Latest Fact Checks By Aaron Sharockman

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Rick Scott says welfare recipients are more likely to use illicit drugs

By Aaron Sharockman
June 9, 2011
"Studies show that people that are on welfare are higher users of drugs than people not on welfare."
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Bob Graham says on “Hardball” that Florida bill prohibits docs from talking gun safety with patients

By Aaron Sharockman
June 6, 2011
"We had (a bill) in Florida where we now are prohibiting doctors to talk -- particularly pediatricians -- to talk to their patients about gun…
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Water savings plan doesn’t escape Scott’s veto pen

By Aaron Sharockman
May 27, 2011
Says he vetoed $250,000 from the budget for a program to learn how to catch rainwater.
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St. Petersburg Republican says he sometimes bucked GOP during 2011 legislative session

By Aaron Sharockman
May 26, 2011
"Sometimes I was the only 'no' vote on the entire board."
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Rays 3B Evan Longoria’s spectacular, barehanded catch has become a must-see on YouTube

By Aaron Sharockman
May 24, 2011
Says his barehanded catch posted on YouTube is real.
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Flexibility in early voting means possibly less hours to vote

By Aaron Sharockman
May 23, 2011
"Early voting remains at 96 hours."
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Senator rails against growing conforming budget bills

By Aaron Sharockman
May 7, 2011
From 2008 to 2011, "the pages in the conforming bills have gone from 400 pages to 2,200."
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Think we have it tough? In Africa, people walk up to 300 miles to vote, GOP senator says

By Aaron Sharockman
May 6, 2011
Says people in Africa "literally walk two and three hundred miles" in order to vote.
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Democratic state Rep. Joe Gibbons says Floridians don’t favor health care repeal

By Aaron Sharockman
May 5, 2011
"Polls show that Floridians don't want to repeal the Affordable Care Act."
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Sen. John Thrasher says E-Verify could’ve prevented 9/11 attacks

By Aaron Sharockman
May 3, 2011
Says that had E-Verify been in place in Florida when 9/11 terrorists lived here, "we might have saved the lives of 3,000 Americans." 
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Sen. J.D. Alexander questions E-Verify costs

By Aaron Sharockman
May 3, 2011
Says using E-Verify is "a fair amount of cost," about $20 per person that does not match.
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Bill Nelson criticizes state election bill, cites number of tossed provisional ballots

By Aaron Sharockman
May 2, 2011
"55 percent of the people who cast a provisional ballot (in Florida) in the last presidential election -- their vote did not count."
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