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Kim Guadagno
Kim Guadagno
stated on May 11, 2011 in a radio interview on WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show:
Says Panasonic stayed in New Jersey because of the Business Retention and Relocation Assistance Grant (BRRAG) program.
False
By Erin O'Neill • June 10, 2011
Anonymous GOP critics
Anonymous GOP critics
stated on June 7, 2011 in a web news story:
Commerce Secretary nominee John Bryson "appears to endorse world government."
False
By Robert Farley • June 9, 2011
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on June 5, 2011 in an interview with political commentator Roland Martin:
By advocating new requirements for voters to show ID cards at the polls, Republicans "want to literally drag us all the way back to Jim Crow laws."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 9, 2011
Scott Rigell
Scott Rigell
stated on June 3, 2011 in a newsletter.:
"The (national) debt really added up $75 trillion in 2010 and is on track to hit $99 trillion this year."
False
By Sean Gorman • June 9, 2011
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
stated on June 1, 2011 in an e-mail.:
"Rep. Robert Hurt voted again today to end Medicare and raise health care costs for Virginia seniors."
False
By Jacob Geiger • June 9, 2011
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on May 24, 2011 in a public appearance:
"We’re the seventh highest taxed state in America. And that’s not just state, it’s local as well."
False
By Aaron Marshall • June 6, 2011
Fred Risser
Fred Risser
stated on May 19, 2011 in a debate on the Senate floor.:
Says Wisconsin state Senate President Michael Elllis (R-Neenah) broke Senate rules during debate on a photo ID bill for voters.
False
By James B. Nelson • June 5, 2011
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on May 26, 2011 in a news conference.:
The 2009 stimulus bill "failed to get people back to work."
False
By Sean Gorman • June 3, 2011
Mike Haridopolos
Mike Haridopolos
stated on May 22, 2011 in TV interview:
"No one thought we could get a bipartisan bill (Medicaid) passed. We did in the Florida Senate."
False
By Katie Sanders • June 3, 2011
Sam Adams
Sam Adams
stated on May 18, 2011 in a City Council meeting:
The city’s 30 percent set aside for affordable housing in urban renewal areas is calculated citywide -- not district by district
False
By Ian K. Kullgren • June 2, 2011
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on May 31, 2011 in an interview with Fox News' Greta Van Susteren:
"Look at the debt that has been accumulated in the last two years. It's more debt under this president than all those other presidents combined."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 1, 2011
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on May 29, 2011 in an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation":
The Medicare proposal by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., would "allow insurance companies to deny you coverage and drop you for pre-existing conditions."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 1, 2011
E.J. Finocchio
E.J. Finocchio
stated on April 24, 2011 in a television interview:
"Most of your serial killers, most of your people who commit domestic violence, they start off by abusing animals."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 31, 2011
Ward Armstrong
Ward Armstrong
stated on May 23, 2011 in a news release.:
Under Gov. Bob McDonnell, more jobs have been lost than created in Southside and Southwest Virginia.
False
By Sean Gorman • May 28, 2011
Scott Fitzgerald
Scott Fitzgerald
stated on May 21, 2011 in a speech at the state GOP convention:
One of every two Wisconsin residents are "on some kind of government handout."
False
By Tom Kertscher • May 26, 2011
The Agenda Project
The Agenda Project
stated on May 17, 2011 in an advertisement:
The Paul Ryan budget proposal would leave the country "without Medicare."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Louis Jacobson • May 25, 2011
Herman Cain
Herman Cain
stated on May 21, 2011 in in a speech announcing his presidential run:
In the U.S. Constitution, "there’s a little section in there that talks about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
False
By Willoughby Mariano • May 25, 2011
Louie Gohmert
Louie Gohmert
stated on May 10, 2011 in a radio interview.:
Says Gov. Rick Perry has been "begging" for the federal government to send the Coast Guard to patrol two lakes on the U.S.-Mexico border.
False
By W. Gardner Selby • May 24, 2011
Angel Taveras
Angel Taveras
stated on May 15, 2011 in an interview:
The Providence teacher contract "is one of the longest in the country."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 24, 2011
Nathan Deal
Nathan Deal
stated on May 9, 2011 in a speech:
"The health care price tag for childhood obesity in Georgia is $2.4 billion annually and rising."
False
By Eric Stirgus • May 20, 2011
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