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Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on August 18, 2015 a speech
Says he "turned down a Medicaid expansion under Obamacare," but because of actions he took, for the first time in Wisconsin's history "everyone living in poverty is covered under Medicaid."
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September 2, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on August 12, 2015 web site
"African Americans are twice as likely to be arrested and almost four times as likely to experience the use of force during encounters with the police."  
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By Mark Reynolds • August 30, 2015
Americans for Prosperity
Americans for Prosperity
stated on August 11, 2015 TV ad
Gov. Maggie Hassan’s budget proposal "raises taxes on small businesses and increases taxes and fees by $100 million."   
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By Clay Wirestone • August 27, 2015
Steve Cannon
Steve Cannon
stated on August 24, 2015 press release
Buying the naming rights to the new Falcons stadium is the largest marketing deal in Mercedes-Benz history.
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By Nancy Badertscher • August 27, 2015
Bruce Elfant
Bruce Elfant
stated on August 5, 2015 an interview with Dick Ellis, KOKE FM, Austin
"The United States is about 100th in voter turnout among the industrialized nations, and Texas is near the bottom in terms of voter registration and voter turnout."
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By W. Gardner Selby • August 21, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on August 6, 2015 a debate
"The rate in which people are working (in Wisconsin) is almost five points higher than it is nationally."
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By James B. Nelson • August 21, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on August 18, 2015 a speech at the Iowa State Fair
"We have an Army that just cut 40,000 spots."  
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By Amy Sherman • August 20, 2015
Matt Wuerker
Matt Wuerker
stated on August 4, 2015 a political cartoon on Politico
"The U.S. has now spent more on reconstructing Afghanistan than was spent on the Marshall Plan and the reconstruction of Europe."
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By Jon Greenberg • August 20, 2015
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on August 11, 2015 an interview with Inc. magazine
"There's not a single, solitary example that" signing the bill to end Glass-Steagall "had anything to do with the financial crash."
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By Lauren Carroll • August 19, 2015
Democratic Party of Wisconsin
Democratic Party of Wisconsin
stated on August 6, 2015 a tweet
A "majority in every state favors path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants."
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By Dave Umhoefer • August 19, 2015
Kasim Reed
Kasim Reed
stated on August 11, 2015 a speech at the Commerce Club
"Peachtree and Pine is one of the leading sites for tuberculosis in the nation."
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By Nancy Badertscher • August 19, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on July 26, 2015 a tweet
Wisconsin's pension system is the "only one fully funded in the country."
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August 14, 2015
George Will
George Will
stated on August 7, 2015 a Washington Post column
Says Bernie Sanders chose "to spend his honeymoon in the Soviet Union in 1988."
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By Will Cabaniss • August 12, 2015
Jim Webb
Jim Webb
stated on August 5, 2015 a web post.
"The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world."
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By Sean Gorman • August 10, 2015
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on August 9, 2015 an interview with "This Week" host George Stephanopoulos
Says he was "one of the chief architects" of balancing the federal budget.
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By Jon Greenberg • August 9, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on August 6, 2015 in comments at a GOP debate in Cleveland
"A majority of the candidates on this stage have supported amnesty ... I have never supported amnesty."
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By Lauren Carroll • August 7, 2015
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on August 6, 2015 a Republican presidential debate in Cleveland
"The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over. John Adams said it was the spark that led to our war for independence."
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By Louis Jacobson • August 7, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on August 6, 2015 comments at a GOP debate in Cleveland
Says that Donald Trump "supported Charlie Crist."  
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By Amy Sherman • August 7, 2015
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on August 6, 2015 comments at a GOP debate in Cleveland
"I took the state of Ohio from an $8 billion hole … to a $2 billion surplus."
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By Louis Jacobson • August 7, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on August 6, 2015 comments at a GOP debate in Cleveland
"This is the most generous country in the world when it comes to immigration. There are a million people a year who legally immigrate to the United States."  
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By Amy Sherman • August 7, 2015
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