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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."
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By April Hunt • July 1, 2014
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on June 30, 2014 a statement to the media:
"Nearly 60 percent of women who use birth control do so for more than just family planning."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • June 30, 2014
John Chisholm
John Chisholm
stated on June 2, 2014 a letter:
Says Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke has "deputies collecting overtime while sitting passively in chairs watching courthouse security personnel work."
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By Tom Kertscher • June 30, 2014
Kenneth Block
Kenneth Block
stated on June 17, 2014 a debate:
Republican candidate for governor Allan Fung "donated to Democrats like Congressman David Cicilline, disgraced (House) speaker Gordon Fox and even Mr. Obamacare, Harry Reid."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • June 29, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 23, 2014 a speech at the White House Summit on Working Families:
"In 31 states, decent child care costs more than college tuition."
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By Louis Jacobson • June 27, 2014
Dave Marsden
Dave Marsden
stated on June 14, 2014 a radio interview.:
After Massachusetts passed a mandatory health insurance law "their mortality rate went down...it saved lives."
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By Sean Gorman • June 27, 2014
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on June 25, 2014 a campaign commercial:
"Candidates for governor routinely disclose" their spouses’ tax returns.
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By Joshua Gillin • June 26, 2014
Republican Party of Florida
Republican Party of Florida
stated on June 17, 2014 a TV ad:
"Gov. Rick Scott cut the cost of prepaid college tuition by nearly $20,000."
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By Amy Sherman • June 25, 2014
Jim Rubens
Jim Rubens
stated on June 20, 2014 a television forum:
Says Scott Brown voted with President Barack Obama 70 percent of the time in 2011.
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By Jim Haddadin • June 25, 2014
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 23, 2014 an op-ed for Huffington Post:
"The United States is the only developed country in the world without paid maternity leave."
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By Steve Contorno • June 24, 2014
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 10, 2014 her book, "Hard Choices":
"By 2006, the American people were overwhelmingly against the Iraq War."
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By Molly O'Connor • June 20, 2014
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on June 11, 2014 a speech:
All 28 members of NATO have "pledged to spend at least 2 percent of their economy on defense. But only three countries do -- Britain, Greece and us."  
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By Tom Kertscher • June 19, 2014
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