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Instagram posts stated on June 06, 2023 in a screenshot on Instagram:

“Pfizer funneled $12 million to CNN anchor Anderson Cooper as part of a deal to promote mRNA COVID jabs to the American public.”

By Andy Nguyen• June 16, 2023

Rush Holt stated on August 05, 2013 in a Democratic primary U.S. Senate seat campaign TV ad:

"We need to pass a carbon tax to stop climate change. Break up the Wall Street banks. And stop the government spying on innocent Americans. Cory Booker doesn’t support any of these ideas."

By Caryn Shinske• August 11, 2013

Greg Abbott stated on July 14, 2017 in his speech kicking off his re-election campaign:

"More Texans have jobs today than ever before in the history of our state."

By W. Gardner Selby• August 3, 2017

Marco Rubio stated on April 14, 2013 in an interview on ABC's 'This Week':

Ché Guevara "wrote extensively about the superiority of white Europeans over people of African descent."

By Amy Sherman• April 17, 2013

Viral image stated on September 16, 2018 in a Facebook post:

Says CNN’s Anderson Cooper stood in a ditch during Hurricane Florence to exaggerate water levels.

By Kyra Haas• September 18, 2018

Greg Abbott stated on June 16, 2021 in a press conference:

“Carnage" is being caused "by people who are coming across the border."

By Brandon Mulder• July 2, 2021

Texas Organizing Project stated on March 05, 2015 in a press release:

"The unemployment rate among blacks in Texas is 9.5% -- far more than double white unemployment -- and wages have fallen for black workers in Texas since 2000."

By Alex Wilts• April 23, 2015

Republican Party of Florida stated on October 31, 2013 in a YouTube video:

Says Alex Sink "failed Florida homeowners by using predatory lending practices."

By Joshua Gillin• January 22, 2014

Ron Klein stated on June 28, 2010 in a fundraising e-mail:

"West has raised $2 million from those that would leave our beaches in ruins, end Social Security and Medicare, and give corporations free reign."

By Amy Sherman• July 1, 2010

Facebook posts stated on May 02, 2021 in a Facebook post:

Says Kentucky Derby jockey John Velazquez turned down an invitation to the White House and said, “if I wanted to see a horse’s ass I would of came in second.”

By Ciara O'Rourke• May 3, 2021

Edward Flynn stated on February 09, 2012 in an interview:

Says 85 percent of Milwaukee shootings involve "people with extensive criminal records shooting other people with extensive criminal records."

By Tom Kertscher• March 19, 2012

Senate Majority PAC stated on July 01, 2016 in a television ad first airing on July 1:

"(Big banks) have invested over $300,000 in (Joe Heck), and Heck has sponsored $44 million dollars in tax breaks for banks."

By Riley Snyder• July 12, 2016

John Albers stated on April 27, 2010 in :

When he worked for AT&T, he "was responsible for large parts in a $5 billion organization."

By Willoughby Mariano• June 29, 2010

Oregon Senate Republicans (The Leadership Fund) stated on October 12, 2012 in a campaign mailer:

Laurie Monnes Anderson "voted to let violent criminals out of jail early."

By Janie Har• October 19, 2012

Instagram posts stated on June 21, 2023 in an Instagram post:

Greta Thunberg said the world would end on June 21, 2023.

By Ciara O'Rourke• June 22, 2023

Hakeem Jeffries stated on July 02, 2025 in a House floor speech:

President Donald Trump’s tax law has “tax breaks for billionaires, permanent; tax breaks for everybody else, expire.”

By Louis Jacobson• July 8, 2025

Steve Cohen stated on October 31, 2012 in a press release.:

Says Delta Air Lines has "once again broken a promise they made to me and to the people of Memphis."

By Bartholomew Sullivan• November 25, 2012

Trebor Banstetter stated on February 02, 2015 in in a statement:

A bill to eliminate Delta Air Lines’ jet fuel tax breaks "violates federal law and puts the state at risk of losing critical funding from the Federal Aviation Administration."

By Nancy Badertscher• February 23, 2015

Kevin McCarthy stated on August 31, 2021 in a statement via Twitter:

“If these (telecom and internet) companies comply with the Democrat order to turn over private information, they are in violation of federal law and subject to losing their ability to operate in the United States.”

By Jon Greenberg• September 2, 2021

David Dewhurst stated on October 01, 2013 in a blog post on his campaign website:

"I have cut taxes 63 times, including a 2006 property tax reduction that ranks as the largest in state history."

By W. Gardner Selby• December 8, 2013

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