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Latest Fact-Checks On John Kasich

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John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on May 12, 2011 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 a campaign video
"Ted Strickland destroyed Ohio jobs when he busted the budget."
False
By Tom Feran • October 19, 2010
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