Bama Fact Check | Alabama | Etats-Unis. The Fact Checker | Washington Post | Etats-Unis. PoliGraph | Minnesota Public Radio | Minnesota. Posted at 2:00 PM on April 4, 2012 by Catharine Richert ( 6 Comments ) Filed under: PoliGraph A union and a liberal organization have teamed up to run a TV ad against 8th District Republican Congressman Chip Cravaack. The spot targets the first-term lawmaker for voting in favor of Republican Rep. Paul Ryan's fiscal year 2013 budget proposal. Cravaack voted to give "big oil companies more tax breaks," a woman's voice in the ad states. Her criticism is set to a shot of Cravaack next to the following quote: "Cravaack/Ryan budget '[gives] oil tax breaks worth $40 billion [to] companies such as Exxon.
" The ad, which is being paid for by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and Americans United for Change, gets its number right but its description of what Cravaack voted for is misleading. The Evidence Like most of his Republican colleagues, Cravaack voted in favor of Ryan's $3.5 trillion fiscal year 2013 budget proposal, which passed the U.S. The Verdict THOMAS, H. San Diego Fact Check | Voice of San Diego | Californie. Fact Check | CNN | Etats-Unis. FactCheck.org | Etats-Unis. PolitiFact | Etats-Unis.
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