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Bob McDonnell
Bob McDonnell
stated on June 21, 2011 in Bill-signing ceremony:
 "Our crime rate continues to plummet."
Mostly True
By Wes Hester • July 11, 2011
New Hampshire Democratic Party
New Hampshire Democratic Party
stated on June 27, 2011 in a statement by state Democratic chairman Ray Buckley in a call with reporters:
"Mitt Romney is the first Massachusetts politician to run for president and not win the New Hampshire primary in a generation."
Mostly True
By Jake Berry • July 10, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on June 27, 2011 in a roundtable with small business leaders in Salem, N.H.:
By the end of his first term, President Obama will have added as much debt as all the prior 43 presidents combined.
Mostly True
By Maryalice Gill • July 10, 2011
Herb Conaway Jr.
Herb Conaway Jr.
stated on June 20, 2011 in a rally at the Statehouse:
"This governor has cut funding repeatedly for people who have AIDS, who need drugs to save their life."
Mostly True
By Bill Wichert • July 8, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 6, 2011 in a Twitter town hall:
"We have provided at least 16 tax cuts to small businesses."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson, Robert Farley • July 7, 2011
Bill Kristol
Bill Kristol
stated on July 3, 2011 in an interview on "Fox News Sunday":
Forty percent of union members voted Republican in 2008.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 7, 2011
Lisa Hamler-Fugitt
Lisa Hamler-Fugitt
stated on June 1, 2011 in testimony before a House subcommittee:
"Ohio currently ranks 50th out of all states in income growth."
Mostly True
By Tom Feran • July 7, 2011
United for a Fair Economy
United for a Fair Economy
stated on June 7, 2011 in a chart:
From 1947 to 1979, family incomes for rich, middle-income and poor Americans grew about the same rate. But since 1979, incomes for rich families have grown much faster.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 5, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 29, 2011 in a press conference:
"You see a whole bunch of Korean cars here in the United States, and you don't see any American cars in Korea."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 4, 2011
Alberta Darling
Alberta Darling
stated on June 20, 2011 in an interview:
Says the 2011-13 state budget eliminates the structural deficit "for the first time in decades."
Mostly True
By James B. Nelson • July 3, 2011
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on June 17, 2011 in a statement:
"Since I took office, we’ve created 76,800 jobs."
Mostly True
By Becky Bowers • July 1, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 29, 2011 in a press conference:
"If you're a … wealthy CEO or a … hedge fund manager in America right now, your taxes are … lower than they've been since the 1950s."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 29, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on June 27, 2011 in several speeches and interviews:
Says President Barack Obama said that if he doesn’t turn the economy around after three years in office, he’ll be a one-term president.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 29, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on June 22, 2011 in a speech before the Atlanta Press Club:
"On the day of the New Hampshire primary in 1980, the top 13 people of Ronald Reagan’s staff quit."
Mostly True
By Willoughby Mariano • June 29, 2011
Tim Ryan
Tim Ryan
stated on April 14, 2011 in an interview on Fox News:
"For every dollar we invest in Head Start, we get $5 to $7 back into our economy."
Mostly True
By James Ewinger • June 29, 2011
Democratic Party of Virginia
Democratic Party of Virginia
stated on June 2, 2011 in a fundraising appeal.:
Gov. Bob McDonnell launched a "raid on public education to pay for roads."
Mostly True
By Jacob Geiger • June 28, 2011
Charles Odimgbe
Charles Odimgbe
stated on June 20, 2011 in a meeting of the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority board :
"We are one of the most expensive [bus] rides in New England."
Mostly True
By Richard Salit • June 28, 2011
Allen West
Allen West
stated on June 20, 2011 in a Fox News interview:
In the first 24 to 36 hours of the operation in Libya, "you saw $115 million go downrange because a Tomahawk cruise missile is a little over $1 million each."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • June 27, 2011
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
stated on June 13, 2011 in in a radio ad:
"Vern Buchanan. His old business was caught illegally funneling over $60,000 in campaign donations to Buchanan to influence his election."
Mostly True
By Becky Bowers • June 24, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on June 15, 2011 in in an interview on the “The Neal Boortz Radio Show” on Atlanta’s AM 750 and 95.5 FM :
Every 10th dollar spent by the Social Security Administration on its program for the poor is "waste, or fraud, they can’t validate that the people should have gotten it," totaling about $8 billion a year.
Mostly True
By Willoughby Mariano • June 24, 2011
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