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Nicholas Langworthy
stated on February 10, 2023 in a tweet:

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm met "with the radical green energy group behind the gas stove ban," which "has ties to the" Chinese Communist Party.

By Conor Amendola • March 9, 2023
William Barclay
stated on December 1, 2022 in a radio interview:

California has twice the population of New York, but spends $260 billion, while New York spends $220 billion.

By Jill Terreri Ramos • January 13, 2023
Social Media
stated on August 30, 2022 in social media posts:

In New York, you need to show identification to buy whipped cream, but not to vote.

By Jill Terreri Ramos • September 1, 2022
Sean Ryan
stated on March 3, 2022 in an op-ed:

“New York state has already lost 99% of its historic freshwater wetlands.”

By Elizabeth Egan • March 29, 2022
Chris Jacobs
stated on November 19, 2021 in a radio interview:

“This one here has subsidies for people making as much as $800,000 to be able to buy a Tesla.”

By Jill Terreri Ramos • November 26, 2021
India Walton
stated on September 9, 2021 in a debate:

Under Mayor Byron Brown, “we’ve been defunding community centers, our pools were closed this summer, we’ve been defunding senior and youth services.”

By Jill Terreri Ramos • September 24, 2021
Kamala Harris
stated on July 9, 2021 in an interview:

New and proposed state laws on voting mean “if you are going to be standing in that line for all those hours, you can’t have any water or any food.”

By Amy Sherman • July 15, 2021
Bill Cassidy
stated on February 7, 2021 in remarks on NBC's "Meet the Press":

“New York, for all of their complaining, Gov. Cuomo's complaining, has only had a 1.5% decrease in revenue” due to the coronavirus pandemic.

By John Pullano • February 26, 2021
Instagram posts
stated on February 11, 2021 in an Instagram post:

Due to differing lockdown orders, New York has more COVID-19 cases, deaths, hospitalizations and job losses than Florida, and New York also lags on vaccinations.

By Samantha Putterman • February 26, 2021
Ted Cruz
stated on January 9, 2021 in a tweet:

Said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her allies “blocked a resolution condemning anti-Semitism — which I passed unanimously in the Senate.”

By Landon Allison • February 18, 2021
Colin Schmitt
stated on January 14, 2021 in a news conference:

“We have scientific data, from all different levels, but particularly from the high school sports levels, from numerous different states that shows that it is safe to play what New York is considering high-risk sports.”

By Jill Terreri Ramos • January 26, 2021
Chris Jacobs
stated on January 7, 2021 in a television interview:

“There were several states where outside actors dramatically changed the rules of the road, so to speak, two weeks out, one week out, on how elections would be run.”

By Jill Terreri Ramos • January 13, 2021
Andrew Cuomo
stated on September 30, 2020 in a press call:

"We're No. 46 out of 50 states... we're 46th in terms of percentage of deaths in nursing homes."

By Jill Terreri Ramos • October 16, 2020
Michael Caputo
stated on August 17, 2020 in a tweet:

“Does the #DemConvention know @NYGovCuomo forced nursing homes across NY to take in COVID positive patients and planted the seeds of infection that killed thousands of grandmothers and grandfathers?”

By Michelle Andrews • August 24, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on July 29, 2020 in a Tweet:

“New York Mail-In voting is in a disastrous state of condition. Votes from many weeks ago are missing - a total mess. They have no idea what is going on. Rigged Election.”

By Jill Terreri Ramos • August 14, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on July 26, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“Florida is doing over five times better” than New Jersey and New York in COVID-19 deaths per million people.

By Tom Kertscher • July 31, 2020
Andrew Cuomo
stated on May 20, 2020 in a news conference:

“Why did the state do that with COVID patients in nursing homes? It’s because the state followed President Trump’s CDC guidance.”

By Jill Terreri Ramos • June 13, 2020
Chris Jacobs
stated on March 4, 2020 in a television commercial:

"Nate McMurray wants to reward illegals with amnesty."

By Jill Terreri Ramos • March 24, 2020
Michael Bloomberg
stated on February 20, 2020 in a tweeted video:

Video shows Democratic presidential candidates speechless for 20 seconds when discussing whether any of them started a business.

By Daniel Funke • February 20, 2020
Free Thought Project
stated on January 24, 2020 in in a blog post:

“State Forces Citizens to Pay for ‘Stargazing Permit’ to View Night Sky in Public Parks”

By Jill Terreri Ramos • February 9, 2020
Crystal Peoples-Stokes
stated on October 9, 2019 in a radio interview:

"If folks are vaping a legal medical cannabis product that comes from any of the New York state operators, they will not have to worry about the negative impacts on their lungs."

By Jill Terreri Ramos • November 2, 2019
Nate McMurray
stated on September 10, 2019 in a Tweet:

"Under @BarackObama illegal immigration dropped to a 50-year low."

By Jill Terreri Ramos • September 23, 2019
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on July 9, 2019 in a campaign event:

A transaction tax in countries like the UK "didn't affect their financial markets at all."

By Jill Terreri Ramos • July 26, 2019
John Flanagan
stated on June 18, 2019 in a radio interview:

"The Senate Democrats have not provided one tax cut."

By Jill Terreri Ramos • July 8, 2019
Andrew Cuomo
stated on March 11, 2019 in a news conference:

"Fifty-two counties have average taxes of above the SALT $10,000 cap."

By Jill Terreri Ramos • April 17, 2019
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on February 25, 2019 in in a news conference:

"Almost every day another 9/11 survivor or responder dies from a 9/11-related cancer."

By Jill Terreri Ramos • March 9, 2019
Patricia Fahy
stated on January 14, 2019 in a radio interview:

As for recreational marijuana revenue projections, "we are seeing all those numbers reach disappointing levels in the states that have legalized. They’re not meeting their targets for the most part."

By Jill Terreri Ramos • January 21, 2019
Antonio Delgado
stated on September 12, 2018 in a TV ad:

Says U.S. Rep. John Faso "voted for an age tax on seniors."

By Samantha Putterman • October 3, 2018
Andrew Cuomo
stated on August 29, 2018 in a debate between Democratic candidates for governor, at Hofstra University.:

"We passed the toughest gun control law in the United States of America, the SAFE Act."

By Jill Terreri Ramos • September 6, 2018
Christine Quinn
stated on May 23, 2018 in a presentation at the State Democratic Convention:

New York state has the "second highest millionaires tax in the nation."

By Dan Clark • May 31, 2018

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