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Mark Brodeur
Mark Brodeur
stated on December 2, 2010 in a Providence Journal story:
Rhode Island spends less than 10 percent of what the average state spends promoting tourism.
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • December 12, 2010
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on November 30, 2010 in an MSNBC interview :
"Understand, this is unemployment insurance. It’s not welfare, as a lot of my Republican colleagues like to suggest it is. You pay into it when you’re working. You get help when you’re not."
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By Stephen Koff • December 7, 2010
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on November 11, 2010 in a news release:
More than 10 years of free trade "has brought a $2 billion per day trade deficit."
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By Stephen Koff • November 22, 2010
Bob McDonnell
Bob McDonnell
stated on November 2, 2010 in a TV interview:
Has created 60,000 net new jobs since taking office.
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By Warren Fiske • November 12, 2010
Back to Basics
Back to Basics
stated on October 5, 2010 in a newspaper ad:
Says "the Texas unemployment rate has even grown more than the nation's as a whole."
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By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • October 7, 2010
Bill White
Bill White
stated on September 27, 2010 in an e-mail:
Texas has "a higher unemployment rate than neighboring states."
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By Ciara O'Rourke • September 30, 2010
Jeff Merkley
Jeff Merkley
stated on September 1, 2010 in a press release:
Says with the ongoing economic downturn, child abuse is on the rise.
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By Michelle Cole • September 28, 2010
Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on September 14, 2010 in an appearance at The Plain Dealer:
On Lee Fisher’s watch, "almost nine out of 10" jobs that Ohio lost were lost to other states, "not to other countries."
Mostly True
By Stephen Koff • September 27, 2010
Mary Jordan
Mary Jordan
stated on September 5, 2010 in a roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
Likens Obama's predicament to 1982, saying, "when Reagan just started out, (unemployment was at) exactly the same point. He was two years into his term. The unemployment was well over 10 percent, and it did come out of it."
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By Louis Jacobson • September 7, 2010
Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on August 18, 2010 in a radio interview:
"More than half of our unemployed Ohioans have been out of work for six months or more."
Mostly True
By Stephen Koff • September 2, 2010
Donna Brazile
Donna Brazile
stated on August 29, 2010 in a roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour":
"Forty-five percent of those who've been unemployed, they've been unemployed for six months or longer."
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By Louis Jacobson • August 31, 2010
Laura Tyson
Laura Tyson
stated on August 15, 2010 in an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour'':
"Unemployment for those with college educations is now 4.5 percent. Unemployment for those with more than a college education, below 4 percent."
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By Louis Jacobson • August 17, 2010
Ted Strickland
Ted Strickland
stated on July 17, 2010 in a news release:
"In 2009, the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council ranked Ohio 11th in the nation and 1st in the Midwest for overall business climate."
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By Mark Naymik • August 4, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on July 22, 2010 in 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
Ted Strickland
Ted Strickland
stated on July 6, 2010 in 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 in campaign materials.:
"My 7-step plan" creates 700,000 jobs in 7 years.
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By Aaron Sharockman • July 26, 2010
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 14, 2010 in 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
Ed Gillespie
Ed Gillespie
stated on July 11, 2010 in 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
Stuart Sternberg
Stuart Sternberg
stated on June 21, 2010 in a press statement:
The Tampa Bay Rays' "prices have been judged the most affordable in all of professional sports."
Mostly True
By Aaron Sharockman • June 24, 2010
Hillsborough Area Regional Transit
Hillsborough Area Regional Transit
stated on June 18, 2010 in a brochure :
The addition of a 1 percent sales tax would cost a typical household in Hillsborough County approximately $12 a month.
Mostly True
By Janet Zink • June 18, 2010
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