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Red, White and Blue Fund
Red, White and Blue Fund
stated on February 24, 2012 in a campaign ad:
Mitt Romney "left Massachusetts $1 billion in debt."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 2, 2012
Campaign for Primary Accountability
Campaign for Primary Accountability
stated on March 28, 2012 in a campaign commercial:
Says Ohio Rep. Marcy Kaptur "actually lives" in "a fancy condo in the Washington, D.C.  suburbs."
False
By Tom Feran • March 2, 2012
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on February 23, 2012 in an interview on WBGO’s “Newark Today”:
"We've seen in this last year tremendous things happening, including our unemployment rate come down 2 percentage points."
False
By Erin O'Neill • March 1, 2012
Ken Allen
Ken Allen
stated on February 16, 2012 in a guest column:
"We have 395 inmates pushed into triple-bunked cells intended for two inmates and bunked in classrooms and areas supposed to be designated for inmate labor."
False
By Janie Har • March 1, 2012
George LeMieux
George LeMieux
stated on February 27, 2012 in a Web ad:
Says Connie Mack "failed to pay his child support."
False
By Amy Sherman • February 29, 2012
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on February 10, 2012 in a radio interview:
"The biggest contribution" behind a decrease in U.S. unemployment "was 1.2 million people leaving the workforce"  
False
By Willoughby Mariano • February 29, 2012
Paige Kreegel
Paige Kreegel
stated on February 15, 2012 in remarks in the state Legislature:
About 800 people refused to get a drug screening because they are "out there on drugs."
False
By Katie Sanders • February 28, 2012
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on February 19, 2012 in a speech :
Claims Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said "she prefers the South African Constitution over the United States Constitution."
False
By Willoughby Mariano • February 28, 2012
Chain email
Chain email
stated on January 31, 2012 in a chain email.:
A Dallas proof-of-insurance ordinance resulted in area tow lots mostly filling with the cars of illegal residents.
False
By Katie Glueck • February 28, 2012
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on February 25, 2012 in a speech in Troy, Mich.:
"President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college."
False
By Louis Jacobson • February 27, 2012
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on February 19, 2012 in an interview on CBS's "Face the Nation":
"Amniocentesis, does, in fact, result more often than not in this country in abortion."
False
By Becky Bowers • February 27, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on February 22, 2012 in a primary debate in Arizona:
"The president gave the (auto) companies to the UAW."
False
By Molly Moorhead • February 27, 2012
Chain email
Chain email
stated on February 23, 2012 in a chain email:
Says Gov. Scott Walker is "openly" backing a move to abolish the state retirement system and convert it to a 401(k)-style plan that will reduce pensions "by at least a third" for current and retired public employees  
False
By Dave Umhoefer • February 27, 2012
Kathleen Vinehout
Kathleen Vinehout
stated on February 15, 2012 in remarks:
Says 21,000 Wisconsin residents got jobs in 2011, but "18,000 of them" were in other states.
False
By Tom Kertscher • February 26, 2012
David Silverman
David Silverman
stated on February 17, 2012 in a story on TV website:
"There are more atheists in the country right now than Jews, Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists combined and doubled."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 26, 2012
Bill Pascrell
Bill Pascrell
stated on February 1, 2012 in a speech on the House floor:
Says "sixty-two percent of small businesses over the last five years went under because they couldn't pay their health care bills."
False
By Bill Wichert • February 24, 2012
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on February 18, 2012 in a campaign speech in Cobb County:
"You can’t put a gun rack in a [Chevrolet] Volt."  
False
By Willoughby Mariano • February 24, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 15, 2012 in a speech at Milwaukee's Master Lock plant:
"For the first time since 1990, American manufacturers are creating new jobs."
False
By Dave Umhoefer • February 22, 2012
Stephen Sweeney
Stephen Sweeney
stated on February 10, 2012 in an interview on WNYC’s “The Brian Lehrer Show”:
Says "67 percent of marriages now wind up in divorce."
False
By Erin O'Neill • February 20, 2012
Steve Rothman
Steve Rothman
stated on February 8, 2012 in a speech on the House floor:
"The Republicans just voted last year to end Medicare."
False
By Bill Wichert • February 19, 2012
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