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Betty Sutton
Betty Sutton
stated on March 3, 2011 a House committee hearing
"Lake Erie supports nearly 10 percent of Ohio's jobs and generates $750 million in state and local taxes."
Mostly True
By Tom Feran • March 18, 2011
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on March 4, 2011 a press release.
"Put simply, less government spending equals more private sector jobs."
Half-True
By Jacob Geiger • March 16, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 11, 2011 a press conference
"Last year, American oil production reached its highest level since 2003."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 15, 2011
Patti Doyle
Patti Doyle
stated on March 2, 2011 a radio interview
At Twin River, "we're more than competitive" with nearby casinos in slot machine payouts.
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 13, 2011
Michael Moore
Michael Moore
stated on March 5, 2011 a speech to protesters in Madison, Wisconsin
"Just 400 Americans -- 400 -- have more wealth than half of all Americans combined."
True
March 10, 2011
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on March 4, 2011 a post on his PAC's website
Says it’s a "statistical reality that most single moms are very poor, under-educated, can't get a job, and if it weren't for government assistance, their kids would be starving to death."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • March 10, 2011
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on February 28, 2011 a press release touting a state tourism program
"We know that every 85 visitors create one Florida job."
True
By Laura Figueroa • March 10, 2011
John McCain
John McCain
stated on March 6, 2011 an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour"
Says iPads and iPhones "are built in the United States of America."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 9, 2011
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on March 8, 2011 in his State of the State speech
Bing Energy said it decided to move to Florida because of Gov. Rick Scott’s "plan to eliminate the corporate tax."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 9, 2011
Travis Rowley
Travis Rowley
stated on February 22, 2011 a web commentary
"Last year it was discovered that Rhode Island's public employees ranked 4th in average pay, while the private sector ranked 23rd."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 7, 2011
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on February 22, 2011 an interview on CNN
"We have lost 600,000 jobs over the period of the last 10 years. Only Michigan and California have done worse."
True
By Tom Feran • March 4, 2011
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on February 22, 2011 a newspaper column
"For every $10,000 invested in business incubators, up to nearly 70 local jobs are generated."
True
By James McCarty • March 3, 2011
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on February 19, 2011 a speech at the Jefferson-Jackson dinner.
"We’ve now gained private sector jobs 12 months in a row."
Mostly True
By Jacob Geiger • March 2, 2011
Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly
stated on February 24, 2011 on Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor"
"The right-to-work states have much lower level of unemployment than the union states do."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • February 28, 2011
George Allen
George Allen
stated on February 17, 2011 a press release.
The stimulus bill "promised to keep unemployment under 8%."
Mostly False
By Jacob Geiger • February 28, 2011
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on February 19, 2011 a speech at the Jefferson-Jackson dinner.
Under former President George W. Bush’s administration "while the population in that period grew by 10 percent, the number of jobs in the nation grew by 1 percent."
Mostly True
By Sean Gorman • February 26, 2011
Garnet Coleman
Garnet Coleman
stated on February 15, 2011 a press conference.
Says that in some Texas communities, "our unemployment rate is still at 10 and 20 percent."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • February 23, 2011
William G. Batchelder
William G. Batchelder
stated on February 4, 2011 an interview on WCPN 90.3 FM
"75 percent of the jobs created in the state of Ohio are created in small business. They are not created by huge corporations and those who are very wealthy."
Mostly True
By James McCarty • February 21, 2011
Chain email
Chain email
stated on February 17, 2011 a chain e-mail
Welfare programs caused more long-term damage to Detroit than the atomic bomb caused to Hiroshima
Pants on Fire!
By Peter Lord • February 18, 2011
Mitch Daniels
Mitch Daniels
stated on February 11, 2011 a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference
"Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security."
False
By Lucas Graves • February 17, 2011
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