Fact Check Posts – Page 162

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

Campaign for America's Future
stated on April 8, 2011 a TV ad.

Says "Congressman Eric Cantor wants to eliminate Social Security."

By Sean Gorman • April 14, 2011

Pink Slip Rick
stated on April 2, 2011 picket signs at a parade.

Says Gov. Rick Scott lost Florida 331,247 jobs.

By Katie Sanders • April 12, 2011

Charlie Sykes
stated on April 6, 2011 comments made during his radio show

Says JoAnne Kloppenburg’s side had a "3-to-1 money advantage" in the Wisconsin Supreme Court campaign.

By Dave Umhoefer • April 10, 2011

Tim Ryan
stated on March 16, 2011 a House committee hearing

"A report in Navy Times said that 7.3 percent of Army, Navy and Marines have thought about attempting suicide."

By Sabrina Eaton • April 8, 2011

Herman Cain
stated on March 15, 2011 a talk at a conservative think tank

Said Planned Parenthood’s early objective was to "help kill black babies before they came into the world."

By Willoughby Mariano • April 8, 2011

Reince Priebus
stated on April 5, 2011 an interview on NBC's "Today" show

"We’ve lost 26 million jobs … since (Obama’s) been president."

By Louis Jacobson • April 6, 2011

Citizens for a Strong America
stated on March 31, 2011 a TV ad

Says Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate JoAnne Kloppenburg "put an 80-year-old farmer in jail for refusing to plant native vegetation on his farm."

By Tom Kertscher • April 1, 2011

JoAnne Kloppenburg
stated on March 29, 2011 a statement at a candidate forum

PolitiFact Wisconsin "concluded that the charge that Justice Prosser prejudges matters that come before the court is True."

By Tom Kertscher • April 1, 2011

David Prosser
stated on March 21, 2011 statement during a candidate forum

Says Supreme Court candidate JoAnne Kloppenburg’s record as a state Justice Department lawyer consists only of the prosecution of cases regarding regulation of docks.

By James B. Nelson • April 1, 2011

John Boehner
stated on March 14, 2011 video

Says the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act adopted last year contains "a series of slush funds, set up to stay on the books automatically, with little or no oversight."

By Sabrina Eaton • March 31, 2011

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