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Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on January 13, 2012 in a campaign ad:
Says Mitt Romney "runs away from Ronald Reagan."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • January 13, 2012
Marsha Blackburn
Marsha Blackburn
stated on December 16, 2011 in appearance on Fox Business Channel’s “Varney & Co.”:
New energy standards will take away "our freedom of choice and selection in the light bulbs we have in our homes."
Mostly False
By Bartholomew Sullivan • January 13, 2012
Winning Our Future
Winning Our Future
stated on January 11, 2012 in 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 in 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
Democratic Party of Oregon
Democratic Party of Oregon
stated on January 5, 2012 in campaign material:
Rob Cornilles is a Tea Party candidate.
Mostly False
By Janie Har • January 11, 2012
Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on January 9, 2012 in comments to reporters in Concord, N.H.:
"What’s clear is (Romney) likes firing people."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • January 11, 2012
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on January 10, 2012 in his State of the State address:
"At my first ‘Let’s Get to Work Day’ … we sold out;" more than 240 dozen doughnuts by 8:30 a.m.
Mostly False
By Aaron Sharockman • January 10, 2012
Phil Gingrey
Phil Gingrey
stated on December 28, 2011 in an online news story:
When Georgia tightened its voter identification laws, the state sent a van and photographer to the homes of people who needed photo IDs and made them for free. 
Mostly False
By Willoughby Mariano • January 10, 2012
Nina Turner
Nina Turner
stated on December 30, 2011 in a news release:
Says that after she declared her candidacy for Congress, "the redistricting process was manipulated to allow incumbent politicians to guarantee their re-election."
Mostly False
By Henry J. Gomez • January 10, 2012
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on January 8, 2012 in a Republican presidential primary debate:
Paul Ryan’s Medicare plan provides "pretty much" the same coverage that members of Congress receive.
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Molly Moorhead • January 8, 2012
Anna Little
Anna Little
stated on December 29, 2011 in a message on her campaign website:
"Bob Menendez just voted to increase the government's debt ceiling to $1.9 TRILLION! In his 19 years in Congress, Menendez has helped overspend America over $15 TRILLION into debt."
Mostly False
By Bill Wichert • January 8, 2012
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on December 13, 2011 in a Senate hearing:
"[Renewable energy] projects . . . get us off foreign oil and away, step by step, from these foreign entanglements that we have to get into to defend our oil supply."
Mostly False
By Alex Kuffner • January 8, 2012
Chris Abele
Chris Abele
stated on December 15, 2011 in a television interview:
Says Milwaukee County buses are no less safe now than a year or two ago.
Mostly False
By Dave Umhoefer • January 5, 2012
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on December 1, 2011 in a news conference:
"The Social Security trust fund … is already facing imminent bankruptcy."
Mostly False
By Tom Feran • January 3, 2012
National Republican Congressional Committee
National Republican Congressional Committee
stated on December 13, 2011 in a news release:
Says Rep. Betty Sutton supports allowing "welfare fund withdrawals from strip clubs, casinos and liquor stores."
Mostly False
By Sabrina Eaton • January 2, 2012
Kyleen Wright
Kyleen Wright
stated on December 6, 2011 in a Twitter message.:
Says murder is the chief cause of death for pregnant women.
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • December 26, 2011
Richard Franklin III
Richard Franklin III
stated on November 29, 2011 in an address to the Central Texas Democratic Forum:
Says a trash mound on U.S. 290 is 800 feet tall.
Mostly False
By Sue Owen • December 22, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on December 18, 2011 in an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation":
In a watershed 1958 decision, "the Warren court asserted by itself that the Supreme Court was supreme over the president and the Congress."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • December 20, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on December 10, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate:
A study says Massachusetts has lost 18,000 jobs because residents were required to obtain health insurance under an act signed into law by Mitt Romney.
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Meghan Ashford-Grooms • December 19, 2011
MacIver Institute
MacIver Institute
stated on December 13, 2011 in a video:
"Wisconsin election officials to accept Mickey Mouse, Hitler signatures" on recall petitions.
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • December 18, 2011
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