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Latest Fact-Checks By Katie Sanders

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Bill Foster
Bill Foster
stated on July 9, 2013 a campaign brochure
"Since I was elected, crime rates have been at their lowest in over a decade."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • July 19, 2013
Kathleen Ford
Kathleen Ford
stated on June 27, 2013 a mayoral forum
"Private prison systems are calculating how many new beds (they will need) based on the ... number of third graders."
Pants on Fire!
By Katie Sanders • July 16, 2013
Judicial Watch
Judicial Watch
stated on July 10, 2013 a press release
"A little-known unit of the Department of Justice, the Community Relations Service, was deployed to Sanford, FL, following the Trayvon Martin shooting to help organize and manage rallies and protests against George Zimmerman."
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • July 12, 2013
Chain email
Chain email
stated on July 7, 2013 a long-running chain email
Obamacare "will provide insurance to all non-U.S. residents, even if they are here illegally."
Pants on Fire!
By Katie Sanders • July 9, 2013
United Florida Horsemen
United Florida Horsemen
stated on June 21, 2013 an ad campaign
Says Florida "rubber-stamped phony horse racing."
Half-True
By Katie Sanders • July 5, 2013
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on June 24, 2013 a TV interview
Says Florida didn’t offer special incentives to Deutsche Bank, which announced it will add 300 jobs in Florida.
Pants on Fire!
By Katie Sanders • June 25, 2013
Florida Democratic Party
Florida Democratic Party
stated on June 16, 2013 a Web video
A study ranked Florida "No. 1 in government corruption" under Gov. Rick Scott.
False
By Katie Sanders • June 20, 2013
Bill Nelson
Bill Nelson
stated on June 7, 2013 a letter to Gov. Rick Scott
If Gov. Rick Scott activates "the National Guard in anticipation of a federal disaster, the state’s costs, including the costs to recall any furloughed guardsmen, will be fully reimbursable by FEMA."
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • June 18, 2013
Bill Nelson
Bill Nelson
stated on May 30, 2013 an op-ed
Says Gov. Rick Scott returned "$1 million in federal funding that would have helped the state cover the cost of overseeing insurance rates under the new health care law."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • June 11, 2013
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on May 21, 2013 a Wall Street Journal interview
"We cut taxes 24 times."
Half-True
By Katie Sanders • June 3, 2013
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on May 20, 2013 2013-14 veto message
"We are already almost halfway to our 2010 goal of creating 700,000 new jobs in seven years."
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • May 20, 2013
Will Weatherford
Will Weatherford
stated on May 9, 2013 an op-ed
"Expanding Medicaid would require borrowing more money, drastically expanding our deficit."
Half-True
By Katie Sanders • May 16, 2013
Kathy Castor
Kathy Castor
stated on May 6, 2013 a TV interview
"70,000 three-year-olds and four-year-olds across America will lose access to the preschool Head Start program. ... 2,000 in the state of Florida alone."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman, Katie Sanders • May 13, 2013
Allison Tant
Allison Tant
stated on April 30, 2013 a Florida Voices column
Says Gov. Rick Scott allowed Republican legislators to cut his teacher pay raise proposal by 60 percent.
False
By Katie Sanders • May 6, 2013
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on April 29, 2013 a Facebook post
"Every Florida teacher gets a pay raise."
Half-True
By Katie Sanders • May 1, 2013
Adam Schefter
Adam Schefter
stated on April 25, 2013 a tweet about the NFL Draft
"Odd fact for odd draft: No. 2 overall pick will earn more than the No. 1 pick due to no state tax in Florida. So 2 not so bad."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • April 26, 2013
Charles Van Zant
Charles Van Zant
stated on April 18, 2013 House floor debate on HB 845
"Abortionists have reduced our black population by more than 25 percent since 1973."
False
By Katie Sanders • April 25, 2013
Christopher L. Smith
Christopher L. Smith
stated on April 21, 2013 a column in the South Florida Sun Sentinel
The election bill "allows persons to correct an absentee ballot if they did not sign it and requires an extra two hours a day for early voting. Everything else in this bill is discretionary."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman, Katie Sanders • April 23, 2013
Associated Industries of Florida
Associated Industries of Florida
stated on April 14, 2013 a TV ad
The "working tax cut" created "over 40,000 new jobs in just the last four years."
Pants on Fire!
By Katie Sanders • April 19, 2013
Lenny Curry
Lenny Curry
stated on April 14, 2013 an interview with Central Florida News 13
"Rick Scott has paid down our debt by about $2 billion. Charlie Crist’s debt went up about $5 billion."
Half-True
By Katie Sanders • April 17, 2013
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