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Search results for "GOP ESTABLISHMENT SPENT 100 MILLION PROPPING UP JOHN CORNYN"

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Lloyd Doggett stated on October 25, 2014 in a Let's Go Austin mailer:
"The Austin Tea Party and an ultra-conservative millionaire are behind the" campaign against the city’s light-rail proposition.
By W. Gardner Selby• October 29, 2014
David Dewhurst stated on February 22, 2012 in a press release.:
Says Ted Cruz slurred Republican senators including John Cornyn as "graybeards" and "spineless jellyfish."
By W. Gardner Selby• March 5, 2012
Jim Huffman stated on September 17, 2010 in a television/web ad:
Says Ron Wyden spent $2 million "to study exotic ants."
By Ian K. Kullgren• September 24, 2010
John Cornyn stated on August 03, 2015 in a tweet:
"In FY 2014 Planned Parenthood performed 327,653 abortions while receiving $528 million from taxpayers, in violation" of "the Hyde amendment."
By W. Gardner Selby• August 7, 2015
John Cornyn stated on September 07, 2014 in an interview for "Inside Texas Politics" on WFAA-TV, Channel 8, in Dallas:
My office sends federal "money back every year."
By W. Gardner Selby• October 14, 2014
Steve Stockman stated on January 24, 2014 in a Stockman campaign web page:
"John Cornyn backed his pal David Dewhurst" for the U.S. Senate over Ted Cruz.
By W. Gardner Selby• January 28, 2014
John Cornyn stated on March 09, 2017 in a U.S. Senate floor speech:
Texas "spent close to a third of its budget on Medicaid last year, a third of all state spending."
By W. Gardner Selby• March 28, 2017
National Republican Congressional Committee stated on October 18, 2018 in a campaign ad:
Says "billionaire George Soros bankrolls" Minnesota Democrat Dan Feehan, who is "employed by a Soros-funded liberal outfit in D.C." and his campaign is "propped up by out of state super PACs backed by Soros' millions."  
By Stephen Koff• October 30, 2018
John Cornyn stated on August 03, 2010 in a press release:
"Taxpayer money will provide iPod Touch devices to high school students in Utah, BlackBerry smart phones to smokers who kick the habit and funding for a study of exotic ants in East Africa."
By Ciara O'Rourke• August 24, 2010
John Cornyn stated on September 12, 2020 in an advertisement:
Says he “strongly supports legalization for Dreamers.”
By Brandon Mulder• October 3, 2020
Kay Bailey Hutchison stated on November 16, 2010 in a statement:
On an earmark moratorium.
By Ciara O'Rourke• November 26, 2010
John Cornyn stated on January 20, 2015 in a post on his U.S. Senate website:
The Texas leg of the Keystone pipeline "has already created 4,800 jobs in just the year it's been up and running."
By W. Gardner Selby• January 23, 2015
Steve Bannon stated on November 15, 2017 in radio interview:
Says Chuck Todd said the Roy Moore story "felt completely orchestrated."
By Manuela Tobias• November 15, 2017
John Cornyn stated on June 11, 2020 in an interview:
The United States has not completed a “top-to-bottom review of our criminal justice system at the national level since 1965.”
By Taylor Goldenstein• July 2, 2020
John Cornyn stated on May 10, 2010 in a press release:
"Ms. Kagan has spent her entire professional career in Harvard Square, Hyde Park and the D.C. Beltway."  
By Robert Farley, Ciara O'Rourke• May 10, 2010
John Cornyn stated on February 14, 2022 in a tweet:
"100,000 Americans died of an overdose in a single year."
By Nusaiba Mizan• February 21, 2022
Steve Stockman stated on January 31, 2014 in a campaign email blast:
John Cornyn "voted twice in 2013 to back Obama’s amnesty plan."
By W. Gardner Selby• February 10, 2014
John Cornyn stated on January 20, 2010 in a televised interview:
"The No. 1 issue that the American people care about is getting America back to work."
By W. Gardner Selby• January 20, 2010
No on 56 campaign stated on October 07, 2016 in a campaign TV ad. :
California’s proposed tobacco tax "diverts 82 percent of the new taxes to line the pockets of wealthy special interests like insurance companies who don't have to help even one more patient."  
By Chris Nichols• October 25, 2016
John Cornyn stated on July 09, 2010 in a Talking Points Memo article:
"There have been 30 published polls in this election cycle and Harry Reid's been trailing in every single one."
By Ciara O'Rourke• July 17, 2010

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Dewhurst, Cruz, Cornyn, the Sequel

By W. Gardner Selby• June 20, 2012

UPDATED: John Cornyn's rancher tweet among many claims about border conditions

By W. Gardner Selby• March 6, 2013

Doggett v. Cornyn

By W. Gardner Selby• January 25, 2013

Pro-life, pro-choice, pro-truth

By Meghan Ashford-Grooms• February 1, 2011

The Truth-O-Meter report card on John Cornyn

By • February 14, 2011

Examining Bernie Sanders’ claim: Prop 61 ‘great for California taxpayers’

By Chris Nichols• October 12, 2016

Cornyn cages Stockman, Democrats may need runoff to settle Senate nominee

By W. Gardner Selby• March 5, 2014

Texas Truthiness in 2010

By • January 1, 2011

Dewhurst, Cornyn among most-fact-checked Texans still in running for statewide office

By W. Gardner Selby• March 5, 2014

Fact-checking claims about California’s ballot measures

By Chris Nichols• October 13, 2016

Cornyn, Davis tops among fact-checked statewide candidates

By W. Gardner Selby• December 9, 2013

2014 campaign rhetoric is off and running

By Angie Drobnic Holan• February 21, 2014

PolitiFact Texas fact-checks the Texas primary contests

By Angie Drobnic Holan, W. Gardner Selby• March 3, 2014

Were Donald Trump, John Cornyn 'draft dodgers'?

By W. Gardner Selby• July 22, 2015

There’s A Lot Of Misinformation About California’s March Primary Election. Here Are The Facts.

By Chris Nichols• February 11, 2020

Consult your Truth-O-Meter before voting in Texas party primaries

By W. Gardner Selby• February 27, 2014

Rick Perry tours border with Fox's Van Susteren

By Meghan Ashford-Grooms• May 26, 2011

In interview, Cornyn revisits fact-checked statements

By Meghan Ashford-Grooms• April 29, 2011

John Cornyn--a Texas leader not running for president--and the Truth-O-Meter

By W. Gardner Selby• August 14, 2015

Bold claims about California’s drug price measure persist, despite unknowns

By Chris Nichols• November 4, 2016