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Nan Rich
Nan Rich
stated on July 11, 2014 a speech to the Florida Press Association
Florida has the "third most-regressive tax" structure.
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By Amy Sherman • July 22, 2014
Stu Burguiere
Stu Burguiere
stated on July 15, 2014 comments on The Glenn Beck Radio Program
There are fewer wars, there are fewer people dying in wars "now than there have been in quite some time."
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By Derek Tsang • July 21, 2014
John Kerry
John Kerry
stated on July 20, 2014 comments on "Fox News Sunday"
"The so-called defense minister of the People's Republic of Donetsk ... actually posted a bragging social media posting of having shot down a military transport. And then when it became apparent it was civilian, they pulled it down from social media."  
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By Lauren Carroll • July 20, 2014
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on July 16, 2014 a "Tampa Bay Times" editorial board interview
Says Rick Scott’s per-pupil education spending is "about $200 less" than what it was under Charlie Crist during the recession.
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By Joshua Gillin • July 18, 2014
Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly
stated on July 8, 2014 comments on Fox News
"More than 50 percent of immigrants from (El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras) use at least one major welfare program once they get here."
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By Jon Greenberg • July 18, 2014
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on June 17, 2014 an interview on Fox & Friends
Says the Obama administration never responded to his 2012 letter flagging the uptick in unaccompanied children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
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By W. Gardner Selby • July 18, 2014
Mark Begich
Mark Begich
stated on July 14, 2014 a radio ad
Alaska Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Mark Begich "vote as much as 80 percent of the time together."
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By Lauren Carroll • July 17, 2014
Angel Taveras
Angel Taveras
stated on July 25, 2014 a campaign video
"Providence graduation rates are up."
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By Karen Lee Ziner • July 16, 2014
Lawrence O'Donnell
Lawrence O'Donnell
stated on July 8, 2014 a broadcast of "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell"
"Radio Marti and TV Marti have spent more than $500 million to reach less than 1 percent of the Cuban population."  
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By Jon Greenberg • July 14, 2014
Kirk Cox
Kirk Cox
stated on June 23, 2014 a speech.
"There are more than 46 million Americans living in poverty today -- the largest number in 54 years."
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By Sean Gorman • July 11, 2014
Republican Party of Florida
Republican Party of Florida
stated on July 8, 2014 a campaign commercial
Says Charlie Crist "raised taxes on the middle class" by $2.2 billion.
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By Joshua Gillin • July 10, 2014
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on July 7, 2014 campaign commercial
"We cut property taxes for seniors and our middle class."
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By Joshua Gillin • July 10, 2014
Peter Beinart
Peter Beinart
stated on July 6, 2014 comments on CNN
"If you look at the states where soccer is most popular, they're overwhelmingly blue states, and the states where soccer is least popular are red states."
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By Derek Tsang • July 10, 2014
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on July 8, 2014 a campaign TV ad
"As Jim Doyle’s Commerce secretary, Mary Burke spent $12.5 million dollars to buy a vacant lot for a company that said it had no plans to create jobs in Wisconsin" and had laid off 800 workers.
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By Dave Umhoefer • July 10, 2014
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on June 19, 2014 a news conference
"We in this state saw more job creation in the last three years since I've been governor than you saw in the whole eight years of Doyle’s time as governor."
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By Devon Waugh • July 9, 2014
Allan Fung
Allan Fung
stated on June 26, 2014 a letter to taxpayers
Cranston's 2014-2015 "budget funds 100 percent of the local police and fire pension and other retiree benefit costs."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 9, 2014
Wendy Davis
Wendy Davis
stated on June 27, 2014 her speech to the Texas Democratic Party state convention
Says Greg Abbott "has lost" in court "four times in just the past few days."
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By W. Gardner Selby • July 6, 2014
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
stated on June 30, 2014 a dissenting opinion in "Burwell vs. Hobby Lobby"
"Women of childbearing age spend 68 percent more in out-of-pocket health care costs than men."
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By Louis Jacobson • July 2, 2014
Sally Kohn
Sally Kohn
stated on June 30, 2014 a segment on CNN
"Hobby Lobby provided this (birth control) coverage before they decided to drop it to file suit."
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By Katie Sanders • July 1, 2014
David Perdue
David Perdue
stated on June 23, 2014 In a Twitter post
U.S. Senate candidate Jack Kingston "requested more earmarks than any other GA Congressman and all GA GOP members combined."
Mostly True
By April Hunt • July 1, 2014
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