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Charlotte Nash
Charlotte Nash
stated on May 18, 2011 a speech
"Annual water usage in 2010 was actually down more than 18 percent from usage in 2006."
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • June 1, 2011
Anti-Defamation League
Anti-Defamation League
stated on April 15, 2011 a news release
It is estimated that Arizona "has lost more than $100 million in hospitality industry revenues since passage of the Arizona immigration laws."  
Half-True
By Willoughby Mariano • May 31, 2011
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on May 20, 2011 a press conference
Says the United States is "the Saudi Arabia of coal."
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • May 27, 2011
Herman Cain
Herman Cain
stated on May 21, 2011 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
Herman Cain
Herman Cain
stated on May 21, 2011 a speech announcing his presidential run
The U.S. has "47 million people on food stamps. That’s 14 million more than when the current occupant of the White House took over."
Mostly True
By Willoughby Mariano • May 24, 2011
Nathan Deal
Nathan Deal
stated on May 9, 2011 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
Janet Napolitano
Janet Napolitano
stated on May 7, 2011 Atlanta Press Club speech
"Very, very, very few people get a pat-down" when they go through airport security.
Pants on Fire!
By Willoughby Mariano • May 17, 2011
Renee Unterman
Renee Unterman
stated on April 14, 2011 a speech
"Gwinnett Medical Center is operating in the negative," in part, because of illegal immigrants.
Half-True
By Eric Stirgus • May 11, 2011
Nathan Deal
Nathan Deal
stated on April 20, 2011 a speech before the Atlanta Press Club
Georgia is "one of only about seven states in the country" that has a AAA bond rating.
True
By Willoughby Mariano • May 9, 2011
Jim Durrett
Jim Durrett
stated on April 28, 2011 a radio interview
According to crime statistics, "riding MARTA has been becoming more and more safe over the years."
Half-True
By Willoughby Mariano • May 6, 2011
Saxby Chambliss
Saxby Chambliss
stated on March 28, 2011 a letter to a constituent
Says the Internal Revenue Service estimated it must hire "16,500 agents at a cost of $10 billion to the taxpayer" to enforce the federal health care overhaul.
False
By Willoughby Mariano • May 4, 2011
Kathleen Sebelius
Kathleen Sebelius
stated on April 19, 2011 a speech
"One of three patients hospitalized (is) harmed by the care they receive."
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • May 3, 2011
Herman Cain
Herman Cain
stated on March 17, 2011 an interview
Says "in Canada, the number of CT scan machines per 1,000 people is like one-tenth of what we have here in this country. That's why people have to wait."
False
By M.B. Pell • May 2, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 26, 2011 an interview
Says "we have now more Border Patrol officers … than we’ve had at any time in our history."
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • April 29, 2011
Allie McCullen
Allie McCullen
stated on March 2, 2011 a speech
"The Georgia Lottery Corp. has only once in the past 16 years paid out the agreed upon 35 percent of proceeds to the account which funds the HOPE scholarship."
False
By M.B. Pell • April 27, 2011
Nathan Deal
Nathan Deal
stated on April 13, 2011 a speech
"Over the last 10 years, Georgia's public health has declined."
Half-True
By Willoughby Mariano • April 25, 2011
Kathleen Angelucci
Kathleen Angelucci
stated on March 9, 2011 a newspaper article
"It is a fact that it costs more to run the schools in August."
Mostly False
By Eric Stirgus • April 22, 2011
Tom Graves
Tom Graves
stated on April 13, 2011 a Twitter post
"America's wealthiest 25 percent pay 86 percent of total income taxes. Wealthiest 5 percent pay 60 percent of total income taxes."
True
By Eric Stirgus • April 20, 2011
Paul Broun
Paul Broun
stated on April 12, 2011 a speech before Congress
Says President Franklin Delano Roosevelt sent his advisers to study socialism with Soviet dictator Josef Stalin so the president could replicate it in the United States.
False
By Eric Stirgus, Willoughby Mariano • April 19, 2011
George Turner
George Turner
stated on April 4, 2011 a newspaper article
"If you go strictly by the numbers, crime is down across the board. Last year we had a 10 percent decrease in the most serious crimes."
True
By Willoughby Mariano • April 18, 2011
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