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Bruce Elfant
Bruce Elfant
stated on August 5, 2015 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in a tweet:
Wisconsin's pension system is the "only one fully funded in the country."
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By Tom Kertscher • August 14, 2015
George Will
George Will
stated on August 7, 2015 in 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 in 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 in 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 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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
Arthenia Joyner
Arthenia Joyner
stated on July 30, 2015 in a letter to Jeb Bush:
Says Jeb Bush "significantly cut early voting prior to the 2008 presidential election."
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By Joshua Gillin • August 5, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on July 28, 2015 in a town hall in Nashua, N.H.:
"The stock market does better when you have a Democratic president in the White House."
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By Louis Jacobson • August 4, 2015
Jack Hanna
Jack Hanna
stated on August 2, 2015 in an ABC "This Week" interview:
"In 1947, when I was born, there were about 450,000 lions. In the mid-70s, when my kids were born, there were about 100,000. Today, there are less than 30,000."
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By Will Cabaniss • August 3, 2015
Mark Obenshain
Mark Obenshain
stated on July 21, 2015 in a radio interview:
Since parole abolition, Virginia's "crime rate has fallen to third lowest in the country, our recidivism rate is down 20 percent and that’s the second lowest in the country."  
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By Warren Fiske • August 3, 2015
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