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Judson Hill
Judson Hill
stated on March 7, 2012 in a speech:
"Every 1 percent increase in the cost of health insurance today causes about 30,000 Georgians to be uninsured."
Mostly False
By Eric Stirgus • March 20, 2012
Johnny Isakson
Johnny Isakson
stated on January 26, 2012 in a press release:
The "Democrat majority in the Senate has failed to submit [a] budget in the past 1,000 days."
Mostly False
By Willoughby Mariano • March 14, 2012
Hank Johnson
Hank Johnson
stated on February 28, 2012 in a Congressional hearing:
A socially conservative group sponsored a "prayer vigil" to stop people from buying Girl Scout cookies because it thinks the Girl Scouts are affiliated with Planned Parenthood.
Mostly False
By Willoughby Mariano • March 9, 2012
Pat Stevens
Pat Stevens
stated on January 24, 2012 in a news article:
The Atlanta area’s water planning district "is now the national leader in conservation."
Mostly False
By Willoughby Mariano • March 6, 2012
Phil Gingrey
Phil Gingrey
stated on December 28, 2011 in an online news story:
When Georgia tightened its voter identification laws, the state sent a van and photographer to the homes of people who needed photo IDs and made them for free. 
Mostly False
By Willoughby Mariano • January 10, 2012
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on September 7, 2011 in a debate:
Ben Bernanke has been the most "inflationary" chairman in the history of the Federal Reserve.
Mostly False
By Eric Stirgus • September 12, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on July 31, 2011 in a newspaper interview:
Says his Twitter account has 1.3 million followers.
Mostly False
By Eric Stirgus • August 9, 2011
Ralph Long
Ralph Long
stated on July 6, 2011 in a press conference:
"The [Georgia] General Assembly took away the Atlanta Board of Education’s oversight of the superintendent."
Mostly False
By Eric Stirgus • July 13, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on June 27, 2011 in a television interview:
Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign has "exactly the same" challenges as Ronald Reagan’s successful 1980 bid.
Mostly False
By Willoughby Mariano • July 8, 2011
Al Roker
Al Roker
stated on June 16, 2011 in a broadcast:
"(Birmingham, Ala.) is the cradle of the civil rights movement."
Mostly False
By Eric Stirgus • June 28, 2011
Nathan Deal
Nathan Deal
stated on June 16, 2011 in a radio interview:
A "substantial number" of probationers participating in a pilot project to ease the farm labor shortage are able to "finish the work."
Mostly False
By Willoughby Mariano • June 27, 2011
Herman Cain
Herman Cain
stated on June 13, 2011 in the Republican primary presidential debate in Manchester, NH:
Muslims tried to use Sharia law to influence court decisions in New Jersey and Oklahoma
Mostly False
By Willoughby Mariano • June 20, 2011
Kevin Bloye
Kevin Bloye
stated on March 11, 2011 in AJC story:
Roughly 700 Georgians die needlessly each year because they are too far from a trauma center.
Mostly False
By M.B. Pell • June 10, 2011
Charlotte Nash
Charlotte Nash
stated on May 18, 2011 in a speech:
"We have the best schools in the United States."
Mostly False
By Eric Stirgus • June 7, 2011
Robert Brown
Robert Brown
stated on May 17, 2011 in an interview:
"We in the Democratic Party had no input into the locations of these hearings, nor did we have input into the process."
Mostly False
By Eric Stirgus • June 6, 2011
Kathleen Angelucci
Kathleen Angelucci
stated on March 9, 2011 in a newspaper article:
"It is a fact that it costs more to run the schools in August."
Mostly False
By Eric Stirgus • April 22, 2011
Calvine Rollins
Calvine Rollins
stated on February 27, 2011 in an op-ed:
Georgia public sector employees do not have a say in the conditions of their employment, do not have bargaining rights or a say in their working conditions.
Mostly False
By Eric Stirgus • March 30, 2011
Hank Johnson
Hank Johnson
stated on January 26, 2011 in an online posting:
"The economy we preside over today is better than the one we inherited."
Mostly False
By Eric Stirgus • January 31, 2011
Americans For Tax Reform
Americans For Tax Reform
stated on January 10, 2011 in in a news release.:
Recommendations for a major tax overhaul for Georgia are an "overall tax hike."
Mostly False
By Willoughby Mariano • January 28, 2011
Jack Kingston
Jack Kingston
stated on December 25, 2010 in a newspaper article:
The nation's food supply is "99.99 percent safe."
Mostly False
By Willoughby Mariano • January 19, 2011
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