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Allan Fung
Allan Fung
stated on September 29, 2014 a TV commercial
In the 38 Studios deal, "Wall Street investors took a risk, and went bust."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 12, 2014
Pat Roberts
Pat Roberts
stated on October 1, 2014 a Web video
"20,000 Kansans lost their health insurance because of (Obamacare)."
False
By Lauren Carroll • October 9, 2014
Nik Kovac
Nik Kovac
stated on September 30, 2014 a TV interview
Milwaukee police and firefighters "are routinely getting 4 percent raises annually while everybody else is either getting zero or one percent raises."  
False
By Dave Umhoefer • October 9, 2014
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on October 8, 2014 a campaign TV ad
"In the last year, Wisconsin ranked third in Midwest job growth."
False
By Dave Umhoefer • October 9, 2014
Alison Lundergan Grimes
Alison Lundergan Grimes
stated on October 6, 2014 a campaign ad
"The only candidate pocketing big money from people who want to destroy coal is Mitch McConnell."
False
By Steve Contorno • October 8, 2014
Mary Burke
Mary Burke
stated on September 29, 2014 a radio interview
Job creation has gotten worse each year that Scott Walker has been governor.
False
By James B. Nelson • October 8, 2014
Ben Affleck
Ben Affleck
stated on October 3, 2014 an interview on "Real Time with Bill Maher"
The Islamic State is so small it "couldn't fill a Double A ballpark in Charleston, W. Va."
False
By Katie Sanders • October 7, 2014
George Will
George Will
stated on October 5, 2014 comments on "Fox News Sunday"
"The last time there was a sustained surge of confidence in government's competence was under Ronald Reagan."  
False
By Jon Greenberg • October 5, 2014
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on September 19, 2014 a debate in the Rio Grande Valley.
"I’ve been involved in prosecuting a terrorist member of ISIS."
False
By Dylan Baddour • October 3, 2014
Mary Burke
Mary Burke
stated on September 23, 2014 a television ad
New jobs numbers are in, and Wisconsin has "fallen to dead last in Midwest job growth."
False
By James B. Nelson • October 3, 2014
Republican Governors Association
Republican Governors Association
stated on September 23, 2014 a campaign TV ad
Mary "Burke’s record: 130,000 fewer jobs."
False
By Dave Umhoefer • October 3, 2014
Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick
stated on September 29, 2014 a debate in Austin
Leticia Van de Putte "voted to give illegal immigrants in this country free health care--not emergency health care but total free health care."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • October 2, 2014
Joni Ernst
Joni Ernst
stated on September 28, 2014 a debate
Says Bruce Braley "threatened to sue a neighbor over chickens that came onto (his) property."
False
By Lauren Carroll • October 2, 2014
Bruce Braley
Bruce Braley
stated on September 28, 2014 a debate
"I recently had the opportunity to vote to give the president limited authority to begin strikes against terrorists in Iraq and Syria."
False
By Louis Jacobson • October 1, 2014
Jane Harman
Jane Harman
stated on September 28, 2014 a panel on "Fox News Sunday"
The Justice Department’s Fast and Furious gun-walking program "started in the Bush administration."
False
By Katie Sanders • September 30, 2014
One Wisconsin Now
One Wisconsin Now
stated on September 26, 2014 a news release
Scott Walker was elected governor on a promise not to take campaign contributions "from the date of his inauguration until the signing of the state budget," but broke it by taking nearly $5.6 million.  
False
By Tom Kertscher • September 29, 2014
Laura Ingraham
Laura Ingraham
stated on September 28, 2014 comments on ABC's "This Week"
This Congress "adjourned earliest of any time in congressional history before an election."
False
By Jon Greenberg • September 28, 2014
Vincent
Vincent "Buddy" Cianci
stated on September 21, 2014 an interview on WPRI-TV's "Newsmakers."
"In 2001 and '02 . . . we had the pension system funded at (the) 100% level in that year, and we did for two years at that point."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • September 28, 2014
Ed Gillespie
Ed Gillespie
stated on September 9, 2014 a TV ad.
Says Mark Warner told PolitiFact National's "Lie of the Year" in 2013.
False
By Warren Fiske • September 28, 2014
Dan Sullivan
Dan Sullivan
stated on September 19, 2014 an email to supporters
"Sen. Mark Begich cast the deciding vote in favor of President Obama’s authority to issue executive amnesty to illegal aliens."
False
By Lauren Carroll • September 25, 2014
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