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Americans For Tax Reform
Americans For Tax Reform
stated on July 31, 2012 in a blog post:
"U.S. Olympic medal winners will owe up to $9,000 to the IRS."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • August 1, 2012
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on July 13, 2012 in an interview on 'Today':
It’s "typical" for a presidential candidate to release 10 or 11 years of tax returns.
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • August 1, 2012
Crossroads GPS
Crossroads GPS
stated on July 13, 2012 in an ad:
President Obama has "added $4 billion in debt every day."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • August 1, 2012
Julián Castro
Julián Castro
stated on June 8, 2012 in his speech at the Texas Democratic Party State Convention in Houston:
Says Milken Institute rated San Antonio as nation’s top-performing local economy.
True
By Sue Owen • August 1, 2012
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
stated on July 11, 2012 in Campaign news release:
"Foreign Chinese prostitution money is allegedly behind the groups funding Congressman Scott DesJarlais's (TN-04) Republican Majority."
Pants on Fire!
By Tom Humphrey • August 1, 2012
Club for Growth
Club for Growth
stated on July 13, 2012 in a television ad:
Says U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde has ‘no problem with raising taxes.’  
Mostly False
By Dave Umhoefer • August 1, 2012
Robert Menendez
Robert Menendez
stated on July 24, 2012 in a news conference:
Says under federal law "we do not have any limitation on the number of guns and bullets we can buy."
True
By Bill Wichert • August 1, 2012
Michael J. Gardiner
Michael J. Gardiner
stated on July 26, 2012 in a debate:
After the 9/11 terrorist attacks grounded commercial air traffic, "there was a temperature drop while the airplanes weren't flying, for the week afterwards."
Mostly False
By Tom Mooney • August 1, 2012
Kelly Ayotte
Kelly Ayotte
stated on July 29, 2012 in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” :
"The president's first major foreign policy speech in Cairo was to apologize for our country."
False
By Maryalice Gill • July 31, 2012
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on July 22, 2012 in a message on Twitter:
"Today the Walton family of Walmart own more wealth than the bottom 40 percent of America."
True
By Molly Moorhead • July 31, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on July 29, 2012 in an interview on 'Face the Nation.':
President Ronald Reagan sent troops into conflict "only in one circumstance, which was in Grenada … We were in a peacekeeping setting in Lebanon."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • July 31, 2012
Dave Weldon
Dave Weldon
stated on July 23, 2012 in a mock debate:
Embryonic stem cell research is at a "dead end, with no one good example of a successful treatment."
Mostly False
July 31, 2012
We Are Milwaukee
We Are Milwaukee
stated on July 30, 2012 in a campaign flyer:
Says "millions of dollars in tax breaks" were paid for "by busting unions, cutting BadgerCare, and raising taxes on the poor and the middle class, thanks to Elizabeth Coggs' help."
Pants on Fire!
July 31, 2012
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on July 5, 2012 in a Facebook post:
"The White House has three staff calligraphers making between $86,000 and $97,000 each, and just one National Security Director. She makes $55,000."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • July 30, 2012
Gerard Robinson
Gerard Robinson
stated on June 15, 2012 in a written statement:
FCAT tests "account for less than 1 percent of the instructional time provided during the year."  
False
By Amy Sherman • July 30, 2012
Tommy Thompson
Tommy Thompson
stated on June 4, 2012 in a speech:
"Donna Shalala left me with 12 million doses" of smallpox vaccine and "I created enough" to vaccinate "every man, woman and child against smallpox in America."
True
By Dave Umhoefer • July 30, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on July 23, 2012 in a news conference:
"What I look at every month is how many more New Jerseyans are back to work. You have another 9,900 last month that are back to work and over almost 90,000 that are back to work now since I became governor."
False
By Erin O'Neill • July 30, 2012
George Flinn
George Flinn
stated on July 5, 2012 in in a campaign TV commercial.:
Says his "patents in ultrasound have revolutionized modern medicine."
Pants on Fire!
By Bartholomew Sullivan • July 30, 2012
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on July 21, 2012 in a debate.:
Says former Sen. George Allen voted four times to raise his own pay.
Mostly True
By Sean Gorman • July 30, 2012
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on July 12, 2012 in an op-ed piece:
A study showed that President Barack Obama’s health-care reforms will "devastate Wisconsin" by pushing people off employer-sponsored insurance, driving up premiums, increasing dependency and making 122,000 people ineligible for Medicaid.
False
By Dave Umhoefer, Guy Boulton • July 29, 2012
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