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Latest Fact-Checks In Ohio

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Ohio Alliance for Retired Americans
Ohio Alliance for Retired Americans
stated on January 10, 2011 a news release
Says Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine is hypocritical for challenging the constitutionality of the new health care law.
False
By Stephen Koff • January 17, 2011
Robert Hagan
Robert Hagan
stated on December 8, 2010 a speech in the Ohio House of Representatives
Ohio taxpayers spent more than $67 million "for the year" on food stamps and Medicaid for Wal-Mart workers
Half-True
By Joe Guillen • January 12, 2011
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on January 5, 2011 a speech in the House of Representatives
"Our spending has caught up with us, and our debt soon will eclipse the entire size of our national economy."
True
By Stephen Koff • January 10, 2011
Brent Larkin
Brent Larkin
stated on January 2, 2011 a newspaper column
Says the 3C Corridor train would have taken  "an hour and 15 minutes longer" to carry passengers across Ohio "than it would have taken on a New York Central train in 1935."
True
By Tom Feran • January 7, 2011
Dan Moore
Dan Moore
stated on January 3, 2011 an interview with The Plain Dealer
"It's taken more time to complete the Towpath Trail than it did to build the (Ohio & Erie) Canal."
True
By Tom Feran • January 6, 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
Mike Polensek
Mike Polensek
stated on November 18, 2010 a public meeting
"We're worse than a Third World country in terms of water quality and the way we treat our sewage."
Half-True
By Tom Feran • January 4, 2011
Ted Strickland
Ted Strickland
stated on December 20, 2010 an interview with The Plain Dealer
"We are one of only two states to have eight consecutive months of declining unemployment. Twenty-one states had increased unemployment last month. Ours went down."
True
By Reginald Fields • January 3, 2011
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on December 9, 2010 a CNN interview
The tax cut deal is giving "$700 billion to millionaires and billionaires."
False
By Stephen Koff • December 15, 2010
Teresa Fedor
Teresa Fedor
stated on December 1, 2010 a speech in the Ohio Senate
"Toledo … is fourth in the nation behind much bigger cities — Miami, Las Vegas, Portland — in number of human trafficking arrests and rescues."
Mostly False
By Aaron Marshall • December 14, 2010
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
stated on December 7, 2010 a news release
Says Jim Renacci ran against the Washington establishment in the election, but is now "hypocritically embracing it with big money, special interest fundraisers."
Half-True
By Sabrina Eaton • December 13, 2010
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
Jim Zehringer
Jim Zehringer
stated on November 16, 2010 a news conference
"Ohio is losing over 700 family farms a year, some of them just to pay the inheritance tax."
True
By Joe Guillen • December 9, 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
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on November 30, 2010 an MSNBC interview
"Understand, this is unemployment insurance. It’s not welfare, as a lot of my Republican colleagues like to suggest it is. You pay into it when you’re working. You get help when you’re not."
Mostly True
By Stephen Koff • December 7, 2010
Dennis Kucinich
Dennis Kucinich
stated on November 10, 2010 a news release
"We are giving almost $2 billion of taxpayer money to the junk food and fast food industries every year to make the (childhood obesity) epidemic worse."
False
By Tom Feran • December 6, 2010
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
stated on November 22, 2010 his radio broadcast
"This town (Wilmington, Ohio) hasn’t taken any money from the government. They don’t want any money from the government."
Pants on Fire!
By Mark Naymik • December 3, 2010
National Republican Senatorial Committee
National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on November 30, 2010 a news release
Says Sen. Sherrod Brown voted to keep "an extreme, job-killing Internal Revenue Service paperwork mandate."
Mostly False
By Stephen Koff • December 2, 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
Armond Budish
Armond Budish
stated on November 17, 2010 a news release
"We (Democrats) have made steady progress creating jobs and improving our schools."
Half-True
By Mark Naymik • November 26, 2010
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