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Jill Stein stated on October 17, 2016 in a forum at Huston-Tillotson University:

Says climate scientist James Hansen says "we have until perhaps 50 years from now," or maybe a little longer "and at that point, we are looking at 10, 20, 30 feet of sea-level rise."

By Dylan Baddour • November 23, 2016

Tim Kaine stated on October 4, 2016 in the vice presidential debate in Farmville, Va.:

Says Hillary Clinton "went toe-to-toe with Russia as secretary of state to do the New START agreement to reduce Russia's nuclear stockpile."

By Lauren Carroll • October 6, 2016

Duane Hall stated on August 23, 2016 in a tweet:

North Carolina’s coast "is possibly the best place in (the) U.S. for an offshore windfarm."

By Will Doran • September 9, 2016

Grover Norquist stated on March 24, 2016 in a Fox Business interview:

Under Hillary Clinton, State Department "officials were sending official thank-yous to people who gave to the Clinton Foundation."

By Jon Greenberg • March 28, 2016

Bernie Sanders stated on February 4, 2016 in a Democratic debate in New Hampshire:

"Making public colleges and universities tuition-free, that exists in countries all over the world, used to exist in the United States."

By Amy Sherman • February 9, 2016

Ted Cruz stated on December 5, 2015 in a speech at the Rising Tide Summit in Cedar Rapids, Iowa:

"The Democrats in the Senate last year introduced a constitutional amendment to repeal the free speech protections of the First Amendment."

By Jason Noble • December 22, 2015

John Kasich stated on August 6, 2015 in comments at a GOP debate in Cleveland:

"I took the state of Ohio from an $8 billion hole … to a $2 billion surplus."

By Louis Jacobson • August 7, 2015

Ted Cruz stated on June 28, 2015 in an interview with NPR News:

Says states not directly involved in the gay marriage lawsuits that reached the Supreme Court "are not bound" by the court’s ruling.

By W. Gardner Selby • July 31, 2015

Various media reports 2 stated on June 18, 2015 in church shooting aftermath:

Only five states, including Georgia, do not have a hate crimes law.

By Nancy Badertscher • July 1, 2015

Doonesbury stated on June 14, 2015 in the strip about Greg Abbott and the Jade Helm military exercise:

Greg Abbott "activated the state guard to monitor" Jade Helm 15 "in case the troops try to impose martial law, disarm innocent Texans, and detain them in tunnels beneath closed Walmart stores."

By W. Gardner Selby • June 19, 2015

Danny Porter stated on May 4, 2015 in an interview with AM750 and 95.5 FM News/Talk WSB radio:

"A sitting sheriff cannot be charged except by a warrant issued by a Superior Court judge."

By April Hunt, Nancy Badertscher • May 6, 2015

Roy Moore stated on February 12, 2015 in an interview with CNN:

Alabamians "haven’t changed their opinion" on same-sex marriage since voting to ban it in 2006.

By Steve Contorno • February 13, 2015

Everytown for Gun Safety stated on December 10, 2014 in a recent report:

Georgia has had 12 school shootings in the two years since the mass killing at Sandy Hook Elementary School, more than any other state.

By April Hunt • December 19, 2014

Barack Obama stated on September 7, 2014 in an interview on "Meet the Press.":

Says his comment about extremists being a JV team "wasn’t specifically referring to" Islamic State.

By Steve Contorno • September 7, 2014

Chuck Todd stated on September 7, 2014 in a comment on "Meet the Press.":

"Eight out of the nine states with competitive Senate races, Hispanics make up less than 10 percent of the electorate."

By Linda Qiu • September 7, 2014

Richard Saslaw stated on July 11, 2014 in a TV interview.:

Governing magazine has "estimated that in the states that don’t expand Medicaid, a minimum, they said of 40 percent of rural hospitals will close in those states..."

By Sean Gorman • July 25, 2014

Barack Obama stated on January 28, 2014 in the State of Union address:

During the past four years, "average wages have barely budged."

By Louis Jacobson • January 29, 2014

Michael Thurmond stated on October 3, 2013 in a community meeting:

When SACS came back to the DeKalb County School District to give a midterm review, we got straight A’s.

By Janel Davis • October 17, 2013

Ken Cuccinelli stated on October 2, 2013 in radio ad.:

Terry McAuliffe has "threatened to shut down Virginia’s government if his budget plan isn’t supported."

By Sean Gorman • October 11, 2013

Scott Walker stated on August 30, 2013 in an interview:

Says potential Democratic opponent Mary Burke "implemented the policies of Jim Doyle. Those are the policies that, in his last term, saw the state lose more than 133,000 jobs."

By James B. Nelson • September 18, 2013

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