Latest Fact-Checks By Willoughby Mariano

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Sam Olens
Sam Olens
stated on June 28, 2011 in a radio news story:
"If you're from Guatemala and you are found illegally in Mexico, you are automatically jailed."
False
By Willoughby Mariano • July 26, 2011
Federal Transit Administration
Federal Transit Administration
stated on July 13, 2011 in a press release:
The Atlanta streetcar is expected to create 930 jobs during construction, totaling more than 5,600 jobs over the next 20 years.
Pants on Fire!
By Willoughby Mariano • July 25, 2011
Mike Bodker
Mike Bodker
stated on June 16, 2011 in a newspaper article:
"[L]ess than one-tenth of Atlanta's transportation needs are covered" in a referendum to levy a 1-cent sales tax.
True
By Willoughby Mariano • July 20, 2011
Shirley Franklin
Shirley Franklin
stated on July 9, 2011 in a television interview:
"95 percent of teachers and principals are not implicated in the [Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal] report at all."
Half-True
By Willoughby Mariano • July 15, 2011
Shirley Franklin
Shirley Franklin
stated on June 23, 2011 in a blog post:
Former Atlanta Public Schools Superintendent Beverly Hall left the school district "significantly better than she found it."
Pants on Fire!
By Willoughby Mariano • July 11, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on June 27, 2011 in a television interview:
Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign has "exactly the same" challenges as Ronald Reagan’s successful 1980 bid.
Mostly False
By Willoughby Mariano • July 8, 2011
National Republican Congressional Committee
National Republican Congressional Committee
stated on May 18, 2011 in press releases:
U.S. Reps. John Barrow and Sanford Bishop and their fellow Democrats "went on a spending spree and now their credit card is maxed out."
False
By Willoughby Mariano • July 5, 2011
Robert Brown
Robert Brown
stated on June 2, 2011 in a press release:
Georgia’s illegal immigration crackdown laws should be called the "Brown Codes" because of their similarity to the "Black Codes" governing blacks after the Civil War.
False
By Willoughby Mariano • July 1, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on June 22, 2011 in a speech before the Atlanta Press Club:
"On the day of the New Hampshire primary in 1980, the top 13 people of Ronald Reagan’s staff quit."
Mostly True
By Willoughby Mariano • June 29, 2011
Nathan Deal
Nathan Deal
stated on June 16, 2011 in a radio interview:
A "substantial number" of probationers participating in a pilot project to ease the farm labor shortage are able to "finish the work."
Mostly False
By Willoughby Mariano • June 27, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on June 15, 2011 in in an interview on the “The Neal Boortz Radio Show” on Atlanta’s AM 750 and 95.5 FM :
Every 10th dollar spent by the Social Security Administration on its program for the poor is "waste, or fraud, they can’t validate that the people should have gotten it," totaling about $8 billion a year.
Mostly True
By Willoughby Mariano • June 24, 2011
Herman Cain
Herman Cain
stated on June 13, 2011 in the Republican primary presidential debate in Manchester, NH:
Muslims tried to use Sharia law to influence court decisions in New Jersey and Oklahoma
Mostly False
By Willoughby Mariano • June 20, 2011
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on June 13, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate:
If today's economy was rebounding at the rate of the "Reagan recovery," it would have created the equivalent of 25 million new jobs and raised federal revenue by $800 billion a year.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson, Willoughby Mariano • June 14, 2011
Gary Black
Gary Black
stated on June 2, 2011 in Interview:
Workers who pick produce in Georgia’s fields can make $12 to $18 an hour.
Half-True
By Willoughby Mariano • June 14, 2011
Herman Cain
Herman Cain
stated on May 24, 2011 in an interview on the Glenn Beck Program radio show:
"I did not say that I would not have them [Muslims] in my Cabinet."
Pants on Fire!
By Willoughby Mariano • June 8, 2011
Janet Napolitano
Janet Napolitano
stated on May 7, 2011 in a speech before the Atlanta Press Club:
"We have seized more currency, more drugs, more outbound arms in the past year than any year in our country’s history."
Half-True
By Willoughby Mariano • June 3, 2011
Anti-Defamation League
Anti-Defamation League
stated on April 15, 2011 in a news release:
It is estimated that Arizona "has lost more than $100 million in hospitality industry revenues since passage of the Arizona immigration laws."  
Half-True
By Willoughby Mariano • May 31, 2011
Herman Cain
Herman Cain
stated on May 21, 2011 in in a speech announcing his presidential run:
In the U.S. Constitution, "there’s a little section in there that talks about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
False
By Willoughby Mariano • May 25, 2011
Herman Cain
Herman Cain
stated on May 21, 2011 in a speech announcing his presidential run:
The U.S. has "47 million people on food stamps. That’s 14 million more than when the current occupant of the White House took over."
Mostly True
By Willoughby Mariano • May 24, 2011
Janet Napolitano
Janet Napolitano
stated on May 7, 2011 in Atlanta Press Club speech:
"Very, very, very few people get a pat-down" when they go through airport security.
Pants on Fire!
By Willoughby Mariano • May 17, 2011
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