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Ed FitzGerald
Ed FitzGerald
stated on April 24, 2013 a campaign speech:
"Just about everyone everywhere is spending more hours on the job, less time with their families, bringing home smaller and smaller paychecks, while they're paying more and more at the gas pump and the grocery stores."
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By Tom Feran • May 3, 2013
Marcia Fudge
Marcia Fudge
stated on April 9, 2013 a Facebook posting:
"Women in Ohio earn on average 77 cents for every dollar earned by a man."
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By Sabrina Eaton • April 24, 2013
Ohio Public Defender's Office
Ohio Public Defender's Office
stated on April 12, 2013 a newspaper interview:
"The sex-offender registry has been around for a long time, and the research that's out there says that it has no positive impact on the public safety."
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By Tom Feran • April 22, 2013
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on March 28, 2013 blog posts:
Forty aides who serve President Barack Obama "owe $333,485 in back taxes."
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By Stephen Koff • April 3, 2013
Jim Jordan
Jim Jordan
stated on March 19, 2013 a congressional hearing:
The national debt is "larger than our entire annual economy."
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By Molly Moorhead, Sabrina Eaton, W. Gardner Selby • March 28, 2013
Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on March 21, 2013 a speech on the Senate floor:
"Our debt now is about $140,000 per household."
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By Stephen Koff • March 27, 2013
Steve LaTourette
Steve LaTourette
stated on March 17, 2013 an interview on “Fox News Sunday”:
"Quite frankly, it was during the Bush years of spending, multiplied now by the Obama years that we have this mess."
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By Sabrina Eaton • March 26, 2013
Bob Bennett
Bob Bennett
stated on March 4, 2013 a news release :
Ohio Republicans made significant gains during [Chris McNulty’s] time at the ORP, including the extremely successful re-election of President Bush in Ohio."
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By Henry J. Gomez • March 13, 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
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
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."
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By Tom Feran • February 21, 2013
Josh Mandel
Josh Mandel
stated on February 11, 2013 a letter to Ohio lawmakers:
Federal spending on entitlements "is projected to consume all revenue by 2045."
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By Stephen Koff • February 21, 2013
Joyce Beatty
Joyce Beatty
stated on January 14, 2013 a floor speech in the House of Representatives:
Says each year approximately 30,000 people in the United States die as a result of gunfire, and about 80,000 people are wounded.  
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By Sabrina Eaton • February 8, 2013
Chris Redfern
Chris Redfern
stated on January 23, 2013 a press statement:
Says Gov. John Kasich can remove the president of the State Board of Education.
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By Tom Feran • February 7, 2013
Marcy Kaptur
Marcy Kaptur
stated on December 19, 2012 a floor speech in the House of Representatives:
"States have cumulatively cut over $1.8 billion from their mental health services between 2009 and 2011. This is the largest reduction in state mental health services in half a century."
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By Sabrina Eaton • February 1, 2013
Ted Strickland
Ted Strickland
stated on January 8, 2013 a news release:
Says Ohio’s economic recovery "started in February 2010."
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By Henry J. Gomez • January 24, 2013
Bill Seitz
Bill Seitz
stated on January 10, 2013 an interview with the Columbus Dispatch:
Ohio's judges, "compared to other similar states, are being woefully underpaid."
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By Tom Feran • January 9, 2013
Marcia Fudge
Marcia Fudge
stated on January 1, 2013 a news release:
The so-called doc fix in the fiscal cliff deal will cut payments "for treating illnesses disproportionately impacting minorities, including end stage renal disease and diabetes."
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By Stephen Koff • January 4, 2013
Dennis Kucinich
Dennis Kucinich
stated on November 2, 2012 a news release:
Says the tax code is effectively subsidizing "the marketing efforts of fast food and junk food companies by as much as $19 billion over 10 years."
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By Tom Feran • November 26, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on October 22, 2012 a news release:
"6,400 Ohioans ... lost manufacturing jobs in the month of September."
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By Stephen Koff • October 26, 2012
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