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PolitiFact Virginia introduces the Macker-Meter

By Becky Bowers
January 17, 2014

Today, PolitiFact Virginia introduces the Macker-Meter, a service to monitor 17 major campaign pledges by new Gov. Terry McAuliffe.

 The Macker-Meter will operate on the same principles of the recently completed Bob-O-Meter, which kept tabs on the campaign promises made by former Gov. Bob McDonnell.

(And, for that matter, our own Obameter, which tracks campaign promises made by President Barack Obama.)

The first rating: a Promise Kept, for signing an executive order banning lobbyist gifts to the governor and his family.

Why the “Macker-Meter”? We’ll let PolitiFact Virginia tell you. 

 

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Louise Slaughter
stated on October 9, 2013 in an interview on MSNBC:
“Eighty percent of the antibiotics in this country are fed to livestock.”
Mostly True
Bloggers
stated on September 27, 2013 in blog posts:
“Obama Declares November National Muslim Appreciation Month.”
Pants on Fire!
Robert Reich
stated on September 22, 2013 in a roundtable on ABC’s “This Week”:
Under economic sanctions, “now Iran is suffering 30 percent inflation, 20 percent unemployment.”
Mostly True
Betsy McCaughey
stated on September 15, 2013 in the New York Post:
“Obamacare will question your sex life.”
Pants on Fire!
Bloggers
stated on September 13, 2013 in posts on the Internet:
Warren Buffett recently said “Scrap Obamacare and Start All Over.”
Pants on Fire!
John Kerry
stated on September 5, 2013 in an interview on MSNBC’s “All In”:
Says he “opposed the president’s decision to go into Iraq” in 2003.
Mostly False
Ted Yoho
stated on September 4, 2013 in an interview on Fox Business Network:
Chemical weapons have been used “probably 20 times” since the Persian Gulf War.
Mostly False
Ted Cruz
stated on August 10, 2013 in a speech to the Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa:
Says “President Obama just granted all of Congress an exception” to Obamacare.
False
Ted Deutch
stated on August 1, 2013 in a letter with other Florida lawmakers to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius:
Says Florida refused to allow the insurance commissioner to “negotiate lower rates with companies or refuse rates that are too high” under Obamacare.
True

PolitiFact Virginia introduces the Macker-Meter

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