Latest Fact-Checks In Message Machine 2012

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Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 18, 2012 in a campaign ad:
Says PolitiFact has said he "kept a campaign promise to toughen ethics rules."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 19, 2012
Suzanne Bonamici
Suzanne Bonamici
stated on January 17, 2012 in a press release:
PolitiFact Oregon gave Rob Cornilles a Pants on Fire for a claim about taxes and fees.
Pants on Fire!
By Janie Har • January 18, 2012
Restore Our Future
Restore Our Future
stated on January 13, 2012 in a television ad:
Says Rick Santorum "voted to let convicted felons vote."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 17, 2012
Suzanne Bonamici
Suzanne Bonamici
stated on January 10, 2012 in a debate:
"I also voted 98 percent of the time with Republicans in the Oregon Legislature."
False
By Janie Har • January 14, 2012
Rob Cornilles
Rob Cornilles
stated on January 10, 2012 in a debate:
Suzanne Bonamici was the only no vote on a 2009 bill cracking down on drunk drivers.
True
By Janie Har • January 14, 2012
Suzanne Bonamici
Suzanne Bonamici
stated on January 10, 2012 in a debate:
"My opponent on day one of this campaign attacked me on Medicare and Medicare Advantage and that claim was found to be False."
True
By Janie Har • January 14, 2012
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on January 13, 2012 in a campaign ad:
Says Mitt Romney "runs away from Ronald Reagan."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • January 13, 2012
Winning Our Future
Winning Our Future
stated on January 10, 2012 in the online video "King of Bain":
Mitt Romney is worth "at least a quarter billion dollars" and the bulk of his wealth "remains in blind trusts and overseas bank accounts."
Half-True
By Molly Moorhead • January 13, 2012
Winning Our Future
Winning Our Future
stated on January 11, 2012 in the video, "When Mitt Romney Came to Town" :
Says Romney and Bain Capital drove KB Toys into bankruptcy by loading it up with debt.
Mostly False
By Becky Bowers • January 13, 2012
Winning Our Future
Winning Our Future
stated on January 12, 2012 in the video, "When Mitt Romney Came to Town":
Mitt Romney’s and Bain Capital’s profits from KB Toys, which later went out of business, were "described by the Boston Herald as ‘disgusting.’"
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • January 13, 2012
Winning Our Future
Winning Our Future
stated on January 12, 2012 in the video "When Mitt Romney Came to Town":
Mitt Romney is "tearing down his 3,000-square-foot house to build an 11,000-square-foot house."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 13, 2012
Restore Our Future
Restore Our Future
stated on January 12, 2012 in a television ad:
Says 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 Angie Drobnic Holan • January 12, 2012
Winning Our Future
Winning Our Future
stated on January 12, 2012 in the video, "When Mitt Romney Came to Town":
Mitt Romney has 15 homes.
False
By Louis Jacobson • January 12, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 11, 2012 in a page on the Obama campaign website:
"Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, and Newt Gingrich all say they would cut foreign aid to Israel — and every other country — to zero."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • January 12, 2012
Democratic Party of Oregon
Democratic Party of Oregon
stated on January 5, 2012 in campaign material:
Rob Cornilles is a Tea Party candidate.
Mostly False
By Janie Har • January 11, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 6, 2011 in a TV airing in Florida:
Says he "helped save" the Olympic games.
Mostly True
By Matt Clary • January 6, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 3, 2012 in an Obama for America video:
President Barack Obama "put in place historic fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks to lower costs at the pump and reduce dependence on foreign oil."
Half-True
By Becky Bowers • January 6, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 3, 2012 in a web video advertisement:
Says he lived up to a 2008 promise when he "closed corporate tax loopholes that were sending profits overseas."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 5, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 5, 2012 in a video ad:
Says the National Labor Relations Board told Boeing that it couldn’t build a factory in South Carolina because South Carolina is a right-to-work state.
False
By Jon Greenberg, Molly Moorhead • January 5, 2012
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on January 2, 2012 in a Web ad:
"Santorum also voted for a teapot museum in North Carolina."
Half-True
By Jake Berry • January 3, 2012
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