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Latest Fact-Checks In Message Machine 2012

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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 18, 2012 a campaign ad
Says PolitiFact has said he "kept a campaign promise to toughen ethics rules."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 19, 2012
Suzanne Bonamici
Suzanne Bonamici
stated on January 17, 2012 a press release
PolitiFact Oregon gave Rob Cornilles a Pants on Fire for a claim about taxes and fees.
Pants on Fire!
By Janie Har • January 18, 2012
Restore Our Future
Restore Our Future
stated on January 13, 2012 a television ad
Says Rick Santorum "voted to let convicted felons vote."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 17, 2012
Rob Cornilles
Rob Cornilles
stated on January 10, 2012 a debate
Suzanne Bonamici was the only no vote on a 2009 bill cracking down on drunk drivers.
True
By Janie Har • January 14, 2012
Suzanne Bonamici
Suzanne Bonamici
stated on January 10, 2012 a debate
"My opponent on day one of this campaign attacked me on Medicare and Medicare Advantage and that claim was found to be False."
True
By Janie Har • January 14, 2012
Suzanne Bonamici
Suzanne Bonamici
stated on January 10, 2012 a debate
"I also voted 98 percent of the time with Republicans in the Oregon Legislature."
False
By Janie Har • January 14, 2012
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on January 13, 2012 a campaign ad
Says Mitt Romney "runs away from Ronald Reagan."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • January 13, 2012
Winning Our Future
Winning Our Future
stated on January 10, 2012 the online video "King of Bain"
Mitt Romney is worth "at least a quarter billion dollars" and the bulk of his wealth "remains in blind trusts and overseas bank accounts."
Half-True
By Molly Moorhead • January 13, 2012
Winning Our Future
Winning Our Future
stated on January 11, 2012 the video, "When Mitt Romney Came to Town"
Says Romney and Bain Capital drove KB Toys into bankruptcy by loading it up with debt.
Mostly False
By Becky Bowers • January 13, 2012
Winning Our Future
Winning Our Future
stated on January 12, 2012 the video, "When Mitt Romney Came to Town"
Mitt Romney’s and Bain Capital’s profits from KB Toys, which later went out of business, were "described by the Boston Herald as ‘disgusting.’"
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • January 13, 2012
Winning Our Future
Winning Our Future
stated on January 12, 2012 the video "When Mitt Romney Came to Town"
Mitt Romney is "tearing down his 3,000-square-foot house to build an 11,000-square-foot house."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 13, 2012
Restore Our Future
Restore Our Future
stated on January 12, 2012 a television ad
Says Newt Gingrich "co-sponsored a bill with Nancy Pelosi that would have given $60 million a year to a U.N. program supporting China’s brutal one-child policy."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 12, 2012
Winning Our Future
Winning Our Future
stated on January 12, 2012 the video, "When Mitt Romney Came to Town"
Mitt Romney has 15 homes.
False
By Louis Jacobson • January 12, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 11, 2012 a page on the Obama campaign website
"Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, and Newt Gingrich all say they would cut foreign aid to Israel — and every other country — to zero."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • January 12, 2012
Democratic Party of Oregon
Democratic Party of Oregon
stated on January 5, 2012 campaign material
Rob Cornilles is a Tea Party candidate.
Mostly False
By Janie Har • January 11, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 6, 2011 a TV airing in Florida
Says he "helped save" the Olympic games.
Mostly True
By Matt Clary • January 6, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 3, 2012 an Obama for America video
President Barack Obama "put in place historic fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks to lower costs at the pump and reduce dependence on foreign oil."
Half-True
By Becky Bowers • January 6, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 3, 2012 a web video advertisement
Says he lived up to a 2008 promise when he "closed corporate tax loopholes that were sending profits overseas."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 5, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 5, 2012 a video ad
Says the National Labor Relations Board told Boeing that it couldn’t build a factory in South Carolina because South Carolina is a right-to-work state.
False
By Jon Greenberg, Molly Moorhead • January 5, 2012
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on January 2, 2012 a Web ad
"Santorum also voted for a teapot museum in North Carolina."
Half-True
By Jake Berry • January 3, 2012
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