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Tim Pawlenty

Tim Pawlenty

Tim Pawlenty is the former governor of Minnesota, having served two terms in office from 2003-2011.

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Tim Pawlenty
Tim Pawlenty
stated on August 11, 2011 an interview with the 'Miami Herald.':
"The weight of the evidence (on global warming) is that most of it, maybe all of it, is because of natural causes ... it’s fair to say the science is in dispute."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, David G. Taylor • August 14, 2011
Tim Pawlenty
Tim Pawlenty
stated on August 11, 2011 a debate in Ames, Iowa:
"Obamacare was patterned after (Mitt Romney's) plan in Massachusetts."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 12, 2011
Tim Pawlenty
Tim Pawlenty
stated on July 24, 2011 a statement from the campaign:
Michele Bachmann's legislative record is "offering failed amendments."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 28, 2011
Tim Pawlenty
Tim Pawlenty
stated on July 10, 2011 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
Says scientists are "in dispute" over whether being gay is a choice.
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 13, 2011
Tim Pawlenty
Tim Pawlenty
stated on July 10, 2011 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
"There's no scientific conclusion that (being gay) is genetic."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 13, 2011
Tim Pawlenty
Tim Pawlenty
stated on June 10, 2011 an interview WKXL-AM.:
Says President Barack Obama promised he would cut the deficit in half, but instead will at least double it.
Mostly False
By Gregory Trotter • June 24, 2011
Tim Pawlenty
Tim Pawlenty
stated on June 13, 2011 a debate in New Hampshire:
"There was a recent report out that the premiums for Medicare and the payroll withholdings are only paying about half the program. So it is not financially solvent."
Mostly True
By Robert Farley • June 14, 2011
Tim Pawlenty
Tim Pawlenty
stated on May 29, 2011 ABC's "This Week":
Medicare "only has about 50 percent of it paid for by either premiums or payroll taxes, and the rest is deficit spending ... or debt spending."
Half-True
By Robert Farley • June 1, 2011
Tim Pawlenty
Tim Pawlenty
stated on May 23, 2011 a speech to announce his presidential candidacy:
"For decades before I was elected, governors tried and failed to get Minnesota out of the top 10 highest-taxed states in the country. I actually did it."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • May 25, 2011
Tim Pawlenty
Tim Pawlenty
stated on May 5, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in South Carolina:
On the night of the Iowa caucuses, Obama "promised the nation that he would do health care reform focused on cost containment, he opposed an individual mandate, and he said he was going to do it with Republicans."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 6, 2011
Tim Pawlenty
Tim Pawlenty
stated on January 11, 2011 his book, "Courage to Stand: An American Story":
President Obama has "stopped using the phrase 'war on terror.' "
True
By Robert Farley • April 13, 2011
Tim Pawlenty
Tim Pawlenty
stated on January 11, 2011 his book, "Courage to Stand: An American Story":
"In 2009, we cut state spending in real terms for the first time in 150 years."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 12, 2011
Tim Pawlenty
Tim Pawlenty
stated on January 11, 2011 his book, "Courage to Stand: An American Story":
"Every child born today inherits a $30,000 share in a national debt that stands at more than $13 trillion."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 4, 2011
Tim Pawlenty
Tim Pawlenty
stated on January 11, 2011 his book, "Courage to Stand: An American Story":
"From 1960, the year I was born, until the time I became Governor in 2003, the average two-year increase in Minnesota state spending was 21 percent. … we brought that down dramatically, to about 1.7 percent per year."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 1, 2011
Tim Pawlenty
Tim Pawlenty
stated on January 11, 2011 his book, "Courage to Stand: An American Story":
"Ultimately, after an exhaustive investigation," the National Transportation Safety Board concluded that a Minneapolis bridge collapsed in 2007 "because of an original design flaw dating back to the 1960s."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 30, 2011
Tim Pawlenty
Tim Pawlenty
stated on December 13, 2010 an op-ed in the "Wall Street Journal":
"Since January 2008 the private sector has lost nearly 8 million jobs while local, state and federal governments added 590,000."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • December 16, 2010
Tim Pawlenty
Tim Pawlenty
stated on July 26, 2010 a breakfast with journalists in Washington, D.C.:
"I don't think the argument can be credibly made that the United States of America is undertaxed compared to our competitors."
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 29, 2010
Tim Pawlenty
Tim Pawlenty
stated on June 24, 2009 a letter to the Minnesota delegation in Washington:
On a cap-and-trade plan.
Full Flop
By Catharine Richert • September 24, 2009
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Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on July 24, 2011 a prepared statement:
Says Tim Pawlenty said in 2006, "The era of small government is over... the government has to be more proactive and more aggressive."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 26, 2011
Mark Dayton
Mark Dayton
stated on July 14, 2010 a campaign ad:
"Tim Pawlenty has cut education funding in Minnesota. Classrooms are overcrowded. Districts have gone to four-day school weeks."
Half-True
By Erin Mershon • July 29, 2010
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