Fact Check Posts – Page 192

Mike Huckabee
stated on 2007-11-28 a debate in St. Petersburg:

Supported in-state tuition in Arkansas for illegal immigrants "if you'd sat in our schools from the time you're 5 or 6 years old and you had become an A-plus student," among other things.

By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 29, 2007

Mitt Romney
stated on 2007-11-28 St. Petersburg, Fla.:

"No, I did not (have illegal immigrants working at his mansion)."

By Michael Van Sickler • November 28, 2007

Fred Thompson
stated on 2007-11-14 an email press release:

"Gov. Romney's own health care plan in Massachusetts ... requires by law that a representative from Planned Parenthood sit on the MassHealth advisory board."

By Wes Allison • November 27, 2007

Barack Obama
stated on 2007-11-15 Las Vegas, Nev. :

Obama says his health care plan is "universal."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 26, 2007

Rudy Giuliani
stated on 2007-10-05 Washington, D.C.:

"People were hopeless. Sixty percent of the population, 70 percent of the population wanted to live somewhere else. . . . By the time I left, 70 percent wanted to stay."

By Neil Skene • November 21, 2007

Hillary Clinton
stated on 2007-10-30 Philadelphia:

"All of the records, as far as I know, about what we did with health care, those are already available."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 10, 2007

Joe Biden
stated on 2007-10-30 Philadelphia:

"Here's a man who brags about how he made the city safe. It was the Biden crime bill that became the Clinton crime bill that allowed him to do that."

By Wes Allison • November 2, 2007

Mitt Romney
stated on 2007-11-02 a TV ad airing in New Hampshire.:

"She hasn't run a corner store. She hasn't run a state. She hasn't run a city. She has never run anything."

By Michael Van Sickler • November 2, 2007

Rudy Giuliani
stated on 2007-10-21 a Republican debate in Orlando, Fla.:

Thompson "voted against $250,000 caps on damages (and) almost anything that would make our legal system fairer."

By Jody Kyle • October 25, 2007

Rudy Giuliani
stated on 2007-10-21 a debate in Orlando, Fla.:

"I brought down crime more than anyone in this country -- maybe in the history of this country -- while I was mayor of New York City." -

By Wes Allison • October 22, 2007

Tom Tancredo
stated on 2007-09-10:

In 2006, Arizona had four ballot issues that were "very tough on illegal immigration... Forty-seven percent of the Hispanics in Arizona voted for them."

By Amy Hollyfield • October 16, 2007

Mike Huckabee
stated on 2007-09-02:

"The reality is, with a $2 trillion-a-year health care budget, we're spending more on health care, nearly 17 percent of our gross domestic product, versus 3.8 percent of GDP on the entire military budget."

By Michael Van Sickler • October 5, 2007

Democratic National Committee
stated on 2007-10-03 a news release:

"McCain Trying to Have it Both Ways on Iraq"

By Wes Allison • October 3, 2007

Mike Gravel
stated on 2007-09-26 a debate in Hanover, N.H.:

"If we manufactured 5-million of these 2.5-meg windmills across the country, we could electrify the entire nation — the entire nation."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 2, 2007

Mike Huckabee
stated on 2007-09-05 a debate in Durham, N.H.:

"I would love to see us have in this country what I helped lead in Arkansas...Amendment 65 (which) says that we believe life begins at conception, and that we ought to do everything in the world possible to protect it until its natural conclusion."

By Nell Benton • September 6, 2007

Sam Brownback
stated on 2007-09-05 a debate in Durham, N.H.:

In countries that allow gay marriage, the rates of heterosexual marriage "have plummeted to where you have counties now in northern Europe where 80 percent of the first-born children are born out of wedlock."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 6, 2007

John McCain
stated on 2007-08-23 a news release:

Sen. Clinton said "the surge of troops in Iraq was 'working.' Now.... Sen. Clinton says the surge 'has failed' and that we should 'begin the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops.'"

By Wes Allison • August 30, 2007

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