Fact Check Posts – Page 8

Betty Sutton
stated on March 3, 2011 in a House committee hearing:

"Lake Erie supports nearly 10 percent of Ohio's jobs and generates $750 million in state and local taxes."

By Tom Feran • March 18, 2011

National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on February 1, 2011 in a news release:

Says Sen. Sherrod Brown admitted "that his $787 billion stimulus law failed" and "after specifically attacking Republicans for wanting to lower Americans' taxes, (he) now claims that his stimulus bill 'didn't do enough' to lower taxes."

By Tom Feran • March 9, 2011

Sherrod Brown
stated on March 3, 2011 in a speech in the Senate:

"Hitler didn't want unions. Stalin didn't want unions. Mubarak didn't want independent unions. These autocrats in history don't want independent unions."

By Tom Feran • March 8, 2011

John Kasich
stated on February 22, 2011 in an interview on CNN:

"We have lost 600,000 jobs over the period of the last 10 years. Only Michigan and California have done worse."

By Tom Feran • March 4, 2011

Jay Hottinger
stated on February 9, 2011 in a radio interview:

Says Wendy’s founder "Dave Thomas left the state literally on his deathbed to avoid the estate tax."

By Tom Feran • March 2, 2011

Jim Renacci
stated on January 4, 2011 in a radio interview :

Says signs posted at projects funded by the federal stimulus act has cost "20 or 40 million" dollars.

By Tom Feran • February 28, 2011

Dennis Kucinich
stated on January 24, 2011 in :

"One of the biggest causes of our soaring debt and economic insecurity ends up being Pentagon spending. The budget for the Pentagon consumes more than half of our discretionary spending."

By Tom Feran • February 18, 2011

Jay Hottinger
stated on February 9, 2011 in :

Says Ohio is one of just 17 states with an estate tax, and it has "the lowest threshold in the nation."

By Tom Feran • February 11, 2011

Jim Renacci
stated on January 4, 2011 in an interview on WCPN 90.3 FM:

"For [GM] to pay back everything it owes, it would have to sell its shares at $143 a share . . . where the highest value of a General Motors share ever was $43, $44, $46, whatever the dollars were . . ."

By Tom Feran • February 9, 2011

Jay Hottinger
stated on January 11, 2011 in a speech in the Ohio House of Representatives:

"Ben Franklin once quipped that only two things in life were certain: death and taxes. I think even he didn't envision that the tax man would visit on the day of your death."

By Tom Feran • January 21, 2011

John Kasich
stated on January 7, 2011 in a news conference:

On whether the state should privatize the Ohio Turnpike.

By Tom Feran • January 19, 2011

Dennis Kucinich
stated on December 31, 2010 in a CNN interview:

Says that before health care reform, one of every three health care dollars spent -- more than $800 billion a year -- didn't go for health care.

By Tom Feran • January 18, 2011

Brent Larkin
stated on January 2, 2011 in a newspaper column:

Says the 3C Corridor train would have taken "an hour and 15 minutes longer" to carry passengers across Ohio "than it would have taken on a New York Central train in 1935."

By Tom Feran • January 7, 2011

Dan Moore
stated on January 3, 2011 in an interview with The Plain Dealer:

"It's taken more time to complete the Towpath Trail than it did to build the (Ohio & Erie) Canal."

By Tom Feran • January 6, 2011

Mike Polensek
stated on November 18, 2010 in a public meeting:

"We're worse than a Third World country in terms of water quality and the way we treat our sewage."

By Tom Feran • January 4, 2011

Dennis Kucinich
stated on November 10, 2010 in a news release:

"We are giving almost $2 billion of taxpayer money to the junk food and fast food industries every year to make the (childhood obesity) epidemic worse."

By Tom Feran • December 6, 2010

John Boehner
stated on November 5, 2010 in a blog post:

Says the House Rules Committee is the only panel, other than the Intelligence and Ethics committees, not able to telecast proceedings in its main hearing room.

By Tom Feran • November 25, 2010

Tim Ryan
stated on November 17, 2010 in a website posting:

"Congressman Ryan has secured a grand total of $116,838,763 to date (for the Mahoning Valley) and has an additional $27,095,000 pending in FY2010 spending bills."

By Tom Feran • November 17, 2010

John Kasich
stated on October 14, 2010 in a campaign video:

"(John) Kasich was the architect who balanced the budget, cut spending, created a surplus, igniting record job creation."

By Tom Feran • October 31, 2010

Ted Strickland
stated on October 13, 2010 in a campaign video:

"Congressman Kasich wants to use our tax dollars to give secret bonuses to his corporate friends."

By Tom Feran • October 28, 2010

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