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Dan Patrick
stated on May 20, 2018 an interview on ABC News, "This Week"

"It’s against the law in Texas to let any loaded gun get in the hands of a child."

By W. Gardner Selby • May 30, 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

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

Charles Schumer
stated on May 18, 2017 a Senate floor speech

"President Obama became the first president since Carter to leave the White House with a smaller federal prison population than when he took office."

By Louis Jacobson • May 18, 2017

Thomas Croci
stated on April 27, 2017 a press release

In some cases, a sex offender "who appears on the New York State Sex Offender Registry" would be able to drive for Uber or Lyft when ride-hailing is allowed upstate in July

By Dan Clark • May 8, 2017

Gwen Moore
stated on November 18, 2016 an interview

Says Donald Trump "thinks stop-and-frisk is fine."

December 9, 2016

Virginia "Jennie Lou" Leeder
stated on October 17, 2016 an interview with the Austin American-Statesman

Texas spends "more per day to house an inmate than we do on a student."

By Fauzeya Rahman • November 18, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on September 26, 2016 a Presidential debate

"In Chicago, they've had thousands of shootings, thousands since Jan. 1. Thousands of shootings."

By Miriam Valverde • September 27, 2016

Charlie Crist
stated on September 19, 2016 a debate

"In the mid 1990s, in our state, (Florida was) No. 1 in violent crime in America. ... The only concern I had was for the citizens of Florida, who were subjected to a violent crime every three minutes and 45 seconds."

By Allison Graves • September 20, 2016

Charley Wilkison
stated on July 15, 2016 an interview with Laura Rice for the Texas Standard

"Texas has lost the most law enforcement officers in the line of duty of any state in America."

By Rye Druzin • September 19, 2016

Sean Hannity
stated on August 23, 2016 a slide presented on Hannity’s show during an Austin interview of Donald Trump

Says that in 2015, "illegal" immigrants accounted for 75 percent of federal drug possession convictions and 5 percent to 30 percent of convictions for murder and kidnapping plus two other crimes.

By W. Gardner Selby • September 2, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on September 1, 2016 x

Says Alex Jones "said that the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre were child actors and no one was actually killed there."

By Dylan Baddour, W. Gardner Selby • September 1, 2016

Tim Kaine
stated on July 27, 2016 a speech

"We fixed a loophole in the (gun) background record check system so that we could make our commonwealth safer."

By Sean Gorman • July 29, 2016

Loretta Lynch
stated on June 19, 2016 an interview on "Fox News Sunday"

"The LGBT community is more often the victims of hate crimes than any other recognized group."

By Amy Sherman • June 23, 2016

Catherine Hanaway
stated on June 6, 2016 Missouri

"Only half of the murders in the city of St. Louis get solved."

By Allison Graves • June 14, 2016

Terry McAuliffe
stated on April 22, 2016 a speech.

Before April 22, "we have restored the rights of more than 18,000 individuals, which is more than the past seven governors combined in their four-year terms."

By Warren Fiske • May 9, 2016

Mark Pocan
stated on April 7, 2016 a blog post

"More people are struck by lightning than commit in-person voter fraud" by impersonation.

April 7, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on February 28, 2016 comments on Meet the Press

"There have been multiple media reports about (Donald Trump's) business dealings with the mob, with the mafia."

By Linda Qiu • March 2, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on February 23, 2016 a TV ad

"African-Americans are more likely to be arrested by police and sentenced to longer prison terms for doing the same thing that whites do."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 26, 2016

Tim McGinty
stated on February 17, 2016 his campaign website

"We are almost halfway to our goal of 1,000 rapes prosecuted!"

By Nadia Pflaum • February 17, 2016

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