Statements we say are Mostly False

Says murder is the chief cause of death for pregnant women.

Says a trash mound on U.S. 290 is 800 feet tall.

A study says Massachusetts has lost 18,000 jobs because residents were required to obtain health insurance under an act signed into law by Mitt Romney.

Says that according to one economist, $1 of unemployment benefits boosts the economy by $1.61.

Says the Department of Defense changed its definitions of al-Qaeda and the Taliban making it so almost anybody can be loosely associated with the groups.

"I have sent over $400 million to the border of Mexico in the form of Texas Ranger recon teams."

"Obama has (a) new Christmas tree tax."

Says President Barack Obama thinks Americans are lazy.

President Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid support Rick Perry’s "decision to give in-state tuition to illegal immigrants."

Says "tanking" Rick Perry’s federal tax plan has "huge tax cuts for rich people and big tax hikes for everyone else."

Says that "we brought CHI Manufacturing, that had business in China, back to" Texas.

Says Texas Senate hopeful Donna Campbell doesn’t live in the district she’s hoping to win in 2012.

Says El Paso was named America’s "Safest Large City" a year after San Antonio, Houston and Dallas had the nation’s highest crime rates.

Says Rick Perry wrote a letter "supporting Hillarycare."

Says Mitt Romney wrote that if Social Security was done "in the private sector, it would be called criminal."

Says "Rick Perry doubled spending in a decade."

Says Barack Obama’s "favorability rating in Israel once clocked in at 4 percent."

Says his hometown of Paint Creek, Texas, "doesn’t even have a ZIP code."

"Rick Perry ended full-day Pre-K for 100,000 Texas children."

"Social Security doesn’t contribute a penny to the deficit."

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