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Dan Patrick
stated on June 8, 2017 an oped commentary in newspapers including the San Antonio Express-News

"When colleges and universities are added, education spending is the biggest item in the state budget — about 52 percent of all state dollars."

By W. Gardner Selby • June 23, 2017

Scott Walker
stated on May 18, 2017 a radio interview

"Property taxes are lower right now than they were" in December 2010 on a median-valued home in Wisconsin.

June 7, 2017

Wisconsin Freedom Alliance
stated on April 25, 2017 a radio ad

Wisconsin politicians get daily expense payments "even if they don’t spend a dime on meals, or lodging or travel," and "no receipts are required for them to get paid."

By Dave Umhoefer • May 3, 2017

John Cornyn
stated on March 9, 2017 a U.S. Senate floor speech

Texas "spent close to a third of its budget on Medicaid last year, a third of all state spending."

By W. Gardner Selby • March 28, 2017

Kip Kendrick
stated on January 20, 2017 an interview on KMIZ’s “This Week”

"Corporate entities are paying a lot less taxes this year than they have in the past. Part of that is from a loophole in a bill that was passed in 2015."

By Jen Para • March 2, 2017

Kathleen Vinehout
stated on February 20, 2017 an interview

Says Scott Walker is proposing to add 485 employees "in the category of supervisor and management" to his Department of Administration.

March 1, 2017

Duane Hall
stated on December 9, 2016 a speech to the N.C. Courts Commission

North Carolina could save "literally tens of millions of dollars" if it stopped prosecuting 16-year-olds as adults.

By Will Doran • January 27, 2017

Bill de Blasio
stated on November 18, 2016 a WNYC interview

On Donald Trump’s plan to cut federal funding to sanctuary cities, "because of a decision by the Supreme Court, no president's in a position to cut off funding across the board. It has to be very specific to the matter at hand."

By Miriam Valverde • December 1, 2016

Donna Howard
stated on September 19, 2016 a commentary in the Austin American-Statesman

"Thirty-one percent of school districts are still receiving less funding per pupil than they did prior to the dramatic budget cuts of 2011."

By W. Gardner Selby • November 16, 2016

Mike Pence
stated on July 20, 2016 a speech at the Republican convention

"We in Indiana have . . . the highest credit rating in the nation."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 21, 2016

Carlos Lopez-Cantera
stated on April 30, 2016 in an interview with Fox 13

"I've cut the budget of the (lieutenant governor’s) office by more than half."

By Amy Sherman • June 6, 2016

Carlos Lopez-Cantera
stated on April 30, 2016 an interview on Fox 13

"I'm also the only lieutenant governor to not take a security detail."

By Amy Sherman • May 26, 2016

Scott Walker
stated on May 16, 2016 an interview

"The University of Wisconsin System budget is the biggest it has ever been."

May 25, 2016

Roy Cooper
stated on March 8, 2016 his education plan

"North Carolina spends $855 less per student than it did before the Great Recession, and we have one of the lowest per pupil spending levels in the nation."

By Will Doran • March 21, 2016

Don Gaetz
stated on March 11, 2016 Florida Senate floor debate

"We were able to provide $428 million worth of property tax relief."

By Joshua Gillin • March 17, 2016

Janet Adkins
stated on February 9, 2016 a House Appropriations Committee meeting

"There is great disparity, tremendous disparity, in the (capital) funding on a per-student basis between our traditional public schools and our charter public schools."

By Joshua Gillin • February 22, 2016

John Kasich
stated on February 13, 2016 the Republican debate in Charleston, S.C.

"When Jeb (Bush) was governor, his first four years as governor, his Medicaid program grew twice as fast as mine."

By Jon Greenberg • February 15, 2016

Rick Scott
stated on January 20, 2016 a comment to a Tampa Bay Times reporter

"We've cut taxes 50 times and look what has happened to our revenues. They've grown."

By Joshua Gillin • February 4, 2016

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

December 3, 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."

By Chris Nichols • November 24, 2015

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