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Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on December 11, 2012 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
Michael Moore
Michael Moore
stated on November 2, 2012 a tweet
Says during George W. Bush’s administration "we were losing millions of jobs per month," while under Barack Obama we have "three years of gaining hundreds of thousands of jobs per month."
False
By Louis Jacobson • November 2, 2012
Michael McCaul
Michael McCaul
stated on October 22, 2012 a League of Women Voters guide for Texas and Austin voters
Says U.S. corporate tax rate is "highest in the world at 35 percent."
Mostly True
By Sue Owen • November 1, 2012
Barry Hinckley
Barry Hinckley
stated on October 24, 2012 a television commercial
Sheldon Whitehouse voted for a "$525-billion tax increase on the middle class."
Pants on Fire!
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 1, 2012
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on October 16, 2012 a debate
"There is no war on coal. Period. There are more coal jobs and more coal produced in Ohio than there were five years ago, in spite of the talking points and the yard signs."
True
By Aaron Marshall • October 31, 2012
Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood
stated on October 24, 2012 in a TV ad
"We borrow $4 billion every single day, much of it from China."
Half-True
By Becky Bowers • October 30, 2012
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on October 18, 2012 a debate.
Bill Clinton presided over "the biggest expansion of the American economy since World War II."
Mostly True
By Nancy Madsen • October 29, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on October 22, 2012 a news release
"6,400 Ohioans ... lost manufacturing jobs in the month of September."
Mostly True
By Stephen Koff • October 26, 2012
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