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Latest Fact-Checks By Eric Stirgus

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Elaine Boyer
Elaine Boyer
stated on July 20, 2011 an interview
"[T]his breed (of pit bulls) is most often associated with aggressive behavior."
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • August 3, 2011
Chip Rogers
Chip Rogers
stated on July 11, 2011 Town hall meeting
"The state of Georgia is near the bottom among states for SAT scores and graduation rates."
True
By Eric Stirgus • July 27, 2011
Brian Kemp
Brian Kemp
stated on June 20, 2011
"The State Election Board has issued nearly $275,000 in fines to violators of absentee ballot laws."
True
By Eric Stirgus • July 19, 2011
Jack Murphy
Jack Murphy
stated on June 27, 2011 a press release
Georgia’s illegal-immigration legislation "simply follows existing federal law."
Half-True
By Eric Stirgus • July 18, 2011
Ralph Long
Ralph Long
stated on July 6, 2011 a press conference
"The [Georgia] General Assembly took away the Atlanta Board of Education’s oversight of the superintendent."
Mostly False
By Eric Stirgus • July 13, 2011
Al Roker
Al Roker
stated on June 16, 2011 a broadcast
"(Birmingham, Ala.) is the cradle of the civil rights movement."
Mostly False
By Eric Stirgus • June 28, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on June 13, 2011 a debate
"The right-to-work states are creating a lot more jobs today than the heavily unionized states."
True
By Eric Stirgus • June 21, 2011
Ray Lewis
Ray Lewis
stated on May 25, 2011 an interview
"Do this research … watch how much crime picks up if you take away [football]."
False
By Eric Stirgus • June 17, 2011
Charlotte Nash
Charlotte Nash
stated on May 18, 2011 a speech
"We have the best schools in the United States."
Mostly False
By Eric Stirgus • June 7, 2011
Robert Brown
Robert Brown
stated on May 17, 2011 an interview
"We in the Democratic Party had no input into the locations of these hearings, nor did we have input into the process."
Mostly False
By Eric Stirgus • June 6, 2011
Charlotte Nash
Charlotte Nash
stated on May 18, 2011 a speech
"Annual water usage in 2010 was actually down more than 18 percent from usage in 2006."
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • June 1, 2011
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on May 20, 2011 a press conference
Says the United States is "the Saudi Arabia of coal."
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • May 27, 2011
Nathan Deal
Nathan Deal
stated on May 9, 2011 a speech
"The health care price tag for childhood obesity in Georgia is $2.4 billion annually and rising."
False
By Eric Stirgus • May 20, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on May 11, 2011 a presidential campaign announcement video
"For four years, we balanced the budget and paid off $405 billion in debt."
False
By Eric Stirgus, Louis Jacobson • May 12, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on May 11, 2011 a campaign video
During his time as House speaker, "unemployment came down from 5.6 percent to under 4 (percent)."
False
By Eric Stirgus, Louis Jacobson • May 12, 2011
Renee Unterman
Renee Unterman
stated on April 14, 2011 a speech
"Gwinnett Medical Center is operating in the negative," in part, because of illegal immigrants.
Half-True
By Eric Stirgus • May 11, 2011
Kathleen Sebelius
Kathleen Sebelius
stated on April 19, 2011 a speech
"One of three patients hospitalized (is) harmed by the care they receive."
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • May 3, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 26, 2011 an interview
Says "we have now more Border Patrol officers … than we’ve had at any time in our history."
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • April 29, 2011
Kathleen Angelucci
Kathleen Angelucci
stated on March 9, 2011 a newspaper article
"It is a fact that it costs more to run the schools in August."
Mostly False
By Eric Stirgus • April 22, 2011
Tom Graves
Tom Graves
stated on April 13, 2011 a Twitter post
"America's wealthiest 25 percent pay 86 percent of total income taxes. Wealthiest 5 percent pay 60 percent of total income taxes."
True
By Eric Stirgus • April 20, 2011
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