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Jim Justice
Jim Justice
stated on September 19, 2018 a tweet
"WV's tourism industry grew at a rate 30% above the national rate in 2017. This increase reversed a four-year decline in which travel-generated spending fell more than $600 million."
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By Matt Minard • December 14, 2018
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on December 12, 2018 a blog post
"Migrants DEMAND $50,000 each to go home, or else …"
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By Miriam Valverde • December 13, 2018
Tony Evers
Tony Evers
stated on December 9, 2018 an interview
"At least three or four of the pieces that are in" in the Republican lame-duck legislation, Scott Walker "has vetoed previously."  
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December 13, 2018
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on December 9, 2018 a Facebook post
"Border Patrol agents were caught on film destroying supplies left to help migrants"
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By Miriam Valverde • December 11, 2018
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on December 9, 2018 a headline
"Principal bans candy canes."
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By Amy Sherman • December 11, 2018
Jim Justice
Jim Justice
stated on November 5, 2018 a tweet
"Hunters contribute more than $500 million" to West Virginia.
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By Douglas Soule • December 10, 2018
Miro Weinberger
Miro Weinberger
stated on December 7, 2018 Speech on carbon pricing.
"As a city, we currently use about 4 percent less electricity today than we used in 1989."
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By Elizabeth Gribkoff • December 8, 2018
Roman Prezioso
Roman Prezioso
stated on November 29, 2018 a panel discussion at West Virginia University
"Fifty percent of our (West Virginia) budget was for lower education."
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By Lizzie Perry, Shannon MacNeil • December 6, 2018
Amy Klobuchar
Amy Klobuchar
stated on December 3, 2018 a tweet
"After a decade of progress, the rate of uninsured children is now rising."  
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By Jon Greenberg • December 5, 2018
Terry McAuliffe
Terry McAuliffe
stated on November 28, 2018 a radio interview.
During his governorship: "Every single city and county in Virginia, their unemployment dropped, and in most of the rural communities, it dropped more than 50 percent."  
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By Warren Fiske • December 4, 2018
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on November 29, 2018 a press conference at the border
There was "an estimated $5.3 million of economic loss just for a few hours of shutting down the border. You’re talking about millions and millions of dollars — billions of dollars — of economic consequence, if we continue with this rhetoric around shutting down the border without considering what that means."
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By Chris Nichols • December 3, 2018
Joe Manchin
Joe Manchin
stated on October 14, 2018 an op-ed
The United States imports "50 percent of at least 50 mineral commodities each year, including 100 percent of 21 of them."
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By Mary Alice Truitt • December 3, 2018
Sarah Huckabee Sanders
Sarah Huckabee Sanders
stated on November 27, 2018 a press briefing
"Tear gas was used on average once a month during the Obama administration for very similar circumstances."
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By Miriam Valverde • November 28, 2018
Gordon Hintz
Gordon Hintz
stated on November 18, 2018 a TV interview
"One year ago, (Republicans) would not fill seats vacated for people who went to the administration because of the cost of those elections. Now, they’re talking about changing the rules to add additional elections that will cost millions of dollars of taxpayer expense."
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By D.L. Davis • November 28, 2018
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on November 8, 2018 a TV interview
"We have lost over $1 billion in not taking the Medicaid expansion money, only to insure fewer people."
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By Eric Litke • November 20, 2018
Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on November 12, 2018 a television interview
"Studies even show that when women go to Congress they get more things done - more bipartisan effort, more bills passed."
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By Jill Terreri Ramos • November 16, 2018
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on November 8, 2018 a tweet
"#Broward elections department has a history of violating the law."
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By Amy Sherman • November 12, 2018
Scott Galloway
Scott Galloway
stated on November 7, 2018 a tweet
"The number of people who just got their voting rights restored in Florida is greater than the populations of Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Delaware, Rhode Island, Montana, Maine and New Hampshire."
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By Amy Sherman • November 8, 2018
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on November 6, 2018 a post on Facebook
Says Clint Eastwood said "one day we will realize that the Barack Obama presidency was the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on the American people." ​
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November 7, 2018
West Virginia Republican Party
West Virginia Republican Party
stated on November 3, 2018 a tweet
"What did Joe Manchin say about civility? Today, he said he wanted to ‘beat the living crap out of’ his Republican opponent during their debate."
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By Adrianne Uphold • November 5, 2018
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