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Neil Skene

Neil Skene

PolitiFact contributor

Neil Skene is a Tallahassee writer and a contributor to PolitiFact.

nskene@comcast.net

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Rudy Giuliani
stated on January 24, 2008 in a debate in Boca Raton, Fla.:
Said he’s the only Republican candidate “who’s actually turned around a government economy.”
Mostly True
By Neil Skene • January 28, 2008
Mike Huckabee
stated on December 30, 2007 in a TV interview on NBC.:
“…some of those (tax increases) were either court-ordered, or they were voted on by the people and approved by the people for (such) things as…
Half-True
By Neil Skene • January 3, 2008
Fred Thompson
stated on November 7, 2007 in a Nashville radio interview.:
“He’s a good man but he’s a pro-life liberal. He’s right on the pro-life part, but he’s a liberal.”
Half-True
By Neil Skene • December 31, 2007
Bill Richardson
stated on November 15, 2007 in a debate in Las Vegas:
“Sixty-five percent of the Iraqi people now say it’s okay to shoot an American soldier.”
Mostly False
By Neil Skene • December 21, 2007
Rudy Giuliani
stated on October 5, 2007 in Washington, D.C.:
“People were hopeless. Sixty percent of the population, 70 percent of the population wanted to live somewhere else. . . . By the time I…
Mostly False
By Neil Skene • November 21, 2007
Rudy Giuliani
stated on July 1, 2007 in "Innovators in Action" magazine:
“The $2.3-billion budget deficit I inherited when I came into office became a $2.9-billion surplus.”
Half-True
By Neil Skene • November 21, 2007
Rudy Giuliani
stated on October 9, 2007 in Dearborn, Mich.:
“I believe in tax cuts. I believe in being a supply-sider. I cut the income tax I think it was 24 percent. We got 42…
Mostly True
By Neil Skene • November 21, 2007
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By Neil Skene • November 21, 2007
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