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Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on 2010-03-26 a press release:
"This week liberal Bill White faced an ethics complaint about more than $83,000 he failed to report to the state Ethics Commission."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • March 31, 2010
Liberty Institute
Liberty Institute
stated on 2010-03-29 a Web site:
"An attack on a healthy 22-year-old homosexual man would be more protected under the law than an attack on an eight-year-old child."
Half-True
By Ciara O'Rourke • March 30, 2010
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on 2010-03-28 a debate on Fox News Sunday:
Marco Rubio controlled funds that "out of the $600,000 that were raised, only $4,000 went to candidates to try to improve their chances to be elected to office."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 29, 2010
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on 2010-03-24 a radio ad:
In Cover Florida "thousands already enrolled and climbing."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • March 25, 2010
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on 2010-02-18 a statement on a campaign Web site:
Marco Rubio "supported $800,000 for AstroTurf for a field where he played flag football." 
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • March 24, 2010
Bill White
Bill White
stated on 2010-03-17 an e-mail:
"Last week the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE), led by Rick Perry's appointee, voted to remove Thomas Jefferson from social studies textbook standards. That's right. Thomas Jefferson... was deleted from a list of historical figures who inspired political change."
Half-True
By Ciara O'Rourke • March 24, 2010
Bill McCollum
Bill McCollum
stated on 2010-03-22 a press conference:
Florida's cost for the Medicaid expansion will be $1.6 billion a year or more.
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 23, 2010
Annise Parker
Annise Parker
stated on 2010-03-10 a newspaper article:
"For years now, we have spent more money than we have taken in."
Half-True
By Ciara O'Rourke • March 21, 2010
Todd Tiahrt
Todd Tiahrt
stated on 2010-03-16 a speech on the House floor.:
The Democratic health care bill will "collect higher taxes for 10 years and provide health care for only six years."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 19, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on 2010-03-19 a health care speech:
"Americans who get their insurance through the workplace, cost savings could be as much as $3,000 less per employee than if we do nothing."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • March 19, 2010
Citizens for Lower Taxes and a Stronger Economy
Citizens for Lower Taxes and a Stronger Economy
stated on 2010-03-15 an interview:
St. Pete Beach's experiences are a "fair example" of what could happen if Amendment 4 passes.
Half-True
By Aaron Sharockman • March 19, 2010
John Yarmuth
John Yarmuth
stated on 2010-03-16 a speech on the House floor:
A national poll found that among people who oppose the Democratic health care reform bill, "almost 40 percent" opposed it not because it goes too far, but because "they don’t think it goes far enough. ... They will not be unhappy when we pass health care reform."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 19, 2010
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on 2010-03-18 a press release:
The Congressional Budget Office analysis of the health insurance reform legislation says the bill "cuts the deficit by $1.2 trillion in the second 10 years."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • March 18, 2010
Cliff Stearns
Cliff Stearns
stated on 2010-03-15 a speech on the House floor:
"There is no precedent for what the Democrats are doing with this deception. ... We have never written a reconciliation bill to amend a law that does not exist."
Half-True
By Catharine Richert • March 17, 2010
David Axelrod
David Axelrod
stated on 2010-03-14 an interview on ABC's This Week:
"Under the ruling of the Supreme Court, any lobbyist could go into any legislator and say, if you don't vote our way on this bill, we're going to run a million-dollar campaign against you in your district."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 17, 2010
Citizens for Lower Taxes and a Stronger Economy
Citizens for Lower Taxes and a Stronger Economy
stated on 2010-03-10 an Internet ad.:
St. Pete Beach's local version of Amendment 4 resulted in "seemingly endless lawsuits (that) decimated the city's legal budget and forced the city to raise the property tax rate."
Half-True
By Aaron Sharockman • March 16, 2010
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on 2010-03-04 a press release:
"Crist stays in $2,000 a night luxury hotel suites where he racks up $1,300 in mini-bar charges, and doesn't pay for a dime of it himself."
Half-True
By Aaron Sharockman • March 12, 2010
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on 2010-02-25 a statement at the health care summit:
The health care bill will "create 4 million jobs, 400,000 jobs almost immediately."
Half-True
By Catharine Richert • March 8, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on 2010-03-03 a Web ad:
Texas is the "fastest growing state" with the "most Fortune 500 companies."
Half-True
By Ciara O'Rourke • March 8, 2010
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on 2010-02-17 an interview with Fox News:
"Charlie Crist was the only prominent Republican in the country to campaign with Barack Obama before the stimulus passed, on behalf of the stimulus."
Half-True
By Aaron Sharockman • March 2, 2010
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