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Patrick Morrisey
Patrick Morrisey
stated on January 6, 2019 in a Facebook post:
Obamacare premiums "have gone up 160 percent in West Virginia in 4 yrs."
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By Garrett Spikes, Jack Tolman • February 7, 2019
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg
stated on January 21, 2019 in a speech:
"All of this work helped us increase graduation rates by 42 percent and substantially reduce the racial achievement gap."
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By Jill Terreri Ramos • February 7, 2019
Civitas Institute
Civitas Institute
stated on January 28, 2019 in a tweet:
"There are almost 60,000 North Carolina children on waiting lists to access a school that works best for them."
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By Bill McCarthy • February 5, 2019
Shelley Moore Capito
Shelley Moore Capito
stated on January 3, 2019 in an op-ed:
"Our economy is growing at its fastest pace in nearly four years. Unemployment is at an all-time low."
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By Erica Anderson, Mylana Chico • February 4, 2019
Wisconsin Republican Legislative leaders
Wisconsin Republican Legislative leaders
stated on January 30, 2019 in news release:
"Not a dollar would be paid out until jobs in the Foxconn development area were created."
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By D.L. Davis • February 1, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on January 29, 2019 in a tweet:
"The top 0.1 percent ... own about the same wealth as 90 percent of America."  
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By Jon Greenberg • January 31, 2019
Howard Schultz
Howard Schultz
stated on January 27, 2019 in an interview on CBS:
"Over 40 percent of the American people don't have $400 in the bank."
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By Tom Kertscher • January 29, 2019
Joe Manchin
Joe Manchin
stated on January 8, 2019 in an interview on Bloomberg television:
"President Trump has the strongest support percentage-wise in our state than any other state in the nation. He won West Virginia by almost 43 percentage points and he's been carrying close to 60 percent approval."
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By Jensen Mills, Stephanie Alvaro • January 28, 2019
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on January 9, 2019 in a TV interview.:
"We took a deal to the president just last February, less than a year ago -- $25 billion over 10 years in border security done the right way - and the president blew up the deal."
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By Warren Fiske • January 15, 2019
Jim Justice
Jim Justice
stated on November 9, 2018 in a tweet:
"As of September 2018, there are 6,683 WV children in foster care — 1,415 of whom are legally eligible for adoption."
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By Matt Minard • January 10, 2019
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on January 2, 2019 in a tweet:
"Wisconsin lost over 600 farms last year & our farmers can't afford the #TrumpShutdown."
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By D.L. Davis • January 9, 2019
Paul Vallas
Paul Vallas
stated on December 31, 2018 in a radio interview:
"I took over the school district when it had a $1 billion structural deficit and left them with $1 billion in cash and 70,000 more students than they have today."
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By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • January 6, 2019
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on December 17, 2018 in a Facebook post:
"Hillary on child aliens in 2014: Send them back."
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By Miriam Valverde • January 2, 2019
Dallas Woodhouse
Dallas Woodhouse
stated on December 8, 2018 in a tweet:
Says no elections protest was filed, McCready conceded and "every" county board certified its results from the Mark Harris, Dan McCready race.
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By Paul Specht • December 21, 2018
Jerry Brown
Jerry Brown
stated on December 11, 2018 in an NPR interview:
California’s budget surplus is about "$30 billion"
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By Chris Nichols • December 18, 2018
Carl Heastie
Carl Heastie
stated on November 30, 2018 in a public hearing:
"Under any objective measure, our static compensation has failed to keep pace with economic realities."
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By Jill Terreri Ramos • December 14, 2018
Jim Justice
Jim Justice
stated on September 19, 2018 in 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 in 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 in 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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By Tom Kertscher • December 13, 2018
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on December 9, 2018 in 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
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