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Richard Cordray
stated on May 17, 2018 a tweet

"Ohio's (payday lending) laws are now the worst in the nation. Things have gotten so bad that it is legal to charge 594 percent interest on loans."

By Amy Sherman • June 8, 2018

Sherrod Brown
stated on May 18, 2018 a TV ad

"Jim Renacci has been a lobbyist even while in Congress" and "voted to make it easier for lobbyists to hold key government positions and harder to investigate conflicts of interest."

By Amy Sherman • May 31, 2018

Keith Faber
stated on May 11, 2018 a statement to the press

"Thanks to the strong charter school reforms put in place while I was Senate President" the online charter school ECOT "was caught and is out of business."

By Amy Sherman • May 17, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on May 5, 2018 a speech in Cleveland

A "catch and release" immigration policy "is a Democrat rule, Sherrod Brown, this is a Democrat rule."

By Amy Sherman • May 11, 2018

Jim Renacci
stated on April 25, 2018 a radio interview

"President Trump is still supported by almost 85 percent of the Republican Party in the state of Ohio, and that's from recent polling, and still has a 58 percent approval rating in Ohio."

By Amy Sherman • May 4, 2018

Dennis Kucinich
stated on April 19, 2018 a radio interview

Says of disclosing his $20,000 speech about Syria, "there was no hiding. I released it."

By Amy Sherman • April 26, 2018

Sherrod Brown
stated on April 9, 2018 a speech to the City Club of Cleveland

"Right now in Ohio 200,000 people are getting opioid treatment because they have insurance under the Affordable Care Act."

By Amy Sherman • April 20, 2018

Richard Cordray
stated on April 2, 2018 a campaign website

"Since 1999, firearm deaths in Ohio have risen 58 percent."

By Amy Sherman • April 12, 2018

Mike DeWine
stated on March 20, 2018 a TV ad

Says Mary Taylor has a work schedule that is "almost untraceable."

By Amy Sherman • April 3, 2018

Mike Gibbons
stated on February 20, 2018 an interview

"A lot" of Sen. Sherrod Brown’s policies "reflect that interest in Marxism" and a fondness for communism.

By Amy Sherman • March 27, 2018

Onward Ohio
stated on March 20, 2018 a TV ad

"In the Senate, (Mike) DeWine voted with Hillary Clinton to let illegal immigrants receive Social Security. And in Ohio, DeWine allowed illegal immigrants to receive driver's licenses."

By Amy Sherman • March 23, 2018

Dennis Kucinich
stated on January 29, 2018 on a campaign website

The default rate for college students has grown from 40 percent 10 years ago to about 50 percent today, and "perhaps as many as 800,000 young Ohioans are facing default on their student loans."

By Amy Sherman • March 20, 2018

Dennis Kucinich
stated on February 27, 2018 a speech

Says Richard Cordray directed an Ohio commission to "permit an armed group to have a rally on the statehouse grounds, even taking the extraordinary step of assuming personal responsibility for waiving an insurance requirement in the event of an incident."

By Amy Sherman • March 13, 2018

Mary Taylor
stated on January 29, 2018 a speech

Says Mike DeWine "flip-flopped on the gun issue and has earned an F from the NRA."

By Amy Sherman • March 6, 2018

Tim Ryan
stated on February 20, 2018 an interview on CNN

"Seventy to 80 percent of NRA members support a universal background check."

By Amy Sherman • February 27, 2018

JD Vance
stated on December 31, 2017 an interview on Face the Nation

Says "50 percent of venture capital goes to California. Most of the rest of it goes to New York and Massachusetts."

By Amy Sherman • February 20, 2018

Jim Renacci
stated on January 24, 2018 an interview on Fox Business Network

In 2005 or 2006 U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer "voted for the wall."

By Amy Sherman • February 13, 2018

Ohio Democratic Party
stated on January 4, 2018 a press release

Says Mike DeWine "interfered with and stifled" a sexual harassment investigation and then "eliminated the office that investigated harassment claims within the AG’s office."

By Amy Sherman • February 6, 2018

Richard Cordray
stated on December 14, 2017 a speech

On taxes, "if you go back and look 50 years ago, individuals paid about 7 percent of the total and corporations paid 5 percent. Fast forward 50 years: individuals still 7 percent, corporations (are) down to 2 percent."

By Amy Sherman • January 30, 2018

Jon Husted
stated on January 3, 2018 a tweet

"When we say ‘one vote matters,’ it’s not just a saying – it has proven true 141 times in #Ohio over the last five years."

By Amy Sherman • January 23, 2018

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