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Mike Haridopolos
Mike Haridopolos
stated on January 12, 2011 comments to reporters.:
"Whether you like to admit it or not, half our general revenue goes to education."
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By Aaron Sharockman • January 14, 2011
Talgo Inc.
Talgo Inc.
stated on December 10, 2010 a statement from the company:
The Milwaukee business community "did not speak about the facts" -- and in support of train manufacturer Talgo -- as the Milwaukee-Madison rail link was being killed.
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By James B. Nelson • December 20, 2010
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on December 3, 2010 a gathering with reporters:
"I think [a little] less than half of the people in our prisons are in there for less than a year.  ... We have people who are check kiters and don't pay child support and we are locking them up in the state pen."
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By Mark Naymik • December 10, 2010
Bob Wirch
Bob Wirch
stated on November 15, 2010 a news release:
"Over the course of one four-year term, it costs taxpayers more than $1 million simply to operate" the governor’s mansion.
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By Tom Kertscher • November 21, 2010
Steven Schale
Steven Schale
stated on November 15, 2010 a posting on Twitter.:
"Re: (Marco) Rubio's support of earmark ban: In 2002 alone, he requested 37 earmarks worth $43 million."
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By Aaron Sharockman • November 16, 2010
Alex Sink
Alex Sink
stated on September 13, 2010 a campaign website:
"Florida ranks last in the ratio of employees to residents... And Florida is dead last in the nation in state employee payroll expenditures per resident."
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By Amy Sherman • September 14, 2010
Yvette McGee Brown
Yvette McGee Brown
stated on August 4, 2010 a speech at a candidates forum:
Ohio today has the "fewest number of state employees since the Reagan administration."
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By Reginald Fields • September 6, 2010
Kernan
Kernan "Kerry" King
stated on August 21, 2010 an interview on WPRI-TV's "Newsmakers:
In Rhode Island "there are 150 different pension plans for public workers."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 30, 2010
Kevin Boyce
Kevin Boyce
stated on July 14, 2010 a campaign video:
"I’ve even cut my own salary -- twice."
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By Joe Guillen • August 11, 2010
Jerry Brown
Jerry Brown
stated on June 7, 2010 a video on his campaign website:
California's credit rating is "the worst in the country."
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By Alex Holt • June 11, 2010
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on June 2, 2010 comments on his campaign website:
Charlie Crist "bizarrely vetoed" $9.7 million for a teaching hospital at the University of Florida "despite having previously argued the budget request had merit."
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By Amy Sherman • June 4, 2010
Jerry Patterson
Jerry Patterson
stated on April 27, 2010 a newspaper column:
Says Texas General Land Office "has earned the school children of Texas $451,932.89 on wind leases that haven't produced a watt of energy."
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By W. Gardner Selby • April 30, 2010
Bill White
Bill White
stated on April 13, 2010 a press release:
"By the end of Governor Rick Perry's term, he will have drained Texas taxpayers ... of more than $360,000 to pay for the rental mansion he has been living in while the historic Governor's Mansion is repaired."
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By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • April 25, 2010
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