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Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on July 21, 2012 a debate.
Says former Sen. George Allen voted four times to raise his own pay.
Mostly True
By Sean Gorman • July 30, 2012
Dannel Malloy
Dannel Malloy
stated on July 23, 2012 a radio interview
Says Chris Christie "has refused to fund pensions by billions of dollars," and got legislative approval to begin "properly funding pensions" in 2018.
Mostly True
By Bill Wichert • July 29, 2012
Jefferson Smith
Jefferson Smith
stated on July 9, 2012 school board testimony.
Says Minnesota has more Fortune 500 companies than Oregon and "one of the most obvious differences is they've invested in their schools."
Mostly True
By Ian K. Kullgren • July 27, 2012
Vincent Fort
Vincent Fort
stated on July 21, 2012 media appearances
Taxes on groceries and medicine will rise under a plan to improve roads and rail for metro Atlanta.
Mostly True
By Willoughby Mariano • July 27, 2012
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on July 23, 2012 a Republican U.S. Senate debate in Houston
Says David Dewhurst "explicitly advocated" a guest worker program for all illegal immigrants.
Mostly True
By Sue Owen • July 26, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 23, 2012 an advertisement
"Gov. Romney's plan would cut taxes for the folks at the very top."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 24, 2012
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 21, 2012 on the Internet
"Nearly 100,000 people get shot every year. That's 270 people a day and 87 dead."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 23, 2012
Paul Broun
Paul Broun
stated on July 2, 2012 in a radio debate
The U.S. initially had three federal felonies: treason, piracy, and counterfeiting securities and money.
Mostly True
By Willoughby Mariano • July 23, 2012
Committee to Protect Florida
Committee to Protect Florida
stated on July 18, 2012 a mailer
Says Jeff Brandes voted to allow state-run Citizens Property Insurance to dump policies onto "out-of-state, unregulated private companies."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • July 20, 2012
Daniel Rodriguez
Daniel Rodriguez
stated on May 30, 2012 an email to PolitiFact Texas.
Says no city comparable in size to Austin or smaller was broken into as many congressional districts.
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • July 20, 2012
John Watson
John Watson
stated on July 11, 2012 an op-ed
The transportation sales tax would cost the average consumer an estimated $112 a year.
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • July 20, 2012
Paul Sadler
Paul Sadler
stated on June 26, 2012 a debate of Democratic primary runoff candidates for U.S. Senate in Dallas
Says federal debt "doubled during the Bush administration."
Mostly True
By Sue Owen • July 19, 2012
Reince Priebus
Reince Priebus
stated on June 26, 2012 an interview
Says President Barack Obama promised a "pathway to citizenship" to undocumented immigrants and "didn't deliver jack squat on any of it."
Mostly True
July 18, 2012
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on July 8, 2012 an interview on "Fox News Sunday"
"Eighty out of 82 counties in Ohio ... have an auto manufacturing facility."
Mostly True
By Sabrina Eaton • July 18, 2012
Josh Mandel
Josh Mandel
stated on July 9, 2012 a fundraising email
Sherrod Brown’s approval rating "has plummeted to 38 percent among Ohio voters" in a poll by a Democratic pollster.
Mostly True
By Stephen Koff • July 13, 2012
Eric Holder
Eric Holder
stated on July 10, 2012 a speech to the NAACP convention in Houston.
Says recent studies indicate that nationally, only 8 percent of white voting-age citizens but 25 percent of African-American voting-age citizens lack government-issued photo IDs.
Mostly True
By Sue Owen, W. Gardner Selby • July 11, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 26, 2012 a speech
The federal government has made investments in science and technology inventing the products that led to the creation of Google.
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • July 9, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on June 26, 2012 a video posted on YouTube
Says state Sen. Paul Sarlo "said in February on NJTV, ‘there will be no tax increases in this budget’" and "voted the other night in the Senate Budget Committee to raise income taxes $800 million."
Mostly True
By Bill Wichert • July 8, 2012
Our Oregon
Our Oregon
stated on June 20, 2012 a newsletter.
Says "while state leaders have cut funding for our schools and other basic priorities, the amount of money the state is projected to give away through tax breaks increased by a whopping $3.4 billion."
Mostly True
By Ian K. Kullgren • July 6, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on July 4, 2012 an interview with CBS News
The Supreme Court said the individual mandate "is a tax. So it's a tax."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 5, 2012
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