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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."
True
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."
True
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."
True
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.
True
By Jacob Geiger • February 28, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on February 8, 2011 a speech
"Texas added more jobs in 2010 than any other state."
True
February 15, 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."
True
By Joe Guillen • 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."
True
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."
True
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.
True
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."
True
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."
True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • October 25, 2010
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