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Stephen Ucci
Stephen Ucci
stated on March 30, 2011 a news release
"A [bank] surveillance camera capturing a criminal’s face and other identifiable traits would certainly discourage robbery attempts and serve as a deterrent to robbers."
False
By Richard Salit • May 6, 2011
Richard Ferruccio
Richard Ferruccio
stated on March 8, 2011 a radio interview
"What we have now is the most generous, in my opinion, 'good time' bill in the entire United States."
False
By Peter Lord • March 21, 2011
National Rifle Association
National Rifle Association
stated on February 10, 2011 a speech by Wayne LaPierre at the Conservative Political Action Conference
"Across the board, violent crime in jurisdictions that recognize the Right to Carry is lower than in areas that prevent it."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 16, 2011
Bob Buckhorn
Bob Buckhorn
stated on January 4, 2011 a radio interview on WFLA-AM 970
"There was no panhandling when I left office."
False
By Lee Logan • January 21, 2011
Lamar Smith
Lamar Smith
stated on December 15, 2010 a news release
"In the last five years, 28,000 people have been killed along the U.S.-Mexico border."
False
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • December 31, 2010
Scott Fitzgerald
Scott Fitzgerald
stated on December 9, 2010 an interview with a newspaper editorial board
"We continue to see these isolated incidents of people trying to vote five, six times a day."
False
By Dave Umhoefer • December 23, 2010
Loranne Ausley
Loranne Ausley
stated on October 11, 2010 a TV ad.
"(Jeff) Atwater's busy helping his friends and wasting our tax dollars -- $48 million for a government building so lavish it's dubbed the 'Taj Mahal,' $100,000 for a golf musuem, and $110 million to build a private prison to help a big contributor."
False
By Aaron Sharockman • October 13, 2010
Erik Wallin
Erik Wallin
stated on September 27, 2010 a news release
Says Peter Kilmartin voted "in favor of expanding the 'good behavior' statute to sex offenders."
False
By Cynthia Needham • October 7, 2010
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on July 16, 2010 an interview with Fox News
"More lives have been lost because of the war with the drug cartels in Juarez alone, just a few blocks from the United States of America, than have been lost in the war in Afghanistan."
False
October 5, 2010
Scott Hassett
Scott Hassett
stated on September 21, 2010 an email to supporters
Says Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen "knew about (the Ken Kratz sexting) case for nearly a year and did nothing about it."
False
October 4, 2010
Jack Conway
Jack Conway
stated on September 14, 2010 a campaign video
Says Rand Paul thinks drug-dealing, theft, burglary and prostitution should be decriminalized.
False
September 27, 2010
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
stated on September 19, 2010 ABC's "This Week"
It's "not true" that since he's been the president, executions in Iran have increased by four times.
False
September 23, 2010
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
stated on September 19, 2010 ABC's "This Week"
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani "was never sentenced to stoning."
False
September 22, 2010
Joseph Fernandez
Joseph Fernandez
stated on August 25, 2010 a candidate mailing
I "kicked crooked cops and government officials off the public pension rolls."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • September 10, 2010
Florida First Initiative
Florida First Initiative
stated on August 17, 2010 in a TV ad.
"Reporters have uncovered another Scott company accused of criminal acts. But Scott won't come clean."
False
By Aaron Sharockman • August 20, 2010
Jeff Kottkamp
Jeff Kottkamp
stated on July 30, 2010 a position paper on his campaign website
"Only a few months ago the FBI arrested three Broward County Commissioners for accepting millions of dollars in trade for illegal favors."
False
By Amy Sherman • July 30, 2010
Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on June 28, 2010 a campaign statement
Says that Lee Fisher once said, "I never met a gun control bill I didn’t like."
False
By Stephen Koff • July 25, 2010
Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly
stated on July 17, 2010 an online column
"Attorney General Eric Holder is involved in the dismissal of the criminal charges" against the New Black Panther Party for voter intimidation  
False
July 23, 2010
Helen Glover
Helen Glover
stated on July 9, 2010 a comment on her talk show
Phoenix is the kidnapping capital "of the Western Hemisphere."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 15, 2010
David Dewhurst
David Dewhurst
stated on June 11, 2010 a speech
"Phoenix, Arizona, I'm told, is now the No. 2 kidnapping capital in the world, right behind Mexico City."
False
June 18, 2010
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