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Kevin Kiley
stated on April 26, 2021 a tweet

“San Francisco had twice as many drug overdose deaths as COVID deaths last year.”

By Chris Nichols • April 29, 2021

Joe Biden
stated on December 12, 2019 a campaign ad

California firefighters decided "to speak out" against President Trump because his tweet about the state’s wildfires "contained so much misinformation."

By Chris Nichols • December 18, 2019

Darrell Steinberg
stated on October 24, 2019 an interview with Capital Public Radio

"90,000 Californians are unsheltered and homeless."

By Chris Nichols • October 31, 2019

Gavin Newsom
stated on March 13, 2019 a news conference

California has "the largest death row in the Western Hemisphere, the largest death row in the United States of America — two times the size of the next largest state: Florida."

By Chris Nichols • March 13, 2019

Gavin Newsom
stated on February 12, 2019 a State of the State Address

"More than a million Californians" do not have "clean water to bathe in or drink."

By Chris Nichols • February 14, 2019

Gavin Newsom
stated on September 10, 2018 a campaign speech

"Close to half of the children" in California are "at or near poverty," when you consider cost-of-living.

By Chris Nichols • September 19, 2018

Kamala Harris
stated on July 17, 2018 a press conference

"Let’s talk about the facts and where we are today. There are still nearly 2,600 children who are separated from their parents" due to the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance policy.

By Chris Nichols • July 19, 2018

John Chiang
stated on March 29, 2018 a letter to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions

"A majority of Americans now live in states where they have decided to legalize cannabis," including recreational and medical marijuana.

By Chris Nichols • April 20, 2018

Jerry Brown
stated on April 11, 2018 a letter to the Trump administration

"Here are the facts: there is no massive wave of migrants pouring into California. Overall immigrant apprehensions on the border last year were as low as they’ve been in nearly 50 years (and 85 percent of the apprehensions occurred outside of California)."

By Chris Nichols • April 13, 2018

Gavin Newsom
stated on March 8, 2018

"California is 49th out of 50 in the United States in per capita housing units. Only Utah can lay claim to being lowest in per capita production."

By Chris Nichols • March 21, 2018

Jerry Brown
stated on January 25, 2018 a State of the State Address

California’s prisons budget in 1970 "was about 3 percent of the general fund. Now, it’s 8.9 percent, about $12 billion."

By Chris Nichols • January 25, 2018

Delaine Eastin
stated on October 11, 2017 an op-ed

"Ninety percent of people born in the 1940s ended up doing better financially than their parents. But those born in the 1980s, the much-maligned Millennials, have only a 50-50 chance of doing better (financially) than their parents, despite being the best-educated generation in our history."

By Chris Nichols • October 27, 2017

Nancy Pelosi
stated on September 18, 2017 a speech at Sacramento State University

"Seventy-six percent of the American people support us passing the DREAM Act … with citizenship and legalization as part of it all. … More than 60 percent of Republicans support that."

By Chris Nichols • September 19, 2017

Kamala Harris
stated on July 18, 2017 a speech

"It costs us about $33,000 a year (on average nationally) to lock somebody up. In California it costs about $75,000 a year."

By Chris Nichols • August 9, 2017

Gavin Newsom
stated on July 12, 2017 an interview on MSNBC

The Inland Empire is "the second fastest growing region" for jobs in California.

By Chris Nichols • July 27, 2017

Scott Peters
stated on April 24, 2017 a news article

The estimated price of President Trump’s border wall is the same as the cost of "one and a half aircraft carriers."

By Chris Nichols • April 28, 2017

Jerry Brown
stated on March 26, 2017 an interview on Meet the Press

"2.1 million jobs have been created in the last six or seven years" in California

By Chris Nichols • March 29, 2017

Arnold Schwarzenegger
stated on February 23, 2017 a tweet

"The average margin of victory in the House of Representatives was 37%" for Democrats and Republicans in the 2016 election.

By Chris Nichols • March 17, 2017

Gavin Newsom
stated on February 24, 2017 a letter

During his campaign for president, Donald Trump "committed to honoring states' rights when it comes to marijuana legalization."

By Chris Nichols • February 28, 2017

Jerry Brown
stated on January 24, 2017 a State of the State Address

Twenty-seven percent of Californians, almost 11 million, "were born in a foreign land."

By Chris Nichols • January 24, 2017

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