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Pam Bondi
Pam Bondi
stated on July 15, 2010 in a campaign mail piece.:
Opponent Holly Benson said that "Just because you're poor doesn't mean you're unhealthy, it just means you have a lot more time to go running."
Mostly True
By Aaron Sharockman • July 20, 2010
Bill White
Bill White
stated on June 25, 2010 in a speech to the Texas Democratic Party convention in Corpus Christi:
"Rick Perry accepted more stimulus funds than any other governor except the governors of California and New York."
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By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • July 18, 2010
John McCain
John McCain
stated on May 26, 2010 in a political ad:
As a Congressman, J.D. Hayworth was an avid earmarker who supported such pork as "$220,000 to renovate a Maine Blueberry farm" and "$5.8 million for a Vermont snowmobile trail."
Mostly True
By Robert Farley • July 16, 2010
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 14, 2010 in a news conference:
"We went from losing 3 million jobs in the last six months of the Bush Administration," adding almost 600,000 private sector jobs in the first six months of the year.
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By Louis Jacobson • July 15, 2010
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on July 9, 2010 in a press release:
"$120,000 will be spent by taxpayers on Charlie Crist's political photo-op special session."
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By Amy Sherman • July 14, 2010
Ed Gillespie
Ed Gillespie
stated on July 11, 2010 in an appearance on NBC's Meet the Press:
Under President George W. Bush, the U.S. had "52 months of ... uninterrupted job creation" and "revenues were at an all-time high in 2007."
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By Louis Jacobson • July 14, 2010
David Axelrod
David Axelrod
stated on July 11, 2010 in an interview on "This Week.":
Republicans extended unemployment insurance under President Bush "when he asked to extend unemployment insurance."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 13, 2010
Luis Gutierrez
Luis Gutierrez
stated on July 11, 2010 in an interview on ABC's 'This Week':
"Forty percent of the undocumented workers in this country" entered the U.S. legally and "overstayed their visa."
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By Louis Jacobson • July 12, 2010
Roy Barnes
Roy Barnes
stated on July 6, 2010 in a campaign ad:
The state Legislature attempted to "outlaw stem cell research, passes bills about microchips in the brain, and talks about seceding from the Union."
Mostly True
By Willoughby Mariano • July 11, 2010
Ralph Hudgens
Ralph Hudgens
stated on June 22, 2010 in a radio interview broadcast over the Internet:
"The insurance commissioner can’t do squat about health care."
Mostly True
By Willoughby Mariano • July 8, 2010
John McCain
John McCain
stated on July 4, 2010 in an interview on "This Week.":
As a senator, Barack Obama supported "an amendment that basically gutted the legal temporary worker program."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 7, 2010
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on July 1, 2010 in a speech at the Florida Association of Counties conference:
"You know, when this thing first hit, I signed a declaration of emergency for the six counties that were directly affected, impacted in the Panhandle, then I extended that not long thereafter down into Sarasota County."
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By Cristina Silva • July 6, 2010
Jorge Ramos
Jorge Ramos
stated on July 4, 2010 in an interview on ABC's 'This Week':
"President Barack Obama has deported more people in his first year in office than George W. Bush in his last year in office."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 6, 2010
David Barton
David Barton
stated on June 12, 2010 in an open letter:
Says state Rep. Jim Keffer, a GOP lieutenant to House Speaker Joe Straus, "did mail pieces for Democrat Mark Strama to help him defeat" a Republican.
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • July 5, 2010
David Barton
David Barton
stated on June 12, 2010 in an open letter:
Says Republican lieutenants to House Speaker Joe Straus "aired radio ads supporting Democrat(ic state Rep.) Mark Homer... helping the Democrat to a narrow win."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • July 5, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 1, 2010 in a speech:
"Today, we have more boots on the ground near the Southwest border than at any time in our history."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 2, 2010
Lincoln Chafee
Lincoln Chafee
stated on June 18, 2010 in Lincoln Chafee, a posting on his website, Chafee for Governor:
If Rhode Island applied a 1-percent sales tax on all items exempt from sales tax, ''the state would receive an additional $89,376,857.''
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By John Hill • June 30, 2010
Vernon Jones
Vernon Jones
stated on June 3, 2010 in a candidate forum:
"I have a record on the environment of creating green energy ... taking trash and turning it into cash."
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By Eric Stirgus • June 30, 2010
Kendrick Meek
Kendrick Meek
stated on June 22, 2010 in in a U.S. Senate Democratic primary debate:
"The first time he ever voted as a Democrat was here in Florida in 2008. He only voted four times in his life, and he's asking Floridians to come out and vote for him."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • June 29, 2010
Mary Landrieu
Mary Landrieu
stated on June 20, 2010 in comments on 'Meet The Press':
Canada "does spills into their water to practice in the event that this would happen. That is not allowed in the United States."
Mostly True
By Alex Holt • June 28, 2010
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