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Craig James
Craig James
stated on January 3, 2012 in an online video ad.:
Says Rick Perry cut taxes.
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 13, 2012
Winning Our Future
Winning Our Future
stated on January 11, 2012 in the video, "When Mitt Romney Came to Town" :
Says Romney and Bain Capital drove KB Toys into bankruptcy by loading it up with debt.
Mostly False
By Becky Bowers • January 13, 2012
Ellyn Bogdanoff
Ellyn Bogdanoff
stated on January 9, 2012 in a hearing in Tallahassee:
Tampa is "the strip club capital of the world."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 13, 2012
Winning Our Future
Winning Our Future
stated on January 12, 2012 in the video, "When Mitt Romney Came to Town":
Mitt Romney’s and Bain Capital’s profits from KB Toys, which later went out of business, were "described by the Boston Herald as ‘disgusting.’"
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • January 13, 2012
Winning Our Future
Winning Our Future
stated on January 12, 2012 in the video "When Mitt Romney Came to Town":
Mitt Romney is "tearing down his 3,000-square-foot house to build an 11,000-square-foot house."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 13, 2012
Frank Pallone
Frank Pallone
stated on January 5, 2012 in a tweet:
"One year today since #GOP took control of the House" and "no new jobs."
False
By Erin O'Neill • January 13, 2012
Einer Elhauge
Einer Elhauge
stated on January 5, 2012 in a commentary in the New England Journal of Medicine:
"In 1790, the first Congress, which was packed with framers, required all ship owners to provide medical insurance for seamen; in 1798, Congress also required seamen to buy hospital insurance for themselves. In 1792, Congress enacted a law mandating that all able-bodied citizens obtain a firearm."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 13, 2012
Restore Our Future
Restore Our Future
stated on January 12, 2012 in a television ad:
Says Newt Gingrich "co-sponsored a bill with Nancy Pelosi that would have given $60 million a year to a U.N. program supporting China’s brutal one-child policy."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 12, 2012
Winning Our Future
Winning Our Future
stated on January 12, 2012 in the video, "When Mitt Romney Came to Town":
Mitt Romney has 15 homes.
False
By Louis Jacobson • January 12, 2012
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on December 15, 2011 in a news release:
On the accuracy of state jobs numbers.
Full Flop
By James B. Nelson • January 12, 2012
Reed Gusciora
Reed Gusciora
stated on January 9, 2012 in a news release:
"Opinion polls show that the majority of Americans, and the majority of New Jerseyans, favor marriage equality for same sex couples."
Mostly True
By Bill Wichert • January 12, 2012
Marcia Fudge
Marcia Fudge
stated on December 15, 2011 in a speech in the House of Representatives:
"More than a quarter of mortgage borrowers are underwater, and 11 percent of all homes are vacant."
Half-True
By Sabrina Eaton • January 12, 2012
Kasim Reed
Kasim Reed
stated on January 3, 2012 in a meeting:
"Five members of [the Common Cause Georgia] board accepted maximum campaign contributions."
Half-True
By Eric Stirgus • January 12, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 11, 2012 in a page on the Obama campaign website:
"Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, and Newt Gingrich all say they would cut foreign aid to Israel — and every other country — to zero."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • January 12, 2012
Democratic Party of Oregon
Democratic Party of Oregon
stated on January 5, 2012 in campaign material:
Rob Cornilles is a Tea Party candidate.
Mostly False
By Janie Har • January 11, 2012
Ron Paul
Ron Paul
stated on January 11, 2012 in an interview.:
Says that when Republicans held Congress and the presidency, they "doubled the size of the (U.S.) Department of Education."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 11, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 6, 2012 in a campaign mailer:
"Since the passage of Obama's stimulus package, over 1 million additional jobs were lost and nearly 25 million Americans are out of work, are stuck in part-time work, or have given up looking."  
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • January 11, 2012
Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on January 9, 2012 in comments to reporters in Concord, N.H.:
"What’s clear is (Romney) likes firing people."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • January 11, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 5, 2012 in an e-mail to the Los Angeles Times:
"President Obama has raised taxes 19 times."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 11, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 4, 2012 in a news release:
Barack Obama’s recess appointment of Richard Cordray "is precisely what then-Sen. Obama claimed would be ‘the wrong thing to do.’"
Half-True
By Henry J. Gomez • January 11, 2012
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