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Wendell Young
stated on March 31, 2017 an op-ed

House Bill 991 "could lead to the opening of as many as 2,000 new liquor stores."

By Cassie Owens • April 7, 2017

Jim Kenney
stated on March 27, 2017 a tweet

"Immigrants are responsible for 96 percent of our small biz growth since 2000."

By Cassie Owens • March 28, 2017

John Eichelberger
stated on February 13, 2017

Inner-city students "fall back and don’t succeed, whereas if there was a less intensive track, they would."

By Cassie Owens • February 27, 2017

Joe DeFelice
stated on January 25, 2017

"From the release of a child rapist from the Dominican Republican to that of an Italian drug smuggler, Philadelphians have already been put in direct danger by Mayor Kenney’s policy of blocking local law enforcement from participating with federal immigration authorities."

By Cassie Owens • January 31, 2017

Viral image
stated on August 5, 2016 various websites

That 59 divisions in Philly had no votes for Romney in 2012 is "(a) mathematical and statistical impossibility."

By Cassie Owens • August 12, 2016

Ed Rendell
stated on July 27, 2016 an interview with Politico's Burgess Everett

"I’m not one for name calling."

By Cassie Owens • July 28, 2016

Rick Saccone
stated on July 13, 2016 floor remarks during a House session

"Illegal tobacco sales, price driven too high, has been connected to at least several cases of funding terrorism against us in multi-year investigations over the last decade and a half."

By Cassie Owens • July 18, 2016

Mike Turzai
stated on June 15, 2016 an op-ed for PennLive

"Each [Corbett administration] budget finished in the black."

By Cassie Owens • July 13, 2016

Jim Kenney
stated on April 25, 2015

On eliminating the influence of money in policy campaigns

By Cassie Owens • June 28, 2016

Jim Kenney
stated on June 23, 2016 remarks at the Better Bike Share conference

My administration is "well represented both racially, ethnically and gender-wise."

By Cassie Owens • June 24, 2016

Pat Toomey
stated on April 15, 2016

Says Merrick Garland "authored an opinion that resulted in the release of 17 Guantanamo Bay prisoners who were part of a group of violent Islamist extremists the State Department had designated as terrorists."

By Cassie Owens • June 7, 2016

Pat Toomey
stated on April 27, 2016 Pennsylvania

Says Katie McGinty "actually agrees with Hillary Clinton and the most liberal wing of the Democrats on everything."

By Cassie Owens, Dávid Tvrdoň, Loghan Thain • May 16, 2016

Bill Clinton
stated on April 7, 2016 during a campaign stop in Philadelphia

"Because of (the 1994 crime bill), we had a 25-year low in crime, a 33-year low in the murder rate, and listen to this, because of that and the background check law, a 46-year low in the deaths of people of gun violence."

By Anna Orso, Cassie Owens • April 8, 2016

Jim Kenney
stated on March 27, 2016 Pennsylvania

"Big soda has a lot of money. They make a lot of profit off their product and they market in neighborhoods that suffer from these very things that we’re trying to cure."

By Cassie Owens • March 30, 2016

Katie McGinty
stated on March 8, 2016

"Here in Pennsylvania, the annual cost for infant childcare is over $10,000 per child, which is more than most families pay in rent and almost the same cost as in-state college tuition."

By Cassie Owens • March 18, 2016

Jim Kenney
stated on March 3, 2016 Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney clarified his stance on stop and frisk to the Al Día editorial board.

On ending stop and frisk

By Cassie Owens • March 8, 2016

John Fetterman
stated on February 1, 2016 in a Reddit AMA

"I am the only candidate that has endorsed Bernie Sanders for President. In PA, I've got Bernie's back."

By Cassie Owens • February 4, 2016

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