Latest Fact-Checks By Joe Guillen

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We Are Ohio
We Are Ohio
stated on September 27, 2011 in a television commercial:
"Senate Bill 5 makes it harder for nurses to give the patients the quality care they need."
Mostly False
By Joe Guillen • October 10, 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
We Are Ohio
We Are Ohio
stated on September 2, 2011 in a campaign commercial:
"Issue 2 makes it illegal for us to negotiate for enough firefighters to do the job."
Mostly True
By Joe Guillen • September 9, 2011
Marcia Fudge
Marcia Fudge
stated on August 22, 2011 in an e-mail to Democratic supporters:
"H.B. 194, the Voter Suppression Bill, invalidates a vote where a voter properly marks the ballot in support of a particular candidate, but also writes in the name of that same candidate."
Mostly True
By Joe Guillen • September 2, 2011
Ted Strickland
Ted Strickland
stated on July 26, 2011 in an interview with Politico:
"Josh Mandel used to be pro-choice, now he’s anti-choice. He used to be sympathetic towards gay and lesbians and now he’s [not]."
Half-True
By Joe Guillen • August 16, 2011
Peggy Lehner
Peggy Lehner
stated on July 18, 2011 in a radio interview:
"There’s actually 600 abortions done after the 20th week of pregnancy every year in Ohio."
True
By Joe Guillen • August 4, 2011
Kris Jordan
Kris Jordan
stated on June 15, 2011 in a speech in the Ohio Senate:
"Fracturing or horizontally fracturing the shale to open up larger pockets of natural gas ... has been used for over 60 years and, as of 2009, over 80,000 wells have been fracked in Ohio."
Half-True
By Joe Guillen • July 19, 2011
William G. Batchelder
William G. Batchelder
stated on May 29, 2011 in an appearance on the Ohio News Network:
Says the Ohio Consumers’ Council office employs 74 lawyers and that the funding them is wasteful duplication.
Pants on Fire!
By Joe Guillen • June 7, 2011
Amy Hanauer
Amy Hanauer
stated on May 5, 2011 in at a rally at the Ohio Statehouse:
"To give a sense of how families are struggling, a record four out of every 10 school kids in Ohio now qualifies for subsidized lunch."
True
By Joe Guillen • May 24, 2011
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on April 26, 2011 in a radio interview:
"Two million federal workers negotiate zippo, zero. There is no collective bargaining for federal employees."
Mostly False
By Joe Guillen • May 10, 2011
Tim Grendell
Tim Grendell
stated on April 18, 2011 in a forum on the state budget:
"In Senate Bill 5, there is this new method of evaluating teachers. … You’re also going to be rated on what the parents think of you and they can send questionnaires and surveys home to parents."
True
By Joe Guillen • April 26, 2011
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on March 31, 2011 in an interview on Fox News:
"In this bill that I’ve just signed, we don’t cut anybody’s salary. We don’t take away their pension. And we don’t destroy their health care."
Half-True
By Joe Guillen • April 19, 2011
Armond Budish
Armond Budish
stated on March 17, 2011 in a letter to editor in The Plain Dealer:
Says "legislation pending in the House would effectively limit or eliminate ‘time-and-a-half’ for people who work overtime."
Mostly True
By Joe Guillen • March 25, 2011
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on February 21, 2011 in an interview on Fox News:
"Our average private sector employee pays 23 percent for their health care. Our average city worker in Ohio pays 9 percent."
True
By Joe Guillen • March 10, 2011
Matt Lundy
Matt Lundy
stated on February 7, 2011 in a news release:
"There is nothing in the current state public records law that prohibits sensitive or confidential business information from being just that, confidential."
True
By Joe Guillen • February 15, 2011
Lorraine Fende
Lorraine Fende
stated on January 17, 2011 in an interview with The Columbus Dispatch:
Says that in Ohio "right now, you could be 8½ months pregnant and have an abortion for no reason."
Mostly True
By Joe Guillen • February 4, 2011
Robert Hagan
Robert Hagan
stated on December 8, 2010 in a speech in the Ohio House of Representatives:
Ohio taxpayers spent more than $67 million "for the year" on food stamps and Medicaid for Wal-Mart workers
Half-True
By Joe Guillen • January 12, 2011
Jim Zehringer
Jim Zehringer
stated on November 16, 2010 in a news conference:
"Ohio is losing over 700 family farms a year, some of them just to pay the inheritance tax."
True
By Joe Guillen • December 9, 2010
Ohio Department of Transportation
Ohio Department of Transportation
stated on October 25, 2010 in a news release:
"Demand for transportation choice is on the rise, with 14 percent more Ohioans riding passenger trains over the past year."
True
By Joe Guillen • November 24, 2010
William G. Batchelder
William G. Batchelder
stated on October 18, 2010 in an interview:
"We haven’t had control of the House for the last two years and it’s been malfunctioning. We had 109 sessions scheduled and held 49."
True
By Joe Guillen • November 16, 2010
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