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Latest Fact-Checks In Redistricting

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Nina Turner
Nina Turner
stated on December 30, 2011 a news release
Says that after she declared her candidacy for Congress, "the redistricting process was manipulated to allow incumbent politicians to guarantee their re-election."
Mostly False
By Henry J. Gomez • January 10, 2012
Republican Party of Texas
Republican Party of Texas
stated on December 5, 2011 an email blast.
More Hispanics "have been elected statewide (in Texas) on the Republican ticket than on the Democratic ticket."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • December 12, 2011
Armond Budish
Armond Budish
stated on November 3, 2011 a news conference
Dem-controlled Ohio House voted "to change the process, to create objective criteria, to modify the Constitution" ... to "take politics out of the efforts to draw legislative boundaries."
False
By Joe Guillen • November 23, 2011
Robert Hagan
Robert Hagan
stated on November 3, 2011 an interview with Ohio Capital Blog’s Marc Kovac
"The governor won this state with 49 percent. We had some of the closest races in the House in history. So you’re not dealing with this 70-30, like they want to make it."
Mostly True
By Henry J. Gomez • November 14, 2011
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on October 26, 2011 a radio interview
Says "over the last 48 years, every governor at the midterm of his first term or her first term has lost seats in the Legislature, with the exception of Jim McGreevey in 2003."
True
By Erin O'Neill • November 6, 2011
Alan Hays
Alan Hays
stated on October 18, 2011 a Senate committee meeting
Proof of citizenship isn't necessary before you register to vote in Florida.
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • November 4, 2011
Dennis Kucinich
Dennis Kucinich
stated on September 14, 2011 an email to supporters
"About 57 percent of registered Democrats in the new (9th Congressional) district come from my old district."
Mostly True
By Sabrina Eaton • October 21, 2011
Chris Redfern
Chris Redfern
stated on September 15, 2011 a news conference
Says that to drive the length of the newly drawn 15th District "you’d find yourself on the road as long as it would take to drive from Columbus to Niagara Falls."
Mostly True
By Aaron Marshall • October 5, 2011
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on July 20, 2011 an interview on CNN
Says that U.S. Rep. Allen West is "a constituent of mine."
True
By Katie Sanders • July 21, 2011
AFL-CIO
AFL-CIO
stated on July 13, 2011 a blog posting
Republican redistricting plans cut Democrat Nancy Nusbaum out of  "her state Senate district by a half a block."
True
By James B. Nelson • July 21, 2011
Alan Hays
Alan Hays
stated on July 13, 2011 a public hearing about redistricting
"Your tax dollars are not being used to sue you, the people."
False
By Amy Sherman • July 20, 2011
Alan Hays
Alan Hays
stated on July 13, 2011 a public hearing about redistricting
"The Florida Legislature has not filed a lawsuit to fight Amendments 5 and 6."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • July 20, 2011
Alan Hays
Alan Hays
stated on July 13, 2011 a public hearing about redistricting
"I did not vote to spend money to fight that (Amendment 6 redistricting) lawsuit." 
True
By Amy Sherman • July 20, 2011
Will Weatherford
Will Weatherford
stated on June 22, 2011 a redistricting meeting in Panama City
"There is no $30 million pot of money" for redistricting issues, including defending redistricting lawsuits. "Your tax dollars are not being spent on anything like that."  
False
By Amy Sherman • June 28, 2011
Nina Perales
Nina Perales
stated on May 31, 2011 a press release.
Says a Republican-drawn map of proposed U.S. House districts for Texas "gerrymanders more than nine million Latinos in Texas to make sure that we have no more electoral opportunity than we did in 1991."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 22, 2011
Robert Brown
Robert Brown
stated on May 17, 2011 an interview
"We in the Democratic Party had no input into the locations of these hearings, nor did we have input into the process."
Mostly False
By Eric Stirgus • June 6, 2011
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on May 18, 2011 his radio program.
Says Rick Perry is "the guy that tracked" down Democratic legislators who fled Texas in 2003.
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • May 28, 2011
Garnet Coleman
Garnet Coleman
stated on April 28, 2011 a press release
Says close to 90 percent of the population growth in Texas over the last decade was non-Anglo.
True
May 9, 2011
Richard Saslaw
Richard Saslaw
stated on April 16, 2011 an interview.
On redistricting.
Full Flop
By Wes Hester • April 29, 2011
Scott Randolph
Scott Randolph
stated on April 4, 2011 comments during an appearance on 'The Rachel Maddow Show' on MSNBC
"We have a guy who is going to be speaker of the House in four years, and his name has been on the ballot one time."
False
By Aaron Sharockman • April 11, 2011
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