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Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on February 28, 2011 a press release touting a state tourism program:
"We know that every 85 visitors create one Florida job."
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By Laura Figueroa • March 10, 2011
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on March 3, 2011 a speech in the Senate:
"Hitler didn't want unions. Stalin didn't want unions. Mubarak didn't want independent unions. These autocrats in history don't want independent unions."
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By Tom Feran • March 8, 2011
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on February 22, 2011 an interview on CNN:
"We have lost 600,000 jobs over the period of the last 10 years. Only Michigan and California have done worse."
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By Tom Feran • March 4, 2011
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on February 22, 2011 a newspaper column:
"For every $10,000 invested in business incubators, up to nearly 70 local jobs are generated."
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By James McCarty • March 3, 2011
George Allen
George Allen
stated on February 17, 2011 a press release.:
"The American people have endured 21 consecutive months of 9% or higher unemployment [and] 2.6 million jobs have been lost," since the stimulus bill was signed.
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By Jacob Geiger • February 28, 2011
Matt Lundy
Matt Lundy
stated on February 7, 2011 a news release:
"There is nothing in the current state public records law that prohibits sensitive or confidential business information from being just that, confidential."
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By Joe Guillen • February 15, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on February 8, 2011 a speech:
"Texas added more jobs in 2010 than any other state."
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February 15, 2011
Brent Larkin
Brent Larkin
stated on January 2, 2011 a newspaper column:
Says the 3C Corridor train would have taken  "an hour and 15 minutes longer" to carry passengers across Ohio "than it would have taken on a New York Central train in 1935."
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By Tom Feran • January 7, 2011
Ted Strickland
Ted Strickland
stated on December 20, 2010 an interview with The Plain Dealer:
"We are one of only two states to have eight consecutive months of declining unemployment. Twenty-one states had increased unemployment last month. Ours went down."
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By Reginald Fields • January 3, 2011
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on September 27, 2010 a speech on the Senate floor.:
"The law, right now, permits companies that close down American factories and offices and move those jobs overseas to take a tax deduction for the costs associated with moving the jobs to China or India or wherever."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 21, 2010
George Voinovich
George Voinovich
stated on November 8, 2010 a news release:
Says that the federal gas tax has not been raised since 1993.
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By Stephen Koff • November 11, 2010
stated on November 10, 2010 a campaign video and numerous other campaign statements:
As mayor, Barrett led efforts to redevelop the Menomonee Valley, "which now supports nearly 4,000 jobs in Wisconsin."
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By James B. Nelson • November 11, 2010
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 27, 2010 an interview on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart":
"Most of the jobs that we lost were lost before the economic policies we put in place had any effect."
True
By Martha M. Hamilton • October 28, 2010
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on October 13, 2010 an ad:
"More Texans have new jobs today than the entire population of Fort Worth."
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By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • October 25, 2010
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