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Latest Fact-Checks By Stephen Koff

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Josh Mandel
Josh Mandel
stated on March 1, 2012 a news release
"Make no mistake -- Sherrod Brown is one of the main D.C. politicians responsible for Ohio jobs moving to China."
Pants on Fire!
By Stephen Koff • March 20, 2012
Chris Redfern
Chris Redfern
stated on February 15, 2012 a news release
Says Mitt Romney supports a plan "to slowly and gradually raise the retirement age of Social Security."
Mostly True
By Stephen Koff • February 22, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 18, 2012 a campaign commercial
"For the first time in 13 years, our dependence on foreign oil is below 50 percent."
Half-True
By Stephen Koff • January 26, 2012
Ohio Republican Party
Ohio Republican Party
stated on January 22, 2012 an interview with The Plain Dealer
Sherrod Brown "has voted with Barack Obama 95 percent of the time."
True
By Stephen Koff • January 25, 2012
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on December 7, 2011 a Senate banking subcommittee hearing
Richard Cordray’s nomination to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau marks the first time in Senate history "that a political party has blocked a nomination of someone because they didn't like the construction of the agency."
True
By Stephen Koff • December 12, 2011
Josh Mandel
Josh Mandel
stated on December 2, 2011 a newspaper column
Sen. Sherrod Brown "has chosen to side with Washington bureaucrats and fringe extremists in the attacks on our natural resources."
Pants on Fire!
By Stephen Koff • December 7, 2011
Jim Jordan
Jim Jordan
stated on November 13, 2011 a newspaper column
"President Obama's recent plan to cut $100 million of waste within his administration won't actually save money because he's going to spend it elsewhere."
Mostly True
By Stephen Koff • December 1, 2011
Josh Mandel
Josh Mandel
stated on November 4, 2011 a news release
Ilana Shafran Mandel’s stake in Forest City Enterprises "constitutes significantly less than 1 percent" of the company’s shares and any implication of a conflict of interest "is legally incorrect."
True
By Stephen Koff • November 10, 2011
Steve LaTourette
Steve LaTourette
stated on October 26, 2011 a statement on his congressional website
"For each $1 billion in infrastructure investment, 42,000 jobs are created."
Half-True
By Stephen Koff • October 26, 2011
Josh Mandel
Josh Mandel
stated on September 28, 2011 a news release
"During Sherrod Brown’s past decade as a D.C. politician, more than one out of every four jobs that has left America, left from Ohio. ... Sherrod Brown will own these horrendous Ohio job numbers next year."
Half-True
By Stephen Koff • October 24, 2011
Josh Mandel
Josh Mandel
stated on September 28, 2011 a news release
Says U.S. Sen Sherrod Brown "promised that the first stimulus bill would fund the Brent Spence Bridge."
Mostly False
By Stephen Koff • September 30, 2011
Josh Mandel
Josh Mandel
stated on September 1, 2011 a television interview
"The majority last quarter of Sherrod Brown's campaign contributions came from outside of the state of Ohio."
False
By Stephen Koff • September 15, 2011
National Republican Senatorial Committee
National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on August 23, 2011 a news release
Sherrod Brown "has stood side by side" with President Barack Obama, presiding "over the most rapid increase in the debt over the last 2.5 years" and hurtling toward " the worst jobs record in the modern era."
Half-True
By Stephen Koff • September 8, 2011
Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on August 10, 2011 a news release
U.S. debt is "now equal to 100 percent of the GDP."
Mostly True
By Stephen Koff • August 18, 2011
Marcia Fudge
Marcia Fudge
stated on July 13, 2011 a news conference on voting rights
Says that voter identification laws "keep poor people from voting, minorities from voting, the elderly from voting, students from voting."
Half-True
By Stephen Koff • August 10, 2011
Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on July 25, 2011 an interview on MSNBC
"Thirty-four of the last 44 (debt ceiling increases) have been for less than a year. So, this notion that short-term is somehow the exception, it's actually the rule."
True
By Stephen Koff • July 27, 2011
Josh Mandel
Josh Mandel
stated on June 24, 2011 a radio interview
"Sherrod Brown was just voted two years in a row the most liberal senator in the United States of America" and is more liberal than Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Half-True
By Stephen Koff • July 18, 2011
Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on June 16, 2011 an interview on the Fox Business Channel
A year since the "Recovery Summer," there has been been "a fall, winter and spring of no recovery."
Mostly False
By Stephen Koff • July 5, 2011
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on June 20, 2011 a campaign fund-raising letter
There is a Republican "plan to end Medicare."
False
By Stephen Koff • June 27, 2011
Brian Deese
Brian Deese
stated on June 2, 2011 a telephone news conference
"We've seen 115,000 jobs created in the American auto industry since GM and Chrysler emerged from bankruptcy."
Half-True
By Stephen Koff • June 9, 2011
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