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James Bennett
James Bennett
stated on January 1, 2013 in a Gov. Lincoln Chafee YouTube video:
"Our numbers are going up at the airport."
Pants on Fire!
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 10, 2013
Zell Miller
Zell Miller
stated on December 11, 2012 in an op-ed:
"[T]he Georgia Dome has returned $10 billion in economic impact to the state of Georgia."
False
By Eric Stirgus • December 21, 2012
Larry Kilgore
Larry Kilgore
stated on November 23, 2012 in a New York Times news story:
Says Texas economy is about 30 percent larger than Australia’s.
False
By Sue Owen • December 20, 2012
Texas secession petition
Texas secession petition
stated on November 9, 2012 in the White House's "We the People" petition web site:
Says Texas has the 15th largest economy in the world.
True
By Sue Owen • December 18, 2012
Mike Tate
Mike Tate
stated on December 3, 2012 in a blog post:
"Scott Walker has even removed the 250,000 jobs promise from his website."
False
By James B. Nelson • December 17, 2012
Lou Greenwald
Lou Greenwald
stated on December 4, 2012 in a press conference in Trenton:
"Right now one of our highest job growth sectors is Leisure and Hospitality. We've added jobs that mostly fall within the restaurant and bar sector industry. These are not high-paying jobs, as the U.S. Department of Labor estimates this is an industry sector with the lowest average wages and the lowest proportion of its workforce earning minimum or subminimum wage jobs."
Mostly True
By Caryn Shinske • December 16, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on December 5, 2012 in a report:
"If the House of Representatives fails to extend the middle-class tax cuts, 400,000 middle-class Rhode Island families will see their federal income taxes increase."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 16, 2012
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on December 11, 2012 in a news conference:
Under Charlie Crist, Florida lost 825,000 jobs and the unemployment rate increased from 3.5 percent to 11.1 percent.
Half-True
By Katie Sanders • December 14, 2012
Dennis Kucinich
Dennis Kucinich
stated on November 27, 2012 in a speech on the House floor:
"Fourteen million Americans' mortgages are greater than the value of their homes."
True
By Tom Feran • December 14, 2012
Pew Environment Group
Pew Environment Group
stated on December 11, 2012 in a newspaper advertisement:
"In recent years, menhaden numbers along our coast have plummeted by 90 percent."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 14, 2012
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on November 29, 2012 in a speech to the Ohio Farm Bureau:
Agriculture "is the strongest industry in Ohio."
True
By Tom Feran • December 12, 2012
Lincoln Chafee
Lincoln Chafee
stated on December 1, 2012 in a newspaper interview:
"The five economic indicators that the federal government tracks - for the first time since August 2006 - were positive this October."
True
By John Hill • December 9, 2012
Anne Goodman
Anne Goodman
stated on December 3, 2012 in an interview with The Plain Dealer:
Says food stamp growth, while high, lagged the rise in unemployment.
True
By Stephen Koff • December 6, 2012
John Kitzhaber
John Kitzhaber
stated on December 3, 2012 in a speech.:
Says that in 2011, Oregon had "the second fastest growing economy in the nation."
True
By Ian K. Kullgren • December 5, 2012
Pam Bondi
Pam Bondi
stated on November 28, 2012 in remarks to the Florida Chamber of Commerce:
"National studies are already showing the negative effects that the health care law is having on businesses and our economy. Businesses across the country are raising their prices … (or) cutting jobs as a result of the added cost."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 30, 2012
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on November 18, 2012 in a newspaper column:
"We have more people working in clean and green energy than in oil and gas in this country."  
True
By John Hill • November 30, 2012
Jobs Ohio
Jobs Ohio
stated on November 17, 2012 in a television ad:
"In the past year alone, Ohio businesses have created more jobs than almost every other state in the country."
True
By Henry J. Gomez • November 29, 2012
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on October 10, 2012 in a television interview:
Says President Barack Obama "did not come into office with the economy in a free fall."
Half-True
By James B. Nelson • November 26, 2012
Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on November 9, 2012 in a newspaper interview:
Budget analysts say the looming tax hikes and spending cuts would  "take us into a recession and kill jobs."
True
By Stephen Koff • November 15, 2012
People's Majority
People's Majority
stated on October 30, 2012 in a TV commercial:
"Sheldon Whitehouse [got] a secret closed-door briefing, warning of the [2008 economic] crash."
Pants on Fire!
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 3, 2012
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