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Cory Booker
stated on July 27, 2015 in a post on Instagram:

"We built a new prison every 10 days between 1990 and 2005 to keep up with our mass incarceration explosion of nonviolent offenders."

By Keely Herring • July 31, 2015
Bloggers
stated on July 10, 2015 in a headline on the website NewsExaminer:

"Christian Pastor in Vermont Sentenced to One Year in Prison After Refusing to Marry Gay Couple"

By Keely Herring • July 16, 2015
Ultraviolet
stated on June 30, 2015 in a Facebook meme:

Says Chris Christie "vetoed equal pay for women 3 times. He only let the bill pass once it became a damaging campaign issue."

By Keely Herring • July 13, 2015
Ted Cruz
stated on June 23, 2015 in an op-ed on Breitbart:

On support for Trade Promotion Authority, called fast-track

By Keely Herring • July 8, 2015
Donald Trump
stated on July 1, 2015 in remarks on CNN.:

Says his book, The Art of the Deal, is "the No. 1 selling business book of all time."

By Linda Qiu • July 6, 2015
Chris Christie
stated on June 7, 2015 in an interview on CBS' Face the Nation:

On Common Core.

By Keely Herring • June 24, 2015
Barack Obama
stated on June 18, 2015 in remarks at the White House:

"This type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries. It doesn’t happen in other places with this kind of frequency."

By Keely Herring • June 22, 2015
Facebook posts
stated on June 15, 2015 in a social media post:

Says Bill Clinton "gave a speech in 1996 about Iraq having WMDs" and said "we needed a regime change," even though everyone blamed those things on George W. Bush.

By Keely Herring • June 16, 2015
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 4, 2015 in a speech:

"Former Gov. Rick Perry signed a law that a federal court said was actually written with the purpose of discriminating against minority voters."

By Keely Herring • June 9, 2015
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 4, 2015 in a speech:

"In New Jersey, Gov. Christie vetoed legislation to extend early voting."

By Keely Herring • June 9, 2015