Latest Fact-Checks In Message Machine 2010

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Jerry Brown
Jerry Brown
stated on September 14, 2010 in a campaign ad:
"Taxes went down under Jerry Brown."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 17, 2010
Joe Sestak
Joe Sestak
stated on August 31, 2010 in a campaign commercial:
"Pat Toomey thinks corporations shouldn't pay any taxes."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • September 1, 2010
Alan Grayson
Alan Grayson
stated on August 27, 2010 in an ad.:
"When career politician Daniel Webster became speaker of the House, he wasted $32,000 of our money on a spiral staircase for his office."
Mostly True
By Aaron Sharockman • August 31, 2010
Ron Klein
Ron Klein
stated on August 24, 2010 in a campaign TV advertisement.:
"The IRS filed an $11,000 lien against (Allen) West for back taxes. Three liens were placed on his home for unpaid bills, and a judge ordered West to pay over $5,000 for past due credit card bills."
Mostly True
By Laura Figueroa • August 30, 2010
AFSCME
AFSCME
stated on August 17, 2010 in a television election ad:
"Jim Renacci cheated on his income taxes" and is a "deadbeat citizen."
Mostly True
By Jane Kahoun, Sabrina Eaton • August 27, 2010
Roy Barnes
Roy Barnes
stated on August 11, 2010 in a television interview:
Said he won the Democratic primary "without one ... negative TV spot."
Mostly True
By Jim Tharpe, Willoughby Mariano • August 17, 2010
Nathan Deal
Nathan Deal
stated on July 30, 2010 in a press release:
Republican candidate for governor "Karen Handel has run a 100 percent negative campaign."
Mostly True
By Willoughby Mariano • August 4, 2010
Jane Norton
Jane Norton
stated on July 9, 2010 in a television ad:
"Ken Buck's (District Attorney's) office? His spending skyrocketed by 40 percent."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 26, 2010
John McCain
John McCain
stated on May 26, 2010 in a political ad:
As a Congressman, J.D. Hayworth was an avid earmarker who supported such pork as "$220,000 to renovate a Maine Blueberry farm" and "$5.8 million for a Vermont snowmobile trail."
Mostly True
July 16, 2010
Roy Barnes
Roy Barnes
stated on July 6, 2010 in a campaign ad:
The state Legislature attempted to "outlaw stem cell research, passes bills about microchips in the brain, and talks about seceding from the Union."
Mostly True
By Willoughby Mariano • July 11, 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
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
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
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
Danny Tarkanian
Danny Tarkanian
stated on May 5, 2010 in a Nevada U.S. Senate race campaign commercial:
"Sue Lowden gave Harry Reid's campaigns a thousand dollars in five different elections, helping his Senate dreams come true."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 21, 2010
Steve Poizner
Steve Poizner
stated on April 10, 2010 in a campaign commercial:
California Republican gubernatorial hopeful Meg Whitman "contributed to, and campaigned, for" Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • May 20, 2010
Meg Whitman
Meg Whitman
stated on May 14, 2010 in a campaign commercial:
California gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner, a Republican, "gave $10,000 to Al Gore's recount" effort in 2000.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • May 18, 2010
Allen Boyd
Allen Boyd
stated on April 23, 2010 in a TV ad:
Says that when he first ran for office in the late 1980s, "there were still folks who didn't have phone service. Soon I'd helped ensure that everyone in North Florida could access a dial tone."
Mostly True
By Laura Figueroa • May 14, 2010
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