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Jerry Brown
stated on December 14, 2016 in a speech:

"California is growing a hell of a lot faster than Texas."

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By Chris Nichols • December 19, 2016

Bryce Reeves
stated on December 4, 2016 in a radio interview.:

"If you’re a single mom, and you’ve two kids in the city of Richmond, you can almost make $50,000 a year on the public dole."

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By Sean Gorman • December 19, 2016

Jeanne Ives
stated on December 1, 2016 in a floor speech:

"Germany managed to increase its use of renewables and its output of carbon dioxide at the same time -- because it resorted to cheap coal to keep the lights on at a price its people could afford."

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By Kevin Hoffman • December 16, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on December 13, 2016 in a speech:

America’s federal business tax rate is the highest "in the world."

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By Tom Kertscher • December 15, 2016

Antonio Villaraigosa
stated on December 8, 2016 in an op-ed :

"California is once again the sixth-largest economy in the world. If you add the GDP’s of Washington and Oregon, California would surpass the United Kingdom to become the fifth-largest economy in the world."

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By Chris Nichols • December 15, 2016

Food & Water Watch
stated on December 10, 2016 in a campaign letter:

Says Rex Tillerson "sued to keep a fracking project out of his backyard."

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By Linda Qiu • December 14, 2016

Ron Johnson
stated on October 14, 2016 in a debate:

Under Obamacare, "premiums have doubled and tripled" in Wisconsin.

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By Eric Litke • December 13, 2016

Bloggers
stated on December 1, 2016 in an MRCTV post:

"More than two-thirds of the aliens the Obama administration has brought to the United States under the president's Central American Minors program weren’t actually minors at all."

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By Miriam Valverde • December 7, 2016

Mike Pence
stated on December 4, 2016 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

Says Donald Trump "won more counties than any candidate on our side since Ronald Reagan."

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By Louis Jacobson • December 4, 2016

Christine Radogno
stated on November 14, 2016 in a press conference:

We (in Illinois) have the fifth-highest tax burden in the country.

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By Madeleine Doubek • December 2, 2016

Dan Patrick
stated on November 29, 2016 in a press release:

"Texans pay the sixth-highest property tax in the nation."

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By W. Gardner Selby • December 1, 2016

Bill de Blasio
stated on November 18, 2016 in a WNYC interview:

On Donald Trump’s plan to cut federal funding to sanctuary cities, "because of a decision by the Supreme Court, no president's in a position to cut off funding across the board. It has to be very specific to the matter at hand."

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By Miriam Valverde • December 1, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on November 27, 2016 in an interview on ABC's This Week:

"In 2015 roughly 10,000 political arrests occurred in Cuba. That is five times as many as occurred in 2010, when there were only about 2,000."

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By Amy Sherman • November 29, 2016

Lena Taylor
stated on October 13, 2016 in an opinion column:

"Slavery is still allowable under Wisconsin law as long as it’s a punishment for a crime."

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By Tom Kertscher • November 25, 2016

Bill Nelson
stated on November 16, 2016 in a Senate floor speech:

Says Donald Trump said he intends "to open up additional areas off the coast to oil drilling" during the campaign.

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By Amy Sherman • November 22, 2016

Carl Heastie
stated on October 24, 2016 in an article from WBFO:

Since the salary for state lawmakers was raised to $79,500, "that purchasing power has now been reduced to $53,000."

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By Dan Clark • November 18, 2016

Reince Priebus
stated on November 14, 2016 in an MSNBC interview:

"President-elect Trump's immigration policies are very similar to policies that are sitting right in the Senate and the House today to temporarily suspend immigration from countries that harbor terrorism, to temporarily suspend immigration from Syria until we get better vetting."

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By Miriam Valverde • November 18, 2016

Paul Ryan
stated on November 9, 2016 in a news conference:

Obamacare "is not a popular law."

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By Tom Kertscher • November 17, 2016

Donna Howard
stated on September 19, 2016 in a commentary in the Austin American-Statesman:

"Thirty-one percent of school districts are still receiving less funding per pupil than they did prior to the dramatic budget cuts of 2011."

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By W. Gardner Selby • November 16, 2016

Gavin Newsom
stated on November 9, 2016 in a press conference.:

California has seen a "56 percent decline in the gun murder rate" since the 1990s.

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By Chris Nichols • November 16, 2016

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