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Latest Fact-Checks In Message Machine 2012

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American Commitment
American Commitment
stated on July 10, 2012 a television ad:
The health care law could cost up to $2 trillion, "double what we were promised."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 11, 2012
American Commitment
American Commitment
stated on July 10, 2012 a television ad:
The health care law "imposes the largest tax increase in history on the middle class."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 11, 2012
American Commitment
American Commitment
stated on July 10, 2012 a television ad:
"Bill Nelson was the deciding vote" on the health care law.
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Amy Sherman • July 11, 2012
MoveOn.org
MoveOn.org
stated on June 27, 2012 an email:
Gov. Rick Scott "tried to kick 180,000 people off the voter rolls."
False
By Amy Sherman • July 10, 2012
MoveOn.org
MoveOn.org
stated on June 27, 2012 an email:
"Every one of the 67 supervisors of elections" in Florida refused to carry out the effort to remove noncitizens from the voter rolls.
False
By Amy Sherman • July 10, 2012
Americans for Prosperity
Americans for Prosperity
stated on June 18, 2012 a campaign ad:
Montana Democratic Sen. Jon Tester is "the largest recipient of lobbyist money."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 10, 2012
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 3, 2012 on the Internet:
"75 percent of the Obamacare tax falls on the middle class."
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 9, 2012
American Crossroads
American Crossroads
stated on June 13, 2012 a TV ad.:
"As Virginia lost over 65,000 jobs, (Tim) Kaine put partisan ambitions first" by serving as DNC chairman during the last year of his governorship.
Half-True
By Sean Gorman • June 22, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 21, 2012 a campaign ad:
"Women (are) paid 77 cents on the dollar for doing the same work as men."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • June 21, 2012
American Crossroads
American Crossroads
stated on June 13, 2012 a TV ad. :
Tim Kaine urged "$500 billion in Medicare cuts."
False
By Nancy Madsen • June 20, 2012
Robert Menendez
Robert Menendez
stated on June 8, 2012 an interview on NJTV’s “On the Record”:
Says Joe Kyrillos "voted to raid the state's pension funds by $2.8 billion that is costing New Jersey taxpayers still today to the tune of nearly $15 billion dollars to repay that money."
False
By Erin O'Neill • June 17, 2012
Josh Mandel
Josh Mandel
stated on May 23, 2012 a campaign commercial:
Sherrod Brown "gave huge bonuses to executives."
Pants on Fire!
By Tom Feran • June 15, 2012
60 Plus Association
60 Plus Association
stated on June 6, 2012 a television ad:
U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson was "the deciding vote for the health care law."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • June 14, 2012
Joseph Kyrillos
Joseph Kyrillos
stated on June 6, 2012 an interview on NJToday:
Says Robert Menendez is "the king of raising money from Wall Street, over a million dollars, one of the leaders in the United States Senate. I haven’t raised any Wall Street money at all."
Mostly False
By Bill Wichert • June 14, 2012
Stop Gillnetting Now
Stop Gillnetting Now
stated on May 30, 2012 campaign press statement:
Says "Oregon is one of only three states that allow the use of gillnets on inland waters."
False
By Janie Har • June 14, 2012
American Bridge 21st Century
American Bridge 21st Century
stated on June 7, 2012 a campaign ad:
"As Governor: Romney did not keep public safety funding in line with inflation."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • June 12, 2012
Samuel Wurzelbacher
Samuel Wurzelbacher
stated on June 4, 2012 a campaign video:
"Marcy Kaptur voted against a ban which would have prevented the aborting of a baby girl for the sole reason that she's a girl."
Mostly True
By Tom Feran • June 12, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 4, 2012 a campaign ad:
"Romney outsourced call center jobs to India."  
Half-True
By Molly Moorhead • June 11, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on June 8, 2012 a campaign ad:
As governor of Massachusetts, "Romney reduced unemployment to just 4.7 percent."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 11, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on June 5, 2012 a Web ad:
"More Hispanics have fallen into poverty under Obama."
Half-True
By Molly Moorhead • June 8, 2012
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