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Adam Putnam
Adam Putnam
stated on August 30, 2017 a tweet
San Francisco and Takoma Park, Md., are "allowing illegals to vote."
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By Miriam Valverde • September 15, 2017
William Lacy Clay
William Lacy Clay
stated on August 18, 2017 an article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Calling for the assassination of the president is a federal crime."
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By Emily Sanderson, Tessa Weinberg • September 15, 2017
Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on August 10, 2017 a Facebook post
Says "the latest polls show us tied neck-and-neck" with Sen. Ted Cruz.
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By W. Gardner Selby • September 14, 2017
John Chiang
John Chiang
stated on August 13, 2017 a Facebook live video
"Since I’ve been the state treasurer, we’ve increased the building, construction of affordable housing by 80 percent."
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By Chris Nichols • September 13, 2017
Andy Gronik
Andy Gronik
stated on September 5, 2017 an op-ed in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Wisconsin is "guaranteeing Foxconn almost $3 billion, but Foxconn is not contractually guaranteeing how many full-time employees it will hire, for how long and at what pay."
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September 12, 2017
Karen Lewis
Karen Lewis
stated on September 4, 2017 a blog post
The new Illinois school funding formula "created a tax shelter for the wealthy and a voucher program…"
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By Matt Dietrich • September 12, 2017
Eric Greitens
Eric Greitens
stated on August 23, 2017 a Facebook live conversation
"Just in our first six months in office, Missouri moved up the rankings nine places ... of the best states to do business."
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By Carolina Vargas, Emma Diltz • September 10, 2017
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on September 3, 2017 a CNN interview
"We have over a million (legal immigrants) a year, more than at any time in the history of this country. We have the largest percentage of immigrants, almost tied now with the historical high as a percentage of immigrants living in this country."
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By Manuela Tobias • September 6, 2017
Sid Miller
Sid Miller
stated on August 23, 2017 an interview on Spectrum Cable's "Capital Tonight"
Says a poll showed 70 percent to 75 percent of people want to see Confederate statues "remain up and not taken down."
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By W. Gardner Selby • September 6, 2017
Jeff Denham
Jeff Denham
stated on September 5, 2017 an interview on NPR
Says Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton "all voted for" a border wall as senators.
Half-True
By Chris Nichols • September 6, 2017
Sean Duffy
Sean Duffy
stated on July 20, 2017 a TV interview
"We're flying 1987 planes with 1987 technology."
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By Alan Hovorka • September 6, 2017
Brian Kemp
Brian Kemp
stated on August 23, 2017 a campaign email
"Our conservative Georgia values are under attack" ... (People) are "calling for the removal of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson statues."
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By Jon Greenberg • August 30, 2017
Marco Rubio's heckler
Marco Rubio's heckler
stated on August 22, 2017 during Sen. Marco Rubio's speech to Seminole County GOP
Says Marco Rubio took "three quarters of a million dollars from fossil fuel executives" during the 2016 Senate election.
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By Amy Sherman • August 29, 2017
Steve Adler
Steve Adler
stated on July 26, 2017 a tweet
"Austin is the safest big city in Texas."
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By W. Gardner Selby • August 24, 2017
Rick Baker
Rick Baker
stated on July 28, 2017 a Facebook post
Says he "made St. Petersburg the state's best maintained large sewer system in 2007."
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By Allison Graves • August 18, 2017
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on July 18, 2017 an article on LinkedIn
"70 million Americans have a criminal record — that’s one in three adults."
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By Dan Clark • August 18, 2017
Jennifer Shilling
Jennifer Shilling
stated on August 14, 2017 a press release
"Foxconn tax break could exceed $1 million per job."  
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August 16, 2017
One Wisconsin Now
One Wisconsin Now
stated on August 7, 2017 a tweet
Wisconsin's $3 billion incentive offer to Foxconn is "the largest gift ever by a state to a foreign company."
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August 15, 2017
Seamless Florida
Seamless Florida
stated on August 7, 2017 a television ad
"When Rick Baker heard (racist remarks from another mayoral candidate), he went after Congemi. Rick Kriseman he just looked away. Tolerating bigotry in silence is no virtue; taking it on is."
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By Allison Graves • August 15, 2017
Rahm Emanuel
Rahm Emanuel
stated on July 31, 2017 a press conference
"Every one of the financial bad management practices that I inherited, every one of them, have either been eliminated or cut significantly."
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By Matt Dietrich • August 14, 2017
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