8 of the Biggest Election Lies This Year

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http://www.alternet.org/election-2014/8-biggest-election-lies-year



What follows are eight claims from 2014’s “Oh really?” department.

1. Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker is no feminist. Just putting a woman on the screen in a television ad does not make a candidate pro-woman. Neither does having that woman, in this case, Wisconsin’s Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefisch, lie about supporting “pay equity” for women, when their administration “quietly repealed the state’s Equal Pay Enforcement Act,” as Salon’s Katie McDonnough noted. That former law made it easier for women to sue for equal pay, which Walker’s Republican allies did not want to see stay on the books.

2. Colorado GOP Senate candidate Cory Gardner is no moderate. Just because an interest group says so does not make it true. In this case, the so-called No Labels group, which claims to endorse bipartisan problem solvers, is backing Colorado’s Republican U.S. Senate candidate, Cory Gardner. The endorsement is ridiculous, as Congressman Gardner has strongly opposed abortion rights and voted for 2013’s federal government shutdown. He is an extremist elected in the 2010 Tea Party wave, who actually is now getting flack from right-wingers who previously backed him and say he has jumped ship.

3. Republicans are not the party defending Social Security. But Karl Rove wants you to believe otherwise, and according to the Washington Post, is behind ads accusing two Democratic senators of wanting to cut benefits. “Cutting federal health and retirement spending has long been at the top of the GOP agenda,” the Post’s report correctly notes. “But with Republicans in striking distance of winning the Senate, they are suddenly blasting the idea of trimming Social Security.” The Rove ads have run against North Carolina’s Kay Hagan and Arkansas’ Mark Pryor, both in tight races. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell also is now saying he never wanted to privatize Social Security, another lie. You can be sure that if the GOP wins a congressional majority this fall it will put forth reforms decreasing future retirement benefits, not expanding them.

4. Georgia Democrat Michelle Nunn didn't fund terrorists. This truly absurd claim comes from Georgia, where Nunn, the daughter of a famous U.S. senator, is in a tight race against a Republican businessman for the U.S. Senate. Nunn had worked for Points of Light, a charity created to promote volunteerism, which distributed some money to Islamic groups. Politifact.com deconstructed the attack from Republican David Perdue’s TV ad, calling it one of the year’s biggest fibs.

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