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Let's Get To Work
Let's Get To Work
stated on July 14, 2010 in a TV ad.:
Bill McCollum "diverted a state plane to his home 53 times. A state auditor called it: likely a misuse of state resources."
Mostly False
By Aaron Sharockman • July 16, 2010
Dave Aronberg
Dave Aronberg
stated on July 2, 2010 an e-mail to supporters.:
Dan Gelber's employment by BP's law firm "could disqualify him from representing Florida against BP as Attorney General."
Mostly False
By Aaron Sharockman • July 15, 2010
Thomas Melsheimer
Thomas Melsheimer
stated on June 7, 2010 an op-ed article:
"Across the country, more than half of the U.S. attorney seats remain without a prosecutor chosen by Obama."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • June 10, 2010
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on February 16, 2010 a press release:
Says the EPA "outsourced the scientific basis for its greenhouse gas regulation to a scandal-plagued international organization that cannot be considered objective or trustworthy."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • May 11, 2010
Jan Brewer
Jan Brewer
stated on April 30, 2010 a news release:
Late changes to the Arizona immigration law "lay to rest questions over the possibility of racial profiling."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • May 4, 2010
Paul Workman
Paul Workman
stated on February 18, 2010 a radio ad:
"Holly Turner... still takes her homestead (property tax) exemption in Fort Worth."
Mostly False
By Ciara O'Rourke • February 23, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 7, 2010 an interview on CBS:
The Bush administration prosecuted 190 suspected terrorists in federal courts.
Mostly False
By Robert Farley • February 13, 2010
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on January 21, 2010 a press conference:
"With a stroke of a pen, the (U.S. Supreme Court) decided to overrule the 100-year-old ban on corporate expenditures."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 22, 2010
Ginny Brown-Waite
Ginny Brown-Waite
stated on October 26, 2009 a letter to President Obama:
A president must "obtain Congress' consent before formally accepting the Nobel Prize."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 29, 2009
Patients First
Patients First
stated on September 29, 2009 a news release:
"Health care mandate will require imprisonment and fines for Americans who can’t afford to purchase insurance or pay hefty government penalties."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 29, 2009
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on May 10, 2009 a television interview:
Democrats in Congress "had control since January of 2007. They haven't passed a law making waterboarding illegal. They haven't gone into any of these things and changed law."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 13, 2009
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on December 18, 2007 a comment to a shopper at a supermarket in Des Moines, Iowa.:
"I can't sign money. That's illegal."
Mostly False
By Bill Adair • December 19, 2007
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on October 21, 2007 a Republican debate in Orlando, Fla.:
Thompson "voted against $250,000 caps on damages (and) almost anything that would make our legal system fairer."
Mostly False
By Jody Kyle • October 25, 2007
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