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Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on September 30, 2011 in a speech:
Coca-Cola’s CEO "said he finds it easier to do work in China than in the United States."
Half-True
By Eric Stirgus • October 10, 2011
New Jersey Democratic State Committee
New Jersey Democratic State Committee
stated on October 1, 2011 in a political mailer:
Says Vince Polistina is "collecting nearly $70,000 in taxpayer-funded salaries -- plus a government pension."
Mostly False
By Erin O'Neill • October 10, 2011
Jim Sensenbrenner
Jim Sensenbrenner
stated on September 29, 2011 in an interview:
"We have the highest corporate tax rate in the world. It’s 35 percent."
True
October 9, 2011
Steve Lonegan
Steve Lonegan
stated on October 1, 2011 in an interview on News 12 New Jersey’s Power & Politics show:
"Today, the Social Security system is broke."
False
By Bill Wichert • October 9, 2011
Nick Tsiongas
Nick Tsiongas
stated on September 6, 2011 in newspaper commentary:
"Health care is the greatest contribution to spending increases in the state budget."
True
By Edward Fitzpatrick • October 9, 2011
Ruben Navarrette Jr.
Ruben Navarrette Jr.
stated on September 28, 2011 in an opinion column.:
"Every month, another 50,000 U.S.-born Hispanics turn 18 and become eligible to vote."  
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • October 7, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 6, 2011 in a press conference at the White House:
The Arab Spring … "drove up gas prices."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 7, 2011
Michael Moore
Michael Moore
stated on September 28, 2011 in an interview on "Democracy Now":
"Not a single banker, a CEO from Wall Street, anyone from corporate America — nobody, (there was) not one arrest of any of these people who brought down the economy in 2008."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • October 7, 2011
Brian Newberry
Brian Newberry
stated on October 2, 2011 in a television interview:
"Legally, it doesn't make any difference" which state district you live in when running for Congress.
True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 7, 2011
We Are Ohio
We Are Ohio
stated on September 13, 2011 in a campaign commercial:
Says that politicians who approved collective bargaining restrictions for public employees "exploited a loophole exempting themselves from Senate Bill 5."
Mostly False
By Joe Guillen • October 7, 2011
Beverly Hall
Beverly Hall
stated on August 10, 2011 in a commentary published in Education Week:
Gains in Atlanta Public Schools scores on a national standardized test lend credence to "dramatic" score increases on state tests.
False
By Willoughby Mariano • October 7, 2011
Critics of water fluoridation
Critics of water fluoridation
stated on October 4, 2011 in a Pinellas County Commission meeting and web comments:
Say water fluoridation started in Nazi Germany ghettos and death camps to pacify the Jews.
Pants on Fire!
By Becky Bowers • October 6, 2011
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on October 4, 2011 in an interview with MSNBC:
"Today, you have six financial institutions, the largest six, that have assets that are the equivalent of 60 percent of the GDP of the United States of America."
True
By Louis Jacobson • October 6, 2011
Tim Ryan
Tim Ryan
stated on September 15, 2011 in a television interview:
"We have a $2 trillion to $3 trillion infrastructure deficit. We’ve got work that needs to get done. We’ve got people that want to go to work."
Mostly True
By Henry J. Gomez • October 6, 2011
Committee for Our Children's Future
Committee for Our Children's Future
stated on September 20, 2011 in a television ad:
Says Gov. Chris Christie "cut spending (by) $1 billion" and provided "$850 million in new education funding."
Half-True
By Bill Wichert • October 6, 2011
David Axelrod
David Axelrod
stated on September 27, 2011 in a speech to the New Hampshire Institute of Politics:
"The typical white male worker in this country is making in real terms what he was making in 1973" and "the average worker is making what they were making in 1996."
Mostly True
By John Gregg • October 5, 2011
John Fleming
John Fleming
stated on October 3, 2011 in an interview on Fox Business Network:
Says Barack Obama is a "hypocrite" for criticizing President George W. Bush’s "drone attack program," then using it aggressively as president.
False
By Louis Jacobson • October 5, 2011
Mark Miller
Mark Miller
stated on September 22, 2011 in a radio address:
"Republicans enacted the most drastic cuts to K-12 public schools of any state in the nation."  
Mostly False
By Dave Umhoefer • October 5, 2011
Chris Redfern
Chris Redfern
stated on September 15, 2011 in a news conference:
Says that to drive the length of the newly drawn 15th District "you’d find yourself on the road as long as it would take to drive from Columbus to Niagara Falls."
Mostly True
By Aaron Marshall • October 5, 2011
Herman Cain
Herman Cain
stated on September 22, 2011 in in a Republican presidential debate:
An Environmental Protection Agency regulation that goes into effect Jan. 1, 2012, regulates dust.
False
By Willoughby Mariano • October 5, 2011
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