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Bernie Sanders
stated on August 12, 2015 web site

"African Americans are twice as likely to be arrested and almost four times as likely to experience the use of force during encounters with the police."

By Mark Reynolds • August 30, 2015

Rand Paul
stated on August 6, 2015 a Republican presidential debate in Cleveland

"The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over. John Adams said it was the spark that led to our war for independence."

By Louis Jacobson • August 7, 2015

Tim Lee
stated on June 30, 2015 mass email

Cobb County businesses have already been awarded contracts worth $250 million on construction of a new Braves stadium.

By Nancy Badertscher • July 14, 2015

Hillary Clinton
stated on June 4, 2015 a speech

"Former Gov. Rick Perry signed a law that a federal court said was actually written with the purpose of discriminating against minority voters."

By Keely Herring, Linda Qiu • June 9, 2015

Dino Baccari
stated on April 16, 2015 testimony before the Senate Committee on Health & Human Services.

A Penn State University study found that "electronic cigarettes . . . are far less addictive than cigarettes."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 3, 2015

Edward Flynn
stated on April 14, 2015 a news conference

In Wisconsin, a "second arrest for carrying pot is a felony," but a second or subsequent arrest "for carrying a gun illegally is a misdemeanor."

April 15, 2015

Tom Cotton
stated on March 9, 2015 a letter to Iranian leaders

If President Barack Obama strikes a nuclear deal with Iran, "the next president could revoke such an executive agreement with the stroke of a pen and future Congresses could modify the terms of the agreement at any time."

By Louis Jacobson • March 11, 2015

Georgia Craft Brewers Guild
stated on March 9, 2015 a statement

Georgia is one of only five states where breweries can’t sell you a pint of beer to drink on premise or sell you a six-pack to go.

By Nancy Badertscher • March 11, 2015

Ron Hayduk
stated on January 1, 2015 a newspaper commentary

"The right to vote in this country has never been intrinsically tied to citizenship."

By Katie Mulvaney • January 25, 2015

Mike Martinez
stated on November 12, 2014 a press conference

Austin mayoral candidate "Steve Adler admitted his law firm worked with Koch Industries for nearly a decade."

By W. Gardner Selby • November 14, 2014

Wendy Davis
stated on September 17, 2014 a TV ad

"Weeks after accepting a quarter-million-dollar campaign contribution" from a hospital board chairman, Greg Abbott went to court against victims of a drug-taking neurosurgeon.

By W. Gardner Selby • October 15, 2014

Jeanne Shaheen
stated on October 7, 2014 an ad

"In Massachusetts, Scott Brown pushed for a law to force women considering abortion -- force them -- to look at color photographs of developing fetuses."

By Jonathan Van Fleet • October 10, 2014

Facebook posts
stated on August 25, 2014 a meme on social media

Police in the United States are allowed to use tear gas even though it "has been classified as a chemical weapon and banned in international conflict since 1993."

By Louis Jacobson • August 26, 2014

Wendy Davis
stated on August 7, 2014 a TV ad

Says that, as a Supreme Court justice, Greg Abbott found that a company whose vacuum cleaners were sold door to door "had no responsibility" in the hiring of a salesman who raped a customer.

By W. Gardner Selby • August 8, 2014

Wendy Davis
stated on June 27, 2014 her speech to the Texas Democratic Party state convention

Says Greg Abbott "has lost" in court "four times in just the past few days."

By W. Gardner Selby • July 6, 2014

Florida Democratic Party
stated on June 17, 2014 a TV ad

When Rick Scott "was deposed in lawsuits about his company, he took the Fifth 75 times."

By Amy Sherman • June 17, 2014

Marco Rubio
stated on April 25, 2014 a speech to the NRA

"No other country has a constitutional right" like the Second Amendment.

By Amy Sherman • April 29, 2014

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."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 6, 2014

Americans for Prosperity Georgia chapter
stated on February 20, 2014 a press conference

"Georgia’s civil forfeiture laws are among the worst in the country and the very worst in the South."

By Eric Stirgus • March 3, 2014

Ken Paxton
stated on January 24, 2014 a radio interview

Barry Smitherman "doesn’t have enough legal experience to apply for most of the jobs at the attorney general’s office."

By Sue Owen • February 26, 2014

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