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stated on August 18, 2021 in in a photo in a reddit thread:
A photo shows two COVID-19 patients lying on the floor awaiting treatment in Florida.
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By Amy Sherman • August 20, 2021
Craig Thompson
Craig Thompson
stated on July 5, 2021 in TV interview:
"We’ve got 115,000 miles of roads in this state and 90% is owned by the locals.”
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By D.L. Davis • August 20, 2021
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on August 3, 2021 in Twitter:
“324,000 pregnant people experience domestic violence during their pregnancy.”
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By Madeline Heim • August 13, 2021
Chip Roy
Chip Roy
stated on July 29, 2021 in a hearing:
A quorum-breaking Texas Democrat said in 2007 that mail-in ballot fraud “is the greatest source of voter fraud in this state.”
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By Brandon Mulder • August 6, 2021
Mandela Barnes
Mandela Barnes
stated on May 23, 2021 in Twitter:
“It’s been over 50 years since minimum (wage) and inflation parted ways, then over a decade since the federal minimum went up at all.”
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By Madeline Heim • June 19, 2021
Glenn Grothman
Glenn Grothman
stated on June 8, 2021 in Twitter:
“We have a record 9.3 million job openings in the U.S.”
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By Laura Schulte • June 18, 2021
Mark Born
Mark Born
stated on June 2, 2021 in Twitter:
“Before the pandemic, just over 40,000 were on continuing UI claims. Now, there are well over 100,000 on state or federal UI benefits.”
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By D.L. Davis • June 18, 2021
Lorraine Lewandrowski
Lorraine Lewandrowski
stated on February 24, 2021 in a hearing of the New York Senate Agriculture Committee:
It’s not currently “legal for a New York state student to have a glass of fresh whole milk.”
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By John Pullano • June 7, 2021
Mandela Barnes
Mandela Barnes
stated on May 23, 2021 in Twitter:
“Since 1978, CEO compensation rose over 1,000% and only 11.9% for average workers.”
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By Madeline Heim • June 2, 2021
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on May 24, 2021 in an op-ed on CNBC:
“New Haven, Conn., had to issue bonds for a bridge after using funds for that bridge to pay for a police misconduct settlement."
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By Jon Greenberg • May 27, 2021
Wisconsin Republican Legislative leaders
Wisconsin Republican Legislative leaders
stated on April 7, 2021 in Twitter:
Wisconsin’s 2019-21 budget produced the first positive general fund balance since 2000, and the governor’s proposed 2021-23 budget would return it to a deficit.
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By Madeline Heim • May 25, 2021
Robert Martwick
Robert Martwick
stated on May 10, 2021 in a podcast interview:
Opposition to having a fully elected Chicago Board of Education is in the “super minority.”
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By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • May 23, 2021
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on May 18, 2021 in an interview:
“We now have more job openings than we do people who are on unemployment. We have 60% more job openings today than we did the month before the pandemic hit the state of Texas.”
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By Brandon Mulder • May 21, 2021
Lindsay James
Lindsay James
stated on May 11, 2021 in a tweet:
“There are more job openings than there are people on unemployment" in Iowa.
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By Lyle Muller • May 12, 2021
Jeff Jackson
Jeff Jackson
stated on May 3, 2021 in a tweet:
Says he was “one of the 2 (state Senators) who voted against” North Carolina’s body camera law.
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By Paul Specht • May 7, 2021
Kevin Kiley
Kevin Kiley
stated on April 26, 2021 in a tweet:
“San Francisco had twice as many drug overdose deaths as COVID deaths last year.”
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By Chris Nichols • April 29, 2021
Kirk Cox
Kirk Cox
stated on April 7, 2021 in a radio interview.:
On Virginia’s new marijuana law: “You can have up to one pound with only a $25 fine.”
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By Warren Fiske • April 28, 2021
Van Wanggaard
Van Wanggaard
stated on April 19, 2021 in Statement:
Foxconn “is the largest taxpayer in Racine County.”
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By Haley BeMiller • April 27, 2021
Zach Wahls
Zach Wahls
stated on April 8, 2021 in a weekly newsletter:
“The federal American Rescue Plan will purchase more food from farmers for distribution."
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By Brian Grace • April 22, 2021
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on April 6, 2021 in an interview with The Grio:
“There is racism physically built into some of our highways.”
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By Louis Jacobson • April 15, 2021
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