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Building a Better Ohio
Building a Better Ohio
stated on September 6, 2011 in a campaign commercial:
Toledo Mayor "Mike Bell (once) lost his job as a firefighter because his city ran out of money."
True
By Tom Feran • September 23, 2011
Carla Smith
Carla Smith
stated on September 13, 2011 in a meeting:
The city of Atlanta has either the highest or second-highest average water bills in the country.
True
By Eric Stirgus • September 23, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on September 22, 2011 in in the Fox News Google debate in Orlando:
"The federal government has not engaged in (border security) at all."
Pants on Fire!
By Becky Bowers • September 23, 2011
Gary Johnson
Gary Johnson
stated on September 22, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Orlando, Fla.:
"We're bankrupt."
False
By Becky Bowers, Louis Jacobson • September 23, 2011
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on September 1, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Tampa, Florida.:
Says Rick Perry "provided in-state tuition... for illegal immigrants."
True
By Sue Owen • September 23, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on September 22, 2011 in a debate in Orlando, Fla.:
President Obama "went around the world and apologized for America."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 23, 2011
Gary Johnson
Gary Johnson
stated on September 19, 2011 in an interview with the editorial board of the 'Telegraph.':
Says the United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world with 2.3 million inmates, and the majority of Americans are imprisoned because they sold small amounts of drugs.
Half-True
By Maryalice Gill • September 22, 2011
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on September 2, 2011 in a fund-raising letter:
"Wisconsin is broke," and "state government is $3 billion in debt."
Pants on Fire!
By James B. Nelson • September 22, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on September 12, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Tampa, Florida.:
Says Mitt Romney wrote that if Social Security was done "in the private sector, it would be called criminal."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • September 22, 2011
Raymond Lesniak
Raymond Lesniak
stated on September 9, 2011 in an opinion article:
Says "New Jersey’s $1 billion horse racing industry … employs 13,000 individuals and ensures the preservation of 176,000 acres of horse farmland."
Half-True
By Erin O'Neill • September 22, 2011
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on July 29, 2011 in a Senate speech :
"In 1976, the first year that Pell Grants were fully funded, a full Pell Grant paid 72 percent of the cost of attendance at a typical four-year public college. Today, a full Pell Grant covers just 34 percent of those costs.
True
By Edward Fitzpatrick • September 22, 2011
Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on September 7, 2011 in a news conference:
"In the month of July alone, EU exports to South Korea increased by over 36 percent. A lot of that is our market share. Those are our farmers and our service providers who are suffering."
Half-True
By Sabrina Eaton • September 21, 2011
Barbara Boxer
Barbara Boxer
stated on September 20, 2011 in an interview on MSNBC:
"Since 1995, the top 400 wealthiest families have seen their incomes go up 400 percent and their tax rates go down 40 percent."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • September 21, 2011
Nathan Deal
Nathan Deal
stated on September 1, 2011 in an interview:
"[The state ethics commission] took absolutely the same percent of cuts as most other state agencies. … They were somewhere in the 7 percent range – same as the governor’s office."
True
By Chris Joyner • September 21, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on September 16, 2011 in answer to questions.:
Says he did not support the October 2008 legislation to rescue Wall Street firms.
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • September 21, 2011
Michael Skindell
Michael Skindell
stated on September 7, 2011 in a news conference:
Says that  in the recent year homeowners across Ohio have signed mineral rights agreements "and I understand that over a billion dollars worth of leases have been signed to date."
True
By Henry J. Gomez • September 20, 2011
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on September 17, 2011 in an interview on MSNBC's "Up with Chris Hayes":
More private-sector jobs were created in the second year of the Obama administration than in the eight years of the Bush administration.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 20, 2011
Brad Avakian
Brad Avakian
stated on September 12, 2011 in a radio interview:
Says "We do about 300 investigations a year into housing discrimination and in recent years have put about $150,000 of damages into the pockets of individuals who have been treated unfairly."
False
By Janie Har • September 20, 2011
Debbie Dooley
Debbie Dooley
stated on September 6, 2011 in an op-ed:
"[Eighty-five percent] of the funds collected in each county will be redistributed elsewhere -- not spent in the county in which it is collected."
False
By Eric Stirgus • September 20, 2011
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on September 19, 2011 in on "The Rachel Maddow Show":
"Poverty among Americans 65 and over is statistically unchanged" in recent years because of Social Security.
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 19, 2011
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