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Anthony Johnson
stated on August 20, 2014 in a political debate:

"We’ve seen highway fatalities actually decrease in Colorado" since marijuana use was legalized.

By Dana Tims • August 22, 2014
Kate Brown
stated on May 1, 2012 in a television interview.:

Says she does the jobs of state auditor, secretary of state and lieutenant governor "for less than the price of one of them" in Washington state.

By Ian K. Kullgren • August 17, 2012
Jefferson Smith
stated on November 21, 2011 in an interview.:

Says "we got a chance to pass what I think is Oregon's first human trafficking bill which has increased by 66 percent the calls to the human trafficking hotline."

By Ian K. Kullgren • March 22, 2012
Matt Wand
stated on August 28, 2011 in guest column :

Says "Every time the Legislature 'suspended' the kicker, most recently the corporate kicker in 2007, Salem spent every penny and failed to stabilize the state's revenues."

By Janie Har • September 10, 2011
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on July 19, 2011 in debate on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives:

"The nonpartisan CBO, Congressional Budget Office, has said that the No. 1 policy decision that brought us to the need to prevent the nation from defaulting on our debt for the first time in history were the Bush tax cuts in 2001 and 2003."

By Therese Bottomly • July 25, 2011
Oregon Education Association
stated on July 1, 2011 in a blog posting:

House Bill 2301 never had a public hearing

By Janie Har • July 14, 2011
Roxanne Ross
stated on May 15, 2011 in an online posting:

Multnomah County’s food action plan "clearly plans to disrupt the free market system in terms of food choices making it harder and more expensive for many residents to eat their food of choice."

By Janie Har • June 24, 2011
Doug Whitsett
stated on June 3, 2011 in a legislative hearing:

The Medford Water Commission was fined $279,000 for dumping plain drinking water into a stream.

By Janie Har • June 18, 2011
John Kitzhaber
stated on April 19, 2011 in a press release:

"Creating 25 jobs in Umatilla County has the same impact as 500 jobs in the metro region."

By Ian K. Kullgren • June 17, 2011
Ted Ferrioli
stated on April 26, 2011 in an opinion column:

"The Public Employee Retirement System is making more millionaires than the Oregon state lottery."

By Janie Har • June 16, 2011