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Chris Joyner is a staff writer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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Rob Woodall
stated on April 16, 2013 in a speech:

"Do you know those former Soviet Bloc countries have all moved to flat taxes?"

By Chris Joyner • April 29, 2013
Georgia Green Party
stated on July 2, 2012 in Georgia Green Party flier:

The transportation tax is regressive, and Emory University is "literally getting its own transit line at virtually no cost to itself."

By Chris Joyner • July 2, 2012
Nathan Deal
stated on May 7, 2012 in a press release:

"Since the beginning of the economic downturn in FY 2008, the state workforce has been reduced by 12.4 percent as part of overall cost savings measures to balance the budget to reduce revenues."

By Chris Joyner • June 22, 2012
Brett Bittner
stated on May 2, 2012 in an interview:

Taxpayers subsidize 80 percent of each MARTA trip

By Chris Joyner • May 18, 2012
Charlie Flemming
stated on May 11, 2012 in a speech:

Georgia crackdown on illegal immigration costs state farmers $400 million last year.

By Chris Joyner • May 11, 2012
Nathan Deal
stated on September 1, 2011 in an interview:

"[The state ethics commission] took absolutely the same percent of cuts as most other state agencies. … They were somewhere in the 7 percent range – same as the governor’s office."

By Chris Joyner • September 21, 2011
Chris McCalla
stated on August 1, 2011 in Press Release:

"An amazing 5,400 jobs were lost in the first 12 months of the (smoking) ban’s implementation in Ohio’s hospitality industry alone."

By Chris Joyner • September 19, 2011
La Raza
stated on July 20, 2011 in newscast:

Medicaid is the primary source of health insurance for 41.7 percent of Hispanic children in Georgia.

By Chris Joyner • August 1, 2011
Mike Males
stated on June 13, 2011 in an article :

"There’s pretty much no question that [the curfew ordinances] aren’t effective in either reducing crime or preventing harm to young people."

By Chris Joyner • July 22, 2011

Good week for truthiness at PolitiFact Georgia

By Willoughby Mariano • July 24, 2011