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Latest Fact-Checks In Message Machine 2010

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Florida Conservation Alliance
Florida Conservation Alliance
stated on June 19, 2010 a television commercial
"Sen. George LeMieux voted to let oil companies off the hook and overturn pollution rules."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 25, 2010
Americans United for Change
Americans United for Change
stated on June 11, 2010 a TV commercial
"Every day, oil continues to pour into the Gulf of Mexico. ... Even with disaster on our coast..., Richard Burr voted to let big oil off the hook."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 25, 2010
Harry Reid
Harry Reid
stated on June 12, 2010 a campaign commercial
"Sharron Angle wants to wipe out Social Security."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 24, 2010
Harry Reid
Harry Reid
stated on June 12, 2010 a political ad
Sharron Angle supported "a Scientology plan to give massages to prisoners."
Half-True
June 24, 2010
Rick Barber
Rick Barber
stated on June 13, 2010 a political ad
"Without representation, (the IRS) can increase taxes."
Pants on Fire!
June 18, 2010
David Dewhurst
David Dewhurst
stated on June 9, 2010 a campaign video
Says the Republican "state convention is actually larger than the Republican National Convention."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 17, 2010
Florida First Initiative
Florida First Initiative
stated on June 9, 2010 a TV ad
Of hospitals in Rick Scott’s Columbia/HCA health care company, "A top executive said they even turned away a poor man and left him to die outside their door."
Mostly False
June 15, 2010
J.D. Hayworth
J.D. Hayworth
stated on June 4, 2010 a campaign commercial
John McCain "voted against the tax cuts of 2001 and 2003, wrongly claiming they helped only the rich."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 15, 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
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on May 20, 2010 a campaign commercial for Bill McCollum
Bill McCollum has "recovered $200 million in Medicaid fraud."
True
By Laura Figueroa • June 14, 2010
John Oxendine
John Oxendine
stated on June 4, 2010 a campaign video on his website
Georgia has "a dropout rate that’s higher" than Alabama's.
True
By Willoughby Mariano • June 14, 2010
Jerry Brown
Jerry Brown
stated on June 7, 2010 a video on his campaign website
California's credit rating is "the worst in the country."
True
By Alex Holt • June 11, 2010
Dan Fanelli
Dan Fanelli
stated on June 3, 2010 a video on his campaign website
Under the new health care law, the elderly will be denied care when they have "passed the age limit for treatment."
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • June 7, 2010
Roy Barnes
Roy Barnes
stated on May 21, 2010 a campaign commercial
When Roy Barnes was governor, "Georgia created 235,000 jobs."
Half-True
By Willoughby Mariano • June 5, 2010
John Oxendine
John Oxendine
stated on June 3, 2010 in a video on his Web site.
"We have SAT scores lower than that of Alabama."
Half-True
By Willoughby Mariano • June 5, 2010
Carly Fiorina
Carly Fiorina
stated on June 2, 2010 a campaign commercial
"Barbara Boxer's worried about the weather" instead of terrorism as the biggest threat to national security.
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • June 4, 2010
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on May 30, 2010 a TV ad
"Two-thirds of the top-rated hospitals in Florida were our hospitals."
Mostly True
By Aaron Sharockman • June 4, 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
Carly Fiorina
Carly Fiorina
stated on March 10, 2010 a Web ad
Sen. Barbara Boxer "passed only three bills in 18 years" into law.
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 28, 2010
Empower Texans
Empower Texans
stated on May 14, 2010 a Web video
"There are 321,092 public school teachers in Texas. And there are 313,850 non-teachers in our public schools."
Mostly True
May 28, 2010
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