Latest Fact-Checks In Ethics

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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 15, 2010 a speech from the Oval Office
"Oil companies showered regulators (at the Minerals Management Service) with gifts and favors, and were essentially allowed to conduct their own safety inspections and write their own regulations."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 17, 2010
John McCain
John McCain
stated on June 7, 2010 a campaign commercial
After J.D. Hayworth "was voted out of Congress, he became a registered lobbyist" who was "paid thousands by a Florida corporation to lobby the very committee he used to serve on."
True
By Louis Jacobson • June 15, 2010
Steve Poizner
Steve Poizner
stated on June 1, 2010 an online campaign commercial
As the CEO of eBay, "Whitman started a separate division that only sells porn."
Half-True
June 1, 2010
Boyd Richie
Boyd Richie
stated on May 20, 2010 an e-mail blast.
Says Gov. Rick Perry is "spending Texans’ hard-earned money to live like Louie XIV."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • May 26, 2010
Dale Peterson
Dale Peterson
stated on May 25, 2010 a campaign commercial
Says he was "a Marine during Vietnam."
Mostly False
May 26, 2010
Dale Peterson
Dale Peterson
stated on May 25, 2010 a campaign commercial
Says his opponent Dorman Grace brags on his Facebook page about receiving illegal campaign contributions.  
Half-True
May 26, 2010
Bill White
Bill White
stated on May 19, 2010 a Facebook post
"In three days last week, (Gov. Rick) Perry flew to five cities at taxpayers’ expense, holding press conferences, delivering $2,325,000 in checks."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • May 23, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on May 3, 2010 a Web video
"Bill White used D.C. connections from his job in the Clinton administration to form a company that did business in the Middle East and defaulted on a $60 million loan."
Half-True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • May 16, 2010
Charlie Justice
Charlie Justice
stated on April 14, 2010 a Web ad
"Bill Young uses his campaign money for, among other things, a luxury car."
True
By Lukas Pleva • April 26, 2010
Julian Assange
Julian Assange
stated on April 12, 2010 an interview on Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report"
"The permission to engage was given before the word RPG was ever used."
Half-True
April 14, 2010
Lone Star Project
Lone Star Project
stated on April 8, 2010 a press release
"(Pete) Sessions has held at least two fundraisers at adult-themed clubs and made no apologies."
Half-True
April 13, 2010
Holly Turner
Holly Turner
stated on March 31, 2010 a TV ad
"Giving money to politicians has paid off for Paul Workman. Workman gave thousands to politicians and got millions in government construction projects."
False
April 8, 2010
Lawrence Summers
Lawrence Summers
stated on April 4, 2010 an interview on "This Week."
On financial reform, there is "a million dollars being spent, per congressman, in lobbying expenses on this issue. (The) industry has four lobbyists per member of the House and Senate working on this."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 7, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on March 26, 2010 a press release
"This week liberal Bill White faced an ethics complaint about more than $83,000 he failed to report to the state Ethics Commission."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • March 31, 2010
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on March 28, 2010 a debate on Fox News Sunday
Marco Rubio controlled funds that "out of the $600,000 that were raised, only $4,000 went to candidates to try to improve their chances to be elected to office."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 29, 2010
Kay Bailey Hutchison
Kay Bailey Hutchison
stated on February 24, 2010 a radio ad
Gov. Rick Perry "spent over a million dollars on D.C. lobbyists asking for more federal money and lives in a luxury house that costs taxpayers $10,000 a month."
Mostly True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • March 1, 2010
Charles Rangel
Charles Rangel
stated on February 26, 2010 a press conference
"I'm glad for the wording of it (an ethics report on corporate-sponsored Congressional trips) because clearly the wording exonerates me."
Pants on Fire!
February 26, 2010
Eve Schatelowitz Alcantar
Eve Schatelowitz Alcantar
stated on January 28, 2010 a response to League of Women Voters of Texas.
"In this judicial race, special interest groups have demanded money from me, in exchange for endorsement and support."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • February 21, 2010
Kay Bailey Hutchison
Kay Bailey Hutchison
stated on February 7, 2010 a video
"Taxpayers even footed the bill for Perry’s trip to a bachelor party in Las Vegas."
Mostly False
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • February 11, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on February 5, 2010 an online ad
Says Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison "took 154 private flights all funded by taxpayers" though "commercial flights were readily available at a fraction of the cost."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • February 10, 2010
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