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Bob Bennett
stated on March 4, 2013 in a news release :

Ohio Republicans made significant gains during [Chris McNulty’s] time at the ORP, including the extremely successful re-election of President Bush in Ohio."

Mostly True

By Henry J. Gomez • March 13, 2013

Rob Portman
stated on February 20, 2013 in a television interview:

"There have been literally hundreds of new tax preferences and loopholes added to the code since 1986, last time we did this."

True

By Stephen Koff • March 11, 2013

Dan Ramos
stated on February 19, 2013 in a news release :

Under Gov. John Kasich’s budget proposal, "the top one percent in Ohio will pay $10,000 less in income tax each year, but Ohio’s working and middle class families will pay more."

Half-True

By Brandon Blackwell • March 7, 2013

Joseph Testa
stated on February 4, 2013 in a news conference:

"About two-thirds of all consumption is services. . . It was just the opposite" when the sales tax was enacted in the '30s.

Mostly True

By Robert Higgs • February 27, 2013

Ohio Republican Party
stated on February 19, 2013 in a Tweet:

"Kewpie burgers are delicious. An Ohio institution. And they'll cost less thanks to John Kasich's tax cut."

Mostly True

By Tom Feran • February 22, 2013

John Kasich
stated on February 4, 2013 in a news conference:

Without a Medicaid expansion, 275,000 more Ohioans could be getting their primary care in emergency rooms, costing "everybody a lot of money."

Mostly True

By Tom Feran • February 21, 2013

Josh Mandel
stated on February 11, 2013 in a letter to Ohio lawmakers:

Federal spending on entitlements "is projected to consume all revenue by 2045."

Mostly True

By Stephen Koff • February 21, 2013

Dave Joyce
stated on February 13, 2013 in a radio interview:

"There are 3 million jobs that go vacant each month in this country."

True

By Sabrina Eaton • February 19, 2013

Keith Faber
stated on February 4, 2013 in a news conference:

"Ohio companies export more goods and services globally than 41 other states."

True

By Tom Feran • February 14, 2013

Ed FitzGerald
stated on January 26, 2013 in a speech to Ohio College Democrats.:

Says he was the first local official to endorse Barack Obama

Mostly False

By Henry J. Gomez • February 13, 2013

Sherrod Brown
stated on February 4, 2013 in a news release:

"Three in four low-income workers don’t have any paid sick days available."

True

By Tom Feran • February 11, 2013

Joyce Beatty
stated on January 14, 2013 in a floor speech in the House of Representatives:

Says each year approximately 30,000 people in the United States die as a result of gunfire, and about 80,000 people are wounded.

Mostly True

By Sabrina Eaton • February 8, 2013

Chris Redfern
stated on January 23, 2013 in a press statement:

Says Gov. John Kasich can remove the president of the State Board of Education.

Mostly True

By Tom Feran • February 7, 2013

Rob Portman
stated on January 24, 2013 in a news release:

Says out-of-state abortion clinics "have marketed their services to minors" in states with parental consent laws.

True

By Stephen Koff • February 6, 2013

Keith Faber
stated on January 7, 2013 in a newspaper interview:

"Ohio is doing better right now than the national average on all the (economic) numbers."

Half-True

By Tom Feran • February 4, 2013

Marcy Kaptur
stated on December 19, 2012 in a floor speech in the House of Representatives:

"States have cumulatively cut over $1.8 billion from their mental health services between 2009 and 2011. This is the largest reduction in state mental health services in half a century."

Mostly True

By Sabrina Eaton • February 1, 2013

Sherrod Brown
stated on January 1, 2013 in a news release:

Says the New Year’s Day "fiscal cliff" deal "reduces the deficit."

Half-True

By Stephen Koff • January 31, 2013

Marcia Fudge
stated on January 17, 2013 in a panel discussion on poverty:

"When George Bush became president of the United States, 17 million people were in poverty. When he left, 30 million people were in poverty."

False

By Sabrina Eaton • January 30, 2013

Ted Strickland
stated on January 8, 2013 in a news release:

Says Ohio’s economic recovery "started in February 2010."

Mostly True

By Henry J. Gomez • January 24, 2013

Mike Polensek
stated on January 15, 2013 in a television interview:

"It is ironic that (First Energy Corp. is) going to have a name on our (football stadium) where we (Cleveland Public Power) supply the electricity."

True

By Tom Feran • January 23, 2013

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