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Mitch McConnell
stated on August 5, 2014 a campaign ad

Says he "voted for even stronger protections (in the Violence Against Women Act) than Obama's agenda will allow."

By Steve Contorno • August 13, 2014

Progressive Choice Florida
stated on June 23, 2014 a radio ad

Says Charlie Crist signed "the nation’s harshest marijuana laws."

By Amy Sherman, Joshua Gillin • June 27, 2014

Greg Abbott
stated on June 26, 2014 a billboard message

"Wendy Davis’ legal work is currently under FBI investigation."

By W. Gardner Selby • June 27, 2014

Americans for Safe Access
stated on June 5, 2014 a TV ad

Judging by a recent vote, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz "thinks it's okay for medical marijuana patients to go to federal prison."

By Amy Sherman • June 10, 2014

Pierre Thomas
stated on May 25, 2014 a broadcast of ABC's "This Week"

From 2000 to 2008, we averaged "about five mass shootings a year. We're now averaging 15. So that's a three-fold increase."

By Jon Greenberg • May 28, 2014

Tom Coburn
stated on May 1, 2014 an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe"

The death penalty "is a deterrent that does affect and impact people."

By Julie Kliegman • May 6, 2014

Nancy Grace
stated on March 24, 2014 an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America"

Premeditation, in murder cases like the Oscar Pistorius case, "can be formed in the twinkling of an eye."

By Katie Sanders • March 31, 2014

John Morgan
stated on February 24, 2014 a medical marijuana debate at the University of Tampa

Says Cathy Jordan was "arrested" and dragged out of her home by "a SWAT team of hooligans" for using medical marijuana.

By Joshua Gillin • March 13, 2014

Nancy Grace
stated on January 14, 2014 a segment on 'Nancy Grace'

People on pot "shoot each other ... stab each other ... strangle each other, drive under the influence, kill families."

By Katie Sanders • January 24, 2014

Larry Ashley
stated on November 7, 2013 a Florida House criminal justice subcommittee hearing

"Florida sheriffs unequivocally support" the "stand your ground" law.

By Amy Sherman • November 15, 2013

Ted Cruz
stated on November 8, 2013 in an interview on the "Tonight Show"

"Under President (George W.) Bush, prosecution of gun crimes was 30 percent higher than it is under President Obama."

By Julie Kliegman • November 15, 2013

Gail Collins
stated on October 3, 2013 her opinion column

Louie Gohmert of Texas "blamed the mass shooting at a movie theater in Colorado on ‘the ongoing attacks on Judeo-Christian beliefs.'"

By W. Gardner Selby • October 10, 2013

Dan Patrick
stated on June 27, 2013 a campaign video

Says the 2014-15 state budget "cut border security and funding to fight criminal gangs."

By Sue Owen • August 2, 2013

X posts
stated on July 14, 2013 tweets

"In the 513 days between Trayvon dying, and today’s verdict, 11,106 African-Americans have been murdered by other African-Americans."

By Amy Sherman • July 17, 2013

Michael McCaul
stated on June 5, 2013 U.S. House floor debate.

Says the Obama administration plans to reduce the number of beds devoted to holding individuals violating immigration laws and to "release hundreds of dangerous criminals into our communities."

By W. Gardner Selby • June 21, 2013

Ed Doyle
stated on April 25, 2013 a news release and Facebook post

Proposed gun control legislation "will outlaw practically every firearm, make you pay $100 per firearm, put you into a police database" and make it "nearly impossible" to get a permit to carry a concealed weapon.

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 5, 2013

John Duncan
stated on April 13, 2013 a letter to a constituent

"Well over 90 percent of felony cases, all over the nation, are committed by defendants who grew up in father-absent households."

By Louis Jacobson • April 18, 2013

Carolyn Medeiros
stated on February 18, 2013 a radio interview

"There's a tax credit of $2,400 to bond [former inmates] that an employer would get for hiring a convicted felon. There's a federal bonding program -- you can get $5,000 to $25,000 in federal money to hire a convicted felon. And there's federal grants for felons to set up their own small businesses."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 3, 2013

Barack Obama
stated on February 19, 2013 a speech in Washington, D.C.

If the sequester hits, federal prosecutors will have to "let criminals go."

By Louis Jacobson • February 22, 2013

David A. Clarke Jr.
stated on January 25, 2013 a radio interview

"I had to lay off 48 people last year," which has exacerbated the lack of law enforcement officers in the county that respond quickly to crime calls.

January 31, 2013

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