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Council for the National Interest
Council for the National Interest
stated on February 12, 2013 a billboard:
The United States gives $8 million a day to Israel and gives that country a blank check.
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • March 6, 2013
Paul Howard
Paul Howard
stated on February 17, 2013 a news story:
"In Atlanta, since 1994 when the ‘Seven Deadly Sins’ (mandatory minimum sentences) took effect, the violent crime rate has dropped 62 percent."
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By Janel Davis • March 5, 2013
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on February 13, 2013 a speech:
Two-thirds of Wisconsinites receiving unemployment checks "are not required to search for work due to current work search exemptions."
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By Tom Kertscher • March 4, 2013
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on February 26, 2013 a budget speech to the New Jersey Legislature:
"Since January 2010, New Jersey has added 103,000 new private sector jobs. The last two years -- 2011 and 2012 -- have been the best two years of private sector job growth since 1999."
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By Caryn Shinske • March 3, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 1, 2013 a press briefing at the White House:
Says a majority of Americans -- and Republicans -- support his approach for deficit reduction.
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By Becky Bowers • March 1, 2013
Duriya Farooqui
Duriya Farooqui
stated on February 13, 2013 a presentation:
"Of the 18 stadiums built from 2004 to 2013, 47 percent of the total cost came from public sources."
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By Eric Stirgus • March 1, 2013
Nancy Denuccio
Nancy Denuccio
stated on February 20, 2013 A news release:
In annual surveys of Rhode Island communities that receive Drug Free community grants, many report that more than 50 percent of youth surveyed do not think daily marijuana use poses any serious risk of harm.
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By Michael McKinney • March 1, 2013
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on February 26, 2013 a budget speech to the state Legislature:
"Property taxes had increased 70 percent in the previous 10 years."
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By Caryn Shinske • February 28, 2013
Joseph Testa
Joseph Testa
stated on February 4, 2013 a news conference:
"About two-thirds of all consumption is services. . . It was just the opposite" when the sales tax was enacted in the '30s.
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By Robert Higgs • February 27, 2013
Raymond LaHood
Raymond LaHood
stated on February 25, 2013 an interview on MSNBC:
"There's going to be a slowdown and delays in flights" as a result of the sequester.
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By Molly Moorhead • February 27, 2013
Mallard Fillmore
Mallard Fillmore
stated on February 9, 2013 a syndicated cartoon:
Comic strip says government study shows Head Start "has little or no impact on the children it’s supposed to help."
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By Sue Owen • February 26, 2013
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter
stated on February 21, 2013 an interview with CNN's Piers Morgan:
"When I ran against incumbent President Gerald Ford, you know how much money we raised? None."
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By Louis Jacobson • February 26, 2013
Peter Barca
Peter Barca
stated on February 19, 2013 an interview:
"You can't bring an iPad or a piece of paper and a pencil in the (Wisconsin Assembly) gallery to take notes of what's going on," but "you can bring a gun up there."
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By Tom Kertscher • February 24, 2013
Barbara Buono
Barbara Buono
stated on January 28, 2013 an interview on NJToday:
"New Jersey has lost over half of our pharmaceutical jobs to states you know, not low-tax states like in the South, but high-tax states like New York."
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By Caryn Shinske • February 24, 2013
Tim Knopp
Tim Knopp
stated on February 12, 2013 a press release:
Knopp says he upheld a campaign promise not to join the Public Employees Retirement System (PERS).
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By Janie Har • February 23, 2013
Ohio Republican Party
Ohio Republican Party
stated on February 19, 2013 a Tweet:
"Kewpie burgers are delicious. An Ohio institution. And they'll cost less thanks to John Kasich's tax cut."
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By Tom Feran • February 22, 2013
Kenneth Block
Kenneth Block
stated on January 24, 2013 a television interview:
"More than 9,000 Rhode Island voters used the Moderate Party master lever mechanism and they didn't have a single Moderate on their ballot."
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By Michael McKinney • February 22, 2013
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on February 4, 2013 a news conference:
Without a Medicaid expansion, 275,000 more Ohioans could be getting their primary care in emergency rooms, costing "everybody a lot of money."
Mostly True
By Tom Feran • February 21, 2013
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 19, 2013 a speech in Washington, D.C.:
The sequester "won’t consider whether we’re cutting some bloated program that has outlived its usefulness, or a vital service that Americans depend on every single day. It doesn’t make those distinctions."
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By Louis Jacobson • February 21, 2013
Sarah Eckhardt
Sarah Eckhardt
stated on February 18, 2013 an email blast.:
Says Travis County's unemployment rate is below the national average while its poverty rate exceeds the national average--and local poverty is rising.
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By W. Gardner Selby • February 21, 2013
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