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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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