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David Quiroa
David Quiroa
stated on October 3, 2011 in a news release:
"Under Governor Almond the RI DMV had a program that allowed undocumented [people to] use their Personal Tax Identification Number . . . to apply [for] and receive a RI driver’s license."
True
By Lynn Arditi • October 16, 2011
Tom Kean Jr.
Tom Kean Jr.
stated on October 7, 2011 in a news release:
Says Democrats raised taxes over 115 times in the past 10 years, "making New Jersey increasingly unaffordable and chasing jobs to neighboring states."
Half-True
By Erin O'Neill • October 16, 2011
Sam Adams
Sam Adams
stated on October 13, 2011 in in a press conference:
Says "There are now Occupy Wall Street camps in hundreds of cities across the United States."
Mostly False
By Janie Har • October 15, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on October 11, 2011 in the Blooomberg/Washington Post Republican presidential debate.:
Says Rick Perry increased spending in Texas by more than 50 percent.
Half-True
By Sue Owen • October 14, 2011
Alan Grayson
Alan Grayson
stated on October 10, 2011 in an interview on MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show":
"According to Wikipedia, there are only five countries in the entire planet that are more unequal than the United States in the distribution of our wealth."
True
By Louis Jacobson • October 14, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on October 11, 2011 in a Republican presidential primary debate:
Says the National Labor Relations Board told Boeing that it "can't build a factory in a non-union state."
False
By Jon Greenberg • October 14, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on October 10, 2011 in a campaign ad:
"Romneycare has … killed 18,000 Massachusetts jobs."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 14, 2011
Robert Kraig
Robert Kraig
stated on October 3, 2011 in a news release, blog:
Wisconsin bill "grants drug companies and medical device manufacturers immunity from injuries and deaths caused by their products."
Mostly True
October 14, 2011
Ward Armstrong
Ward Armstrong
stated on September 27, 2011 in in TV ads.:
Appalachian Power Company is making "record profits."
Pants on Fire!
By Warren Fiske • October 14, 2011
Herman Cain
Herman Cain
stated on October 4, 2011 in :
"Current projections indicate that Medicare will go bankrupt by 2017, while Social Security will bottom out by 2037."
Half-True
By Willoughby Mariano • October 14, 2011
Peter Palumbo
Peter Palumbo
stated on October 5, 2011 in a speech:
"The Tax Foundation figures Rhode Island as the 10th highest state for state and local tax burden per capita in the country. We're the 6th worst in the country for the business tax index. We're the 3rd highest per capita in the country for all taxes."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 14, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on October 11, 2011 in a Republicam debate in Hanover, N.H.:
When George W. Bush was governor of Texas, "the percentage uninsured went down." Under his successor, Rick Perry, "it's gone up."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 13, 2011
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on October 11, 2011 in a Republican presidental primary debate:
The poverty rate for families in which a husband and a wife work is 5 percent, but in families headed by one person … "it's 30 percent today."
Half-True
By Molly Moorhead • October 13, 2011
Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on October 11, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Hanover, N.H.:
"The IRS is already planning on 19,500 new employees to administer" Obama’s health care mandate.
Pants on Fire!
By Maryalice Gill • October 13, 2011
Herman Cain
Herman Cain
stated on October 5, 2011 in an interview in St. Petersburg, Fla., aboard his campaign bus:
Says someone earning $50,000 a year will fare better under his "9-9-9" plan than under the current tax system.
Mostly False
By Aaron Sharockman • October 13, 2011
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on September 26, 2011 in a television interview:
Says he never called teachers "thugs" and has said nothing but "great things" about them during the fight over his curbs on unions
Half-True
By Dave Umhoefer • October 13, 2011
John Boehner
John Boehner
stated on October 7, 2011 in a news release:
"Our unemployment rate has been higher than 8 percent for more than two-and-a-half years, far above what the Obama Administration promised with the 'stimulus.' "
Mostly False
By Tom Feran • October 13, 2011
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on October 11, 2011 in a news conference with Mitt Romney:
Says "any attempt to try to compare" the Massachusetts health care law with the federal health care law is "completely, intellectually dishonest. Governor Romney did not raise one tax in doing what he did."
Mostly False
By Bill Wichert, Erin O'Neill • October 13, 2011
Herman Cain
Herman Cain
stated on October 12, 2011 in an interview on MSNBC:
"Every worker pays 15.3 percent payroll tax."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 12, 2011
Edd Houck
Edd Houck
stated on September 29, 2011 in a TV ad.:
"Bryce Reeves chaired a group bankrolled by a New York billionaire who fired hundreds of Virginia workers and sent their jobs to China."
False
By Sean Gorman • October 12, 2011
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