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Will Short Gorham is a news researcher at the Tampa Bay Times, formerly the St. Petersburg Times.

Featured Statements

Xavier Becerra
stated on July 29, 2011 in a press conference:

"We've had 11,000 attempts to amend the Constitution since 1789."

By Will Short Gorham • August 30, 2011
Barack Obama
stated on August 11, 2008 in interview by Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod:

John McCain has seven houses.

By Stephanie Garry • August 22, 2008
Hillary Clinton
stated on March 17, 2008 in Washington, D.C.:

As first lady, Clinton would travel to places that were "too small, too poor or too dangerous" for the president.

By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 4, 2008
Hillary Clinton
stated on March 5, 2008 in an interview on CNN's "American Morning.":

"I helped to bring peace to Northern Ireland."

By Bill Adair • March 10, 2008
Hillary Clinton
stated on February 26, 2008 in a debate in Cleveland:

"He (Obama) chairs the subcommittee on Europe. ... He's held not one substantive hearing to do oversight."

By Robert Farley • February 27, 2008