Fact Check Posts – Page 9

Johnny Isakson
stated on August 23, 2011 in a speech before the Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce:

The premiums on Medicare’s prescription drug program have fallen almost every year since it began.

By Willoughby Mariano • September 13, 2011

Herman Cain
stated on August 11, 2011 in the GOP debate in Ames, Iowa:

Says that he did "not exactly" say that communities have the right to ban mosques.

By Willoughby Mariano • August 17, 2011

Georgia Department of Transportation
stated on July 19, 2011 in a press release:

The Northwest Corridor highway project in Cobb and Cherokee counties "is expected to create over 9,700 jobs statewide."

By PolitiFact Staff • August 10, 2011

Beverly Hall
stated on June 24, 2011 in a mailer:

Atlanta Public Schools’ 2011 CRCT tests were "given under the strictest security possible."

By Willoughby Mariano • August 5, 2011

Phil Gingrey
stated on June 22, 2011 in a news conference:

Under last year’s health care reform, "a bunch of bureaucrats decide whether you get care, such as continuing on dialysis or cancer chemotherapy."

By Willoughby Mariano • August 2, 2011

Tom Price
stated on July 24, 2011 in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union with Candy Crowley":

"The U.S. won't default, because default means that you don't pay your creditors. And it takes about 10 percent of the money that's coming in right now" to pay interest to bondholders.

By Louis Jacobson, Willoughby Mariano • July 26, 2011

Sam Olens
stated on June 28, 2011 in a radio news story:

"If you're from Guatemala and you are found illegally in Mexico, you are automatically jailed."

By Willoughby Mariano • July 26, 2011

National Republican Congressional Committee
stated on May 18, 2011 in press releases:

U.S. Reps. John Barrow and Sanford Bishop and their fellow Democrats "went on a spending spree and now their credit card is maxed out."

By Willoughby Mariano • July 5, 2011

Robert Brown
stated on June 2, 2011 in a press release:

Georgia’s illegal immigration crackdown laws should be called the "Brown Codes" because of their similarity to the "Black Codes" governing blacks after the Civil War.

By Willoughby Mariano • July 1, 2011

Ray Lewis
stated on May 25, 2011 in an interview:

"Do this research … watch how much crime picks up if you take away [football]."

By Eric Stirgus • June 17, 2011

Herman Cain
stated on May 21, 2011 in in a speech announcing his presidential run:

In the U.S. Constitution, "there’s a little section in there that talks about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

By Willoughby Mariano • May 25, 2011

Nathan Deal
stated on May 9, 2011 in a speech:

"The health care price tag for childhood obesity in Georgia is $2.4 billion annually and rising."

By Eric Stirgus • May 20, 2011

Saxby Chambliss
stated on March 28, 2011 in a letter to a constituent:

Says the Internal Revenue Service estimated it must hire "16,500 agents at a cost of $10 billion to the taxpayer" to enforce the federal health care overhaul.

By Willoughby Mariano • May 4, 2011

Herman Cain
stated on March 17, 2011 in an interview:

Says "in Canada, the number of CT scan machines per 1,000 people is like one-tenth of what we have here in this country. That's why people have to wait."

By M.B. Pell • May 2, 2011

Allie McCullen
stated on March 2, 2011 in a speech:

"The Georgia Lottery Corp. has only once in the past 16 years paid out the agreed upon 35 percent of proceeds to the account which funds the HOPE scholarship."

By M.B. Pell • April 27, 2011

Paul Broun
stated on April 12, 2011 in a speech before Congress:

Says President Franklin Delano Roosevelt sent his advisers to study socialism with Soviet dictator Josef Stalin so the president could replicate it in the United States.

By Eric Stirgus, Willoughby Mariano • April 19, 2011

Paul Broun
stated on April 1, 2011 in a speech before Congress:

Says the federal government borrows "almost $60 billion per week."

By Willoughby Mariano • April 13, 2011

Georgia state senators
stated on March 16, 2011 in a legislative debate:

Say easing restrictions on selling alcohol on Sundays will result in more traffic crashes and fatalities.

By Eric Stirgus • March 18, 2011

John Lewis
stated on January 17, 2011 in a newsletter to constituents:

Building and running the Atlanta Streetcar is projected to create 1,399 jobs.

By Willoughby Mariano • March 16, 2011

Larry Gause
stated on March 1, 2011 in a flier and campaign website:

Says Charlotte Nash "pretends to be a chicken farmer" in order to get property tax exemptions.

By Eric Stirgus • March 11, 2011

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