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Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 19, 2007
Former business partner Robert Gay says: "The man who helped save my daughter was Mitt Romney."
True
By David DeCamp • December 28, 2007
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 17, 2007 a TV ad airing in Iowa.
Huckabee "granted 1,033 pardons and commutations . . . more clemencies than the previous three governors combined."
True
By Bill Adair • December 28, 2007
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on December 19, 2007 an interview on MSNBC's Morning Joe.
Romney refused to pardon "a decorated soldier" returning from Iraq who had been charged with a crime involving a BB gun when he was 13.
True
By Bill Adair • December 28, 2007
Ron Paul
Ron Paul
stated on December 12, 2007 a debate in Johnston, Iowa
"It used to be the policy of the Republican Party to get rid of the Department of Education. We finally get in charge and a chance to do something, so we double the size of the Department of Education."
True
By Shawn Zeller • December 19, 2007
John McCain
John McCain
stated on November 29, 2007 a campaign event in St. Petersburg
" ... following World War II war crime trials were convened. The Japanese were tried and convicted and hung for war crimes committed against American POWs. Among those charges for which they were convicted was waterboarding."
True
By John Frank • December 18, 2007
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on December 13, 2007 debate in Johnston, Iowa
"George Bush ... used a signing statement (on a FEMA bill) to say, 'I don't have to follow that, unless I choose to.' "
True
By Michael Van Sickler • December 17, 2007
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on December 5, 2007 New York, N.Y.
"Productivity has risen 18 percent ...yet wages have stayed flat... There are 5-million more people in poverty here in our country than there were in 2000."
True
December 15, 2007
Fred Thompson
Fred Thompson
stated on December 12, 2007 debate in Johnston, Iowa
"Five percent of Americans pay over half the income taxes in this country. Forty percent of Americans pay no income taxes at all."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 13, 2007
Chris Dodd
Chris Dodd
stated on December 13, 2007 debate in Johnston, Iowa
"We've got some 37-million of our fellow citizens who are living in poverty; about 12-million or 13-million are children."
True
December 13, 2007
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on December 12, 2007 a TV ad
"When Pakistan erupted in crisis, I spoke to Musharraf before Bush did."
True
By Bill Adair • December 12, 2007
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on November 26, 2007 MSNBC's "Morning Joe"
"This guy didn't even support Ronald Reagan."
True
By Shawn Zeller • December 11, 2007
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on November 26, 2007 a Washington Post interview.
"The oddest thing is he doesn't want to do for America what he did for Massachusetts. He did mandate health care for Massachusetts, which is HillaryCare, and he doesn't want to do that for America."
True
By Jennifer Liberto • December 10, 2007
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on November 20, 2007 a speech in Shenandoah, Iowa
"A ham and cheese sandwich on one slice of bread is the responsibility of the USDA ... But a ham and cheese sandwich on two slices of bread is the responsibility of the Food and Drug Administration."
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By Bill Adair • December 10, 2007
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on December 2, 2007 a news release
"Senator Obama's relatives and friends say he has been talking about running for president for at least the last 15 years," a campaign spokesman said.
True
December 6, 2007
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on November 26, 2007 a TV ad
Romney said "'No' to in-state tuition" for illegal immigrants.
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 5, 2007
John McCain
John McCain
stated on November 26, 2007 Interview on Fox News
"He was a member of the Iraq Study Group and was either fired or quit from a very important commission that was trying to figure out the way forward in Iraq."
True
December 4, 2007
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on November 14, 2007 interview on Fox News
MikeHuckabee.com gets "more hits than virtually any other presidential candidate."
True
December 3, 2007
Ron Paul
Ron Paul
stated on November 28, 2007 a debate in St. Petersburg
"I get the most money from active duty officers and military personnel."
True
By Janet Zink • November 29, 2007
John McCain
John McCain
stated on November 28, 2007 St. Petersburg, Fla.
"I saved the taxpayers $2-billion on a bogus Air Force Boeing tanker deal where people went to jail."
True
By Tom Tobin • November 29, 2007
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on November 28, 2007 St. Petersburg, Fla.
"In the African-American community today, 68 percent of kids born are born out of wedlock."
True
By Janet Zink • November 28, 2007
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