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Sam Adams
Sam Adams
stated on December 1, 2010 a city council meeting:
Four out of 10 homicides are committed by gun in this city.
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By Janie Har • December 23, 2010
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on October 7, 2010 a news release:
In Wisconsin, "deaths from domestic violence are at the highest in 10 years."
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By Tom Kertscher • December 2, 2010
Crime Victims United of Oregon
Crime Victims United of Oregon
stated on November 12, 2010 a website:
Says Oregon ranks 30th in the nation with regard to its incarceration rate.
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By Ian K. Kullgren • November 19, 2010
Robert Brown
Robert Brown
stated on October 29, 2010 press release:
"Animal abuse is often an indicative trait of future acts of violence against humans."
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By Eric Stirgus • November 10, 2010
Tom Ganley
Tom Ganley
stated on September 16, 2010 a campaign video:
"An organized crime syndicate was extorting money from his (Tom Ganley’s) business, threatening his family, but he fought back and won the FBI's highest civilian award"
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By Tom Feran • September 30, 2010
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on August 26, 2010 an interview:
Says a highway was closed in El Paso because of bullets flying across the border.
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By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • September 1, 2010
David Cicilline
David Cicilline
stated on July 13, 2010 a debate:
Providence has "the lowest crime rate in three decades."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 19, 2010
Al Hunt
Al Hunt
stated on July 4, 2010 an appearance on ABC's "This Week.":
"Crime is down in Arizona."
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By Alex Holt • July 7, 2010
Karen Sage
Karen Sage
stated on April 3, 2010 a mailer:
Says that under a new program jail "time for non-violent, mentally ill offenders has been reduced by 50 percent."
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By W. Gardner Selby • April 10, 2010
Jeff Kottkamp
Jeff Kottkamp
stated on February 28, 2010 an op-ed published in Florida newspapers:
"Nearly all of the top 50 prescribers of oxycodone in the United States are in Florida."
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By Aaron Sharockman • March 9, 2010
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on March 2, 2010 the State of the State address:
"We are now seeing a decrease in violent crime."
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By Amy Sherman • March 3, 2010
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on February 16, 2010 an interview on "Face the Nation":
"There have been three people tried and convicted by the last administration in military courts. Two are walking the street right now."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 16, 2010
Bill White
Bill White
stated on December 28, 2009 the biography on his campaign Web site:
During his tenure as mayor, he "saw Houston’s crime rates drop to the lowest levels in more than 25 years."
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By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • January 13, 2010
Public Citizen
Public Citizen
stated on July 10, 2009 an email to supporters:
A loophole "still exists which allows members of Congress and high-powered executive branch appointees to exploit 'insider' knowledge of the financial industry in order to turn personal profit."
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By Catharine Richert • August 6, 2009
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 17, 2007 a TV ad airing in Iowa.:
Huckabee "granted 1,033 pardons and commutations . . . more clemencies than the previous three governors combined."
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By Bill Adair • December 28, 2007
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on December 19, 2007 an interview on MSNBC's Morning Joe.:
Romney refused to pardon "a decorated soldier" returning from Iraq who had been charged with a crime involving a BB gun when he was 13.
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By Bill Adair • December 28, 2007
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on November 25, 2007 an interview:
"The truth of the matter is that during my administration, the FBI's crime statistics show that violent crime was reduced in Massachusetts by 7 percent."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 26, 2007
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on May 31, 2007 New York, N.Y.:
"Fifty-six percent decline in overall crime. A 73 percent decline in motor-vehicle theft. A 67 percent decline in robbery. A 66 percent decline in murder. This is way beyond what happened in the nation during this period of time.
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By Wes Allison • October 26, 2007
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