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Hillary Clinton
stated on February 4, 2016 a debate:

"We bailed out" Johnson Controls when "we saved the auto industry" and "now they want to avoid paying taxes."

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By Tom Kertscher • February 11, 2016

State Public Service Announcement
stated on December 28, 2015:

By the end of 2015, more than 1,300 people will have died on Georgia roads. One of out evey four fatalities resulted from drunken driving.

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By Nancy Badertscher • December 30, 2015

Uber
stated on November 7, 2015 a web post:

"Recent news reports indicate DWI crashes in Austin dropped 23 percent since ridesharing entered the market."

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By W. Gardner Selby • December 16, 2015

David Simpson
stated on November 30, 2015 a campaign press release:

"I have always opposed driver's licenses for illegal aliens."

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By W. Gardner Selby • December 11, 2015

George Will
stated on November 30, 2015 a TV talk show:

Despite attention on global warming, "fewer Americans carpool today to work than carpooled in 1980" and "SUVs have never been a larger proportion of the vehicles being sold in this country."

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By Tom Kertscher • December 4, 2015

Chris Larson
stated on November 22, 2015 an interview:

The Milwaukee County executive can sell the public "museum, the airport and the zoo" -- all on his own, without County Board approval

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By Tom Kertscher • December 3, 2015

Greg Abbott
stated on October 19, 2015 op-ed in Austin American-Statesman:

"Road congestion costs rush hour drivers in Austin and Dallas more than $1,000 a year. And in Houston, it’s even more -- almost $1,500 a year."

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By Fauzeya Rahman • November 24, 2015

Jeff Morales
stated on October 29, 2015 a press conference:

"The actual (construction) contracts that we’ve awarded to date have come in several hundred million dollars below estimates."

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By Chris Nichols • November 24, 2015

Chris Abele
stated on October 29, 2015 a TV interview:

Since he took office as Milwaukee County executive, "we have never raised" bus fares and "this year there’ll be a million route-miles more than there were five years ago."

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By Sarah Hauer • November 23, 2015

Jennifer Shilling
stated on October 1, 2015 a tweet:

"71% of WI’s roads are in poor or mediocre condition and 14% of WI’s bridges are structurally deficient or functionally obsolete."

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By Sarah Hauer • November 18, 2015

NumbersUSA
stated on July 22, 2015 a Facebook meme:

"More than half of all drivers' licenses issued in California this year have gone to illegal aliens."

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By Jon Greenberg • July 28, 2015

Jay Roberts
stated on March 31, 2015 a House floor debate:

About 85 percent of hotel guests who will pay the new $5 hotel/motel fee will be from outside Georgia.

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By April Hunt • May 25, 2015

Debbie Dooley
stated on March 31, 2015 a Twitter post:

The recently passed transportation funding bill is a billion-dollar tax increase for Georgians.

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By April Hunt • April 27, 2015

Trebor Banstetter
stated on March 1, 2015 a newspaper article:

Georgia has one of the nation’s highest jet fuel taxes.

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By Nancy Badertscher • March 31, 2015

Steve Adler
stated on December 2, 2014 a TV ad:

Mike "Martinez has voted to raise taxes and utility rates while ending free bus service for seniors."

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By W. Gardner Selby • December 11, 2014

Barack Obama
stated on October 18, 2014 the president's weekly national address:

"You cannot get (Ebola) from just riding on a plane or bus."

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By Steve Contorno • October 29, 2014

Andy Duyck
stated on April 4, 2014 a public presentation:

"We’ve dedicated more money from (Washington County’s) transportation budget to bike and ped projects under my watch than at any time in the history of Washington County."

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By Dana Tims • April 4, 2014

David Dewhurst
stated on March 2, 2014 a TV ad:

Says Dan Patrick "supported giving a $5,000 taxpayer-funded voucher to every family to buy a car."

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By W. Gardner Selby • March 14, 2014

Steven Frias
stated on August 14, 2013 a Providence Journal commentary:

The R.I. Turnpike and Bridge Authority "was supposed to exist only until the bonds used to build the Newport Bridge were paid off through tolls. Once the bonds were paid, the Newport Bridge was to be transferred to the State of Rhode Island and become toll-free."

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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • September 1, 2013

Amalgamated Transit Union
stated on June 13, 2013 a newspaper ad:

Says TriMet spends "$10.3 million in police contracts" a year for 56 transit police who must respond to non-transit calls

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By Janie Har • June 22, 2013

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