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Bill White
Bill White
stated on August 9, 2010 in a TV interview.:
"The state budget has gone up over 80 percent under Rick Perry."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • August 12, 2010
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on August 2, 2010 in a campaign video:
"If we ban the practice of earmarks, we could save the American taxpayer anywhere between $15 (billion) to $20 billion dollars a year in pork-barrel spending."  
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By Amy Sherman • August 10, 2010
Lee Fisher
Lee Fisher
stated on June 16, 2010 in a news release:
Rob Portman has taken more than $125,000 from "Big Oil."
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By Stephen Koff • August 6, 2010
Holly Benson
Holly Benson
stated on July 31, 2010 in a candidates' debate:
"Florida is now the No. 1 state in the country for automobile accident fraud."
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By Lukas Pleva • August 5, 2010
Republican National Committee
Republican National Committee
stated on August 2, 2010 in a press release:
Georgia has lost more than 124,000 jobs and the unemployment rate has increased since the stimulus passed
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By Eric Stirgus • August 5, 2010
Ted Strickland
Ted Strickland
stated on July 17, 2010 in a news release:
"In 2009, the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council ranked Ohio 11th in the nation and 1st in the Midwest for overall business climate."
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By Mark Naymik • August 4, 2010
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on July 27, 2010 in a press conference:
"Eight of the nine justices in the Supreme Court decision (on campaign finance) said that not only is it constitutional for Congress to require disclosure of the special interest money, but they recommend we do it."
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By Alex Holt • August 4, 2010
Nathan Deal
Nathan Deal
stated on July 30, 2010 in a press release:
Republican candidate for governor "Karen Handel has run a 100 percent negative campaign."
Mostly True
By Willoughby Mariano • August 4, 2010
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on August 1, 2010 in an interview on ABC's "This Week":
House Democrats "have a two-to-one advantage money-wise" against House Republicans.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • August 3, 2010
Pam Bondi
Pam Bondi
stated on July 31, 2010 in a Bay News 9/CFN 13 debate.:
Mortgage fraud is "up 400 percent in the last five years."
Mostly True
By Aaron Sharockman • August 2, 2010
Republican Party of Texas
Republican Party of Texas
stated on July 19, 2010 in a message on Twitter:
Says President Barack Obama initially said the national health-care mandate isn't a tax, but his administration now says it is a tax.
Mostly True
By Ciara O'Rourke • August 2, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 22, 2010 in remarks at a bill signing:
The president's budget "would take ... non-defense spending to its lowest level ... as a percentage of the economy since JFK."
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By Louis Jacobson • July 29, 2010
Progress Ohio
Progress Ohio
stated on March 12, 2010 in a video posted online in a blog article:
"In 2009, Yost spent 2.5 times more money than it took to run the (prosecutor’s) office before he got there."
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By Joe Guillen • July 29, 2010
Ted Strickland
Ted Strickland
stated on July 6, 2010 in a campaign speech:
"Ohio’s electricity rates are 10 percent below the national average."
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By Reginald Fields • July 27, 2010
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on July 25, 2010 in campaign materials.:
"My 7-step plan" creates 700,000 jobs in 7 years.
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By Aaron Sharockman • July 26, 2010
Stephen Hayes
Stephen Hayes
stated on July 25, 2010 in a roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week":
Shirley Sherrod "was forced to resign before anybody on Fox said a word about this."
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By Louis Jacobson • July 26, 2010
Jane Norton
Jane Norton
stated on July 9, 2010 in a television ad:
"Ken Buck's (District Attorney's) office? His spending skyrocketed by 40 percent."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 26, 2010
Tom Ganley
Tom Ganley
stated on July 6, 2010 in a statement posted to his website:
"The Arizona law basically parrots the federal immigration law."
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By Sabrina Eaton • July 24, 2010
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on July 19, 2010 in comments on her MSNBC show.:
Marco Rubio's "economic proposals will add $3.5 trillion to the federal deficit."
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By Aaron Sharockman • July 23, 2010
Stephen Colbert
Stephen Colbert
stated on July 6, 2010 in a segement on The Colbert Report:
"It turns out that Texas has an $18 billion budget shortfall and can't afford its new science textbooks."
Mostly True
By Ciara O'Rourke • July 23, 2010
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