Latest Fact-Checks By Willoughby Mariano

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Anonymous Flier
Anonymous Flier
stated on April 4, 2012 in :
A proposed regional transportation tax will last "a minimum" of 10 years, and has been approved to last longer.
False
By Willoughby Mariano • April 18, 2012
Metro Atlanta Voter Education Network
Metro Atlanta Voter Education Network
stated on April 2, 2012 in :
"[O]ver 200,000 ordinary citizens were given the opportunity to identify projects they preferred."
True
By Willoughby Mariano • April 13, 2012
Johnny Isakson
Johnny Isakson
stated on February 23, 2012 in a speech:
The Keystone oil pipeline "would employ 20,000 people in the United States."
False
By Willoughby Mariano • April 11, 2012
Nathan Deal
Nathan Deal
stated on March 27, 2012 in a press release:
"As the usage [of synthetic marijuana] has dramatically increased, instances of violence, bodily harm and even death have risen with it."
Mostly True
By Willoughby Mariano • April 9, 2012
Stacey Abrams
Stacey Abrams
stated on March 27, 2012 in a speech before the Atlanta Press Club:
"We have the lowest per-capita spending of any state in the nation" except for South Dakota.
Mostly True
By Willoughby Mariano • April 3, 2012
Lynn Westmoreland
Lynn Westmoreland
stated on February 29, 2012 in a congressional hearing :
"There is not one single federal housing program yet that has not needed a bailout to survive."
Half-True
By Willoughby Mariano • March 30, 2012
Tom Price
Tom Price
stated on March 14, 2012 in a press release:
New federal projections estimate that the health care overhaul "will cost $1.76 trillion over 10 years -- well above the $940 billion Democrats originally claimed."
False
By Willoughby Mariano • March 27, 2012
Metro Atlanta Voter Education Network
Metro Atlanta Voter Education Network
stated on March 16, 2012 in in a TV ad:
Metro Atlantans spend "over an hour every day" or "five hours a week" commuting, for a total of "260 hours a year."
Half-True
By Willoughby Mariano • March 23, 2012
Johnny Isakson
Johnny Isakson
stated on January 26, 2012 in a press release:
The "Democrat majority in the Senate has failed to submit [a] budget in the past 1,000 days."
Mostly False
By Willoughby Mariano • March 14, 2012
Hank Johnson
Hank Johnson
stated on February 24, 2012 in an op-ed in the Huffington Post:
"In the last two years, super PACs raised more than $180 million -- with roughly half of it coming from fewer than 200 super-rich people and roughly 20 percent from corporations."
True
By Willoughby Mariano • March 13, 2012
Hank Johnson
Hank Johnson
stated on February 28, 2012 in a Congressional hearing:
A socially conservative group sponsored a "prayer vigil" to stop people from buying Girl Scout cookies because it thinks the Girl Scouts are affiliated with Planned Parenthood.
Mostly False
By Willoughby Mariano • March 9, 2012
Pat Stevens
Pat Stevens
stated on January 24, 2012 in a news article:
The Atlanta area’s water planning district "is now the national leader in conservation."
Mostly False
By Willoughby Mariano • March 6, 2012
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on February 10, 2012 in a radio interview:
"The biggest contribution" behind a decrease in U.S. unemployment "was 1.2 million people leaving the workforce"  
False
By Willoughby Mariano • February 29, 2012
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on February 19, 2012 in a speech :
Claims Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said "she prefers the South African Constitution over the United States Constitution."
False
By Willoughby Mariano • February 28, 2012
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on February 18, 2012 in a campaign speech in Cobb County:
"You can’t put a gun rack in a [Chevrolet] Volt."  
False
By Willoughby Mariano • February 24, 2012
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on February 10, 2012 in a radio interview:
Says he was "exonerated in every single case" in 1990s ethics violations charges.
Pants on Fire!
By Willoughby Mariano • February 20, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on February 8, 2012 in an Atlanta campaign stop:
"Twenty-five or 24 million people" are "out of work or stopped looking for work."
Half-True
By Eric Stirgus, Willoughby Mariano • February 10, 2012
Nathan Deal
Nathan Deal
stated on January 31, 2012 in a television commercial:
"One out of every three automobile fatalities can be attributed to alcohol."
True
By Willoughby Mariano • February 3, 2012
Hank Johnson
Hank Johnson
stated on January 25, 2012 in a press statement:
"Unemployment has fallen from 10 percent during the president’s first year in office to 8.5 percent today."
Half-True
By Willoughby Mariano • February 1, 2012
Phil Gingrey
Phil Gingrey
stated on January 25, 2012 in a press statement:
Since President Barack Obama took office, "2 million more Americans are out of work."
Half-True
By Willoughby Mariano • February 1, 2012
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