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Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on May 9, 2013 in an advertisement:
"Over the last 10 years, Texas created 33 percent of the net new jobs nationwide."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • May 9, 2013
Chris Clark
Chris Clark
stated on April 30, 2013 in a meeting:
In just six years, Georgia has dropped from first in the nation from a business-friendly legal climate to 24th.
Mostly False
By Eric Stirgus • May 7, 2013
Ed FitzGerald
Ed FitzGerald
stated on April 24, 2013 in a campaign speech:
"Just about everyone everywhere is spending more hours on the job, less time with their families, bringing home smaller and smaller paychecks, while they're paying more and more at the gas pump and the grocery stores."
Mostly True
By Tom Feran • May 3, 2013
Jack Ohman
Jack Ohman
stated on April 25, 2013 in a column on an editorial cartoon.:
Says the fertilizer plant that exploded in West, Texas,"had not been inspected by the state of Texas since 2006."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • May 1, 2013
Texas State Employees Union
Texas State Employees Union
stated on April 1, 2013 in an organization web page.:
"Most state employees did not receive any pay raise from 2009 to 2012."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • April 29, 2013
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on March 26, 2013 in a constituent email:
A recent study of a proposed cap-and-trade policy’s effect on Wisconsin consumers showed it could "raise gasoline prices by 141 percent and electricity rates by 171 percent" by 2030.
Mostly False
By Dave Umhoefer • April 28, 2013
Mark Johnson
Mark Johnson
stated on April 11, 2013 in a floor speech:
Says "Every legislative district in the state has at least one craft brewery and countless home brewers."
False
By Yuxing Zheng • April 27, 2013
Gina Raimondo
Gina Raimondo
stated on April 8, 2013 in a tweet promoting Equal Pay Day:
"Women make 77 cents for every dollar earned by men."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 18, 2013
Jodie Laubenberg
Jodie Laubenberg
stated on April 4, 2013 in a Texas House floor debate.:
Says Texas state funds were spent on "a TV series on spouses cheating on their wives, kind of glorifying the act of cheating."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • April 15, 2013
Ban the Box RI
Ban the Box RI
stated on March 20, 2013 in a video posted on YouTube:
"In Rhode Island, 28 percent of adults released from state prisons are re-incarcerated within a year."
True
By Michael McKinney • April 15, 2013
One New Jersey
One New Jersey
stated on April 9, 2013 in a TV ad:
"Under Republican Chris Christie, New Jersey had the highest increase in unemployment in the country last year. Nearly 1 in 10 jobless. The worst unemployment in the region. Near the bottom in economic growth, yet Christie protected a tax cut for millionaires but vetoed a minimum wage hike."
Mostly True
By Caryn Shinske • April 14, 2013
Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Cathy McMorris Rodgers
stated on April 10, 2013 in an interview with NPR:
"We have the fewest people employed in this country since 1979."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 12, 2013
Jim Taricani
Jim Taricani
stated on March 24, 2013 in a comment made on "10 News Conference.":
"No one knows who bought the [38 Studios] bonds. And there was some language put in the bond offer that they must remain anonymous."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 8, 2013
Will Weatherford
Will Weatherford
stated on March 19, 2013 in Americans for Prosperity-Florida rally:
"Almost 1,000 people a day" are moving to Florida "because they are more free here than they are in some other states."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman, Katie Sanders • April 2, 2013
Jim Jordan
Jim Jordan
stated on March 19, 2013 in a congressional hearing:
The national debt is "larger than our entire annual economy."
Mostly True
By Molly Moorhead, Sabrina Eaton, W. Gardner Selby • March 28, 2013
Sal Albanese
Sal Albanese
stated on March 24, 2013 in a joint mayoral candidates' appearance on MSNBC:
An annual income of $500,000 "in Manhattan, believe it or not, is middle class."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 27, 2013
Jeff Mullis
Jeff Mullis
stated on March 6, 2013 in a meeting:
Georgia loses "millions of dollars of revenue because people go out of state to buy fireworks."
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • March 22, 2013
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on March 15, 2013 in a tweet:
"Under Gov. Kasich, Ohio wages have increased by $10.3 billion."
True
By Tom Feran • March 21, 2013
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on March 14, 2013 in a speech at the conservative CPAC conference:
"There are 3 million jobs available in America that are not filled because too many of our people don’t have the skills for those jobs."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 14, 2013
Ron Book
Ron Book
stated on March 6, 2013 in a state legislative committee hearing:
"Super Bowl L by everybody's estimation is a $500 million economic impact to the state of Florida."
False
By Amy Sherman • March 14, 2013
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