Latest Fact-Checks By Eric Stirgus

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Jan Jones
Jan Jones
stated on February 6, 2012 in an essay:
"[W]hen adjusted for cost of living, Georgia ranks first nationally in teacher salary and benefits."
Half-True
By Eric Stirgus • February 22, 2012
Winning Our Future
Winning Our Future
stated on January 27, 2012 in an ad:
Mitt Romney "supervised a company guilty of massive Medicare fraud."
Half-True
By Eric Stirgus • February 21, 2012
Restore Our Future
Restore Our Future
stated on February 15, 2012 in a television ad:
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 Eric Stirgus • February 15, 2012
Republican Party of Georgia
Republican Party of Georgia
stated on February 1, 2012 in a web post:
"[A]t his current rate, President Obama will have added more debt to the United State of America by the end of his first term than each of the previous 43 presidents -- combined!"
Half-True
By Eric Stirgus • February 13, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on February 8, 2012 in an Atlanta campaign stop:
"Twenty-five or 24 million people" are "out of work or stopped looking for work."
Half-True
By Eric Stirgus, Willoughby Mariano • February 10, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 27, 2012 in a column:
On deporting illegal immigrants.
No Flip
By Eric Stirgus • February 7, 2012
Brian Kemp
Brian Kemp
stated on June 24, 2011 in in editorials and op-ed articles:
The Georgia Secretary of State's Office and the Georgia State Elections Board investigate and penalize hundreds of people guilty of election fraud.
True
By Eric Stirgus • February 6, 2012
Casey Cagle
Casey Cagle
stated on January 19, 2012 in a speech:
Savannah is home to "the fastest-growing port in the nation."
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • January 31, 2012
Nathan Deal
Nathan Deal
stated on January 10, 2012 in a speech:
"Right now in Georgia, nearly one in three leaving our prisons are re-convicted within three years."
True
By Eric Stirgus • January 25, 2012
William Perry
William Perry
stated on January 4, 2012 in an interview:
"Eleven states have enacted these pay-to-play reforms."
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • January 23, 2012
Judy Manning
Judy Manning
stated on January 4, 2012 in an interview:
"When [Mitt Romney] was the governor of Massachusetts, he performed 100 — and I’m not sure this number is right, but my mind says it’s about 180 gay marriages."
Pants on Fire!
By Eric Stirgus • January 18, 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
Tom Price
Tom Price
stated on December 8, 2011 in a letter:
Congress gave an unelected board "the power to deny care to seniors."
Half-True
By Eric Stirgus • January 6, 2012
Buddy Carter
Buddy Carter
stated on December 13, 2011 in a column:
Georgia’s unemployment rate has exceeded the national rate for 50 consecutive months.
True
By Eric Stirgus • January 4, 2012
Grover Norquist
Grover Norquist
stated on December 12, 2011 in a letter:
"[E]xcise tax increases drive commerce across state lines."
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • December 21, 2011
Club for Growth
Club for Growth
stated on November 30, 2011 in a press release:
"[Former Georgia congressman] Bob Barr voted ... to raise his own pay."
Half-True
By Eric Stirgus • December 9, 2011
Thomas Brown
Thomas Brown
stated on November 7, 2011 in an interview:
"Most of, if not all of, the [DeKalb school construction] projects always came in on or were under budget."
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • December 6, 2011
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on November 29, 2011 in a speech:
Says the unemployment rate for college graduates is 4.4 percent and over 10 percent for noncollege-educated.
True
By Eric Stirgus • December 5, 2011
Eric Gray
Eric Gray
stated on November 3, 2011 in a speech:
Georgia is one of seven states to lose jobs in 2011 and has lost 8,200 jobs so far.
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • November 30, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on November 23, 2011 in an interview:
Says Newt Gingrich "has said that we should make the 11 million illegal workers that are in this country legal."
False
By Eric Stirgus • November 29, 2011
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