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Latest Fact-Checks By Willoughby Mariano

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Herman Cain
Herman Cain
stated on October 4, 2011
"Current projections indicate that Medicare will go bankrupt by 2017, while Social Security will bottom out by 2037."
Half-True
By Willoughby Mariano • October 14, 2011
Beverly Hall
Beverly Hall
stated on August 10, 2011 a commentary published in Education Week
Gains in Atlanta Public Schools scores on a national standardized test lend credence to "dramatic" score increases on state tests.
False
By Willoughby Mariano • October 7, 2011
Herman Cain
Herman Cain
stated on September 22, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate
An Environmental Protection Agency regulation that goes into effect Jan. 1, 2012, regulates dust.
False
By Willoughby Mariano • October 5, 2011
Herman Cain
Herman Cain
stated on September 15, 2011 an op-ed
"If our recovery were more typical of the postwar era . . . we would have 14 million more jobs today."
Mostly True
By Willoughby Mariano • October 3, 2011
Herman Cain
Herman Cain
stated on September 22, 2011 the Fox News Google debate in Orlando
"If we had been on 'Obamacare' and a bureaucrat was trying to tell me when I could get that CAT scan, that would have delayed my treatment."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Willoughby Mariano • September 27, 2011
Paul Broun
Paul Broun
stated on September 15, 2011 a tweet
Stimulus money funded a government board that made recommendations that would cost 378,000 jobs and $28.3 billion in sales. 
False
By Willoughby Mariano • September 27, 2011
Herman Cain
Herman Cain
stated on September 15, 2011 an op-ed
"This is the worst jobs recovery since the Great Depression."
False
By Willoughby Mariano • September 26, 2011
David Scott
David Scott
stated on September 9, 2011 a WABE-FM (90.1) radio interview
Under President Barack Obama’s jobs bill, states would no longer have to lay off teachers, firefighters and police officers.
Half-True
By Willoughby Mariano • September 16, 2011
Johnny Isakson
Johnny Isakson
stated on August 23, 2011 a speech before the Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce
The premiums on Medicare’s prescription drug program have fallen almost every year since it began.
False
By Willoughby Mariano • September 13, 2011
Chip Rogers
Chip Rogers
stated on August 22, 2011 a meeting
Rail "doesn’t do a great job in lessening traffic."
Mostly True
By Willoughby Mariano • September 6, 2011
Regina Benjamin
Regina Benjamin
stated on August 18, 2011 a radio interview
"The United States death rate is two-and-a-half times higher for those who do not have a high school education."
True
By Willoughby Mariano • August 26, 2011
Beverly Hall
Beverly Hall
stated on August 10, 2011 a commentary published in Education Week
The results of Atlanta Public School’s 2010 and 2011 CRCT tests "have not been questioned."
Pants on Fire!
By Willoughby Mariano • August 19, 2011
Herman Cain
Herman Cain
stated on August 11, 2011 the GOP debate in Ames, Iowa
Says that he did "not exactly" say that communities have the right to ban mosques.
False
By Willoughby Mariano • August 17, 2011
Sam Olens
Sam Olens
stated on August 4, 2011 a talk at the Atlanta Press Club
"The governor having a meeting ... isn't covered by the open meetings act."
True
By Willoughby Mariano • August 16, 2011
Phil Gingrey
Phil Gingrey
stated on August 1, 2011 a press release
Tax increases could "come into play" as a result of the debt ceiling deal.
Mostly True
By Willoughby Mariano • August 15, 2011
Sam Olens
Sam Olens
stated on August 4, 2011 a talk at the Atlanta Press Club
There are cities and counties in Georgia that don’t have websites, and where elected officials don’t have email addresses.
True
By Willoughby Mariano • August 12, 2011
Saxby Chambliss
Saxby Chambliss
stated on August 2, 2011 a press release
The deal to raise the federal debt limit created the "largest debt ceiling increase in America’s history."
Mostly True
By Willoughby Mariano • August 8, 2011
Beverly Hall
Beverly Hall
stated on June 24, 2011 a mailer
Atlanta Public Schools’ 2011 CRCT tests were "given under the strictest security possible."
False
By Willoughby Mariano • August 5, 2011
Phil Gingrey
Phil Gingrey
stated on June 22, 2011 a news conference
Under last year’s health care reform, "a bunch of bureaucrats decide whether you get care, such as continuing on dialysis or cancer chemotherapy."
False
By Willoughby Mariano • August 2, 2011
Tom Price
Tom Price
stated on July 24, 2011 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union with Candy Crowley"
"The U.S. won't default, because default means that you don't pay your creditors. And it takes about 10 percent of the money that's coming in right now" to pay interest to bondholders.
False
By Louis Jacobson, Willoughby Mariano • July 26, 2011
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