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Tim Canova
Tim Canova
stated on March 24, 2016 campaign website
"After taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street banks, (Debbie Wasserman Schultz) has voted to prevent the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from regulating payday loans and addressing racial discrimination in car loans."    
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • March 30, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on March 15, 2016 a victory speech after the March 15 primaries
"Our campaign depends on small donations for the majority of our support."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • March 21, 2016
JoAnne Kloppenburg
JoAnne Kloppenburg
stated on March 15, 2016 a website posting
In the primary election, a "right-wing group spent more than $100,000,000 to support" Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley.
False
By James B. Nelson • March 21, 2016
Future45
Future45
stated on March 8, 2016 a television ad
Banks paid Hillary Clinton "over $1 million and are contributing millions more to elect her."  
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • March 10, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on March 6, 2016 a Democratic debate in Flint, Mich.
"President Obama took more money from Wall Street in the 2008 campaign than anybody ever had."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 7, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on March 3, 2016 a Republican presidential debate in Detroit
Says Donald Trump has written 10 checks to Hillary Clinton "and four of those checks were not to her Senate campaign. … It was to her presidential campaign."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 4, 2016
Corey Lewandowski
Corey Lewandowski
stated on February 15, 2016 a radio interview.
"Mr. Trump is self-financing his campaign, so we don’t have any donors."
False
By Warren Fiske • February 22, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 13, 2016 a Republican debate
"In New Hampshire, I spent $3 million. Jeb Bush spent $44 million. He came in five, and I came in number one."
Mostly True
By Nick Reid • February 19, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 1, 2016 a campaign rally in Iowa
"I'm self-funding my own campaign."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • February 10, 2016
Carly Fiorina
Carly Fiorina
stated on February 6, 2016 a column posted on Medium.com
Says she "is 6th in hard dollars raised and has more cash on hand than Governors (John) Kasich and (Chris) Christie combined."
True
By Louis Jacobson • February 8, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 2, 2016 a campaign event in Keene, N.H.
Says Goldman Sachs CEO said Congress would "have to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid and give huge tax breaks to the wealthy and the large corporations."
Half-True
By Clay Wirestone • February 5, 2016
Katrina Shankland
Katrina Shankland
stated on January 29, 2016 a news release
"Faced with $1 million in campaign debt," Scott Walker "is unloading his campaign security costs onto the backs of Wisconsin taxpayers."  
Mostly False
February 5, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on December 5, 2015 a speech at the Rising Tide Summit in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
"The Democrats in the Senate last year introduced a constitutional amendment to repeal the free speech protections of the First Amendment."
Mostly False
By Jason Noble • December 22, 2015
National Republican Senatorial Committee
National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on November 10, 2015 a TV ad
Says Russ Feingold "wanted to get money out of politics. Now he's profiting from that same dark money."
Half-True
November 27, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on October 28, 2015 a speech.
The Koch Brothers are "spending more money than either the Democratic or Republican parties" in the 2016 elections.
False
By Sean Gorman • November 6, 2015
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on October 31, 2015 a campaign email
"‘Dark money’ spending" in the 2016 election cycle "is 10 times what it was at the same point in the 2012 election cycle," when it topped $308 million.
True
November 5, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on October 26, 2015 a Houston press conference
My campaign "finished the last quarter reporting the most cash on hand of any Republican in the field … $13.8 million in the bank, $3.5 million more than the Jeb Bush campaign."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • October 30, 2015
Russ Feingold
Russ Feingold
stated on August 13, 2015 an interview
On receiving campaign contributions from out-of-state donors
Full Flop
By James B. Nelson • October 28, 2015
Chris Danou
Chris Danou
stated on October 20, 2015 remarks in Assembly debate
A Republican bill that would change John Doe criminal investigations is "creating exceptions in the law for politicians."
Mostly True
October 22, 2015
Claire McCaskill
Claire McCaskill
stated on August 21, 2015 comments to HBO host Bill Maher
"You wonder why you don't see Rand Paul as much; he's still shopping for his billionaire. He's like the only one who hasn't found a billionaire to fund his super PAC."
False
By Katherine Knott • October 20, 2015
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