California Watch To Fact-Check Every Statement By Gubernatorial Candidates

Taking fact-checking of candidates to another level, California Watch, the project of the Center for Investigative Reporting, has launched a site this week that it claims will review every statement from California gubernatorial candidates Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman.

“In the first of her many television ads released over the last few months, Meg Whitman intoned that politicians should 'say what we mean' and 'mean what we say.' We agree," the site, Politics Verbatim, states. “That's why California Watch and the Center for Investigative Reporting today are launching Politics Verbatim: a new project designed to hold California's two major gubernatorial candidates accountable in the most straightforward way possible: by collecting and categorizing the promises, proposals, arguments and attacks that they make on the campaign trail."

We shall see how it goes.