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Crist says violent crime decreased in past three years

March 3, 2010

"We are now seeing a decrease in violent crime."

Romney claims Obama’s actions on Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo run counter to his campaign positions

March 2, 2010

"He (Obama) has done several things well. Most of those things are places where he changed his view from where he had during the campaign.…

Greenspan gave approval to tax cuts only if deficits were tamed

March 2, 2010

In 2001, former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan "justified increasing spending and cutting taxes, saying that we didn't really need to pay down the debt."

GOP says Alan Grayson likens Dick Cheney to a vampire and U.S. health care system to the Holocaust

March 2, 2010

U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson "compared a former vice president to a vampire ... and compared America's health care system to the Holocaust."

Florida home foreclosure rate among the worst in the U.S.

March 2, 2010

Florida "has the second-highest foreclosure rate in the nation."

Crist the only Republican to campaign with Obama for stimulus, Rubio claims

March 2, 2010

"Charlie Crist was the only prominent Republican in the country to campaign with Barack Obama before the stimulus passed, on behalf of the stimulus."

Wasserman Schultz says Republicans regularly say they agree with 80 percent of health care bill

March 1, 2010

"The Republicans have repeatedly said that they agree with 80 percent of what's in our bill."

Health care reform bill will expand Medicaid, increasing demands on doctors

March 1, 2010

The health care bill "dumps 15 to 18 million low-income Americans into a Medicaid program that none of us want to be a part of…

Hutchison says $1 million spent on lobbying, Perry home costing taxpayers $10,000 a month

March 1, 2010

Gov. Rick Perry "spent over a million dollars on D.C. lobbyists asking for more federal money and lives in a luxury house that costs taxpayers…

Ferre says he left Miami with $43 million in the bank

March 1, 2010

"I left the city with $43 million in the bank." 

Ken Mercer, member of State Board of Education, says challenger gave more than $41,000 to Democrats who back abortion and same-sex marriage

March 1, 2010

Challenger Tim Tuggey "is a lobbyist who donated over $41,000 to Democrats who support abortion and same-sex marriage."

Patterson says Meachum has no experience as a judge

February 28, 2010

"Her opponent: zero times a judge, zero rulings, zero experience on the bench."

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