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Latest Fact-Checks In Ohio

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National Republican Senatorial Committee
National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on February 17, 2011 a news release
Since Sherrod Brown and the Democrats "rammed" the economic stimulus bill through, "Ohio's unemployment rate has risen to 9.6 percent, above the national average."
Half-True
By Stephen Koff • February 22, 2011
William G. Batchelder
William G. Batchelder
stated on February 4, 2011 an interview on WCPN 90.3 FM
"75 percent of the jobs created in the state of Ohio are created in small business. They are not created by huge corporations and those who are very wealthy."
Mostly True
By James McCarty • February 21, 2011
Dennis Kucinich
Dennis Kucinich
stated on January 24, 2011
"One of the biggest causes of our soaring debt and economic insecurity ends up being Pentagon spending. The budget for the Pentagon consumes more than half of our discretionary spending."
True
By Tom Feran • February 18, 2011
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on February 6, 2011 a newspaper column
Says there are Ohio Turnpike workers getting paid $66,000 a year to collect tolls that machines might collect.
Mostly True
By Reginald Fields • February 17, 2011
Jim Jordan
Jim Jordan
stated on January 20, 2011 a speech to the Heritage Foundation
"Our debt to GDP ratios, our deficit to GDP ratios are quickly approaching the countries we have been reading about for the last year and a half. We are not far behind Ireland, Greece, Portugal and Spain and all these countries we have been reading about."
Half-True
By Sabrina Eaton • February 16, 2011
Matt Lundy
Matt Lundy
stated on February 7, 2011 a news release
"There is nothing in the current state public records law that prohibits sensitive or confidential business information from being just that, confidential."
True
By Joe Guillen • February 15, 2011
Jay Hottinger
Jay Hottinger
stated on February 9, 2011
Says Ohio is one of just 17 states with an estate tax, and it has "the lowest threshold in the nation."
True
By Tom Feran • February 11, 2011
Jim Renacci
Jim Renacci
stated on January 4, 2011 an interview on WCPN 90.3 FM
"For [GM] to pay back everything it owes, it would have to sell its shares at $143 a share . . . where the highest value of a General Motors share ever was $43, $44, $46, whatever the dollars were . . ."
False
By Tom Feran • February 9, 2011
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on January 14, 2011 a news conference
Says an EPA permit "languished" under Strickland but his new EPA director got it done in two days.
Mostly False
By Aaron Marshall • February 7, 2011
William G. Batchelder
William G. Batchelder
stated on January 4, 2011 an interview on WCPN 90.3 FM
Says getting ex-cons to successfully return to society is important "so we are not always faced constantly with recidivism, which is a big problem in the penitentiary today – in the 70 to 80 percent range."
Pants on Fire!
By Mark Naymik • February 5, 2011
Lorraine Fende
Lorraine Fende
stated on January 17, 2011 an interview with The Columbus Dispatch
Says that in Ohio "right now, you could be 8½ months pregnant and have an abortion for no reason."
Mostly True
By Joe Guillen • February 4, 2011
Jim Renacci
Jim Renacci
stated on January 10, 2011 a town hall forum
Says there are "a half a trillion dollars in cuts to Medicare that are going to go in place" as a result of health care reform.
Mostly False
By Sabrina Eaton • February 2, 2011
Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on January 20, 2011 a speech to the Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce
Says the United States does not "trade as much as other developed nations."
True
By Stephen Koff • February 1, 2011
Marcy Kaptur
Marcy Kaptur
stated on November 23, 2010 an MSNBC interview
"Six institutions in our country now control two thirds of the capital."
False
By Sabrina Eaton • January 28, 2011
William G. Batchelder
William G. Batchelder
stated on January 3, 2011 a speech in the Ohio House of Representatives
Says a "Canadian provincial prime minister came to Ohio for his medical treatment because of the delay in Canadian health care which would have endangered his life."
Pants on Fire!
By Aaron Marshall • January 26, 2011
Dennis Kucinich
Dennis Kucinich
stated on January 6, 2011 a FoxNews interview
Says the Defense Department shrink-wrapped $10.8 billion in American money, loaded it on 175 pallets and put it on a transport plane to Iraq where they passed out $100 bills and no one has any receipts.
Mostly False
By Sabrina Eaton • January 24, 2011
Jay Hottinger
Jay Hottinger
stated on January 11, 2011 a speech in the Ohio House of Representatives
"Ben Franklin once quipped that only two things in life were certain: death and taxes. I think even he didn't envision that the tax man would visit on the day of your death."
False
By Tom Feran • January 21, 2011
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on January 11, 2011 an MSNBC interview
Under federal law, Jared Loughner "would not have been able to buy a gun" had he been identified as mentally ill.
Mostly True
By Stephen Koff • January 20, 2011
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on January 7, 2011 a news conference
On whether the state should privatize the Ohio Turnpike.
No Flip
By Tom Feran • January 19, 2011
Dennis Kucinich
Dennis Kucinich
stated on December 31, 2010 a CNN interview
Says that before health care reform, one of every three health care dollars spent -- more than $800 billion a year -- didn't go for health care.
Mostly True
By Tom Feran • January 18, 2011
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