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stated on July 21, 2012 in on the Internet:
"Nearly 100,000 people get shot every year. That's 270 people a day and 87 dead."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 23, 2012
Jeff Fitzgerald
Jeff Fitzgerald
stated on June 28, 2012 in a tweet:
Says "Obamacare" is "the largest middle-class tax increase in history."
Pants on Fire!
July 23, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on July 9, 2012 in a speech at the Brookings Institution:
"I used my line-item veto authority to veto $360 million dollars in special interest spending, so that our budget this year ... is still smaller than the fiscal year 2008 and 2009 budgets signed by my predecessor."
False
By Erin O'Neill • July 23, 2012
Jackie Cilley
Jackie Cilley
stated on July 16, 2012 in a statement during a candidates forum at Nashua City Hall:
Says New Hampshire has the third-highest property tax in the country. 
True
By Jake Berry • July 23, 2012
Paul Broun
Paul Broun
stated on July 2, 2012 in in a radio debate:
The U.S. initially had three federal felonies: treason, piracy, and counterfeiting securities and money.
Mostly True
By Willoughby Mariano • July 23, 2012
Rachel O'Connor
Rachel O'Connor
stated on July 12, 2012 in an interview:
The Pasco County budget "has doubled in the past three years."
False
By Lee Logan • July 22, 2012
Bill Pascrell
Bill Pascrell
stated on July 18, 2012 in an interview on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal:
Says President Barack Obama "has not raised taxes."
False
By Erin O'Neill • July 22, 2012
Charlotte Bergmann
Charlotte Bergmann
stated on July 4, 2012 in an email newsletter.:
"Obamacare" represents "the largest tax increase in the history of the world."
Pants on Fire!
By Bartholomew Sullivan • July 22, 2012
Robert DiMuccio
Robert DiMuccio
stated on June 14, 2012 in a letter to policy holders:
"Rhode Islanders pay among the highest auto repair bills in the nation."
True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 22, 2012
Accountability in Government
Accountability in Government
stated on July 20, 2012 in a TV ad:
Says Jim Frishe wanted to "tax us for doing our taxes" through an accountant.
True
July 20, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 26, 2012 in a fundraising email:
Says he could be "the first president in modern history to be outspent."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • July 20, 2012
Charlie Hales
Charlie Hales
stated on July 18, 2012 in a newspaper article:
On suspending system development charges for two years.
Half Flip
By Ian K. Kullgren • July 20, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on July 10, 2012 in a town hall in Grand Junction, Colo.:
The Obama administration "has been outsourcing" by sending money to "solar and wind energy companies that end up making their products outside the United States."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • July 20, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on July 18, 2012 in a campaign commercial:
Says stimulus money went to buy electric cars from Finland as a payback to Obama supporters.
False
By Jon Greenberg • July 20, 2012
Committee to Protect Florida
Committee to Protect Florida
stated on July 18, 2012 in a mailer:
Says Jeff Brandes voted to allow state-run Citizens Property Insurance to dump policies onto "out-of-state, unregulated private companies."
Mostly True
July 20, 2012
Daniel Rodriguez
Daniel Rodriguez
stated on May 30, 2012 in an email to PolitiFact Texas.:
Says no city comparable in size to Austin or smaller was broken into as many congressional districts.
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • July 20, 2012
Josh Mandel
Josh Mandel
stated on June 28, 2012 in a news release:
The Affordable Care Act "will likely go down as the biggest tax increase in history."
Pants on Fire!
By Tom Feran • July 20, 2012
John Watson
John Watson
stated on July 11, 2012 in an op-ed:
The transportation sales tax would cost the average consumer an estimated $112 a year.
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • July 20, 2012
Republican National Committee
Republican National Committee
stated on July 19, 2012 in a web video:
Over the last six months, President Barack Obama has golfed 10 times and held 106 fundraisers, but his jobs council has never met.
True
By Louis Jacobson • July 19, 2012
Paul Sadler
Paul Sadler
stated on June 26, 2012 in a debate of Democratic primary runoff candidates for U.S. Senate in Dallas:
Says federal debt "doubled during the Bush administration."
Mostly True
By Sue Owen • July 19, 2012
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