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Latest Fact-Checks In Georgia

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Brian Kemp
Brian Kemp
stated on June 20, 2011:
"The State Election Board has issued nearly $275,000 in fines to violators of absentee ballot laws."
True
By Eric Stirgus • July 19, 2011
Jack Murphy
Jack Murphy
stated on June 27, 2011 in a press release:
Georgia’s illegal-immigration legislation "simply follows existing federal law."
Half-True
By Eric Stirgus • July 18, 2011
Shirley Franklin
Shirley Franklin
stated on July 9, 2011 in a television interview:
"95 percent of teachers and principals are not implicated in the [Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal] report at all."
Half-True
By Willoughby Mariano • July 15, 2011
Ralph Long
Ralph Long
stated on July 6, 2011 in a press conference:
"The [Georgia] General Assembly took away the Atlanta Board of Education’s oversight of the superintendent."
Mostly False
By Eric Stirgus • July 13, 2011
Shirley Franklin
Shirley Franklin
stated on June 23, 2011 in a blog post:
Former Atlanta Public Schools Superintendent Beverly Hall left the school district "significantly better than she found it."
Pants on Fire!
By Willoughby Mariano • July 11, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on June 27, 2011 in a television interview:
Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign has "exactly the same" challenges as Ronald Reagan’s successful 1980 bid.
Mostly False
By Willoughby Mariano • July 8, 2011
National Republican Congressional Committee
National Republican Congressional Committee
stated on May 18, 2011 in press releases:
U.S. Reps. John Barrow and Sanford Bishop and their fellow Democrats "went on a spending spree and now their credit card is maxed out."
False
By Willoughby Mariano • July 5, 2011
Robert Brown
Robert Brown
stated on June 2, 2011 in a press release:
Georgia’s illegal immigration crackdown laws should be called the "Brown Codes" because of their similarity to the "Black Codes" governing blacks after the Civil War.
False
By Willoughby Mariano • July 1, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on June 22, 2011 in a speech before the Atlanta Press Club:
"On the day of the New Hampshire primary in 1980, the top 13 people of Ronald Reagan’s staff quit."
Mostly True
By Willoughby Mariano • June 29, 2011
Al Roker
Al Roker
stated on June 16, 2011 in a broadcast:
"(Birmingham, Ala.) is the cradle of the civil rights movement."
Mostly False
By Eric Stirgus • June 28, 2011
Nathan Deal
Nathan Deal
stated on June 16, 2011 in a radio interview:
A "substantial number" of probationers participating in a pilot project to ease the farm labor shortage are able to "finish the work."
Mostly False
By Willoughby Mariano • June 27, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on June 15, 2011 in in an interview on the “The Neal Boortz Radio Show” on Atlanta’s AM 750 and 95.5 FM :
Every 10th dollar spent by the Social Security Administration on its program for the poor is "waste, or fraud, they can’t validate that the people should have gotten it," totaling about $8 billion a year.
Mostly True
By Willoughby Mariano • June 24, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on June 13, 2011 in a debate:
"The right-to-work states are creating a lot more jobs today than the heavily unionized states."
True
By Eric Stirgus • June 21, 2011
Herman Cain
Herman Cain
stated on June 13, 2011 in the Republican primary presidential debate in Manchester, NH:
Muslims tried to use Sharia law to influence court decisions in New Jersey and Oklahoma
Mostly False
By Willoughby Mariano • June 20, 2011
Ray Lewis
Ray Lewis
stated on May 25, 2011 in an interview:
"Do this research … watch how much crime picks up if you take away [football]."
False
By Eric Stirgus • June 17, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on June 13, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate:
If today's economy was rebounding at the rate of the "Reagan recovery," it would have created the equivalent of 25 million new jobs and raised federal revenue by $800 billion a year.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson, Willoughby Mariano • June 14, 2011
Gary Black
Gary Black
stated on June 2, 2011 in Interview:
Workers who pick produce in Georgia’s fields can make $12 to $18 an hour.
Half-True
By Willoughby Mariano • June 14, 2011
Kevin Bloye
Kevin Bloye
stated on March 11, 2011 in AJC story:
Roughly 700 Georgians die needlessly each year because they are too far from a trauma center.
Mostly False
By M.B. Pell • June 10, 2011
Herman Cain
Herman Cain
stated on May 24, 2011 in an interview on the Glenn Beck Program radio show:
"I did not say that I would not have them [Muslims] in my Cabinet."
Pants on Fire!
By Willoughby Mariano • June 8, 2011
Charlotte Nash
Charlotte Nash
stated on May 18, 2011 in a speech:
"We have the best schools in the United States."
Mostly False
By Eric Stirgus • June 7, 2011
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