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Restore Our Future
stated on February 15, 2012 a television ad:

Newt Gingrich "co-sponsored a bill with Nancy Pelosi that would have given $60 million a year to a U.N. program supporting China’s brutal one-child policy."

By Eric Stirgus • February 15, 2012

Judy Manning
stated on January 4, 2012 an interview:

"When [Mitt Romney] was the governor of Massachusetts, he performed 100 — and I’m not sure this number is right, but my mind says it’s about 180 gay marriages."

By Eric Stirgus • January 18, 2012

Vincent Fort
stated on October 29, 2011 a newspaper column:

"If [Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed] wants to be like Bull Connor, then so be it."

By Eric Stirgus • November 8, 2011

Newt Gingrich
stated on October 11, 2011 a Republican presidential debate:

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was right that President Barack Obama’s health care bill created what "would, in effect, be death panels."

By Willoughby Mariano • October 28, 2011

Sovereign Citizens United
stated on August 12, 2011 a web post:

U.S. Reps. Hank Johnson, John Lewis and other members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus are "socialists who are openly serving in the U.S. Congress."

By Eric Stirgus • September 2, 2011

Newt Gingrich
stated on July 20, 2011 a Twitter post:

"We spend less on defense today as % of GDP than at any time since Pearl Harbor."

By M.B. Pell • August 29, 2011

Beverly Hall
stated on August 10, 2011 a commentary published in Education Week:

The results of Atlanta Public School’s 2010 and 2011 CRCT tests "have not been questioned."

By Willoughby Mariano • August 19, 2011

Federal Transit Administration
stated on July 13, 2011 a press release:

The Atlanta streetcar is expected to create 930 jobs during construction, totaling more than 5,600 jobs over the next 20 years.

By Willoughby Mariano • July 25, 2011

Shirley Franklin
stated on June 23, 2011 a blog post:

Former Atlanta Public Schools Superintendent Beverly Hall left the school district "significantly better than she found it."

By Willoughby Mariano • July 11, 2011

Herman Cain
stated on May 24, 2011 an interview on the Glenn Beck Program radio show:

"I did not say that I would not have them [Muslims] in my Cabinet."

By Willoughby Mariano • June 8, 2011

Janet Napolitano
stated on May 7, 2011 Atlanta Press Club speech:

"Very, very, very few people get a pat-down" when they go through airport security.

By Willoughby Mariano • May 17, 2011

Herman Cain
stated on March 15, 2011 a talk at a conservative think tank:

Said Planned Parenthood’s early objective was to "help kill black babies before they came into the world."

By Willoughby Mariano • April 8, 2011

Ray McBerry
stated on December 15, 2010 a radio interview:

"You’ll find blacks in almost every regiment throughout the South who fought right alongside white Southerners," during the Civil War.

By Willoughby Mariano • January 7, 2011

The Walking Dead
stated on December 5, 2010 the TV show's season finale:

In the case of a catastrophic event, the Atlanta-area offices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will self-destruct.

By Willoughby Mariano • December 10, 2010

Republican state senators
stated on November 5, 2010 Statements to reporters:

Said they reached a "power-sharing agreement" with Republican Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle

By Jim Tharpe • November 17, 2010

Roy Barnes and Nathan Deal
stated on October 28, 2010 statements to the press:

Vows to keep Georgia's race for governor "civil" and focused on the "positive."

By Eric Stirgus, Jim Tharpe • October 29, 2010

Jill Chambers
stated on September 27, 2010 a recorded telephone message:

Says campaign contributions to her rival for a state House seat was money intended for schoolchildren.

By Willoughby Mariano • October 8, 2010

Republican Governors Association
stated on September 9, 2010 a website:

Candidate for governor Roy Barnes has been "fighting hard" to let illegal immigrants vote.

By Willoughby Mariano • September 24, 2010

Preston Smith
stated on July 28, 2010 a news release:

"We have my opponent Sam Olens to thank for [the Arizona immigration ruling] since he was on the team that got Clinton elected."

By Eric Stirgus • August 2, 2010

Chris Carpenter
stated on July 24, 2010 radio news story:

"Nobody’s invited us" to the Obama events in Atlanta.

By Jim Tharpe • July 30, 2010

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