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Mike Males
Mike Males
stated on June 13, 2011 an article :
"There’s pretty much no question that [the curfew ordinances] aren’t effective in either reducing crime or preventing harm to young people."
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By Chris Joyner • July 22, 2011
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on July 12, 2011 an interview on Fox News:
"We jumped 11 places since beginning this year in terms of being job-friendly."
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By Tom Feran • July 21, 2011
Richard Codey
Richard Codey
stated on July 13, 2011 an interview on Hannity on Fox News:
"Every president has raised the debt ceiling."  
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By Bill Wichert • July 21, 2011
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on July 17, 2011 interview on CBS's "Face the Nation":
"We have not had unemployment this high for this long since the Great Depression."
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By Katie Sanders • July 19, 2011
David Sciarra
David Sciarra
stated on May 19, 2011 a Star-Ledger column:
"By any measure, New Jersey has one of the most segregated school systems in the country."  
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By Caryn Shinske • July 17, 2011
Josh Treviño
Josh Treviño
stated on July 13, 2011 a TV appearance.:
Says recent polls show Americans agree with Republicans that the federal debt ceiling should not be raised and the debt and deficit should be dealt with mostly by cutting spending.
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By W. Gardner Selby • July 16, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 15, 2011 a press conference:
"Eighty percent of the American people support an approach (to federal budget problems) that includes revenues and includes cuts."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 15, 2011
Kris Jordan
Kris Jordan
stated on June 15, 2011 a speech in the Ohio Senate:
"State agencies have not identified one single instance where groundwater has been damaged due to hydraulic fracking."  
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By Aaron Marshall • July 14, 2011
Oregon Education Association
Oregon Education Association
stated on July 1, 2011 a blog posting:
House Bill 2301 never had a public hearing
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By Janie Har • July 14, 2011
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on July 6, 2011 an interview on NPR’s “Tell Me More” with Michel Martin:
Says for the first time in the history of the United States, the government cut taxes during wartime
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By Erin O'Neill • July 14, 2011
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on July 7, 2011 an interview with CBS:
"From now on, we have to pay the Russians $50 million an astronaut to send Americans to the space station"
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By Amy Sherman • July 13, 2011
Tim Pawlenty
Tim Pawlenty
stated on July 10, 2011 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
"There's no scientific conclusion that (being gay) is genetic."
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By Louis Jacobson • July 13, 2011
Republican National Committee
Republican National Committee
stated on July 7, 2011 a television commercial:
Since President Obama took office, "2 million jobs. Gone."
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By Mark Naymik • July 13, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 11, 2011 a press conference:
"As we've seen that federal support for states diminish, you've seen the biggest job losses in the public sector -- teachers, police officers, firefighters losing their jobs."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 12, 2011
Bob McDonnell
Bob McDonnell
stated on June 21, 2011 Bill-signing ceremony:
 "Our crime rate continues to plummet."
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By Wes Hester • July 11, 2011
New Hampshire Democratic Party
New Hampshire Democratic Party
stated on June 27, 2011 a statement by state Democratic chairman Ray Buckley in a call with reporters:
"Mitt Romney is the first Massachusetts politician to run for president and not win the New Hampshire primary in a generation."
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By Jake Berry • July 10, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on June 27, 2011 a roundtable with small business leaders in Salem, N.H.:
By the end of his first term, President Obama will have added as much debt as all the prior 43 presidents combined.
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By Maryalice Gill • July 10, 2011
Herb Conaway Jr.
Herb Conaway Jr.
stated on June 20, 2011 a rally at the Statehouse:
"This governor has cut funding repeatedly for people who have AIDS, who need drugs to save their life."
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By Bill Wichert • July 8, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 6, 2011 a Twitter town hall:
"We have provided at least 16 tax cuts to small businesses."
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By Louis Jacobson, Robert Farley • July 7, 2011
Bill Kristol
Bill Kristol
stated on July 3, 2011 an interview on "Fox News Sunday":
Forty percent of union members voted Republican in 2008.
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By Louis Jacobson • July 7, 2011
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