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Jerome Buting
Jerome Buting
stated on April 11, 2016 an interview
Wisconsin pays criminal defense lawyers who represent the indigent $40 per hour, "the lowest in the country."  
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April 20, 2016
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on March 29, 2016 an interview
Ten times, no Republican candidate for president had enough delegates to claim the nomination before the party’s convention, and seven of those times "somebody who was not the leader of delegates was selected as the nominee of the party."
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April 15, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 15, 2016 a Democratic debate in New York
"When this campaign began, I said that we’ve got to end the starvation minimum wage of $7.25, raise it to $15. Secretary Clinton said let's raise it to $12."
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By Lauren Carroll • April 15, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 14, 2016 the Brooklyn presidential debate
"I remain one of the poorer members of the United States Senate."
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By Louis Jacobson • April 15, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 10, 2016 in an interview on NBC's Meet the Press
Says Hillary Clinton supported and continues to "support fracking."
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By Linda Qiu • April 13, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on April 3, 2016 ad paid for by campaign for Ted Cruz
Says a company that got tax breaks from the state later "laid off 100 Ohioans, even as its CEO cut a half-million-dollar check to Kasich’s super PAC."  
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By Nadia Pflaum • April 12, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 6, 2016 a tweet
"The largest U.S. companies would owe $620 billion in U.S. taxes on the cash they store in tax havens."
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By Jon Greenberg • April 11, 2016
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on April 3, 2016 an interview
"There are no rules governing" the 2016 Republican convention, "the rules have not been set."  
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April 8, 2016
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on April 5, 2016 a confrontation with a customer at a Gainesville, Fla., Starbucks
"We got a million jobs."
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By Louis Jacobson • April 6, 2016
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on April 3, 2016 a campaign speech
"A college loan is the only loan in the United States that you cannot refinance when interest rates go down."
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By Chris Nichols • April 6, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on April 5, 2016 an interview on ABC's "the View"
"I have 2 and a half million more votes than he (Sanders) does."
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By Jon Greenberg • April 5, 2016
Victoria Seaman
Victoria Seaman
stated on March 24, 2016 in campaign literature distributed at a candidate forum
Says Erv Nelson voted "yes on the pro-amnesty SJR 21, a bill urging Congress to provide citizenship for those residing illegally in our country."
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By Riley Snyder • April 5, 2016
Marcus Low
Marcus Low
stated on March 19, 2016 an interview with a South African journalist
"Most funding for tuberculosis research (is) provided by the U.S. National Institutes for Health."  
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By Jon Greenberg • April 5, 2016
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on March 23, 2016 a House Oversight Committee National Security Subcommittee hearing
"Recent reports state that the U.S. Customs and Border Protection has apprehended several members of known Islamist terrorist organizations crossing the southern border in recent years."
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By Joshua Gillin • April 4, 2016
Don Beyer
Don Beyer
stated on March 24, 2016 a website post.
"Over 97 percent of the scientific community … believe that humans are contributing to climate change."
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By Sean Gorman • April 4, 2016
Chris Sgro
Chris Sgro
stated on March 17, 2016 a speech urging Charlotte's anti-discrimination ordinance be left intact
"There have not been any public safety issues" in cities that allow transgender people to use the bathroom of the gender they identify as.
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By Will Doran • April 1, 2016
Peter Kinder
Peter Kinder
stated on March 17, 2016 a gubernatorial debate
"Youth unemployment in minority communities is about 40 to 45 percent."
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By Katie Moeller • April 1, 2016
JoAnne Kloppenburg
JoAnne Kloppenburg
stated on March 15, 2016 TV ad
Says the GOP is "helping pay for" Justice Rebecca Bradley's campaign and "she recently skipped court to attend an event paid for" by Scott Walker's "lobbyist friends."  
Mostly True
March 31, 2016
Tim Canova
Tim Canova
stated on March 24, 2016 campaign website
"After taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street banks, (Debbie Wasserman Schultz) has voted to prevent the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from regulating payday loans and addressing racial discrimination in car loans."    
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By Amy Sherman • March 30, 2016
Rebecca Bradley
Rebecca Bradley
stated on March 21, 2016 an interview
Says JoAnne Kloppenburg "has told us she thinks it's her job to promote a more equal society."
Mostly True
March 30, 2016
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