Latest Fact-Checks By Joe Guillen

Clear
Tom Niehaus
Tom Niehaus
stated on January 3, 2013 in an online video:
"Unlike the gridlock in Washington, more than 80 percent of the bills we passed during this General Assembly had bipartisan support."
True
By Joe Guillen • January 17, 2013
Mike DeWine
Mike DeWine
stated on November 14, 2012 in a news conference:
"A man using bath salts reported that raccoons had set fire inside his home and stolen his cell phone."
True
By Joe Guillen • December 7, 2012
Voters First Ohio
Voters First Ohio
stated on September 25, 2012 in a news story:
Says the NAACP's Ohio chapter has endorsed Issue 2.
Mostly False
By Joe Guillen • November 1, 2012
Jon Husted
Jon Husted
stated on August 15, 2012 in an interview with reporters:
A member of the redistricting commission proposed in Issue 2 "could accept a bribe from somebody" and "couldn’t be removed from this commission."
False
By Joe Guillen • October 11, 2012
Ohio Republican Party
Ohio Republican Party
stated on September 11, 2012 in an election flier :
Says Ohio's Issue 2 will create a redistricting commission that will "have a blank check to spend our money."
False
By Joe Guillen • October 3, 2012
Protect Your Vote Ohio
Protect Your Vote Ohio
stated on August 1, 2012 in a news release:
"Thousands of politicians from across Ohio – along with their relatives, employees and friends – are still eligible to serve" on the proposed redistricting commission.
Mostly True
By Joe Guillen • August 9, 2012
Mike Dovilla
Mike Dovilla
stated on July 27, 2012 in In a campaign mailer:
"Mike Dovilla’s big ideas like expanding the Ohio Motion Picture Tax Credit, which helped bring films like ‘The Avengers’ to Cleveland, have helped make our state No. 1 in the Midwest for job creation."
Half-True
By Joe Guillen • July 27, 2012
Ohio Republican Party
Ohio Republican Party
stated on July 10, 2012 in an emailed statement:
"Sherrod Brown and his special interest allies in Washington are plotting to spend over $13 million" to defeat Josh Mandel.
Half-True
By Joe Guillen • July 19, 2012
Dan Ramos
Dan Ramos
stated on June 13, 2012 in a speech in the Ohio House:
Lorain "is the poorest urban school district in the state of Ohio."
False
By Joe Guillen • July 2, 2012
Ron Gerberry
Ron Gerberry
stated on April 17, 2012 in a news conference:
The last three days of early voting "happen to be the most populated days of voting that we have in early voting."
Mostly True
By Joe Guillen • June 4, 2012
Mike Foley
Mike Foley
stated on April 25, 2012 in a speech in the Ohio House:
Says Ohio law gives tax breaks "to rich people who own private jets."
Mostly True
By Joe Guillen • May 8, 2012
Mike Dovilla
Mike Dovilla
stated on April 12, 2012 in a news release:
"Tourism accounts for 439,000 jobs in the state of Ohio, and visitors spend $36 billion annually."
True
By Joe Guillen • April 20, 2012
Eric Kearney
Eric Kearney
stated on March 28, 2012 in a speech in the Ohio Senate:
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."
True
By Joe Guillen • April 9, 2012
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on March 2, 2012 in a session with reporters:
"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 that the bulk of that is just by retirements."
Half-True
By Joe Guillen • March 15, 2012
Jon Husted
Jon Husted
stated on January 26, 2012 in a public forum:
"Every time we put a ballot issue on, it costs a million dollars."
Half-True
By Joe Guillen • February 29, 2012
Nickie Antonio
Nickie Antonio
stated on January 24, 2012 in a news conference:
"Statistics bear out that any time a country, a state, makes more restrictive abortion laws ... fatalities go up and abortions actually increase."
Mostly False
By Joe Guillen • February 10, 2012
Ohio Right to Life
Ohio Right to Life
stated on December 5, 2011 in a news release:
"Ohio’s Planned Parenthood operations received millions of taxpayer dollars via federal grants in 2010 and 2011."
Mostly True
By Joe Guillen • December 9, 2011
Armond Budish
Armond Budish
stated on November 3, 2011 in a news conference:
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 draw legislative boundaries."
False
By Joe Guillen • November 23, 2011
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on October 31, 2011 in a campaign speech:
"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 Zanesville and impose a wage settlement on you ... and then they’re on the plane back to Los Angeles."
Pants on Fire!
By Joe Guillen • November 3, 2011
Josh Mandel
Josh Mandel
stated on October 5, 2011 in an email to supporters:
The STAR Ohio fund "just received the highest possible credit rating one of these funds can receive."
Half-True
By Joe Guillen • October 27, 2011
Next