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Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on November 20, 2014 in a speech:
The Orange County, Florida, school board "voted to make it impossible for a student to receive a grade below 50."
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By Amy Sherman • November 20, 2014
Ed Schultz
Ed Schultz
stated on November 13, 2014 in a broadcast of MSNBC's "The Ed Show":
Repeal of Obamacare would "take away health care for 10.3 million Americans" who have received coverage since Oct. 1, 2013.
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By Jon Greenberg • November 18, 2014
Edward Lindsey
Edward Lindsey
stated on November 10, 2014 in an Atlanta Journal-Constitution story:
Georgia has some of the highest gas taxes in the Southeast but one of the lowest taxes on gasoline for transportation in the nation.
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By April Hunt, Nancy Badertscher • November 18, 2014
Jack Seiler
Jack Seiler
stated on November 5, 2014 in a news release:
"No one was taken into custody" for feeding the homeless.
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By Amy Sherman • November 17, 2014
Mike Martinez
Mike Martinez
stated on November 12, 2014 in a press conference:
Austin mayoral candidate "Steve Adler admitted his law firm worked with Koch Industries for nearly a decade."
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By W. Gardner Selby • November 14, 2014
Peter Barca
Peter Barca
stated on November 7, 2014 in an interview:
Republicans approved 12 times larger tax breaks for "people making over 350 grand" than for "the average middle-class person."
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By Dave Umhoefer • November 14, 2014
United for Care
United for Care
stated on November 6, 2014 in a tweet:
Amendment 2 on medical marijuana won a higher percentage of the vote than the last six Florida governors, including Jeb Bush’s 2002 landslide.
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By Joshua Gillin • November 13, 2014
Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity
stated on November 5, 2014 in a broadcast of "Hannity" on Fox News:
Every new Republican member of the U.S. Senate said they "will vote to repeal and replace Obamacare."
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By Jon Greenberg • November 10, 2014
Greta Van Susteren
Greta Van Susteren
stated on November 9, 2014 in comments on ABC's "This Week":
New Jersey has had "seven credit downgrades" since Chris Christie became governor.
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By Katie Sanders • November 9, 2014
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on October 14, 2014 in an interview:
The gender gap in his support is "not unique to me" and "there’s not a huge gap from where Republicans have been in presidential, gubernatorial and US Senate elections" in recent years.
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By Craig Gilbert, Dave Umhoefer • October 31, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 28, 2014 in a speech:
Wisconsin Republicans "repealed a statewide fair pay law" that made "sure women are treated fairly on the job."
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By Tom Kertscher • October 31, 2014
Zell Miller
Zell Miller
stated on October 27, 2014 in television ad:
Nathan Deal saved the HOPE scholarship program.
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By April Hunt, Nancy Badertscher • October 31, 2014
Nicholas Kristof
Nicholas Kristof
stated on October 22, 2014 in an op-ed in the "New York Times":
"All of Liberia can produce less than one-third as much electricity as the Dallas Cowboys football stadium consumes at peak times."
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By Jon Greenberg • October 30, 2014
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on October 22, 2014 in a campaign TV ad:
Says his promise of 250,000 new private sector jobs was a "big goal."
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By Dave Umhoefer • October 30, 2014
Wendy Davis
Wendy Davis
stated on September 30, 2014 in a debate:
Greg Abbott has benefitted from "payday lenders who have given him $300,000 and then received a ruling from him that they can operate in a loophole in the law that allows them to charge unlimited rates and fees."
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By Dylan Baddour • October 29, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 18, 2014 in the president's weekly national address:
"You cannot get (Ebola) from just riding on a plane or bus."
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By Steve Contorno • October 29, 2014
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on October 17, 2014 in a speech:
Figures for September 2014’s job growth in Wisconsin mark the "largest private-sector job creation we've had in the month of September in more than a decade"
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By James B. Nelson • October 29, 2014
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on October 28, 2014 in a meme on social media:
Says the 1956 Republican Party platform supported equal pay, the minimum wage, asylum for refugees, protections for unions and more.
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By Nai Issa, Louis Jacobson • October 28, 2014
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on October 15, 2014 in a speech.:
"$2.4 million of the NIH dollars was spent on ‘origami’ condoms."
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By Sean Gorman • October 27, 2014
Stephanie Cutter
Stephanie Cutter
stated on October 19, 2014 in an episode of "Meet the Press":
"Money towards the Ebola vaccine is basically cut in half to what it was. More cuts are coming under the congressional sequester."
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By Katie Sanders • October 24, 2014
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