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PAC
Candidate
Ted Strickland
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This ad claims Strickland "proposed cuts for services for children" and "wasted over $250,000 remodeling his bathrooms at the governor’s mansion." PolitiFact rates these claims as "Pants on Fire!" Strickland did propose budget cuts while facing a shortfall after 2008 economic downturn. The ad, however, "suggests that the money used to renovate the bathrooms" for visitors -- not the governor himself -- at the governor's mansion could have been used to fund those services, which was not the case.

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First Aired On
08/18/2016 UTC
Last Aired On
08/30/2016 UTC
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Pro-Republican PAC smears Ted Strickland with potty politics
September 1, 2016

The National Republican Senatorial Committee’s ad, "Flush," targets Democratic Senate candidate Ted Strickland in Ohio. In it, they attack Strickland’s fiscal management during his term as Ohio’s governor against a background of a flushing commode.

"And while Strickland proposed cuts for services for children," the voice-over claims, "he wasted over $250,000 remodeling his bathrooms at the governor’s mansion."

Did he or didn’t he? We’ll start with the first claim.

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