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Paul Workman
Paul Workman
stated on June 15, 2017 in an oped commentary in the Austin American-Statesman:
Says it’s documented that City of Austin fees for building an apartment complex are nearly 10 times what Dallas levies.
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By Shonda Novak, W. Gardner Selby • July 13, 2017
Travis Allen
Travis Allen
stated on June 22, 2017 in a campaign video:
California taxes are "among the highest in the nation."
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By Chris Nichols • July 11, 2017
Mark Pocan
Mark Pocan
stated on June 8, 2017 in a radio interview:
Says Scott Walker recently said "he got his bald spot from hitting his head on a cabinet, and it's not a joke, he actually said that his bald spot came because he hit his head on a cabinet."
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By D.L. Davis • July 3, 2017
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 27, 2017 in a White House briefing:
France "wouldn’t buy Texas beef for some reason, yet 76 percent of their energy comes from nuclear power."
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By W. Gardner Selby • June 30, 2017
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on June 26, 2017 in an op-ed in the New York Times:
"We are $20 trillion in debt. The Congressional Budget Office projects an additional $129 trillion of accumulated deficits over the next 30 years."
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By Louis Jacobson • June 30, 2017
Shawn Thierry
Shawn Thierry
stated on June 7, 2017 in a press release:
"Texas mothers are dying during childbirth at the highest rates in the nation."
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By W. Gardner Selby • June 29, 2017
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on June 25, 2017 in an interview on "Meet the Press":
"When you throw 23 million people off of health insurance -- people with cancer, people with heart disease, people with diabetes -- thousands of people will die. … This is study after study making this point."
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By Louis Jacobson • June 27, 2017
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 22, 2017 in a Facebook post:
The Senate bill "hands enormous tax cuts to the rich and to the drug and insurance industries, paid for by cutting health care for everybody else."
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By John Kruzel • June 26, 2017
Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick
stated on June 8, 2017 in an oped commentary in newspapers including the San Antonio Express-News:
"When colleges and universities are added, education spending is the biggest item in the state budget — about 52 percent of all state dollars."
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By W. Gardner Selby • June 23, 2017
Antonio Villaraigosa
Antonio Villaraigosa
stated on June 6, 2017 in a speech:
Although California has "the sixth largest economy in the world, we also have one of the highest poverty rates" in the nation.
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By Chris Nichols • June 22, 2017
Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter
stated on June 8, 2017 in in a tweet:
The Trump administration has granted amnesty to "nearly 100,000 'Dreamers' "
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By Miriam Valverde • June 21, 2017
Karl Racine
Karl Racine
stated on June 12, 2017 in a press conference:
"The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, whose government has important business and policy before the president of the United States, has already spent hundreds of thousands of dollars at the Trump International Hotel."
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By Smitha Rajan • June 19, 2017
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on June 2, 2017 in a tweet:
"Americans are 25x more likely to be shot & killed than others in developed countries."
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By Chris Nichols • June 14, 2017
Ivanka Trump
Ivanka Trump
stated on June 12, 2017 in an interview on "Fox & Friends":
"While (women) represent 47 percent of the overall work force, we only make up 23 percent of STEM-related occupations."
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By Louis Jacobson • June 12, 2017
Kathy Hochul
Kathy Hochul
stated on May 25, 2017 in a speech at City & State’s State of NY Women forum:
"We have pay equity. When you think about that wage gap, we all know it's 78 cents to the dollar. Well, in New York state it's 90 cents to the dollar."
Mostly True
By Dan Clark • June 9, 2017
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on May 18, 2017 in a radio interview:
"Property taxes are lower right now than they were" in December 2010 on a median-valued home in Wisconsin.  
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By Tom Kertscher • June 7, 2017
Jon Ossoff
Jon Ossoff
stated on June 6, 2017 in a debate:
"In 2012, you were discussing how you led the effort to defund breast cancer screenings at Planned Parenthood."
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By John Kruzel • June 7, 2017
Al Gore
Al Gore
stated on June 4, 2017 in an interview on Fox News Sunday:
"70 percent of Florida is in drought today."
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By Amy Sherman • June 5, 2017
Kevin de León
Kevin de León
stated on May 31, 2017 in a speech:
Clean energy employs "more than half a million Californians. That’s nearly ten times more the number of coal mining jobs that exist in the entire nation."
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By Chris Nichols • June 2, 2017
Bill Peduto
Bill Peduto
stated on June 1, 2017 in in a tweet:
"Fact: Hillary Clinton received 80% of the vote in Pittsburgh."
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By Sarah Anne Hughes • June 2, 2017
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