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Gavin Newsom
stated on September 10, 2018 in a campaign speech:

"Close to half of the children" in California are "at or near poverty," when you consider cost-of-living.

By Chris Nichols • September 19, 2018
Gavin Newsom
stated on August 17, 2018 in a TV interview:

Says John Cox "parroted, parroted Trump — almost verbatim — on the children’s separation issues at the border."

By Chris Nichols • September 12, 2018
John Cox
stated on July 30, 2018 in a Fox Business Network interview:

"Fully half the people — our research is showing half the people — in (California) want to leave."

By Chris Nichols • September 6, 2018
Gavin Newsom
stated on May 21, 2018:

Says the California state auditor "found (John) Chiang lost track of $31 billion dollars," as state controller.

By Chris Nichols • June 1, 2018
John Cox
stated on April 23, 2018 in a campaign TV ad:

GOP candidate for California governor Travis Allen "on the floor vote … refused to join Republicans opposing driver licenses for illegal aliens."

By Chris Nichols • May 29, 2018
John Cox
stated on April 23, 2018 in a campaign ad:

Republican candidate for California governor Travis Allen "gave campaign donations to Jerry Brown, Gavin Newsom and Barbara Boxer."

By Chris Nichols • May 25, 2018
John Chiang
stated on May 12, 2018 in a campaign ad:

Antonio Villaraigosa's "recklessness (as mayor of Los Angeles) ... left no funding to test 7,000 rape kits, putting public safety at risk."

By Chris Nichols • May 16, 2018
Gavin Newsom
stated on May 8, 2018 in a campaign debate:

"In San Francisco, we were successful in reducing our street population 40 percent. We got 12,000 people off the street."

By Chris Nichols • May 10, 2018
Gavin Newsom
stated on April 23, 2018 in in a campaign ad:

Gavin Newsom was "the first to take on the National Rifle Association and win."

By Chris Nichols • April 27, 2018
John Chiang
stated on March 29, 2018 in a letter to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions:

"A majority of Americans now live in states where they have decided to legalize cannabis," including recreational and medical marijuana.

By Chris Nichols • April 20, 2018
Travis Allen
stated on March 8, 2018:

"Homelessness has skyrocketed across California. We have the nation’s highest homelessness rate and the nation’s highest homeless population."

By Chris Nichols • March 27, 2018
Gavin Newsom
stated on March 8, 2018:

"California is 49th out of 50 in the United States in per capita housing units. Only Utah can lay claim to being lowest in per capita production."

By Chris Nichols • March 21, 2018
Antonio Villaraigosa
stated on March 5, 2018 in a news release:

California’s single-payer healthcare proposal would "force seniors off of Medicare."

By Chris Nichols • March 8, 2018
Travis Allen
stated on February 1, 2018 in an interview on Capital Public Radio:

"Californians are overwhelmingly against this concept of the illegal sanctuary state."

By Chris Nichols • February 7, 2018
Travis Allen
stated on January 2, 2018 in interview on Fox News:

"Seventy four percent of Californians are absolutely against sanctuary state" policies.

By Chris Nichols • January 9, 2018
Travis Allen
stated on June 15, 2017 in a Repeal the Gas Tax campaign article:

"This new gas tax does not increase (road) capacity anywhere in the state. It will build no new lanes of freeways. If Californians didn’t like their traffic before, they’re going to like it even less when they’re stuck in the exact same traffic and paying more for their gas."

By Chris Nichols • December 15, 2017
John Cox
stated on October 21, 2017 in a Capital Public Radio interview:

Californians pay "the highest electricity bills" in the nation.

By Chris Nichols • November 16, 2017
Delaine Eastin
stated on October 16, 2017 in an interview on Capital Public Radio:

Since 1965, California has built "six (college) campuses but 23 prisons."

By Chris Nichols • November 9, 2017
John Cox
stated on October 19, 2017 in a San Francisco Chronicle op-ed.:

"It costs nearly five times as much in California to build and maintain a mile of road as it does in the rest of the nation."

By Chris Nichols • November 1, 2017
Delaine Eastin
stated on October 11, 2017 in an op-ed:

"Ninety percent of people born in the 1940s ended up doing better financially than their parents. But those born in the 1980s, the much-maligned Millennials, have only a 50-50 chance of doing better (financially) than their parents, despite being the best-educated generation in our history."

By Chris Nichols • October 27, 2017
Antonio Villaraigosa
stated on September 20, 2017 in a newspaper article:

California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom was "for (high-speed rail), before he’s against it, and then he’s for it again."

By Chris Nichols • September 29, 2017
John Chiang
stated on August 13, 2017 in a Facebook live video:

"Since I’ve been the state treasurer, we’ve increased the building, construction of affordable housing by 80 percent."

By Chris Nichols • September 13, 2017
Antonio Villaraigosa
stated on July 31, 2017 in an interview on MSNBC:

"Undocumented immigrants commit less crimes than the native born."

By Chris Nichols • August 3, 2017
Gavin Newsom
stated on July 12, 2017 in an interview on MSNBC:

The Inland Empire is "the second fastest growing region" for jobs in California.

By Chris Nichols • July 27, 2017
Travis Allen
stated on June 22, 2017 in a campaign video:

California taxes are "among the highest in the nation."

By Chris Nichols • July 11, 2017
Travis Allen
stated on June 22, 2017 in a campaign video:

"I have seen crime increase in every major metropolitan area (in California) … Crime is on the rise in every major market."

By Chris Nichols • July 3, 2017
Antonio Villaraigosa
stated on June 6, 2017 in a speech:

Although California has "the sixth largest economy in the world, we also have one of the highest poverty rates" in the nation.

By Chris Nichols • June 22, 2017
Gavin Newsom
stated on June 2, 2017 in a tweet:

"Americans are 25x more likely to be shot & killed than others in developed countries."

By Chris Nichols • June 14, 2017
Antonio Villaraigosa
stated on June 6, 2017 in a speech:

"Seventy-seven of the top 300 cities with the highest poverty rate" nationwide are in California.

By Chris Nichols • June 9, 2017
Antonio Villaraigosa
stated on March 23, 2017 in a speech at a candidates forum:

"When I became mayor of Los Angeles, we had a 44 percent (high school) graduation rate. I said that was unacceptable. I challenged that notion. I said the mayor needs to be involved with our schools. We need to partner together. As I left, after a number of reforms, we grew our graduation rate from 44 percent to 72."

By Chris Nichols • May 5, 2017

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