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Jon Husted
Jon Husted
stated on April 7, 2011 remarks to the Ohio League of Women Voters
Says that while his plan would narrow the time for early voting, "it still will be one of the most aggressive early voting time frames in America."
Pants on Fire!
By Aaron Marshall • May 2, 2011
Dennis Kucinich
Dennis Kucinich
stated on April 13, 2011 a radio interview
The Bush tax cuts "helped to create a substantial part of the deficit."
True
By Tom Feran • April 29, 2011
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on April 19, 2011 a speech in Cleveland
"We have created more jobs in this last year than the Bush administration (did) in eight years."
Mostly True
By Mark Naymik • April 28, 2011
Cheryl Grossman
Cheryl Grossman
stated on April 12, 2011 a news conference
"As far as standing committees, we have 10 fewer standing committees. So we’ve saved the state about a quarter-of-a-million dollars through the reduction of the standing committees."
Mostly False
By Reginald Fields • April 27, 2011
Tim Grendell
Tim Grendell
stated on April 18, 2011 a forum on the state budget
"In Senate Bill 5, there is this new method of evaluating teachers. … You’re also going to be rated on what the parents think of you and they can send questionnaires and surveys home to parents."
True
By Joe Guillen • April 26, 2011
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on April 14, 2011 a Senate committee hearing
"Foreign companies in the United States have a significantly higher unionization rate than other companies overall."
True
By Tom Feran • April 25, 2011
Jean Schmidt
Jean Schmidt
stated on April 14, 2011 a speech in the House of Representatives
"For every 33 pregnant women that walk into a Planned Parenthood clinic, 32 receive an abortion."
False
By Sabrina Eaton • April 21, 2011
Marcy Kaptur
Marcy Kaptur
stated on April 6, 2011 a radio interview
General Electric "hasn't really created any jobs in this country, doesn't  pay any taxes, and they're making historic profits."
Half-True
By Stephen Koff • April 20, 2011
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on March 31, 2011 an interview on Fox News
"In this bill that I’ve just signed, we don’t cut anybody’s salary. We don’t take away their pension. And we don’t destroy their health care."
Half-True
By Joe Guillen • April 19, 2011
Dennis Kucinich
Dennis Kucinich
stated on February 10, 2011 a speech in the House of Representatives
"What we have done with the PATRIOT Act, we've given the government enormous powers. We've given the government the right to reach deeply into people's private lives, into their business affairs, without a court order."
Half-True
By James Ewinger • April 18, 2011
Michael Turner
Michael Turner
stated on April 30, 2010 a letter from the Ohio congressional delegation to NASA
A space shuttle the National Museum of the United States Air Force near Dayton would be "within a day's drive of 60 percent of the U.S. population."
Half-True
By Tom Feran • April 14, 2011
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on March 8, 2011 his State of the State speech
There was "some sort of informal commitment to build a (psychiatric) building in downtown Cleveland."
False
By Tom Feran • April 12, 2011
David Pepper
David Pepper
stated on March 10, 2011 an Ohio House committee hearing
"Many states without collective bargaining, such as Arizona, Nevada and North Carolina, have far larger budget deficits than many that do, including Ohio."
Mostly True
By Reginald Fields • April 11, 2011
Tim Ryan
Tim Ryan
stated on March 16, 2011 a House committee hearing
"A report in Navy Times said that 7.3 percent of Army, Navy and Marines have thought about attempting suicide."
Pants on Fire!
By Sabrina Eaton • April 8, 2011
Tim Ryan
Tim Ryan
stated on March 16, 2011 a House committee hearing
"From '05 to '09, we've had 1,100 soldiers commit suicide, one every 36 hours."
True
By Sabrina Eaton • April 8, 2011
Armond Budish
Armond Budish
stated on March 22, 2011
"Across the United States, 25 percent of voting age African Americans do not have the photo ID that this bill would require."
Half-True
By Aaron Marshall • April 7, 2011
Jim Jordan
Jim Jordan
stated on March 22, 2011 an interview on the Fox Business Channel
The federal government has "77 different means-tested social welfare programs."
True
By Stephen Koff • April 5, 2011
William G. Batchelder
William G. Batchelder
stated on March 23, 2011 a news conference
Says a photo ID voting law in Georgia didn't dissuade black voters from participating in voting. "It hasn't, it doesn't, and apparently, if you do cause and effect in that state, it's been helpful."
Half-True
By Tom Feran • April 4, 2011
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on March 14, 2011 video
Says the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act adopted last year contains "a series of slush funds, set up to stay on the books automatically, with little or no oversight."  
Pants on Fire!
By Sabrina Eaton • March 31, 2011
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on March 7, 2011
The "House-passed budget proposal could cut funding for programs that help keep local neighborhoods safe, slash more than $1.7 million in anti-terror funds for Ohio."
True
By Stephen Koff • March 30, 2011
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