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Restore Our Future
Restore Our Future
stated on January 13, 2012 a television ad:
Says Rick Santorum "voted to let convicted felons vote."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 17, 2012
Rob Cornilles
Rob Cornilles
stated on January 10, 2012 a debate:
Suzanne Bonamici was the only no vote on a 2009 bill cracking down on drunk drivers.
True
By Janie Har • January 14, 2012
Chris Abele
Chris Abele
stated on December 15, 2011 a television interview:
Says Milwaukee County buses are no less safe now than a year or two ago.
Mostly False
By Dave Umhoefer • January 5, 2012
David Cicilline
David Cicilline
stated on November 18, 2011 a fundraising letter:
Enacting the Right-to-Carry Act would amount to "expanding the rights of sex offenders, terrorists, child predators, and abusers to carry concealed weapons across state lines.’’
Half-True
By Lynn Arditi • January 1, 2012
Kyleen Wright
Kyleen Wright
stated on December 6, 2011 a Twitter message.:
Says murder is the chief cause of death for pregnant women.
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • December 26, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on December 10, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Iowa.:
Says the Obama administration catches and releases nonviolent illegal immigrants.
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • December 16, 2011
Mike DeWine
Mike DeWine
stated on November 18, 2011 a news conference:
"At a minimum, 40 percent of those who view child pornography end up molesting children as a result." 
Mostly False
By Aaron Marshall • November 30, 2011
David Mellon
David Mellon
stated on October 27, 2011 testimony at a state pension hearing:
"The job [of correctional officer] lowers your life expectancy . . . Metropolitan did a study in, I believe it was 1998, and the life expectancy was 58."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 16, 2011
Frank Ortis
Frank Ortis
stated on November 5, 2011 a meeting:
The city of Pembroke Pines doesn't have a vote in a plan to build a detention center in Southwest Ranches.
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • November 10, 2011
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 12, 2011 Flint, Mich.:
"In 2008, when Flint had 265 sworn officers on their police force, there were 35 murders and 91 rapes in this city. In 2010, when Flint had only 144 police officers, the murder rate climbed to 65, and rapes … climbed to 229."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 25, 2011
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on October 13, 2011 a radio interview on WBGO’s “Newark Today”:
Says "if you are shot in the city of Newark, you have over an 80 percent chance that you've been arrested before an average of 10 times."
Mostly True
By Erin O'Neill • October 24, 2011
James Langevin
James Langevin
stated on September 21, 2011 a speech:
"Foster children are disproportionately victims of identity theft."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 20, 2011
Chris Abele
Chris Abele
stated on September 29, 2011 a speech:
The Milwaukee County sheriff’s department  "plays only a limited role as a traditional law enforcement agency" and in 2009 reported far fewer crimes to the FBI than the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee police did.
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • October 17, 2011
Jose Rodriguez
Jose Rodriguez
stated on September 9, 2011 a press release.:
Says El Paso was named America’s "Safest Large City" a year after San Antonio, Houston and Dallas had the nation’s highest crime rates.
Mostly False
By Sue Owen • October 11, 2011
Michael Moore
Michael Moore
stated on September 28, 2011 an interview on "Democracy Now":
"Not a single banker, a CEO from Wall Street, anyone from corporate America — nobody, (there was) not one arrest of any of these people who brought down the economy in 2008."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 7, 2011
Gary Johnson
Gary Johnson
stated on September 19, 2011 an interview with the editorial board of the 'Telegraph.':
Says the United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world with 2.3 million inmates, and the majority of Americans are imprisoned because they sold small amounts of drugs.
Half-True
By Maryalice Gill • September 22, 2011
Valerie Vainieri Huttle
Valerie Vainieri Huttle
stated on September 6, 2011 at a news conference:
Says "160,000 kids stay home every day because they are afraid to go to school because of bullying."
Mostly False
By Erin O'Neill • September 15, 2011
Sandra Cunningham
Sandra Cunningham
stated on July 11, 2011 a speech on the State Senate floor:
Says a Senate resolution would restore $140 in monthly general assistance payments and prevent people from committing crime.
Pants on Fire!
By Bill Wichert, Erin O'Neill • August 18, 2011
Shirley Turner
Shirley Turner
stated on July 12, 2011 a speech on the Senate floor:
Says unemployment in Trenton is "twice as much as what we see in every other area of the state" and, as a result, "we have seen an increase in crime."
Mostly False
By Bill Wichert • July 26, 2011
Raymond Lesniak
Raymond Lesniak
stated on July 12, 2011 testimony during a Senate hearing:
Says "the most dangerous time for children" is from "3 to 6 p.m., during which time juvenile crime rates triple"
Half-True
By Erin O'Neill • July 25, 2011
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