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Creative Advocacy Network
Creative Advocacy Network
stated on December 1, 2011 in a tweet:
Says 77 percent "of Portland's students finish elementary school without taking even one art class."
Mostly True
By Ian K. Kullgren • December 16, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on December 15, 2011 in a Republican presidential primary debate:
Says Newt Gingrich "made an affirmative statement that he would not only support but he would campaign for Republicans who were in support of the barbaric procedure known as partial-birth abortion."
Mostly True
By Molly Moorhead • December 16, 2011
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
stated on December 12, 2011 in a news story:
Says there have been no cases of wolves killing people in Rocky Mountain states.
True
By Ian K. Kullgren • December 16, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 15, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Sioux City, Iowa:
"We’re $15 trillion now in debt, with a president that’s racked up as much debt as almost all of the other presidents combined."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • December 16, 2011
Florida Chamber of Commerce
Florida Chamber of Commerce
stated on December 8, 2011 in a news article:
Nevada has been recently ranked No. 1 in "unemployment, foreclosures, violent crime, personal bankruptcy and divorce." 
True
By Amy Sherman • December 16, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on December 15, 2011 in a debate in Iowa:
"I never lobbied under any circumstance" for Freddie Mac.
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 16, 2011
Democratic National Committee
Democratic National Committee
stated on December 6, 2011 in a Web video.:
"Traditionally, presidential candidates release their tax returns . . . Mitt Romney still won’t."
Mostly True
By Matt Clary • December 16, 2011
Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on December 15, 2011 in a Republican presidential primary debate:
"In this country … we have more natural gas than Saudi Arabia has oil."
Mostly False
By Maryalice Gill, Molly Moorhead • December 16, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on December 15, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Sioux City, Iowa:
"I balanced the budget for four straight years, paid off $405 billion in debt."
False
By Louis Jacobson • December 16, 2011
Boyd Richie
Boyd Richie
stated on November 15, 2011 in an email blast:
Says King Street Patriots held a fundraiser featuring an author who believes that registering the poor to vote is un-American.
True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • December 16, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on December 10, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Iowa.:
Says the Obama administration catches and releases nonviolent illegal immigrants.
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • December 16, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on December 15, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Sioux City, Iowa:
"After the debate that we had last week, PolitiFact came out and said that everything I said was true."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • December 16, 2011
Charlie Gonzalez
Charlie Gonzalez
stated on December 13, 2011 in a press release.:
"If Congress does not pass the renewal of the payroll tax cut before the end of the year, nearly 160 million working families will see their taxes go up by roughly $1,000."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • December 15, 2011
Republican National Committee
Republican National Committee
stated on December 12, 2011 in an email to reporters:
DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz "denied unemployment went up under Obama."
Mostly False
December 15, 2011
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on December 15, 2011 in a television interview:
"President Obama has increased the federal workforce 192,000 individuals -- about 10 percent since he’s taken office -- while we’ve lost 2 million jobs."
Half-True
By Dave Umhoefer • December 15, 2011
Julia Sass Rubin
Julia Sass Rubin
stated on December 3, 2011 in an interview on News 12 New Jersey’s Power & Politics show:
"(The Opportunity Scholarship Act) would be funded directly from public school budgets. So it would absolutely take money out of the public school system to transfer to private and religious schools."
Mostly True
By Bill Wichert • December 15, 2011
Lloyd Doggett
Lloyd Doggett
stated on December 8, 2011 in an opinion article at HuffingtonPost.com:
Says that according to one economist, $1 of unemployment benefits boosts the economy by $1.61.
Mostly False
By Sue Owen • December 15, 2011
Marisha Agana
Marisha Agana
stated on October 30, 2011 in a news release announcing her candidacy:
"The American Conservative Union gives [Rep. Tim] Ryan a dismal 0.0 percent rating for the billions he has contributed to our national debt."
Mostly False
By Henry J. Gomez • December 15, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on December 12, 2011 in a foreign policy debate with Jon Huntsman in Manchester, N.H., Dec. 12, 2011:
"The Obama administration just issued instructions that terrorism training should not involve any reference to Islam."
False
By John Gregg • December 14, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 7, 2011 in an interview on Fox News:
"Speaker Gingrich has said that we ought to get rid of our child labor laws."
Mostly False
By Molly Moorhead • December 14, 2011
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