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Ken Lanci

Ken Lanci

Half-True

A Clevelander by any other name?

Ken Lanci is a lifelong Clevelander

Republican Governors Association

Republican Governors Association

Pants on Fire!

A KO for the P.O. 14 claim

Accuses Ed FitzGerald of "pay-to-play and corruption politics."

Paul Broun

Paul Broun

Half-True

So who's a bigger budget cutter?

"In the last two years, I have supported and proposed $155 billion worth of targeting cuts. Dr. Gingrey has presented zero."

Wayne LaPierre

Wayne LaPierre

Half-True

LaPierre gets close, but no bull's-eye

Says New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says "we can only have three bullets" and "the NRA wants firearms with nukes on them."

Terry McAuliffe

Terry McAuliffe

False

Company didn't address state concerns

Says Virginia economic development officials "decided they didn’t want to bid on" his company's electric automobile plant.

Lenny Curry

Lenny Curry

Mostly False

Akin longtime abortion foe; Crist has held many positions

Says Charlie Crist and Missouri Rep. Todd Akin "hold same abortion views. No exception except the life of the mother."

Saxby Chambliss

Saxby Chambliss

True

Read his lips

Says he has never voted for raising taxes.

Chris Christie

Chris Christie

Pants on Fire!

Not first. Again.

Says "I was the first governor in America to endorse Mitt Romney."

Priorities USA Action

Priorities USA Action

Mostly False

Money earned by far more people on a much bigger investment

"Mitt Romney made over a hundred million dollars by shutting down (a Marion, Ind. paper) plant."

People's Majority

People's Majority

Pants on Fire!

Super PAC has zero evidence

"Sheldon Whitehouse [got] a secret closed-door briefing, warning of the [2008 economic] crash."

Allen West

Allen West

Mostly False

No proof for a connection

"After Patrick Murphy’s charges were dropped, Murphy’s father gave the prosecutor a huge campaign donation."

Tammy Baldwin

Tammy Baldwin

False

She cited many reasons at the time, but not that one

Says she voted against the Medicare Part D prescription drug program "because it was unfunded."

Tommy Thompson

Tommy Thompson

Mostly False

GOP and he were in charge

Says Democrats first proposed prohibiting the government from negotiating prices for prescription drugs in Medicare Part D and he "had nothing to do with" that provision in the law.

Bill Nelson

Bill Nelson

Half-True

Connie Mack did struggle to explain how he would have voted, but ended on "no"

Says Connie Mack initially said he would have voted "yes" for the Paul Ryan budget plan, and then, "you said it was stupid and you would vote no. And then your folks corrected you, and you changed your position again, yes."

Tammy Baldwin

Tammy Baldwin

False

His role a limited one, with Congress, the president and more involved

Says U.S. Senate rival Tommy Thompson ran Medicare "into the ground" and "nine years closer to bankruptcy."

Adam Hasner

Adam Hasner

Half-True

We took the plunge and investigated Frankel's marble bathroom

Lois Frankel "spent over $13,000 in taxpayer money on a marble shower in a private bathroom with her own toilet."

Adam Hasner

Adam Hasner

Half-True

This claim has been flying around for years

While she was mayor, Lois Frankel took a "police helicopter ride to go to a dinner party."

Shirley Anderson

Shirley Anderson

Mostly False

Overstatements on a several fronts

Elizabeth Townsend runs the elections office that omitted a school board race on a ballot and gave a School Board candidate "faulty advice."

Mitt Romney

Mitt Romney

Mostly True

Off-budget, he got a lot of federal help

"I went to the Olympics that was out of balance, and we got it on balance."

Mitt Romney

Mitt Romney

Mostly True

Highest percentage in the nation — his first year

Says a university survey concluded his Massachusetts administration "had more women in senior leadership positions than any other state in America."

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