Statements we say are Half-True
Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have cost every U.S. family $45,000.
Says state Senate leaders have accepted $142,400 in campaign contributions from dentists and pharmacists during the past two years.
"Do you know those former Soviet Bloc countries have all moved to flat taxes?"
About 3 percent of Gov. Nathan Deal’s appointments have been African-American.
The decision to remove Chick-fil-A from Emory University was based solely on student feedback.
The Internal Revenue Service spent $60,000 on a "Star Trek" training video.
In South Carolina, women earn 76 cents on the dollar to men’s earnings.
"In the last two years, I have supported and proposed $155 billion worth of targeting cuts. Dr. Gingrey has presented zero."
"Opponents of Section 5 (of the Voting Rights Act) complain of state expense, yet their only cost is the paper, postage and manpower required to send copies of legislation to the federal government for review."
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed held not one conversation with the public about the new Falcons stadium project
"In this city, there hasn’t been a stadium that’s lasted more than 27 years."
"[A] 2009 USDA study found that 87 percent of chicken carcasses tested positive for generic E. coli ... just prior to packaging."
Says the Georgia Dome would need up to $350 million in work over the next five to seven years.
"What concerns me is there is only two sentences that have been written about minority business."
"Every dollar we invested in high-quality, early education programs can save more than $7 later on by boosting graduation rates, reducing teen pregnancy, even reducing crime."
State support for local schools per pupil has decreased by at least 25 percent over the past decade.
"State revenue projections have missed the mark month after month."
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