Fact Check Posts – Page 12

Donald Trump
stated on March 10, 2016 a GOP debate in Miami:

Common Core is "education through Washington D.C."

By Joshua Gillin • March 11, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on March 7, 2016 a campaign ad:

"As a legislator, (Marco Rubio) flipped on a key vote after making a quick $200,000 from selling the house to the mother of the bill's lobbyist."

By Aaron Sharockman, Joshua Gillin • March 11, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on March 6, 2016 a Democratic debate in Flint, Mich.:

"(Flint, Mich., is) paying three times more for poison water than I am paying in Burlington, Vt., for clean water."

By Joshua Gillin • March 7, 2016

Charles Van Zant
stated on February 29, 2016 a House Finance and Tax committee meeting:

"For every time the state gets paid a dollar in taxes (on gambling), somebody loses $6."

By Joshua Gillin • March 4, 2016

Sierra Club
stated on February 22, 2016 a letter from Tampa Bay Group chairman Kent Bailey to Hillsborough County commissioners:

"Our community (Tampa Bay) is one of the 10 most threatened by the sea level rise in the world."

By Joshua Gillin • February 26, 2016

Marco Rubio
stated on February 25, 2016 comments during the Houston GOP debate:

"When they passed Obamacare, they put a bailout fund in Obamacare. … We led the effort and wiped out that bailout fund."

By Joshua Gillin • February 26, 2016

Janet Adkins
stated on February 9, 2016 a House Appropriations Committee meeting:

"There is great disparity, tremendous disparity, in the (capital) funding on a per-student basis between our traditional public schools and our charter public schools."

By Joshua Gillin • February 22, 2016

Seminole Tribe of Florida
stated on February 3, 2016 a commercial:

The Seminole gambling compact offers "$3 billion in guaranteed revenue, the largest share for any state in history."

By Joshua Gillin • February 11, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on February 7, 2016 comments on Meet the Press:

"There really isn’t any kind of foreign policy network that is supporting and advising Sen. Sanders."

By Joshua Gillin • February 7, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on February 6, 2016 an ABC Republican debate in New Hampshire:

"Right now we’re the highest taxed country in the world."

By Joshua Gillin, Louis Jacobson • February 7, 2016

Rick Scott
stated on January 20, 2016 a comment to a Tampa Bay Times reporter:

"We've cut taxes 50 times and look what has happened to our revenues. They've grown."

By Joshua Gillin • February 4, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on February 2, 2016 a town hall event in Windham, N.H.:

The 2013 immigration bill "expanded President Obama’s ability to bring Syrian refugees to this country without mandating any meaningful background checks."

By Joshua Gillin, Jon Greenberg • February 3, 2016

Marco Rubio
stated on January 28, 2016 a Republican debate in Iowa on Fox News:

"I have never supported cap and trade."

By Joshua Gillin • January 29, 2016

John Cortes
stated on January 13, 2016 a House Health Innovation Subcommittee meeting:

"Anyone can die of a toothache."

By Joshua Gillin • January 26, 2016

Marco Rubio
stated on January 18, 2016 an exchange with voters at an Iowa campaign event:

Says his much-discussed boots are "made in Wisconsin."

By Joshua Gillin • January 19, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on January 17, 2016 comments during the South Carolina Democratic presidential debate:

"Very little of (the defense) budget — less than 10 percent — actually goes into fighting ISIS and international terrorism."

By Joshua Gillin • January 18, 2016

Marco Rubio
stated on January 14, 2016 a Republican presidential debate in North Charleston, S.C.:

Says Sen. Ted Cruz used to be "in favor of birthright citizenship" but is now against it.

By Joshua Gillin • January 15, 2016

Rick Scott
stated on January 12, 2016 his 2016 State of the State address:

"We have completely turned our economy around."

By Joshua Gillin • January 12, 2016

Viral image
stated on December 26, 2015 a Facebook post:

Says U.S. Rep. Ted Yoho said "African Americans should only be given three-fifths of a vote."

By Joshua Gillin • December 30, 2015

Patrick Murphy
stated on December 8, 2015 a tweet:

"91% of suspected terrorists who attempted to buy guns in America walked away with the weapon they wanted."

By Joshua Gillin • December 29, 2015

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