Latest Fact-Checks In Message Machine 2010

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Florida Conservation Alliance
Florida Conservation Alliance
stated on June 19, 2010 in a television commercial:
"Sen. George LeMieux voted to let oil companies off the hook and overturn pollution rules."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 25, 2010
Americans United for Change
Americans United for Change
stated on June 11, 2010 in a TV commercial:
"Every day, oil continues to pour into the Gulf of Mexico. ... Even with disaster on our coast..., Richard Burr voted to let big oil off the hook."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 25, 2010
Harry Reid
Harry Reid
stated on June 12, 2010 in a campaign commercial:
"Sharron Angle wants to wipe out Social Security."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • June 24, 2010
Harry Reid
Harry Reid
stated on June 12, 2010 in a political ad:
Sharron Angle supported "a Scientology plan to give massages to prisoners."
Half-True
June 24, 2010
Rick Barber
Rick Barber
stated on June 13, 2010 in a political ad:
"Without representation, (the IRS) can increase taxes."
Pants on Fire!
June 18, 2010
David Dewhurst
David Dewhurst
stated on June 9, 2010 in a campaign video:
Says the Republican "state convention is actually larger than the Republican National Convention."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • June 17, 2010
Florida First Initiative
Florida First Initiative
stated on June 9, 2010 in a TV ad:
Of hospitals in Rick Scott’s Columbia/HCA health care company, "A top executive said they even turned away a poor man and left him to die outside their door."
Mostly False
June 15, 2010
J.D. Hayworth
J.D. Hayworth
stated on June 4, 2010 in a campaign commercial:
John McCain "voted against the tax cuts of 2001 and 2003, wrongly claiming they helped only the rich."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 15, 2010
John McCain
John McCain
stated on June 7, 2010 in a campaign commercial:
After J.D. Hayworth "was voted out of Congress, he became a registered lobbyist" who was "paid thousands by a Florida corporation to lobby the very committee he used to serve on."
True
By Louis Jacobson • June 15, 2010
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on May 20, 2010 in a campaign commercial for Bill McCollum:
Bill McCollum has "recovered $200 million in Medicaid fraud."
True
By Laura Figueroa • June 14, 2010
John Oxendine
John Oxendine
stated on June 4, 2010 in a campaign video on his website:
Georgia has "a dropout rate that’s higher" than Alabama's.
True
By Willoughby Mariano • June 14, 2010
Jerry Brown
Jerry Brown
stated on June 7, 2010 in a video on his campaign website:
California's credit rating is "the worst in the country."
True
By Alex Holt • June 11, 2010
Dan Fanelli
Dan Fanelli
stated on June 3, 2010 in a video on his campaign website:
Under the new health care law, the elderly will be denied care when they have "passed the age limit for treatment."
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • June 7, 2010
Roy Barnes
Roy Barnes
stated on May 21, 2010 in a campaign commercial:
When Roy Barnes was governor, "Georgia created 235,000 jobs."
Half-True
By Willoughby Mariano • June 5, 2010
John Oxendine
John Oxendine
stated on June 3, 2010 in in a video on his Web site. :
"We have SAT scores lower than that of Alabama."
Half-True
By Willoughby Mariano • June 5, 2010
Carly Fiorina
Carly Fiorina
stated on June 2, 2010 in a campaign commercial:
"Barbara Boxer's worried about the weather" instead of terrorism as the biggest threat to national security.
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • June 4, 2010
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on May 30, 2010 in a TV ad:
"Two-thirds of the top-rated hospitals in Florida were our hospitals."
Mostly True
By Aaron Sharockman • June 4, 2010
Steve Poizner
Steve Poizner
stated on June 1, 2010 in an online campaign commercial :
As the CEO of eBay, "Whitman started a separate division that only sells porn."
Half-True
June 1, 2010
Carly Fiorina
Carly Fiorina
stated on March 10, 2010 in a Web ad:
Sen. Barbara Boxer "passed only three bills in 18 years" into law.
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 28, 2010
Empower Texans
Empower Texans
stated on May 14, 2010 in a Web video:
"There are 321,092 public school teachers in Texas. And there are 313,850 non-teachers in our public schools."
Mostly True
May 28, 2010
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