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Latest Fact-Checks By Maryalice Gill

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Carol Shea-Porter
Carol Shea-Porter
stated on January 16, 2013 a press release
New Hampshire is currently the only state in the nation that does not have a full-service veterans hospital or equivalent access.
Half-True
By Maryalice Gill • March 4, 2013
Ann McLane Kuster
Ann McLane Kuster
stated on November 11, 2012
Says she is "entering in the most diverse class ever," of U.S. Representatives
True
By Jake Berry, Maryalice Gill • November 21, 2012
New Hampshire Democratic Party
New Hampshire Democratic Party
stated on October 18, 2012 a campaign mailer to New Hampshire residents
Says Ovide Lamontagne wants to eliminate kindergarten.
Mostly False
By Maryalice Gill • November 3, 2012
House Majority PAC
House Majority PAC
stated on September 26, 2012 a campaign commercial “Principle” about U.S. Rep. Charlie Bass, R-NH airing in New Hampshire
Says Charlie Bass supports Paul Ryan plan that forces seniors to pay $6,400 a year more for health care so millionaires can pay less in taxes.
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Maryalice Gill • October 31, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 8, 2012 a campaign event outside Speaker John Boehner press conference in Derry, NH
Says Mitt Romney plans to "fire" Big Bird.
Pants on Fire!
By Maryalice Gill • October 9, 2012
Ann McLane Kuster
Ann McLane Kuster
stated on September 19, 2012 a press release Sept. 19, 2012
Says Rep. Charlie Bass, R-NH voted to "raise his own pay" eight times
Half-True
By Maryalice Gill • September 28, 2012
William O'Brien
William O'Brien
stated on August 15, 2012 a campaign mailer sent to New Boston residents in August 2012
Says when Republicans took over the state legislature in 2010, New Hampshire’s tax rate for employers was 50th in the nation, and unemployment had more than doubled under Democrats.
Half-True
By Maryalice Gill • September 21, 2012
Jeanne Shaheen
Jeanne Shaheen
stated on September 5, 2012 an interview on The Daily Rundown
Says when Mitt Romney was governor, Massachusetts was 47th in job creation
Half-True
By Maryalice Gill • September 17, 2012
Ann McLane Kuster
Ann McLane Kuster
stated on August 31, 2012 a press release sent to The Telegraph on Aug. 31, 2012
Says Charlie Bass forfeits right to equal cost for TV ads under FCC rules
False
By Maryalice Gill • September 7, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 21, 2012 a campaign email to New Hampshire press Aug. 21
Says under the Romney-Ryan budget ... "the American Opportunity Tax Credit for college tuition would be eliminated."
Mostly True
By Maryalice Gill • August 31, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on August 20, 2012 statements during a rally at St. Anselm College in Manchester, NH
"Half the kids coming out of college this year … can't find a job, or a job that's consistent with a college degree."
True
By Maryalice Gill • August 27, 2012
Kelly Ayotte
Kelly Ayotte
stated on July 29, 2012 an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union”
"The president's first major foreign policy speech in Cairo was to apologize for our country."
False
By Maryalice Gill • July 31, 2012
Charles Bass
Charles Bass
stated on June 11, 2012 a speech after he filed to run for reelection at the New Hampshire Statehouse
"America used to be the third easiest country to get established in a business. It's now number 17."
Mostly False
By Maryalice Gill • July 13, 2012
Charles Bass
Charles Bass
stated on June 8, 2012 an email to the press on June 8, 2012
Says Ann Kuster said the debate over America’s debt limit is not an important issue of the day.
False
By Maryalice Gill • June 29, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 4, 2012 campaign ad “We’ve heard it all before,” airing in New Hampshire and around the U.S
When Mitt Romney was governor, Massachusetts lost 40,000 manufacturing jobs, a rate twice the national average, and fell to 47th in job creation, fourth from the bottom.  
Half-True
By Maryalice Gill • June 14, 2012
Kelly Ayotte
Kelly Ayotte
stated on May 8, 2012 an email to the news media
Says the Affordable Care Act was a federal takeover of the student loan industry and ‘profits’ on the loans go to help pay for the health care law.
Mostly False
By Maryalice Gill • June 1, 2012
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on January 8, 2012 an NBC-Facebook debate in Concord, N.H.
The EPA was asked about an environmental citation for the city landfill in Nashua, N.H. but "didn’t know" why it was cited.
Mostly True
By Maryalice Gill • January 8, 2012
Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on December 15, 2011 a Republican presidential primary debate
"In this country … we have more natural gas than Saudi Arabia has oil."
Mostly False
By Maryalice Gill, Molly Moorhead • December 16, 2011
Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on November 16, 2011 an editorial board meeting with the Nashua Telegraph
"We have more natural gas in this country than Saudi Arabia has oil."
Mostly False
By Maryalice Gill • December 8, 2011
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 20, 2011 speaking at New Hampshire’s Plymouth State University
"The median income of a middle class family went down $2,100 from 2001 to 2007."
True
By Maryalice Gill • November 18, 2011
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