Kitty Boitnott

Number slightly off

Public education has been permanently cut "by $1.6 billion through changes in the Standards of Quality funding formula."

Randy Forbes

The numbers add up

"The national debt is equal to $48,700 for every American or $128,300 for every U.S. household. It is now equivalent to the size of our entire economy."

David Englin

A faulty deduction

"A cashier earning $20,000 per year pays the same (Virginia) income tax rate as a hedge fund manager earning $20 million per year."

James Stegmaier

Who would have guessed?

"Chesterfield has eliminated more positions from its general government operations than the Commonwealth has from the entire state government since (fiscal) 2009." 

Jim Moran

Numbers are outdated, but close

"The U.S. gun homicide rate is 20 times the combined rate of other western nations."

Donald McEachin

School funding goes up; so does teachers' pension cost

Gov. McDonnell's proposed budget "is cutting" public education. 

Ken Cuccinelli

No reprieve for common rats

Says the D.C. city council passed a law banning lethal rat trapping.

Bob McDonnell

If it sounds like a duck...

Says proposal to boost teacher pension fund "puts no mandate on local government."

Donald McEachin

A tiny loss of school funding

Gov. Bob McDonnell’s budget plan takes "money out of our classrooms to pave roads."

Bob McDonnell

A record setter, indeed

Says he’s proposed "the largest employer contribution to the Virginia Retirement System in history."

Eric Cantor

A valid estimate

Small businesses "create 70 percent of the jobs in America."

George Allen

Actually, he was one of 15

"I was one of about a dozen (senators) who voted against the Bridge to Nowhere."

Tim Kaine

It's accurate, but not a meaningful measure

George Allen and his colleagues in the Senate "turned the biggest surplus in the history of the United States into the biggest deficit in the history of the United States."

Tim Kaine

Under Kaine logic, 51 people cast "the deciding vote."

George Allen cast "the deciding vote" for the 2003 Bush tax cuts.

George Allen

Flat out wrong

"Our federal government has lent $2 billion to the state-owned oil company of Brazil to allow them to explore for oil and gas."  

Tim Kaine

Reasonable estimate

The national debt increased $16,000 every second George Allen served in the U.S. Senate.

George Allen

Coal makes U.S. king

The United States "is number one in the world in energy resources; Russia is number two."  

Promise: Establish an inspector general

Update: New inspector general office to open in July

Eric Cantor

Another measure shows a smaller gap

The U.S. economy "is three times as big as China's."

Promise: Consolidate guides for business creation and expansion

Update: A work in progress, we're told