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Chris Dudley
Chris Dudley
stated on September 30, 2010 the KGW/The Oregonian debate
Says Oregon ranks 43rd in education.
Mostly True
By Ian K. Kullgren • October 7, 2010
Back to Basics
Back to Basics
stated on October 5, 2010 a newspaper ad
Says "the Texas unemployment rate has even grown more than the nation's as a whole."
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By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • October 7, 2010
Commonsense Ten
Commonsense Ten
stated on September 15, 2010 a TV ad
 Says Roy Blunt "secretly inserts language to benefit tobacco giant Philip Morris" into a national security bill while "Blunt's girlfriend and son are lobbyists for the cigarette company, and just days earlier, 26 Philip Morris executives wrote checks to Blunt totaling $23,000."
Mostly True
By Robert Farley • October 5, 2010
Alex Sink
Alex Sink
stated on September 17, 2010 a TV ad
When Tallahassee politicians and bureaucrats tried to run our schools, "I've stood up to them to protect local control."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • September 30, 2010
Jim Huffman
Jim Huffman
stated on September 2, 2010 a press release
"Twice as much (federal) money is going back to Hawaii, Virginia and Alaska than is coming home to Oregon."
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By Janie Har • September 30, 2010
Bill White
Bill White
stated on September 27, 2010 an e-mail
Texas has "a higher unemployment rate than neighboring states."
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By Ciara O'Rourke • September 30, 2010
Jeff Merkley
Jeff Merkley
stated on September 1, 2010 a press release
Says with the ongoing economic downturn, child abuse is on the rise.
Mostly True
By Michelle Cole • September 28, 2010
Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on September 14, 2010 an appearance at The Plain Dealer
On Lee Fisher’s watch, "almost nine out of 10" jobs that Ohio lost were lost to other states, "not to other countries."
Mostly True
By Stephen Koff • September 27, 2010
Peter Kilmartin
Peter Kilmartin
stated on September 20, 2010 a statement on his campaign website
Kilmartin has helped pass laws to "create a witness protection program."
Mostly True
By Cynthia Needham • September 26, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 20, 2010 a televised town hall
"Our tax rates are lower now than they were under Ronald Reagan. They're much lower than they were under Dwight Eisenhower."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • September 22, 2010
Alex Sink
Alex Sink
stated on September 1, 2010 figures cites on campaign website
"Florida spends more than $300 million a year just on children repeating pre-K through 3rd grade."
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By Laura Figueroa • September 21, 2010
Barbara Boxer
Barbara Boxer
stated on September 15, 2010 a political ad
"As the CEO of HP, Carly Fiorina laid off 30,000 workers."
Mostly True
By Robert Farley • September 17, 2010
Jerry Brown
Jerry Brown
stated on September 14, 2010 a campaign ad
"Taxes went down under Jerry Brown."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 17, 2010
J.B. Van Hollen
J.B. Van Hollen
stated on March 18, 2010 written testimony to a Wisconsin Senate committee
"Over 22,000 unique Internet Protocol addresses -- in Wisconsin alone -- have downloaded child pornography."
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • September 15, 2010
Austan Goolsbee
Austan Goolsbee
stated on September 12, 2010 an interview on "This Week."
Extending current tax rates would "average more than $100,000 a year to millionaires and even billionaires."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 13, 2010
Steven Costantino
Steven Costantino
stated on September 1, 2010 a TV commercial
"He's the only candidate who's balanced budgets and brought jobs to Providence."
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By Cynthia Needham • September 11, 2010
Adam Putnam
Adam Putnam
stated on September 9, 2010 an interview with the St. Petersburg Times editorial board.
"We've got to find 2 billion gallons (of water per day) between now and 2025."
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By Aaron Sharockman • September 10, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 8, 2010 a speech in Cleveland, Ohio.
"When these same Republicans –- including Mr. Boehner –- were in charge, the number of earmarks and pet projects went up, not down."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 9, 2010
Mary Jordan
Mary Jordan
stated on September 5, 2010 a roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour"
"The president's party always gets shellacked in midterms. It's only twice, 1934 and 2002, that the president's party actually gained in both the House and the Senate."
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By Louis Jacobson • September 7, 2010
Mary Jordan
Mary Jordan
stated on September 5, 2010 a roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour"
Likens Obama's predicament to 1982, saying, "when Reagan just started out, (unemployment was at) exactly the same point. He was two years into his term. The unemployment was well over 10 percent, and it did come out of it."
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By Louis Jacobson • September 7, 2010
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