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Latest Fact-Checks By Eric Stirgus

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Jan Jones
Jan Jones
stated on February 6, 2012 an essay
"[W]hen adjusted for cost of living, Georgia ranks first nationally in teacher salary and benefits."
Half-True
By Eric Stirgus • February 22, 2012
Winning Our Future
Winning Our Future
stated on January 27, 2012 an ad
Mitt Romney "supervised a company guilty of massive Medicare fraud."
Half-True
By Eric Stirgus • February 21, 2012
Restore Our Future
Restore Our Future
stated on February 15, 2012 a television ad
Newt Gingrich "co-sponsored a bill with Nancy Pelosi that would have given $60 million a year to a U.N. program supporting China’s brutal one-child policy."
Pants on Fire!
By Eric Stirgus • February 15, 2012
Republican Party of Georgia
Republican Party of Georgia
stated on February 1, 2012 a web post
"[A]t his current rate, President Obama will have added more debt to the United State of America by the end of his first term than each of the previous 43 presidents -- combined!"
Half-True
By Eric Stirgus • February 13, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on February 8, 2012 an Atlanta campaign stop
"Twenty-five or 24 million people" are "out of work or stopped looking for work."
Half-True
By Eric Stirgus, Willoughby Mariano • February 10, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 27, 2012 a column
On deporting illegal immigrants.
No Flip
By Eric Stirgus • February 7, 2012
Brian Kemp
Brian Kemp
stated on June 24, 2011 in editorials and op-ed articles
The Georgia Secretary of State's Office and the Georgia State Elections Board investigate and penalize hundreds of people guilty of election fraud.
True
By Eric Stirgus • February 6, 2012
Casey Cagle
Casey Cagle
stated on January 19, 2012 a speech
Savannah is home to "the fastest-growing port in the nation."
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • January 31, 2012
Nathan Deal
Nathan Deal
stated on January 10, 2012 a speech
"Right now in Georgia, nearly one in three leaving our prisons are re-convicted within three years."
True
By Eric Stirgus • January 25, 2012
William Perry
William Perry
stated on January 4, 2012 an interview
"Eleven states have enacted these pay-to-play reforms."
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • January 23, 2012
Judy Manning
Judy Manning
stated on January 4, 2012 an interview
"When [Mitt Romney] was the governor of Massachusetts, he performed 100 — and I’m not sure this number is right, but my mind says it’s about 180 gay marriages."
Pants on Fire!
By Eric Stirgus • January 18, 2012
Kasim Reed
Kasim Reed
stated on January 3, 2012 a meeting
"Five members of [the Common Cause Georgia] board accepted maximum campaign contributions."
Half-True
By Eric Stirgus • January 12, 2012
Tom Price
Tom Price
stated on December 8, 2011 a letter
Congress gave an unelected board "the power to deny care to seniors."
Half-True
By Eric Stirgus • January 6, 2012
Buddy Carter
Buddy Carter
stated on December 13, 2011 a column
Georgia’s unemployment rate has exceeded the national rate for 50 consecutive months.
True
By Eric Stirgus • January 4, 2012
Grover Norquist
Grover Norquist
stated on December 12, 2011 a letter
"[E]xcise tax increases drive commerce across state lines."
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • December 21, 2011
Club for Growth
Club for Growth
stated on November 30, 2011 a press release
"[Former Georgia congressman] Bob Barr voted ... to raise his own pay."
Half-True
By Eric Stirgus • December 9, 2011
Thomas Brown
Thomas Brown
stated on November 7, 2011 an interview
"Most of, if not all of, the [DeKalb school construction] projects always came in on or were under budget."
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • December 6, 2011
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on November 29, 2011 a speech
Says the unemployment rate for college graduates is 4.4 percent and over 10 percent for noncollege-educated.
True
By Eric Stirgus • December 5, 2011
Eric Gray
Eric Gray
stated on November 3, 2011 a speech
Georgia is one of seven states to lose jobs in 2011 and has lost 8,200 jobs so far.
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • November 30, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on November 23, 2011 an interview
Says Newt Gingrich "has said that we should make the 11 million illegal workers that are in this country legal."
False
By Eric Stirgus • November 29, 2011
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