Fact Check Posts – Page 2

John Kasich
stated on February 4, 2013 in a news conference:

Without a Medicaid expansion, 275,000 more Ohioans could be getting their primary care in emergency rooms, costing "everybody a lot of money."

By Tom Feran • February 21, 2013

Keith Faber
stated on February 4, 2013 in a news conference:

"Ohio companies export more goods and services globally than 41 other states."

By Tom Feran • February 14, 2013

Sherrod Brown
stated on February 4, 2013 in a news release:

"Three in four low-income workers don’t have any paid sick days available."

By Tom Feran • February 11, 2013

Chris Redfern
stated on January 23, 2013 in a press statement:

Says Gov. John Kasich can remove the president of the State Board of Education.

By Tom Feran • February 7, 2013

Keith Faber
stated on January 7, 2013 in a newspaper interview:

"Ohio is doing better right now than the national average on all the (economic) numbers."

By Tom Feran • February 4, 2013

Mike Polensek
stated on January 15, 2013 in a television interview:

"It is ironic that (First Energy Corp. is) going to have a name on our (football stadium) where we (Cleveland Public Power) supply the electricity."

By Tom Feran • January 23, 2013

Keith Faber
stated on January 7, 2013 in a speech in the Ohio Senate:

Abraham Lincoln "visited and some say even danced in (the Ohio Senate) chamber."

By Tom Feran • January 21, 2013

William G. Batchelder
stated on January 7, 2013 in a speech on the House floor:

"I am now the No. 2 member of this House in terms of length of service."

By Tom Feran • January 18, 2013

Chain email
stated on January 6, 2013 in a chain email message:

Members of Congress "specifically exempted themselves from many of the laws they have passed, such as being exempt from any fear of prosecution for sexual harassment" ... (and) from the healthcare reform."

By Tom Feran • January 16, 2013

Chain email
stated on January 6, 2013 in a chain email message:

Members of Congress can "retire with the same pay after only one term" in office

By Tom Feran • January 11, 2013

Bill Seitz
stated on January 10, 2013 in an interview with the Columbus Dispatch:

Ohio's judges, "compared to other similar states, are being woefully underpaid."

By Tom Feran • January 9, 2013

John Boehner
stated on November 9, 2012 in a news conference:

"The problem with raising tax rates on the wealthiest Americans is that more than half of them are small business owners."

By Tom Feran • January 3, 2013

Terry Russell
stated on December 6, 2012 in in an interview:

"Individuals with mental illnesses die an average of 25 years earlier than those without a mental illness."

By Tom Feran • January 2, 2013

Dennis Kucinich
stated on November 27, 2012 in a speech on the House floor:

"Fourteen million Americans' mortgages are greater than the value of their homes."

By Tom Feran • December 14, 2012

John Kasich
stated on November 29, 2012 in a speech to the Ohio Farm Bureau:

Agriculture "is the strongest industry in Ohio."

By Tom Feran • December 12, 2012

Josh Mandel
stated on November 16, 2012 in an email to supporters:

"Our race was the closest U.S. Senate race in Ohio in 36 years -- when Howard Metzenbaum defeated Robert Taft in 1976."

By Tom Feran • November 30, 2012

Dennis Kucinich
stated on November 2, 2012 in a news release:

Says the tax code is effectively subsidizing "the marketing efforts of fast food and junk food companies by as much as $19 billion over 10 years."

By Tom Feran • November 26, 2012

Mike DeWine
stated on November 20, 2012 in a news release:

Says Fran DeWine’s made-from-scratch dinner rolls are a delicious favorite in a traditional Thanksgiving dinner.

By Tom Feran • November 21, 2012

Chain email
stated on November 11, 2012 in an email:

"Mitt Romney received exactly zero votes in at least 12 Cuyahoga County precincts."

By Tom Feran • November 21, 2012

We the People petition
stated on November 19, 2012 in a petition on the White House website:

"In one county alone in Ohio, President Obama received 106,258 votes. But there were only 98,213 eligible voters."

By Tom Feran • November 19, 2012

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