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Richard Tomlins stated on August 22, 2011 in a recorded telephone message to Cranston residents:

"Mayor Fung wants to punish our children's education by removing 12 million dollars from current funding to pay for his private charter school. Your taxes would increase by between 6 and 8 percent per year."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr.• September 4, 2011

Peter Palumbo stated on April 11, 2013 in a House Finance Committee hearing:

In Cranston, it costs $5,000 to $6,000 to send out community notifications on just one Level 3 sex offender.

By C. Eugene Emery Jr.• May 12, 2013

Allan Fung stated on November 04, 2013 in a campaign speech:

"We have created new jobs here in Cranston -- more than 1,000."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr.• November 10, 2013

Kenneth Block stated on July 15, 2014 in a radio debate:

"The increase in the garbage tax that [Mayor Allan Fung] imposed in Cranston for some people has been as much as $200."

By Karen Lee Ziner• July 27, 2014

Allan Fung stated on June 26, 2014 in a letter to taxpayers:

Cranston's 2014-2015 "budget funds 100 percent of the local police and fire pension and other retiree benefit costs."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr.• July 9, 2014

Facebook posts stated on September 20, 2020 in a Facebook post:

The man in a mugshot is “responsible for lighting 32 of the wildfires” on the West Coast.

By Samantha Putterman• September 21, 2020

David Silverman stated on February 17, 2012 in a story on TV website:

"There are more atheists in the country right now than Jews, Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists combined and doubled."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr.• February 26, 2012

Greg Abbott stated on February 01, 2015 in interview on Fox News Sunday:

Under Common Core standards, it takes "more than a minute" to teach a student "how to add nine plus six."

By Lauren Carroll• February 3, 2015

Hilary Treadwell stated on April 06, 2016 in an interview:

"Rhode Island: 3% bigger at low tide."

By Jacqueline Tempera• April 10, 2016

Kenneth Block stated on June 17, 2014 in a debate:

Republican candidate for governor Allan Fung "donated to Democrats like Congressman David Cicilline, disgraced (House) speaker Gordon Fox and even Mr. Obamacare, Harry Reid."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr.• June 29, 2014

Allan Fung stated on March 07, 2014 in a radio interview:

After hiring a campaign manager in 2006, "I got this $100 and something fee ... for hazardous materials."

By John Hill• March 23, 2014

Daniel McKee stated on August 21, 2011 in a Providence Journal commentary:

"This year, the Blackstone Valley Mayoral Academy became the first public school in Rhode Island history to have 100 percent of its elementary-age students proficient in reading on state assessments."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr.• September 8, 2011

Robert Barber stated on July 24, 2011 in a Providence Journal commentary:

Statistically, law-enforcement officers die 10 years earlier than the general population.

By C. Eugene Emery Jr.• August 14, 2011

Joee Lindbeck stated on April 11, 2013 in a House Finance Committee hearing:

"Two years ago Providence alone spent $50,000 a year notifying the school department" about residents in the state's sex offender registry.

By C. Eugene Emery Jr.• May 12, 2013

Allan Fung stated on June 02, 2014 in a TV commercial:

Ken "Block supports Obamacare."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr.• June 8, 2014

American LeadHERship PAC stated on October 08, 2014 in a TV commercial:

"As mayor, [Allan Fung] raised taxes three times."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr.• October 14, 2014

James Parisi stated on August 21, 2011 in a TV news show:

A national study of 2,500 charter schools shows that "maybe 20 percent do better than the community public schools, 40 percent or so do worse and the rest are not having any significant difference."

By Lynn Arditi• September 1, 2011

Nicholas Mattiello stated on January 03, 2016 in newspaper story:

"Let’s start with the premise that Rhode Island already has one of the 10 strictest [gun laws] amongst all the states."

By Mark Reynolds• January 10, 2016

Charlene Lima stated on June 26, 2013 in a speech on the floor of the Rhode Island House:

Economic Development Commission Executive Director Keith Stokes "sent me a letter and he said the taxpayers will never be on the hook for these bonds" for 38 Studios.

By C. Eugene Emery Jr.• July 10, 2013

Lincoln Chafee stated on January 15, 2014 in his state of state speech:

"Since I took office in January 2011, we have created 11,100 Rhode Island-based jobs."

By John Hill• February 2, 2014

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