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Brian Robinson
Brian Robinson
stated on August 14, 2010 in a newspaper interview:
"Roy Barnes is part of the team that has run up trillions of dollars in debt that Americans will spend years paying off, and they've done it without creating one job."
Mostly False
By Eric Stirgus • August 24, 2010
Mark Sharpe
Mark Sharpe
stated on July 20, 2010 in a campaign mailer:
"Mark Sharpe has lowered property taxes by 17 percent."
Mostly False
By Bill Varian • August 19, 2010
Rick Lazio
Rick Lazio
stated on August 17, 2010 in Fox News "Hannity" program.:
A New York imam wants to "have a mosque at Ground Zero.'' 
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • August 19, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 14, 2010 in his weekly address:
"Some Republican leaders in Congress" are "pushing to make privatizing Social Security a key part of their legislative agenda if they win a majority in Congress this fall."
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • August 18, 2010
Democratic Governors Association
Democratic Governors Association
stated on July 29, 2010 in a statement on a DGA-created website:
Lincoln Chafee "voted with President George W. Bush and the conservative leadership 76% of the time."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 15, 2010
Rebecca Bell-Metereau
Rebecca Bell-Metereau
stated on August 9, 2010 in a campaign flier:
Ken Mercer "wants Sean Hannity and James Dobson included in social studies texts."
Mostly False
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • August 14, 2010
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on August 10, 2010 in a news release:
A bill to aid state and local governments "is fully paid-for by closing costly corporate tax loopholes."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • August 13, 2010
Pam Bondi
Pam Bondi
stated on April 28, 2010 in a speech.:
I've shut down pill mills.
Mostly False
By Aaron Sharockman • August 11, 2010
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on August 3, 2010 in a TV ad.:
"Bill McCollum voted for higher taxes and fees 42 times while he was in Congress."
Mostly False
By Aaron Sharockman • August 10, 2010
George Packer
George Packer
stated on August 8, 2010 in ABC's "This Week":
Despite the U.S. spending $10 billion on Iraq's electrical system, Baghdad still only gets five hours of electricity a day.
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • August 10, 2010
Michael Tyler
Michael Tyler
stated on June 9, 2010 in an op-ed piece in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
"[U]nlike every other major transit system in the nation, MARTA has never received any significant, dedicated funding from the state of Georgia."
Mostly False
By Willoughby Mariano • August 10, 2010
Johnny Isakson
Johnny Isakson
stated on July 28, 2010 in a guest column in The Atlanta Journal Constitution:
Allowing all Bush income tax cuts to expire on Dec. 31 "will amount to the largest tax increase in the history of America."
Mostly False
By Eric Stirgus • August 8, 2010
Pete Sessions
Pete Sessions
stated on July 30, 2010 in a speech in the U.S. House:
"Over the time that President Obama has been in office, we have lost 2.5 million free enterprise system jobs, and, yet, 500,000 federal government jobs have been added."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • August 8, 2010
Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on July 6, 2010 in a television campaign ad:
A bill to cap carbon emissions "could cost Ohio 100,000 jobs."
Mostly False
By Stephen Koff • August 2, 2010
Lee Fisher
Lee Fisher
stated on July 13, 2010 in a news release:
"As President George W. Bush’s trade representative, Portman failed to address China’s currency manipulation, which was inflated to as much as 40 percent in 2006."
Mostly False
By Stephen Koff • August 2, 2010
Kasim Reed
Kasim Reed
stated on July 9, 2010 in a press release:
When Atlanta Police Chief George Turner was interim head of the department, overall crime fell 14 percent and violent crime dropped 22.7 percent.
Mostly False
By Willoughby Mariano • August 1, 2010
Bill Lynch
Bill Lynch
stated on July 15, 2010 in in a press release:
Cicilline "continues to accept hundreds of thousands of dollars in lobbyist, corporate PAC and insider money to fund his campaign."
Mostly False
By Cynthia Needham • August 1, 2010
Dan Gelber
Dan Gelber
stated on July 26, 2010 in a campaign flier.:
Dave Aronberg's career legal experience is "less than two years as Asst. AG/private attorney."
Mostly False
By Aaron Sharockman • July 28, 2010
David Gregory
David Gregory
stated on July 25, 2010 in an interview with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on NBC's Meet the Press:
"25 percent of our economy is the financial sector."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • July 28, 2010
Lee Fisher
Lee Fisher
stated on July 12, 2010 in a campaign statement:
Rob Portman’s "plan to tax, slash and privatize" Social Security "would devastate Ohioans."
Mostly False
By Stephen Koff • July 28, 2010
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