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Leon Young
stated on January 19, 2013 in a news article:

Wisconsin state lawmakers worked seven days in 2012 but got "paid for a whole year."

Pants on Fire!

By Tom Kertscher • February 6, 2013

Richard Saslaw
stated on January 9, 2013 in an interview:

"One-third of the gasoline is purchased by out-of-state people" in Virginia

False

By Nancy Madsen • February 5, 2013

Chris Christie
stated on January 22, 2013 in a radio interview on New Jersey 101.5’s “Ask the Governor”:

Says "on the state level, we spend less today than Jon Corzine spent in fiscal year 2008, five years later."

Mostly True

By Bill Wichert • February 3, 2013

Steve Henson
stated on January 15, 2013 in a press release:

"State revenue projections have missed the mark month after month."

Half-True

By Eric Stirgus • January 30, 2013

Michelle Rehwinkel Vasilinda
stated on January 24, 2013 in a newspaper interview:

Says state workers have not had across-the-board raises in six years.

True

By Katie Sanders • January 29, 2013

Nathan Deal
stated on January 17, 2013 in a twitter post:

"Spending of government money is 17 percent less than it was a decade ago."

True

By Eric Stirgus • January 29, 2013

Nathan Deal
stated on January 17, 2013 in a speech:

Since taking office in January 2011, "the ‘rainy day’ fund has increased by 226 percent."

True

By Eric Stirgus • January 29, 2013

David Toscano
stated on January 9, 2013 in a speech.:

Virginia "spends less per student today than we did in 2008."

True

By Nancy Madsen • January 21, 2013

Scott Walker
stated on January 4, 2013 in a tweet:

"Thanks to Washington, nearly everyone will pay more in taxes in 2013. Somehow people think it's just the wealthy. It's not."

Half-True

By Dave Umhoefer • January 20, 2013

John Kitzhaber
stated on January 14, 2013 in in State of the State speech:

"It costs $10,000 a year to keep a child in school; it costs $30,000 a year to keep someone in prison."

True

By Janie Har • January 18, 2013

Lincoln Chafee
stated on January 16, 2013 in his State of the State address:

The state budget proposal has been submitted "on time and [it's] the earliest that a governor has done so in over two decades."

True

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 18, 2013

Rick Perry
stated on January 9, 2013 in a press conference.:

Says Texas public school funding grew three times the rate of enrollment from 2002 to 2012.

False

By W. Gardner Selby • January 16, 2013

Dawson Hodgson
stated on January 3, 2013 in a radio interview:

"The amount of money that we put into running our own state legislature is nearly as much as we put into the University of Rhode Island."

False

By Michael McKinney • January 13, 2013

Wendy Davis
stated on January 8, 2013 in a Twitter post.:

Says Texas is "dead last in support for mental health."

Mostly True

By W. Gardner Selby • January 10, 2013

Chris Christie
stated on January 8, 2013 in a State of the State address:

Says in fiscal year 2011, the state had "a projected $11 billion deficit."

Half-True

By Caryn Shinske • January 9, 2013

Bill Seitz
stated on January 10, 2013 in an interview with the Columbus Dispatch:

Ohio's judges, "compared to other similar states, are being woefully underpaid."

Mostly True

By Tom Feran • January 9, 2013

Scott Walker
stated on November 16, 2012 in a speech:

"Our pension system is the only one in the country that’s 100 percent funded."

True

By Dave Umhoefer • January 6, 2013

Kevin Reilly
stated on December 7, 2012 in public remarks:

"Faculty salaries at UW System institutions have now fallen more than 18 percent below the national average."

True

By Dave Umhoefer • December 26, 2012

John Kitzhaber
stated on December 13, 2012 in legislative testimony.:

Says the Nike bill "is not a tax break ... this does not lower the taxes that Nike will pay nor does it prevent the Legislature from raising those taxes in the future."

Mostly True

By Ian K. Kullgren • December 20, 2012

The Campaign to Fix the Debt
stated on December 17, 2012 in a press release:

"If lawmakers fail to avert the fiscal cliff, 18 percent of the federal money that is sent to the states will be eliminated."

False

By Dave Umhoefer • December 20, 2012

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