect about 3.5-million in 2006."
True
By David DeCamp • November 1, 2007
John Edwards
John Edwards
stated on September 20, 2007 in Davenport, Iowa:
"What happens is people like Warren Buffett — and he says this himself...pay 15 percent on the millions of dollars that they earn from wealth income... while their secretary is paying a higher rate on her work income. It's not right."
True
By David DeCamp • October 17, 2007
Fred Thompson
Fred Thompson
stated on September 21, 2007 in Washington, D.C.:
"With those first principles, it allowed a fellow like me to get in his truck and go from one end of the state to the other; started 20 points down and wound up 20 points ahead on election night."
True
By David DeCamp • October 2, 2007
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