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Jim DeMint
Jim DeMint
stated on June 15, 2012 a news release
Says President Obama's new immigration plan "is amnesty."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • June 20, 2012
Terry Lawler
Terry Lawler
stated on June 16, 2012 a speech
"There is no Plan B" if the transportation referendum is not passed by voters.
Mostly False
By Eric Stirgus • June 20, 2012
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 13, 2012 a Facebook post
"Romneycare covers abortion, illegal immigrants and has a public option. Obamacare does not."
Mostly False
By Molly Moorhead • June 18, 2012
Marsha Blackburn
Marsha Blackburn
stated on June 7, 2012
Says her congressional district has 10,000 medical-device industry jobs and 1,000 will be lost because of health-care law tax.
Mostly False
By Bartholomew Sullivan • June 17, 2012
William O'Brien
William O'Brien
stated on June 14, 2012 a letter to The Telegraph
"The latest evidence of Republican success is that since the beginning of the current legislative term, state unemployment has gone down almost 20% to 5% adjusted."
Mostly False
By Jake Berry • June 15, 2012
Ron Paul
Ron Paul
stated on June 6, 2012 an online message to supporters.
Says he has nearly 200 delegates bound to support his candidacy at the Republican National Convention.
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • June 15, 2012
60 Plus Association
60 Plus Association
stated on June 6, 2012 a television ad
U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson was "the deciding vote for the health care law."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • June 14, 2012
Joseph Kyrillos
Joseph Kyrillos
stated on June 6, 2012 an interview on NJToday
Says Robert Menendez is "the king of raising money from Wall Street, over a million dollars, one of the leaders in the United States Senate. I haven’t raised any Wall Street money at all."
Mostly False
By Bill Wichert • June 14, 2012
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on May 8, 2012 comments to the press
Citizens Property Insurance has "over $500 billion worth of risk, with less than $10 billion worth of surplus."
Mostly False
By Toluse Olorunnipa • June 13, 2012
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on June 6, 2012 a radio appearance
"Overwhelming Democrat and Republican votes" in 2011 for legislation in two special sessions on jobs demonstrated the bipartisan nature of the Wisconsin Legislature.
Mostly False
By Dave Umhoefer • June 13, 2012
American Bridge 21st Century
American Bridge 21st Century
stated on June 7, 2012 a campaign ad
"As Governor: Romney did not keep public safety funding in line with inflation."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • June 12, 2012
Conservative Republicans of Texas PAC
Conservative Republicans of Texas PAC
stated on May 24, 2012 a PAC website.
Says Jeff Wentworth, bending the rules, "has used $211,743.96 in campaign contributions to lease luxury cars."
Mostly False
By Sue Owen • June 11, 2012
Elizabeth Roberts
Elizabeth Roberts
stated on May 24, 2012 a debate on State of the State
"Massachusetts is reporting a trend far below the national trend in the escalation of health-care costs in this year."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 10, 2012
Jeanne Shaheen
Jeanne Shaheen
stated on May 31, 2012 an interview with the editorial board of 'The Telegraph.'
"We spend in tax loopholes annually $1.1 trillion. That's more than we spend on our defense budget in a year, on Medicare or Medicaid in a year."
Mostly False
By Jake Berry • June 8, 2012
John Ludlow
John Ludlow
stated on June 7, 2012 campaign website
Says "As Mayor of Wilsonville, I drove TriMet out of town and replaced their bloated transit system with our own local bus line that offers better service and has saved our businesses millions of dollars."
Mostly False
By Janie Har • June 7, 2012
Gary Johnson
Gary Johnson
stated on June 5, 2012 an interview on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart"
"Right now, I’m polling at about 8 percent" against Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • June 6, 2012
Lisa Blais
Lisa Blais
stated on May 21, 2012 a radio interview
"We came out against Deepwater and everybody is now paying for [the project] in their electric bills."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 3, 2012
Kelly Ayotte
Kelly Ayotte
stated on May 8, 2012 an email to the news media
Says the Affordable Care Act was a federal takeover of the student loan industry and ‘profits’ on the loans go to help pay for the health care law.
Mostly False
By Maryalice Gill • June 1, 2012
National Rifle Association
National Rifle Association
stated on May 16, 2012 a radio ad
Says Tom Barrett "voted to ban 15 different kinds of guns, even a lot of common deer rifles."
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • May 29, 2012
Citizens for Transportation Mobility
Citizens for Transportation Mobility
stated on April 16, 2012 in an advertisement
A government analysis shows under a proposed transportation tax, "metro Atlanta will create or support an additional 200,000 new jobs, including jobs that are maintained year over year."
Mostly False
By Willoughby Mariano • May 29, 2012
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