Fact Check Posts – Page 155

Mitt Romney
stated on March 2, 2012 a rally in Cleveland, Ohio

Says in the 2012 State of the Union address, President Obama "didn't even mention the deficit or debt."

By Molly Moorhead • March 5, 2012

Ron Paul
stated on February 22, 2012 a debate in Arizona

"Today gasoline hit $6 a gallon in Florida."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 23, 2012

Frank Niceley
stated on February 1, 2012 a House Conservation and Environment Committee meeting

Says the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency brought coyotes into the state "to try to keep the deer population down."

By Tom Humphrey, Zack McMillin • February 23, 2012

Rick Santorum
stated on February 17, 2012 a campaign event

Says in the last 20 years, the French have not "stood by" the United States on foreign policy.

By Louis Jacobson • February 22, 2012

Myra Crownover
stated on January 30, 2012 her campaign website.

Says Texas legislators in 2011 increased state spending on education.

By W. Gardner Selby • February 20, 2012

Newt Gingrich
stated on February 10, 2012 a radio interview

Says he was "exonerated in every single case" in 1990s ethics violations charges.

By Willoughby Mariano • February 20, 2012

Scott Walker
stated on February 12, 2012 a tweet

A 10-year state program that created 202 jobs at a cost of $247,000 per job was approved by former Gov. Jim Doyle.

By James B. Nelson • February 17, 2012

Restore Our Future
stated on February 15, 2012 a television ad

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."

By Eric Stirgus • February 15, 2012

Patrick Johnston
stated on January 30, 2012 a radio interview

Says abortion is "the most common surgery in our country."

By Aaron Marshall • February 15, 2012

Glee
stated on February 7, 2012 an episode on TV

"The U.S. Census believes that by 2030 the majority of Americans will use Spanish as their first language."

By Amy Sherman • February 14, 2012

Ted Cruz
stated on January 12, 2012 a handout.

David Dewhurst has a "record of promoting an income tax."

By W. Gardner Selby • February 10, 2012

Chain email
stated on February 2, 2012 a message via the Internet

"If you sell your house after 2012 you will pay a 3.8 percent sales tax on it."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 7, 2012

Stacey Campfield
stated on January 26, 2012 an interview with Michelangelo Signorile on the Sirius satellite radio show “OutQ.”

AIDS was transmitted to humans because "one guy" had sex with "a monkey" and then started "having sex with men."

By Zack McMillin • February 3, 2012

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
stated on January 5, 2012 a press release.

Congressman Scott DesJarlais "is spending his one year anniversary on vacation -- only working 6 days in all of January."

By Michael Collins • February 2, 2012

True The Vote
stated on December 12, 2011 a Web post.

"Eric Holder is supportive of the NAACP's efforts to get the United Nations involved in our elections."

By W. Gardner Selby • January 27, 2012

Mitch Daniels
stated on January 24, 2012 a Republican response to the State of the Union address

"Nearly half of all persons under 30 did not go to work today."

By Louis Jacobson • January 25, 2012

Newt Gingrich
stated on January 23, 2012 a Republican presidential primary debate

Newt Gingrich says electric co-ops and credit unions are "government-sponsored enterprises" like Freddie Mac.

By Jon Greenberg, Molly Moorhead • January 24, 2012

Ken Cuccinelli
stated on January 13, 2012 an interview.

Says the D.C. city council passed a law banning lethal rat trapping.

By Sean Gorman • January 23, 2012

National Republican Congressional Committee
stated on January 22, 2012 a news release

Rep. David Cicilline is responsible for the federal loan guarantee to Solyndra, the failed solar company

By Alex Kuffner • January 22, 2012

Rick Santorum
stated on January 11, 2012 comment to reporters.

Rick Santorum says Rick Perry requested 1,200 earmarks as governor of Texas.

By Katie Glueck • January 20, 2012

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