Fact Check Posts – Page 162

Evan Longoria
stated on May 19, 2011 comments to reporters.:

Says his barehanded catch posted on YouTube is real.

By Aaron Sharockman • May 24, 2011

Crossroads GPS
stated on May 18, 2011 a Web ad:

"Unions don’t have to comply with Obamacare."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 23, 2011

Chain email
stated on May 16, 2011 a fundraising letter:

Next year, "you will be mandated by federal law to get rid of your existing light bulbs."

By Robert Farley • May 20, 2011

AmeriPAC
stated on May 16, 2011 a fundraising letter:

"The Democrats have already voted to ban our conventional light bulbs ... in favor of dangerous fluorescent light bulbs."

By Robert Farley • May 20, 2011

Nancy Pelosi
stated on May 3, 2011 a chart posted on her Flickr account:

Promotes a chart saying that Barack Obama has "increased the debt" by 16 percent, compared to George W. Bush, who increased it by 115 percent.

By Louis Jacobson • May 19, 2011

Terry McAuliffe
stated on May 7, 2011 a speech.:

"The $1.8 billion in [transportation] bonding, we don’t have a repayment mechanism."

By Jacob Geiger • May 18, 2011

Janet Napolitano
stated on May 7, 2011 Atlanta Press Club speech:

"Very, very, very few people get a pat-down" when they go through airport security.

By Willoughby Mariano • May 17, 2011

Mitt Romney
stated on May 12, 2011 a speech in Ann Arbor, Mich.:

President Obama’s health care law "represents a government takeover of health care."

By Louis Jacobson • May 13, 2011

Christopher Plante
stated on April 29, 2011 a television interview:

"The people of Rhode Island don't want same-sex marriage."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 11, 2011

Rick Hardcastle
stated on April 28, 2011 remarks on the House floor:

Benzene has "never been proven to be harmful."

By Ciara O'Rourke • May 7, 2011

Mike Bennett
stated on May 5, 2011 comments made on the Senate floor.:

Says people in Africa "literally walk two and three hundred miles" in order to vote.

By Aaron Sharockman • May 6, 2011

John Thrasher
stated on May 3, 2011 comments on the Senate floor:

Says that had E-Verify been in place in Florida when 9/11 terrorists lived here, "we might have saved the lives of 3,000 Americans."

By Aaron Sharockman • May 3, 2011

Troy Fraser
stated on April 19, 2011 a Texas Senate committee hearing.:

Says it probably costs more than $300,000 to run for a seat on the Pedernales Electric Cooperative board of directors.

By W. Gardner Selby • May 2, 2011

Jon Husted
stated on April 7, 2011 remarks to the Ohio League of Women Voters:

Says that while his plan would narrow the time for early voting, "it still will be one of the most aggressive early voting time frames in America."

By Aaron Marshall • May 2, 2011

Gordon Robertson
stated on April 23, 2011 a TV interview.:

President Obama was "raised Muslim."

By Sean Gorman • April 28, 2011

Donald Trump
stated on April 27, 2011 a press conference:

After the U.S.-led military alliance ejected Saddam Hussein’s forces from Kuwait in 1991, the Kuwaitis "never paid us."

By Louis Jacobson • April 27, 2011

Leo Berman
stated on April 27, 2011 a Texas Tribune article:

Says the hospital listed on Barack Obama’s just-publicized long-form birth certificate denies the president was born there.

By Meghan Ashford-Grooms, Ciara O'Rourke • April 27, 2011

Donald Trump
stated on April 27, 2011 a press conference:

"CNN did a poll recently where Obama and I are statistically tied."

By Louis Jacobson • April 27, 2011

Dan Kapanke
stated on March 16, 2011 interviews with various media outlets:

Says protesters at the Wisconsin state Capitol on the night the state Senate passed collective bargaining changes damaged the windshield of his car.

By James B. Nelson • April 25, 2011

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
stated on April 18, 2011 a Web ad:

"Seniors will have to find $12,500 for health care because Republicans voted to end Medicare."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 20, 2011

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