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Centers for Disease Control
Centers for Disease Control
stated on October 22, 2015 map
Georgia has the highest flu activity in the country.
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By Nancy Badertscher • October 26, 2015
Elton John
Elton John
stated on October 13, 2015 CNN
HIV/AIDS is "dramatically on the rise in the U.S. South."
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By Nancy Badertscher • October 19, 2015
Bee Moorhead
Bee Moorhead
stated on September 29, 2015 an oped article in the Austin American-Statesman
Texas has "outstripped the national poverty rate" since "at least 1959."
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By W. Gardner Selby • October 12, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on August 6, 2015 a debate
"The rate in which people are working (in Wisconsin) is almost five points higher than it is nationally."
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By James B. Nelson • August 21, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on July 26, 2015 a tweet
Wisconsin's pension system is the "only one fully funded in the country."
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August 14, 2015
Mark Pocan
Mark Pocan
stated on June 26, 2015 a statement
"In a majority of states, you can now marry freely, but can still be fired for who you love."
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By Sarah Hauer • July 9, 2015
Donna Howard
Donna Howard
stated on June 25, 2015 a press release
Texas has "the nation's highest rate and highest number of uninsured."
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By W. Gardner Selby • July 1, 2015
Eugene Robinson
Eugene Robinson
stated on June 21, 2015 comments on NBC's "Meet the Press"
The Confederate battle flag in South Carolina was first flown at the statehouse in 1961. "It was flown as a symbol of massive resistance to racial desegregation."
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By Anna Bruzgulis • June 22, 2015
James Clyburn
James Clyburn
stated on June 21, 2015 comments on NBC's "Meet the Press"
The original compromise for the Confederate battle flag in South Carolina "was to put it on the back side of the statehouse, out of public view so it would not have any appearance of sovereignty."
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By Jon Greenberg • June 21, 2015
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 4, 2015 his speech declaring his candidacy for president
"In the last seven years of my tenure, Texas created 1.5 million new jobs. As a matter of fact, without Texas, America would have lost 400,000 jobs."
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By W. Gardner Selby • June 8, 2015
Rose Mary Grant
Rose Mary Grant
stated on March 29, 2015 a Providence Journal commentary.
Rhode Island "charter schools are nationally recognized as outperforming their counterparts across the country."
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By Mark Reynolds • April 30, 2015
Gina Raimondo
Gina Raimondo
stated on March 13, 2015 a television interview
"Rhode Island has the second highest per enrollee (Medicaid) cost of any state in the country, which is 60 percent higher than the national average."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 29, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on February 26, 2015 an interview
More than any Republican governor in the 2014 elections, "I took a higher percentage of the Republican vote"and "yet I also carried independents by 12 points."  
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March 4, 2015
Greta Van Susteren
Greta Van Susteren
stated on November 9, 2014 comments on ABC's "This Week"
New Jersey has had "seven credit downgrades" since Chris Christie became governor.
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By Katie Sanders • November 9, 2014
Nathan Deal
Nathan Deal
stated on October 7, 2014 debate
Jason Carter never passed a bill in his tenure in the state Senate.  
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By April Hunt, Nancy Badertscher • October 24, 2014
Greater Wisconsin Committee
Greater Wisconsin Committee
stated on August 28, 2014 a TV ad
"Scott Walker cut school funding more per student than any governor in America."
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By Dave Umhoefer • September 7, 2014
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on August 20, 2014 a tweet.
Pinnacle Overlook in Southwest Virginia is "closer to eight other state capitals than to Richmond."  
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By Nancy Madsen, Sean Gorman • September 1, 2014
Fresh Start PA
Fresh Start PA
stated on July 15, 2014 a campaign ad
Under Gov. Tom Corbett, "Pennsylvania ranks 49th in job creation."
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By Louis Jacobson • July 22, 2014
Don Balfour
Don Balfour
stated on April 11, 2014 a flier
"When you get a commercial pilot’s license, you learn to communicate in English no matter where you are in the world."
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By Eric Stirgus • April 22, 2014
Linda Finn
Linda Finn
stated on March 18, 2014 a speech during a rally at the Rhode Island state house
"By a two-to-one margin, Rhode Islanders want to ban assault weapons and we have a very small percentage of gun owners in this state, less than 13 percent."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 6, 2014
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