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Campaign for Primary Accountability
Campaign for Primary Accountability
stated on March 28, 2012 a campaign commercial
Says Ohio Rep. Marcy Kaptur "actually lives" in "a fancy condo in the Washington, D.C.  suburbs."
False
By Tom Feran • March 2, 2012
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
stated on December 9, 2011 a telephone campaign
Says Rep. Jim Renacci was "trying to leave town for the holidays without extending your payroll tax cut."
False
By Sabrina Eaton • January 5, 2012
Armond Budish
Armond Budish
stated on November 3, 2011 a news conference
Dem-controlled Ohio House voted "to change the process, to create objective criteria, to modify the Constitution" ... to "take politics out of the efforts to draw legislative boundaries."
False
By Joe Guillen • November 23, 2011
Maurice Thompson
Maurice Thompson
stated on November 10, 2011 a news conference
Says unemployment in Ohio "is significantly higher than the unemployment rate in states which are not forced union states and it’s always been that way."
False
By Aaron Marshall • November 21, 2011
Josh Mandel
Josh Mandel
stated on September 1, 2011 a television interview
"The majority last quarter of Sherrod Brown's campaign contributions came from outside of the state of Ohio."
False
By Stephen Koff • September 15, 2011
Dennis Kucinich
Dennis Kucinich
stated on August 6, 2011 a television interview
Says that in 2009 ExxonMobil "paid no federal income taxes, received a $156 million rebate."
False
By Sabrina Eaton • September 1, 2011
Kevin Coughlin
Kevin Coughlin
stated on August 18, 2011 a campaign speech
Says there’s not "much evidence to suggest that people have (contributed to global warming) or can do very much to change anything."
False
By Sabrina Eaton • August 31, 2011
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
stated on August 10, 2011 a news release
"Credit agency says Rep. Gibbs recklessly caused downgrade, higher interest rates."
False
By Tom Feran • August 15, 2011
Tim Grendell
Tim Grendell
stated on June 28, 2011 a speech in the Ohio Senate
"You might be surprised to know that 137 billion gallons flows (into Lake Erie) every day. You might be surprised to know that only 86.3 billion gallons flow out. ... Leaving us a net surplus of approximately 50 billion gallons a day."
False
By Aaron Marshall • August 8, 2011
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on July 5, 2011 a tweet on Twitter
"POTUS’ economists: ‘Stimulus’ Has Cost $278,000 per job."
False
By Sabrina Eaton • July 15, 2011
Jim DeMint
Jim DeMint
stated on June 27, 2011 a news release
Says U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown is responsible for "over $14 trillion in debt."
False
By Mark Naymik • July 11, 2011
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on June 20, 2011 a campaign fund-raising letter
There is a Republican "plan to end Medicare."
False
By Stephen Koff • June 27, 2011
National Republican Senatorial Committee
National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on June 9, 2011 a news release
Says that Sherrod Brown "voted to cut Medicare by over $500 billion in order to fund government-run health care."
False
By Tom Feran • June 23, 2011
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on May 24, 2011 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
Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on April 26, 2011 an online column
Drilling for oil on the Outer Continental Shelf and in parts of Alaska will  "immediately reduce our dangerous dependence on foreign oil."
False
By Stephen Koff • May 4, 2011
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on April 19, 2011 a news conference
"State employees are actually going to get a pay raise."
False
By Tom Feran • May 3, 2011
Jean Schmidt
Jean Schmidt
stated on April 14, 2011 a speech in the House of Representatives
"For every 33 pregnant women that walk into a Planned Parenthood clinic, 32 receive an abortion."
False
By Sabrina Eaton • April 21, 2011
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on March 8, 2011 his State of the State speech
There was "some sort of informal commitment to build a (psychiatric) building in downtown Cleveland."
False
By Tom Feran • April 12, 2011
Jim Renacci
Jim Renacci
stated on January 4, 2011 an interview on WCPN 90.3 FM
"For [GM] to pay back everything it owes, it would have to sell its shares at $143 a share . . . where the highest value of a General Motors share ever was $43, $44, $46, whatever the dollars were . . ."
False
By Tom Feran • February 9, 2011
Marcy Kaptur
Marcy Kaptur
stated on November 23, 2010 an MSNBC interview
"Six institutions in our country now control two thirds of the capital."
False
By Sabrina Eaton • January 28, 2011
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