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National Republican Congressional Committee
stated on November 25, 2016 a TV ad :

Says "Morgan Carroll opposed requiring convicted sex offenders to register their online profiles, making it harder to track online sex offenders and child predators."

By Alan Gathright • November 1, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on October 25, 2016 a speech:

"The man who was in charge of the investigation of Hillary Clinton accepted essentially from Hillary Clinton $675,000 that went to his wife."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 26, 2016

David Holmes
stated on October 17, 2016 a Facebook post and video:

Says Gerald Daugherty advocated lowering the penalty for crimes like strangulation in domestic violence cases because "they just ‘throw more people into the’" jail "‘system."

By Rachel Rice • October 24, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on September 26, 2016 the presidential debate in Hempstead, N.Y.:

Says "no, you’re wrong," responding to the assertion that stop-and-frisk was ruled unconstitutional in New York.

By Lauren Carroll • September 28, 2016

Stop 57 campaign
stated on September 2, 2016 a campaign press release.:

"Brock Turner’s early release will be a regular occurrence if Prop. 57 passes."

By Chris Nichols • September 28, 2016

Tom Steyer
stated on September 14, 2016 a press release.:

"Since 1978, California has spent $5 billion to put 13 people to death."

By Chris Nichols • September 21, 2016

Lamar Smith
stated on July 19, 2016 remarks to the Texas delegation to the Republican National Convention:

"One third of all federal prisoners today are illegal immigrants."

By W. Gardner Selby • August 25, 2016

National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on August 2, 2016 a television ad:

"In Catherine Cortez Masto's last term as attorney general, Nevada murder went up 11 percent, robbery went up 28 percent, rape 51 percent. When Cortez Masto left office, Nevada ranked as America's third most dangerous state."

By Riley Snyder • August 10, 2016

David A. Clarke Jr.
stated on July 17, 2016 an interview:

Says Barack Obama "said black males are two times more likely to be shot by a law enforcement officer than white males" and "that is a lie" because "there is no data."

By Tom Kertscher • August 3, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on May 4, 2016 an interview with NBC News:

Germany "is crime-riddled right now" because of migration to Europe.

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 11, 2016

LGBT Progress
stated on March 23, 2016 a tweet:

North Carolina spent "almost as much as it spends on government rape crisis programs in a year" to convene a special session for HB2.

By Will Doran • April 1, 2016

Wisconsin Alliance for Reform
stated on March 8, 2016 a TV ad:

Says Judge JoAnne Kloppenburg agreed to use a technicality to give a convicted sex offender a new hearing because "he didn’t understand the charge."

By Tom Kertscher • March 23, 2016

Gary Cobb
stated on February 16, 2016 a video ad on his campaign website:

Travis County residents "trusted me to take on Tom DeLay — and we won."

By W. Gardner Selby • February 17, 2016

Rand Paul
stated on January 28, 2016 a Republican debate:

"A third of the budget for the city of Ferguson (Missouri) was being reaped by civil fines."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 29, 2016

Carly Fiorina
stated on December 17, 2015 a column posted on Medium:

"When we held recent economic dialogues with China, we agreed on over 100 different things — including wildlife trafficking and volcano research. None of these 100-plus points of agreement addressed cybersecurity."

By Louis Jacobson • January 7, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on November 30, 2015 a radio interview with Hugh Hewitt:

"Here’s the simple and undeniable fact: The overwhelming majority of violent criminals are Democrats."

By Louis Jacobson • December 1, 2015

Edward Flynn
stated on August 27, 2015 a forum:

In Milwaukee County, juveniles arrested for car theft "get sent immediately home, because under the point system in juvenile court" on holding suspects, "a stolen car gets zero points."

By Tom Kertscher • October 19, 2015

Bill O'Reilly
stated on October 7, 2015 a commentary:

From 2014 to 2015, Austin’s "murder rate is up a whopping 83 percent."

By Philip Jankowski, W. Gardner Selby • October 16, 2015

Bernie Sanders
stated on October 13, 2015 a Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas:

"We are imprisoning or giving jail sentences to young people who are smoking marijuana."

By Louis Jacobson • October 14, 2015

Gwen Moore
stated on August 26, 2015 comments to reporters:

Says Scott Walker "brags a lot about having an independent agency investigate police shootings. Of course, he didn’t fund it."

By Tom Kertscher • September 1, 2015

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