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Wes Riddle
Wes Riddle
stated on May 16, 2012 a Facebook post
Says U.S. is giving seven Alaskan islands to Russia.
False
By Sue Owen • July 27, 2012
Lou Ann Zelenik
Lou Ann Zelenik
stated on July 26, 2012 in an ongoing radio commercial.
"Diane Black voted to fund Obamacare."
False
By Michael Collins • July 27, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on July 25, 2012 an introduction to a web video
President Obama was saying success "is the result of government," not "hard-working people," when he said, "If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 26, 2012
Mark Neumann
Mark Neumann
stated on July 10, 2012 an interview
"Obamacare" is the "biggest tax increase in American history."
False
By Tom Kertscher • July 25, 2012
Steve Brown
Steve Brown
stated on July 12, 2012 a forum hosted by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A proposed tax to fund transportation projects would spend $90,000 to take a single vehicle off the road during the morning and afternoon commute.
False
By Willoughby Mariano • July 24, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on July 9, 2012 a speech at the Brookings Institution
"I used my line-item veto authority to veto $360 million dollars in special interest spending, so that our budget this year ... is still smaller than the fiscal year 2008 and 2009 budgets signed by my predecessor."
False
By Erin O'Neill • July 23, 2012
Rachel O'Connor
Rachel O'Connor
stated on July 12, 2012 an interview
The Pasco County budget "has doubled in the past three years."
False
By Lee Logan • July 22, 2012
Bill Pascrell
Bill Pascrell
stated on July 18, 2012 an interview on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal
Says President Barack Obama "has not raised taxes."
False
By Erin O'Neill • July 22, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on July 18, 2012 a campaign commercial
Says stimulus money went to buy electric cars from Finland as a payback to Obama supporters.
False
By Jon Greenberg • July 20, 2012
Lou Greenwald
Lou Greenwald
stated on July 15, 2012 an interview on 6abc’s “Inside Story”
Says "the money is in the budget" to give a tax break to "everyone," including people making more than $1 million.
False
By Bill Wichert • July 18, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 17, 2012 a speech in San Antonio.
Mitt Romney "says the Arizona immigration law should be a model for the nation."  
False
By W. Gardner Selby • July 17, 2012
Steve Doocy
Steve Doocy
stated on July 11, 2012 a discussion on "Fox & Friends"
"If you make more than $250,000 a year … you only really take home about $125,000."
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 16, 2012
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on July 8, 2012 a newspaper op-ed
The health care law "adds around $800 billion of taxes on the American people. It does not discriminate between rich and poor."
False
By Katie Sanders • July 16, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on July 9, 2012 an appearance at the Brookings Institution
"New Jersey today has fewer employees in state government than it had when Christie Whitman left office in January of 2001, and I think that’s good. And we did it without any layoffs. We did it through attrition."
False
By Bill Wichert • July 16, 2012
Brian Robinson
Brian Robinson
stated on July 8, 2012 an article
Funding the federal health care law without a tax hike will "require the state to cut nearly a quarter of its annual budget."
False
By Eric Stirgus • July 16, 2012
Tommy Thompson
Tommy Thompson
stated on June 13, 2012 tweets
Says he "never supported" federal health care individual mandate.
False
By Tom Kertscher • July 15, 2012
Joseph Kyrillos
Joseph Kyrillos
stated on July 11, 2012 an interview on WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show
"We are not producing jobs. We created 80,000 jobs last month. We don't talk about the jobs that we lost. The net of it all is that we lost jobs."
False
By Erin O'Neill • July 15, 2012
Jeff Duncan
Jeff Duncan
stated on July 10, 2012 a tweet
"83% of doctors have considered leaving the profession because of #Obamacare."
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 12, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on July 9, 2012 a speech at the Brookings Institution
Says New Jersey’s tenure law "has now been reformed to say that if teachers get two years of partially effective or ineffective ratings they lose tenure."
False
By Erin O'Neill • July 12, 2012
American Commitment
American Commitment
stated on July 10, 2012 a television ad
The health care law could cost up to $2 trillion, "double what we were promised."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 11, 2012
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