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Josh Mandel
Josh Mandel
stated on November 4, 2011 a news release:
Ilana Shafran Mandel’s stake in Forest City Enterprises "constitutes significantly less than 1 percent" of the company’s shares and any implication of a conflict of interest "is legally incorrect."
True
By Stephen Koff • November 10, 2011
Steve LaTourette
Steve LaTourette
stated on November 4, 2011 a speech in the House of Representatives:
"The problem with invasive species today in the Great Lakes isn’t ballast water."
True
By Sabrina Eaton • November 9, 2011
Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on November 1, 2011 a congressional hearing:
"A couple retiring today will pay about $119,000 in lifetime Medicare taxes and receive about $357,000 in lifetime Medicare benefits. ... about 3 bucks in benefits for every dollar in taxes."
True
By Tom Feran • November 8, 2011
Betty Sutton
Betty Sutton
stated on October 25, 2011 a speech in the House of Representatives:
"Every day in the United States, we are losing 15 factories."
True
By Sabrina Eaton • November 7, 2011
Nina Turner
Nina Turner
stated on October 24, 2011 an opinion column:
"The collective net worth of Americans has taken a $5.5 trillion hit ... mainly due to plummeting home values."
True
By Henry J. Gomez • November 1, 2011
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on September 12, 2011 an ad from the Republican Governors Association:
"We’re. . . keeping and creating jobs in our state. From American Greetings, to Wendy’s, to Diebold, we’ve gone to their doorsteps to keep jobs right here in Ohio."
True
By Reginald Fields • October 3, 2011
Dennis Kucinich
Dennis Kucinich
stated on September 7, 2011 a television interview:
"The Fed created $1.2 trillion out of nothing, gave it to banks, and some of them foreign banks, so that they could stabilize their operations."
True
By Peter Krouse • September 28, 2011
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on September 19, 2011 a television interview:
"We have 10,000 baby boomers retiring every day."
True
By Sabrina Eaton • September 26, 2011
Building a Better Ohio
Building a Better Ohio
stated on September 6, 2011 a campaign commercial:
Toledo Mayor "Mike Bell (once) lost his job as a firefighter because his city ran out of money."
True
By Tom Feran • September 23, 2011
Michael Skindell
Michael Skindell
stated on September 7, 2011 a news conference:
Says that  in the recent year homeowners across Ohio have signed mineral rights agreements "and I understand that over a billion dollars worth of leases have been signed to date."
True
By Henry J. Gomez • September 20, 2011
Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on August 28, 2011 a newspaper column:
Says the federal government is "the largest energy user in the country."
True
By Tom Feran • September 7, 2011
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on August 4, 2011 an appearance on MSNBC:
"Rooting for the Red Sox is like rooting for the drug companies."
True
By Tom Feran • August 29, 2011
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on August 2, 2011 a television interview:
Says that Wall Street hedge fund managers "pay a lower tax rate than does a sheet metal worker in Parma or a school teacher in Cleveland."
True
By Tom Feran • August 22, 2011
Kevin DeWine
Kevin DeWine
stated on August 22, 2011 a speech at a GOP dinner:
Says Republican Sen. John McCain won more votes for president in Cuyahoga County in the 2008 general election than he did in seven states.
True
By Mark Naymik • August 5, 2011
Peggy Lehner
Peggy Lehner
stated on July 18, 2011 a radio interview:
"There’s actually 600 abortions done after the 20th week of pregnancy every year in Ohio."
True
By Joe Guillen • August 4, 2011
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on July 17, 2011 an appearance on "Meet the Press":
"Believe it or not, consumer spending is up over the last eight months."  
True
By Reginald Fields • August 1, 2011
Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on July 25, 2011 an interview on MSNBC:
"Thirty-four of the last 44 (debt ceiling increases) have been for less than a year. So, this notion that short-term is somehow the exception, it's actually the rule."
True
By Stephen Koff • July 27, 2011
Nina Turner
Nina Turner
stated on June 22, 2011 a speech in the Ohio Senate:
"Voting in the wrong precinct led to over 14,000 registered voters statewide to lose their vote in 2008."
True
By Reginald Fields • July 4, 2011
Marcy Kaptur
Marcy Kaptur
stated on June 24, 2011 a speech in the House of Representatives:
"Creeping defense commitments in (the Middle East) and globally now consume over half the U.S. discretionary budget annually."
True
By Sabrina Eaton • July 1, 2011
Dennis Kucinich
Dennis Kucinich
stated on June 1, 2011 a House committee hearing:
"Seventy of Ohio's 88 counties now have more than 25 percent of their residents eligible for emergency food."
True
By Tom Feran • June 24, 2011
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