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Todd Hunter
Todd Hunter
stated on November 26, 2012 in a Texas Tribune interview.:
Says real estate taxes were put in place to pay for Obamacare.
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • December 6, 2012
Alan Grayson
Alan Grayson
stated on November 24, 2012 in a Huffington Post column:
Says Walmart employees represent the largest group of Medicaid and food stamp recipients in many states, costing the taxpayer $1,000 per worker.
Mostly True
December 6, 2012
Michael Doherty
Michael Doherty
stated on November 28, 2012 in an op-ed on NorthJersey.com:
Says a new state report "confirms" that red-light cameras "lead to more accidents, more injuries and greater cost."
Half-True
By Bill Wichert • December 6, 2012
Anne Goodman
Anne Goodman
stated on December 3, 2012 in an interview with The Plain Dealer:
Says food stamp growth, while high, lagged the rise in unemployment.
True
By Stephen Koff • December 6, 2012
Mark S. Zaccaria
Mark S. Zaccaria
stated on November 25, 2012 in TV niterview:
Public employees receive "something like 25 percent of the paychecks that are issued in Rhode Island."
False
By John Hill • December 6, 2012
John Kitzhaber
John Kitzhaber
stated on December 3, 2012 in a speech.:
Says that in 2011, Oregon had "the second fastest growing economy in the nation."
True
By Ian K. Kullgren • December 5, 2012
Dan Micciche
Dan Micciche
stated on November 4, 2012 in an opinion article in the Dallas Morning News.:
"The poverty level in" the Dallas school district "is one of the highest in the country, higher than New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, Detroit and Newark."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • December 5, 2012
Sandy Pasch
Sandy Pasch
stated on December 29, 2012 in a radio address:
Democratic Party candidates for the state Assembly "actually received 200,000 more votes statewide" than their Republican counterparts in the 2012 election  
Mostly True
By Dave Umhoefer • December 5, 2012
Saxby Chambliss
Saxby Chambliss
stated on November 27, 2012 in an interview:
Says he has never voted for raising taxes.
True
By Eric Stirgus • December 5, 2012
Broward Republican Executive Committee
Broward Republican Executive Committee
stated on November 5, 2012 in a post on its website:
The Broward Republican Executive Committee "had the liberal League of Women Voters Guide removed from the Broward Supervisor of Election's website."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • December 3, 2012
Barbara Buono
Barbara Buono
stated on November 29, 2012 in a speech on the Senate floor:
Says "the number of Americans living at or below the poverty line is at its highest level since" 1964.
Mostly True
By Bill Wichert • December 3, 2012
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on November 26, 2012 in an interview:
Says he first unveiled his new legislative agenda in Wisconsin, not in California as critics complain  
Mostly False
By Dave Umhoefer • December 2, 2012
John Wisniewski
John Wisniewski
stated on November 27, 2012 in an interview on NJToday:
Says in January 1992, George H. W. Bush "probably had a 90 percent or even higher approval rating after the first Gulf War."
Mostly False
By Bill Wichert • December 2, 2012
Association of Mature American Citizens
Association of Mature American Citizens
stated on November 10, 2012 in a direct mail letter:
"If you and I fail to defund ObamaCare now, some 16,000 new IRS agents will be begin prying into our private medical records, eyeing each and every one of our treatments and prescriptions for "violations’."
Pants on Fire!
By John Hill • December 2, 2012
Texas Values
Texas Values
stated on November 19, 2012 in an interview aired by Austin’s KTBC-TV, Channel 7:
Says legislation supported by gay rights activists would strip "mother" and "father" from future Texas birth certificates.
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • November 30, 2012
John Kitzhaber
John Kitzhaber
stated on November 10, 2012 in a speech.:
Says the state is required "pick up 70 percent of the cost" of K-12 education.
Mostly False
By Ian K. Kullgren • November 30, 2012
Pam Bondi
Pam Bondi
stated on November 28, 2012 in remarks to the Florida Chamber of Commerce:
"National studies are already showing the negative effects that the health care law is having on businesses and our economy. Businesses across the country are raising their prices … (or) cutting jobs as a result of the added cost."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 30, 2012
National Association of Realtors
National Association of Realtors
stated on November 9, 2012 in a web post:
A "foreclosure tax" that would take effect in 2013 could mean a high tax bill for those facing foreclosure and millions of families who modified their mortgage or had a short sale through their lender.
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • November 30, 2012
Josh Mandel
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."
True
By Tom Feran • November 30, 2012
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on November 18, 2012 in a newspaper column:
"We have more people working in clean and green energy than in oil and gas in this country."  
True
By John Hill • November 30, 2012
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