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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 5, 2010 in a speech on Labor Day:
John Boehner said the jobs of "teachers and nurses and police officers and firefighters" are "'government jobs' that weren't worth saving."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 8, 2010
Pam Bondi
Pam Bondi
stated on July 31, 2010 in a debate:
"By the year 2015 (Medicaid will) take up half our budget."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • September 8, 2010
Jim Renacci
Jim Renacci
stated on September 1, 2010 in a statement on his campaign website:
"Boccieri voted to spend a billion dollars an hour, every hour, for his first 50 days in office"  
Mostly False
By Robert Higgs • September 8, 2010
Republican Party of Texas
Republican Party of Texas
stated on August 30, 2010 in a press release.:
Jim Dunnam "has not lived in the district he represents for years now."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • September 6, 2010
John Loughlin
John Loughlin
stated on August 20, 2010 in a campaign commercial:
After Ronald Reagan cut taxes in 1981 the U.S. enjoyed "exponential growth."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • September 5, 2010
Russ Feingold
Russ Feingold
stated on July 13, 2010 in a campaign ad:
Ron Johnson is "willing to hand over the Great Lakes to the oil companies."
Mostly False
By Cary Spivak • September 3, 2010
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on August 11, 2010 in campaign news releases in the wake of sewage dumping:
"Since being elected, (Tom Barrett) has dumped 8.2 billion gallons of raw sewage into Lake Michigan."
Mostly False
By Lee Bergquist • September 3, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 16, 2010 in a speech at a campaign fund-raiser for Tom Barrett's gubernatorial campaign:
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett "has held the line on property taxes."
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • September 3, 2010
Bill White
Bill White
stated on September 1, 2010 in a press release:
Says Rick Perry is a 25-year incumbent.
Mostly False
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • September 3, 2010
Dave Yost
Dave Yost
stated on August 10, 2010 in a campaign video:
"When Pepper’s tax was finally voted down, Pepper laid off cops and closed jails and let criminals run free in the streets."
Mostly False
By Joe Guillen • September 3, 2010
Blanche Lincoln
Blanche Lincoln
stated on August 19, 2010 in a TV ad:
John Boozman supports "privatizing Social Security"
Mostly False
By Lukas Pleva • September 2, 2010
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on August 24, 2010 in an interview on CNN:
Dan Webster supports "privatization of Social Security, deep cuts in Social Security."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 2, 2010
Steven Schale
Steven Schale
stated on August 31, 2010 in a blog post.:
Charlie Crist's "personal approval numbers are plummeting."
Mostly False
By Aaron Sharockman • September 1, 2010
Chip Rogers
Chip Rogers
stated on August 19, 2010 in a campaign flyer:
"Congress and President Obama have accumulated more debt since he took office than the total amount of debt accumulated during the first 200 years of the United States existence."
Mostly False
By Willoughby Mariano • September 1, 2010
Sam Rashid
Sam Rashid
stated on July 26, 2010 in in a mailer.:
The sales tax increase, if approved, will cost taxpayers "up to $300 million per year, in perpetuity, to finance a rail system for the City of Tampa."
Mostly False
By Bill Varian • August 28, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 18, 2010 in a response to a question during an appearance in Columbus, Ohio.:
Republicans "don't think it's a good idea" to make the child care tax credit "stronger."
Mostly False
By Lukas Pleva • August 27, 2010
Franklin Graham
Franklin Graham
stated on August 19, 2010 in an interview on CNN:
"The seed of Muslim is passed through the father."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 26, 2010
Mark Tapscott
Mark Tapscott
stated on August 23, 2010 in an opinion column in "The Washington Examiner":
"Obama’s stimulus, passed in his first month in office, will cost more than the entire Iraq War."
Mostly False
By Lukas Pleva, Martha M. Hamilton • August 25, 2010
Keith Stokes
Keith Stokes
stated on August 7, 2010 in an interview on WJAR-TV:
"One of the things we found very clearly and consistently is that [video gaming] is a growth industry."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 25, 2010
Pat Toomey
Pat Toomey
stated on July 14, 2010 in a television commercial:
"Joe Sestak ... even wants to bring back the death tax, letting the IRS take half of your savings when you die."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • August 24, 2010
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