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Ron Klein
Ron Klein
stated on June 28, 2010 in a fundraising e-mail:
"West has raised $2 million from those that would leave our beaches in ruins, end Social Security and Medicare, and give corporations free reign."
False
By Amy Sherman • July 1, 2010
Ritch Workman
Ritch Workman
stated on June 6, 2010 in a 'Florida Today' opinion page article published:
"In Florida alone, more than $3.5 billion a year is spent on health care and criminal justice for illegal immigrants."
False
By Cristina Silva • June 30, 2010
Jan Brewer
Jan Brewer
stated on June 25, 2010 in a television interview:
"The majority of the people that are coming to Arizona and trespassing are now becoming drug mules."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 30, 2010
John Faulk
John Faulk
stated on June 12, 2010 in a speech:
Says Houston’s 18th congressional district has been "gentrified" and is home to "more Anglos than African Americans."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • June 30, 2010
John Albers
John Albers
stated on April 27, 2010:
When he worked for AT&T, he "was responsible for large parts in a $5 billion organization."
False
By Willoughby Mariano • June 29, 2010
John McCain
John McCain
stated on June 27, 2010 in comments on 'Meet the Press':
"Phoenix, Arizona, is the No. 2 kidnapping capital of the world."
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • June 28, 2010
Mark S. Zaccaria
Mark S. Zaccaria
stated on June 2, 2010 in a posting on his website:
"Langevin has been the most reliable vote for Speaker Pelosi."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 27, 2010
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on June 24, 2010 in a Senate floor speech:
"When George Bush took office, President Clinton, a Democrat, and the Democratic Congress at the time had left an annual budget that was in surplus."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 25, 2010
Lincoln Chafee
Lincoln Chafee
stated on May 4, 2010 in a candidate forum:
"Fifty-three percent of teens in Central Falls are getting pregnant."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 25, 2010
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on June 11, 2010:
"Social Security, like I told you, is out of money. This year it is borrowing from the general treasury."  
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • June 24, 2010
Richard Durbin
Richard Durbin
stated on June 22, 2010 in a Senate floor speech:
Under President George W. Bush, "the national debt went from $5 trillion to $12 trillion."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 23, 2010
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on June 16, 2010 in a press release:
Bill McCollum "served as a lobbyist whose clients enabled mortgages for illegal immigrants."
False
By Amy Sherman • June 23, 2010
Rahm Emanuel
Rahm Emanuel
stated on June 20, 2010 in an interview on "This Week.":
"In the case of General Motors, the (Bush) administration wrote a check without asking for any conditions of change."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 21, 2010
Jerry Patterson
Jerry Patterson
stated on June 11, 2010 in a speech at the Texas Republican Party Convention:
"We have a director of homeland security who cannot use and will not use the term 'terrorist attack' but instead substitutes 'man-made disaster.' "
False
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • June 21, 2010
Donna Campbell
Donna Campbell
stated on June 12, 2010 in a speech:
U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett is "the most liberal man in the United States Congress."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • June 20, 2010
Doug MacGinnitie
Doug MacGinnitie
stated on June 6, 2010 in a campaign flier:
Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp is a "career politician."
False
By Eric Stirgus • June 20, 2010
David Dewhurst
David Dewhurst
stated on June 11, 2010 in a speech:
"Phoenix, Arizona, I'm told, is now the No. 2 kidnapping capital in the world, right behind Mexico City."
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • June 18, 2010
Concernedcitizen4U
Concernedcitizen4U
stated on June 10, 2010 in a video:
Thurbert Baker kept a teen in jail "who didn't even commit a felony."
False
By Eric Stirgus • June 18, 2010
Eric Johnson
Eric Johnson
stated on June 7, 2010 in a blog post:
"The last major oil spill from a drilling accident in America happened over 40 years ago in 1969."
False
By Willoughby Mariano • June 17, 2010
Donna Brazile
Donna Brazile
stated on June 13, 2010 in a discussion on ABC's 'This Week':
The Obama administration "has been constrained by the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, which basically gives the responsible party the lead role in trying to not only fix the problem, but contain the problem."
False
By Aaron Sharockman • June 15, 2010
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