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Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on July 27, 2010 a press conference:
"Eight of the nine justices in the Supreme Court decision (on campaign finance) said that not only is it constitutional for Congress to require disclosure of the special interest money, but they recommend we do it."
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By Alex Holt • August 4, 2010
Nathan Deal
Nathan Deal
stated on July 30, 2010 a press release:
Republican candidate for governor "Karen Handel has run a 100 percent negative campaign."
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By Willoughby Mariano • August 4, 2010
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on August 1, 2010 an interview on ABC's "This Week":
House Democrats "have a two-to-one advantage money-wise" against House Republicans.
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By Louis Jacobson • August 3, 2010
Pam Bondi
Pam Bondi
stated on July 31, 2010 a Bay News 9/CFN 13 debate.:
Mortgage fraud is "up 400 percent in the last five years."
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By Aaron Sharockman • August 2, 2010
Republican Party of Texas
Republican Party of Texas
stated on July 19, 2010 a message on Twitter:
Says President Barack Obama initially said the national health-care mandate isn't a tax, but his administration now says it is a tax.
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By Ciara O'Rourke • August 2, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 22, 2010 remarks at a bill signing:
The president's budget "would take ... non-defense spending to its lowest level ... as a percentage of the economy since JFK."
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By Louis Jacobson • July 29, 2010
Progress Ohio
Progress Ohio
stated on March 12, 2010 a video posted online in a blog article:
"In 2009, Yost spent 2.5 times more money than it took to run the (prosecutor’s) office before he got there."
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By Joe Guillen • July 29, 2010
Ted Strickland
Ted Strickland
stated on July 6, 2010 a campaign speech:
"Ohio’s electricity rates are 10 percent below the national average."
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By Reginald Fields • July 27, 2010
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on July 25, 2010 campaign materials.:
"My 7-step plan" creates 700,000 jobs in 7 years.
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By Aaron Sharockman • July 26, 2010
Stephen Hayes
Stephen Hayes
stated on July 25, 2010 a roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week":
Shirley Sherrod "was forced to resign before anybody on Fox said a word about this."
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By Louis Jacobson • July 26, 2010
Jane Norton
Jane Norton
stated on July 9, 2010 a television ad:
"Ken Buck's (District Attorney's) office? His spending skyrocketed by 40 percent."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 26, 2010
Tom Ganley
Tom Ganley
stated on July 6, 2010 a statement posted to his website:
"The Arizona law basically parrots the federal immigration law."
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By Sabrina Eaton • July 24, 2010
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow
stated on July 19, 2010 comments on her MSNBC show.:
Marco Rubio's "economic proposals will add $3.5 trillion to the federal deficit."
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By Aaron Sharockman • July 23, 2010
Stephen Colbert
Stephen Colbert
stated on July 6, 2010 a segement on The Colbert Report:
"It turns out that Texas has an $18 billion budget shortfall and can't afford its new science textbooks."
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By Ciara O'Rourke • July 23, 2010
Pam Bondi
Pam Bondi
stated on July 15, 2010 a campaign mail piece.:
Opponent Holly Benson said that "Just because you're poor doesn't mean you're unhealthy, it just means you have a lot more time to go running."
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By Aaron Sharockman • July 20, 2010
Bill White
Bill White
stated on June 25, 2010 a speech to the Texas Democratic Party convention in Corpus Christi:
"Rick Perry accepted more stimulus funds than any other governor except the governors of California and New York."
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By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • July 18, 2010
John McCain
John McCain
stated on May 26, 2010 a political ad:
As a Congressman, J.D. Hayworth was an avid earmarker who supported such pork as "$220,000 to renovate a Maine Blueberry farm" and "$5.8 million for a Vermont snowmobile trail."
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By Robert Farley • July 16, 2010
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 14, 2010 a news conference:
"We went from losing 3 million jobs in the last six months of the Bush Administration," adding almost 600,000 private sector jobs in the first six months of the year.
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By Louis Jacobson • July 15, 2010
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on July 9, 2010 a press release:
"$120,000 will be spent by taxpayers on Charlie Crist's political photo-op special session."
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By Amy Sherman • July 14, 2010
Ed Gillespie
Ed Gillespie
stated on July 11, 2010 an appearance on NBC's Meet the Press:
Under President George W. Bush, the U.S. had "52 months of ... uninterrupted job creation" and "revenues were at an all-time high in 2007."
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By Louis Jacobson • July 14, 2010
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