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Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on November 23, 2011 in a press conference:
Newt Gingrich’s immigration plan offers "a new doorway to amnesty."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 2, 2011
Loretta Weinberg
Loretta Weinberg
stated on November 21, 2011 in a column on bluejersey.com:
"(Chris Christie) has not paid one dollar of state money into our pension system, and then states that the system is broke."
Mostly True
By Bill Wichert • December 2, 2011
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on November 18, 2011 in a forum at the University of Notre Dame:
Says "out of 588 school districts, we give 31 (former Abbott) districts 70 percent of the aid."
Mostly True
By Bill Wichert • December 1, 2011
Jim Jordan
Jim Jordan
stated on November 13, 2011 in a newspaper column:
"President Obama's recent plan to cut $100 million of waste within his administration won't actually save money because he's going to spend it elsewhere."
Mostly True
By Stephen Koff • December 1, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on November 16, 2011 in a letter to Nancy Pelosi:
"A part-time Congress with half the pay would still make $38,000 a year more than the average American family."
Mostly True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • December 1, 2011
Democratic National Committee
Democratic National Committee
stated on November 28, 2011 in a Web ad:
Says Mitt Romney has said different things about whether global warming is caused by humans
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 30, 2011
Eric Gray
Eric Gray
stated on November 3, 2011 in a speech:
Georgia is one of seven states to lose jobs in 2011 and has lost 8,200 jobs so far.
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • November 30, 2011
Democratic National Committee
Democratic National Committee
stated on November 28, 2011 in a video ad:
Says Mitt Romney has flip-flopped on his support for President Reagan’s policies.
Mostly True
By Molly Moorhead • November 29, 2011
Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on November 11, 2011 in a Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction hearing:
"We have the second highest corporate tax rate among our trading partners."
Mostly True
By Peter Krouse • November 28, 2011
Eileen Brady
Eileen Brady
stated on November 15, 2011 in in a campaign ad:
Says she "brought together business, labor and hospitals to give 94,000 Oregon children health care."
Mostly True
By Ian K. Kullgren • November 26, 2011
Our Oregon
Our Oregon
stated on November 14, 2011 in a statement on their website:
Says "we’re losing one voter every 13 minutes."
Mostly True
By Ian K. Kullgren • November 23, 2011
D.A. King
D.A. King
stated on October 11, 2011 in an op-ed:
Says Rick Perry "proposed a binational health insurance program with Mexico."
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • November 22, 2011
DeKalb County
DeKalb County
stated on November 11, 2011 in a brochure:
A DeKalb sewer project "will create up to 4,000 direct jobs per year at peak production, many of which will be set aside exclusively for DeKalb residents."
Mostly True
By Willoughby Mariano • November 21, 2011
Tom Hughes
Tom Hughes
stated on November 2, 2011 in a guest column:
Twenty percent of housing in Portland’s Pearl District is ‘affordable.’
Mostly True
By Janie Har • November 18, 2011
David Plouffe
David Plouffe
stated on October 30, 2011 in an interview on "Meet the Press":
The loan guarantee program that helped Solyndra "was a program that was supported by President Bush."
Mostly True
By Becky Bowers • November 17, 2011
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on November 25, 2011 in a speech:
"One-third of our college grads leave Ohio within three years."
Mostly True
By Reginald Fields • November 17, 2011
Public Notice
Public Notice
stated on November 14, 2011 in a political ad:
"41 cents out of every dollar (the U.S. spends) is borrowed from places like China."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 16, 2011
Robert Hagan
Robert Hagan
stated on November 3, 2011 in an interview with Ohio Capital Blog’s Marc Kovac:
"The governor won this state with 49 percent. We had some of the closest races in the House in history. So you’re not dealing with this 70-30, like they want to make it."
Mostly True
By Henry J. Gomez • November 14, 2011
Marcia Fudge
Marcia Fudge
stated on November 1, 2011 in an MSNBC interview with Al Sharpton:
"More than half of the people on food stamps today are children."
Mostly True
By Peter Krouse • November 14, 2011
Sanford Bishop
Sanford Bishop
stated on September 15, 2011 in a letter to the the Postal Regulatory Commission chairwoman:
"No other public or private business in America" except for the U.S. Postal Service must fund 100 percent of employee retirement and retirement health costs in advance.
Mostly True
By Willoughby Mariano • November 11, 2011
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