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Kathleen Clyde
Kathleen Clyde
stated on February 8, 2012 an email:
"'Wrong precinct' rules exacerbate our provisional ballot problems (and) HB 194 does nothing to solve the wrong-precinct problem."
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By Tom Feran • February 20, 2012
Kathleen Falk
Kathleen Falk
stated on February 8, 2012 a speech announcing her candidacy:
Says Scott Walker enacted "the biggest cuts to education in our state’s history."
True
By Dave Umhoefer • February 19, 2012
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on February 11, 2012 a speech at the CPAC conference:
Florida "unemployment has dropped more than 2 percentage points, down from 12 percent to 9.9 percent, the second-largest drop in the nation."
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 16, 2012
Loretta Weinberg
Loretta Weinberg
stated on February 7, 2012 an interview on NJTV:
Says a 1915 referendum on women’s right to vote "went down in New Jersey. And it took the Legislature to pass it."
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By Erin O'Neill • February 16, 2012
Greg Walden
Greg Walden
stated on February 9, 2012 news television interview:
You may have driven the length of a football field in the five seconds it takes to check a text. 
True
By Janie Har • February 15, 2012
John Wisniewski
John Wisniewski
stated on February 7, 2012 a radio interview:
"Many of the top officials at the Port Authority earn more money than the governors of the states that have jurisdiction over them."
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By Bill Wichert • February 15, 2012
Richard Licht
Richard Licht
stated on February 5, 2012 a television interview:
"We aren't the only state cutting back on public television."
True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 14, 2012
Rebecca Kleefisch
Rebecca Kleefisch
stated on February 3, 2012 an op-ed piece:
As Dane County executive, Kathleen Falk raised property taxes by "millions of dollars every year" and approved the second highest increase in the state in 2010.
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By Dave Umhoefer • February 12, 2012
Presente.org
Presente.org
stated on January 27, 2012 a television ad:
"91 percent of Latinos support the DREAM Act, which allows undocumented youth to attend college," but Marco Rubio opposes it.
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 9, 2012
Marc Schare
Marc Schare
stated on February 1, 2012 an Ohio House committee hearing :
A bill delaying the start of classes until Labor Day would permit school districts "to shave 5 full weeks off the school year."
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By Tom Feran • February 9, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on February 4, 2012 a speech in Las Vegas, Nev., on Feb. 4, 2012:
"If you take into account all the people who are struggling for work, or have just stopped looking, the real unemployment rate is over 15 percent."
True
By Louis Jacobson • February 8, 2012
Kathleen Clyde
Kathleen Clyde
stated on January 27, 2012 a news conference:
"Ohio has one of the highest provisional ballot rates in the country, and many of them go uncounted each election."
True
By Tom Feran • February 7, 2012
Brian Kemp
Brian Kemp
stated on June 24, 2011 in editorials and op-ed articles:
The Georgia Secretary of State's Office and the Georgia State Elections Board investigate and penalize hundreds of people guilty of election fraud.
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By Eric Stirgus • February 6, 2012
Kurt Schrader
Kurt Schrader
stated on February 2, 2012 congressional website :
In just a few decades, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, other mandatory spending programs, and paying interest due on the debt will eclipse our entire budget.
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By Charles Pope • February 3, 2012
Randy Forbes
Randy Forbes
stated on January 24, 2012 a blog post.:
"The national debt is equal to $48,700 for every American or $128,300 for every U.S. household. It is now equivalent to the size of our entire economy."
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By Sean Gorman • February 3, 2012
Nathan Deal
Nathan Deal
stated on January 31, 2012 a television commercial:
"One out of every three automobile fatalities can be attributed to alcohol."
True
By Willoughby Mariano • February 3, 2012
Armond Budish
Armond Budish
stated on January 31, 2012 a news conference:
"We've seen more anti-women's choice bills introduced in the first half of this session than we've seen in the last three General Assemblies."
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By Tom Feran • February 3, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 24, 2012 the State of the Union speech:
"Today, for the first time in fifteen years, Master Lock’s unionized plant in Milwaukee is running at full capacity."
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By James B. Nelson • February 1, 2012
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on January 29, 2012 an interview:
In 1992, Mitt Romney "gave money to Democrats for Congress."
True
By Amy Sherman • January 31, 2012
Chain email
Chain email
stated on January 30, 2012 a chain e-mail and blog and Facebook posts:
In July 1996, Mitt Romney helped locate the missing teenage daughter of a partner at Bain Capital.
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By Louis Jacobson • January 30, 2012
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