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Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on August 12, 2012 in an interview on Fox News:

"Mitt Romney is the first major party candidate for president of the United States in modern times not to release at least 12 years of tax returns."

False

By Amy Sherman, Jon Greenberg • August 14, 2012

Floridians for Ethics and Truth in Politics
stated on August 13, 2012 in an attack ad:

Says state Senate candidate Aaron Bean voted to give health care subsidies to illegal immigrants.

False

By Katie Sanders • August 13, 2012

Anna Little
stated on August 2, 2012 in an interview on NJToday:

"We actually made history in 2010. We came the closest in 24 years to defeating Frank Pallone."

False

By Bill Wichert • August 13, 2012

Bob McDonnell
stated on August 6, 2012 in an op-ed.:

The Obama administration is "unwinding our nation’s welfare-to-work requirements."

False

By Sean Gorman • August 13, 2012

Dolores Gresham
stated on July 16, 2012 in in an interview with The Commercial Appeal.:

"I didn’t try to push" a bill to reduce lottery scholarship proceeds for students.

False

By Richard Locker • August 12, 2012

Multnomah County Library Foundation
stated on July 25, 2012 in a newsletter.:

Says library district would come "at no direct cost to the city budget."

False

By Ian K. Kullgren • August 10, 2012

Tomorrow's Vision of Florida
stated on August 6, 2012 in a mailer:

Says Ron Saunders "made the choice to stand with Rick Scott" on expanding school vouchers, restricting scholarships and giving tax breaks to the wealthy.

False

By Amy Sherman • August 10, 2012

stated on July 26, 2012 in a radio ad:

Says Tommy Thompson favors Obama's health care mandate, was publicly thanked by Obama for health reform support and that Thompson "says we can't repeal 'Obamacare.'"

False

By Tom Kertscher • August 10, 2012

Tommy Thompson
stated on July 22, 2012 in an interview:

"I have voted every year in Wisconsin."

False

By Tom Kertscher • August 10, 2012

Paul Broun
stated on August 10, 2012 in a YouTube video:

A United Nations arms treaty would "almost certainly force" the U.S. to "create an international gun registry, setting the stage for full-scale gun confiscation."

False

By Willoughby Mariano • August 10, 2012

Jay Carney
stated on August 7, 2012 in a press White House press briefing:

"Gov. Romney himself, with 28 other Republican governors, supported policies that would have eliminated the time limits in the welfare reform law and allowed people to stay on welfare forever."

False

By Molly Moorhead • August 9, 2012

Priorities USA Action
stated on August 7, 2012 in campaign ad:

Says Mitt Romney and Bain Capital are to blame in a woman’s premature death when they closed the plant where her husband worked.

False

By Jon Greenberg • August 9, 2012

Mark Neumann
stated on August 8, 2012 in campaign website statements:

Says he never voted for a "tax increase."

False

By Tom Kertscher • August 8, 2012

Mitt Romney
stated on August 4, 2012 in a press statement:

President Obama’s lawsuit claims it is unconstitutional for Ohio to allow servicemen and women extended early voting privileges during the state’s early voting period.

False

By Sabrina Eaton • August 6, 2012

Chuck Fleischmann
stated on July 17, 2012 in in a blog post on his campaign website.:

Says that President Obama said that "Small Businesses Succeed Because of Government."

False

By Michael Collins • August 6, 2012

National Republican Congressional Committee
stated on July 30, 2012 in a news release:

In 2010, Betty Sutton "voted to destroy Medicare."

False

By Stephen Koff • August 3, 2012

Michael Riley
stated on July 26, 2012 in a taped debate on "State of the State":

The Congressional Budget Office "has already doubled its estimate for the cost (of Obamacare) so far from roughly $800 billion to $1.7 trillion."

False

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 2, 2012

Kelly Ayotte
stated on July 29, 2012 in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” :

"The president's first major foreign policy speech in Cairo was to apologize for our country."

False

By Maryalice Gill • July 31, 2012

Gerard Robinson
stated on June 15, 2012 in a written statement:

FCAT tests "account for less than 1 percent of the instructional time provided during the year."

False

By Amy Sherman • July 30, 2012

Chris Christie
stated on July 23, 2012 in a news conference:

"What I look at every month is how many more New Jerseyans are back to work. You have another 9,900 last month that are back to work and over almost 90,000 that are back to work now since I became governor."

False

By Erin O'Neill • July 30, 2012

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