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Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on October 18, 2012 a debate
Says U.S. Senate rival Tommy Thompson ran Medicare "into the ground" and "nine years closer to bankruptcy."
False
October 26, 2012
Workers' Voice
Workers' Voice
stated on October 1, 2012 a campaign flier
Says U.S. Senate candidate Tommy Thompson supports a plan for "privatizing Social Security."
False
By Dave Umhoefer • October 25, 2012
Tommy Thompson
Tommy Thompson
stated on October 16, 2012 a TV ad
Says Tammy Baldwin "voted to gut Medicare for seniors."
False
By Dave Umhoefer • October 21, 2012
Tommy Thompson
Tommy Thompson
stated on September 27, 2012 an interview
Says Tammy Baldwin supports a law "in which government will take over your decisions on medicine, on doctors and on hospitals."
False
October 10, 2012
Tommy Thompson
Tommy Thompson
stated on October 27, 2012 an interview
Says U.S. Senate opponent Tammy Baldwin supported a federal budget "that spent trillions -- not billions, trillions -- more money than the Obama budget."
False
October 5, 2012
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
stated on September 19, 2012 a TV ad
Says the "public option" considered in the health care law backed by U.S. Senate candidate Tammy Baldwin was "wildly unpopular."  
False
By Dave Umhoefer • October 1, 2012
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on September 22, 2012 a campaign email
Says 7,000 millionaires "gamed the system to pay no income taxes."
False
September 30, 2012
Rob Zerban
Rob Zerban
stated on August 9, 2012 an interview
U.S. House opponent Paul Ryan supports "cutting funding for veterans by 24 percent."
False
September 23, 2012
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
stated on September 12, 2012 a TV ad
Says U.S. Senate candidate Tommy Thompson "admitted" that Washington, D.C., "changed" him into an insider selling his influence to make millions from powerful special interests.
False
By Dave Umhoefer • September 21, 2012
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
stated on August 29, 2012 a TV ad
Says Republican U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy "voted against paying our soldiers" and "against increasing combat pay" while voting "to protect his own pay."
False
By Dave Umhoefer • September 16, 2012
Reid Ribble
Reid Ribble
stated on August 30, 2012 an interview
Says President Barack Obama "built this $16 trillion debt."
False
September 12, 2012
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on August 29, 2012 a speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa
Says President Barack Obama broke his promise to keep a Wisconsin GM plant from closing.
False
August 30, 2012
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on August 27, 2012 a speech
"Household income in America has gone down for families an average of $4,000 in the last four years" while it " went up $5,000" under Mitt Romney when he was governor of Massachusetts  
False
By Dave Umhoefer • August 28, 2012
stated on July 26, 2012 a radio ad
Says Tommy Thompson favors Obama's health care mandate, was publicly thanked by Obama for health reform support and that Thompson "says we can't repeal 'Obamacare.'"
False
August 10, 2012
Tommy Thompson
Tommy Thompson
stated on July 22, 2012 an interview
 "I have voted every year in Wisconsin."
False
August 10, 2012
Mark Neumann
Mark Neumann
stated on August 8, 2012 campaign website statements
Says he never voted for a "tax increase."
False
August 8, 2012
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on July 12, 2012 an op-ed piece
A study showed that President Barack Obama’s health-care reforms will "devastate Wisconsin" by pushing people off employer-sponsored insurance, driving up premiums, increasing dependency and making 122,000 people ineligible for Medicaid.
False
By Dave Umhoefer, Guy Boulton • July 29, 2012
Mark Neumann
Mark Neumann
stated on July 10, 2012 an interview
"Obamacare" is the "biggest tax increase in American history."
False
July 25, 2012
Tommy Thompson
Tommy Thompson
stated on June 13, 2012 tweets
Says he "never supported" federal health care individual mandate.
False
July 15, 2012
Mark Neumann
Mark Neumann
stated on June 13, 2012 an interview
If the U.S. didn't borrow $1.2 trillion every year "to fund government operations," that money would be available "for entrepreneurs and business people to put to work creating jobs and building and expanding their businesses."
False
July 8, 2012
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