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Latest Fact-Checks On John Kasich

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John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on May 12, 2011 in an interview on Fox News:
"We are in the bottom 10 in dollars in the classroom and the top 10 in dollars in the bureaucracy and red tape."
Mostly True
By Reginald Fields • May 30, 2011
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on May 10, 2011 in a speech to the Ohio Chamber of Commerce:
"We're within 600 miles of 60 percent of America. We're in a perfect location."
True
By Tom Feran • May 13, 2011
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on April 26, 2011 in a radio interview:
"Two million federal workers negotiate zippo, zero. There is no collective bargaining for federal employees."
Mostly False
By Joe Guillen • May 10, 2011
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on April 19, 2011 in a news conference:
"State employees are actually going to get a pay raise."
False
By Tom Feran • May 3, 2011
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on March 31, 2011 in 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
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on March 8, 2011 in 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
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on March 8, 2011 in his State of the State speech:
Ohio Director of Job Creation "Mark Kvamme just clawed back about $900,000 from companies that made promises and they didn't keep them."
Half-True
By Mark Naymik • March 23, 2011
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on February 21, 2011 in an interview on Fox News:
"Our average private sector employee pays 23 percent for their health care. Our average city worker in Ohio pays 9 percent."
True
By Joe Guillen • March 10, 2011
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on February 22, 2011 in an interview on CNN:
"We have lost 600,000 jobs over the period of the last 10 years. Only Michigan and California have done worse."
True
By Tom Feran • March 4, 2011
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on February 21, 2011 in a CNN interview:
"President Obama came to Ohio 12 times to try to defeat me and guess what? He didn't win."
Mostly False
By Mark Naymik • February 25, 2011
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on February 6, 2011 in 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
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on January 14, 2011 in 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
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on January 7, 2011 in a news conference:
On whether the state should privatize the Ohio Turnpike.
No Flip
By Tom Feran • January 19, 2011
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on December 14, 2010 in a news conference:
"Ohio has lost more population than every other state in the country except for two."
False
By Reginald Fields • January 5, 2011
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on December 3, 2010 in a gathering with reporters:
"I think [a little] less than half of the people in our prisons are in there for less than a year.  ... We have people who are check kiters and don't pay child support and we are locking them up in the state pen."
True
By Mark Naymik • December 10, 2010
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on November 19, 2010 in a CNN interview:
"They tried to give us $400 million to build a high-speed train that goes 39 miles an hour."
Half-True
By Reginald Fields • December 8, 2010
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on November 3, 2010 in a news conference:
"Ohio ranks 46th in the country in putting dollars in the classroom."
Mostly True
By Reginald Fields • November 30, 2010
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on November 4, 2010 in a speech to lobbyists:
John Kasich says he won, despite "12 visits by a president, somewhere between $45 (million) and $50 million (spent against him,) 500 paid volunteers in here calling me every name in the book, former presidents, first ladies and God-knows-who-else."  
Half-True
By Mark Naymik • November 15, 2010
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on October 14, 2010 in a campaign video:
"(John) Kasich was the architect who balanced the budget, cut spending, created a surplus, igniting record job creation."
Half-True
By Tom Feran • October 31, 2010
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on October 3, 2010 in a campaign video:
"Ted Strickland destroyed Ohio jobs when he busted the budget."
False
By Tom Feran • October 19, 2010
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