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Diana DeGette
Diana DeGette
stated on September 5, 2012 a Democratic National Convention speech:
Women "receive only 77 cents for every dollar a man earns."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • September 6, 2012
Deval Patrick
Deval Patrick
stated on September 4, 2012 a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.:
"By the time (Mitt Romney) left office, Massachusetts was 47th in the nation in job creation."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 5, 2012
Bob Buckhorn
Bob Buckhorn
stated on August 28, 2012 a speech at the RNC:
The unemployment rate is declining faster in Tampa "than almost anywhere else."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • August 31, 2012
Nikki Haley
Nikki Haley
stated on August 28, 2012 a speech at the Republican convention:
Says "President Obama and his National Labor Relations Board" sued Boeing over its decision to open a plant in South Carolina.
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • August 30, 2012
David Cicilline
David Cicilline
stated on August 28, 2012 a debate on WPRI.com:
"When President Obama took office, we were losing 700,000 jobs a month. Now we've had job growth, I think, for 24 consecutive months."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 30, 2012
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on August 29, 2012 a speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa:
Says President Barack Obama broke his promise to keep a Wisconsin GM plant from closing.
False
By Tom Kertscher • August 30, 2012
Pam Bondi
Pam Bondi
stated on August 27, 2012 a CNN interview:
Says women care most about jobs and the economy
True
By Katie Sanders • August 29, 2012
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on August 28, 2012 a speech to the Republican National Convention in Tampa:
"Last month, 44 of the 50 states saw an increase in the unemployment rate."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 29, 2012
Sher Valenzuela
Sher Valenzuela
stated on August 28, 2012 a speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa:
"A Gallup report recently said that nearly 50 percent of small business owners aren't hiring because of what they call ‘regulatory uncertainty.’"
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 29, 2012
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on August 27, 2012 a Fox News interview:
"A report just came out that if we continue with President Obama's policies, we're looking at over 9 percent unemployment next year in the fourth quarter."
False
By Becky Bowers • August 29, 2012
Stephanie Cutter
Stephanie Cutter
stated on August 22, 2012 an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe":
In the past 27 months, President Barack Obama has created more private-sector jobs than "in the Reagan recovery."
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 27, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on August 20, 2012 statements during a rally at St. Anselm College in Manchester, NH :
"Half the kids coming out of college this year … can't find a job, or a job that's consistent with a college degree."
True
By Maryalice Gill • August 27, 2012
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on July 30, 2012 a TV ad:
"I led the fight to require the Coast Guard to buy their engines from us, not foreign companies."
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • August 22, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on August 14, 2012 a campaign speech:
Claims Joe Biden said "coal is more dangerous than terrorists." 
Mostly False
By Tom Feran • August 17, 2012
American Future Fund
American Future Fund
stated on August 9, 2012 an advertisement:
Says U.S. Rep. Martin Heinrich "spent a trillion of our tax dollars on a stimulus for failed companies here and jobs overseas."
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 14, 2012
Allen West
Allen West
stated on August 1, 2012 a radio interview:
In June 2012 "we actually had more people go on Social Security Disability [85,000] ... than the 80,000 jobs that were created."
True
By Tom Mooney • August 9, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on August 5, 2012 a campaign ad:
"In June, jobless ranks were higher in nearly 90 percent of U.S. cities."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • August 8, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on August 1, 2012 a campaign commercial:
"Under the Obama administration’s bailout of General Motors, Ohio dealerships were forced to close."
Half-True
By Stephen Koff • August 2, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on July 23, 2012 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
Mike Dovilla
Mike Dovilla
stated on July 27, 2012 In a campaign mailer:
"Mike Dovilla’s big ideas like expanding the Ohio Motion Picture Tax Credit, which helped bring films like ‘The Avengers’ to Cleveland, have helped make our state No. 1 in the Midwest for job creation."
Half-True
By Joe Guillen • July 27, 2012
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