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Tony Perkins
Tony Perkins
stated on June 30, 2013 a TV interview:
"We're already seeing bakers and florists and photographers forced to participate in same-sex marriages under the threat of law and in some cases even jail."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • July 8, 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
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on July 20, 2013 an interview:
Says President Obama has cracked down "on employers who are attracting undocumented immigrants and hiring them more than any previous president."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • July 3, 2013
Don Gaetz
Don Gaetz
stated on June 11, 2013 an op-ed:
"More than half of last year's U.S. college graduates are unemployed or underemployed."
Half-True
By Aaron Sharockman • June 14, 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
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
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
Friends of Miami First
Friends of Miami First
stated on April 23, 2013 a mailer:
The Dolphins stadium renovation will "create more than 4,000 new local jobs."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • May 1, 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
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
American Bird Conservancy
American Bird Conservancy
stated on March 29, 2013 a press release:
A proposed bill in the Florida Legislature "would authorize the public hoarding of cats by feral cat activists."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • April 16, 2013
Joe Negron
Joe Negron
stated on April 10, 2013 a gaggle of reporters:
Says PETA "is using this really fancy drone to follow hunters around in some places in other countries."
Half-True
By Katie Sanders • April 12, 2013
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on March 14, 2013 a speech at the conservative CPAC conference:
"There are 3 million jobs available in America that are not filled because too many of our people don’t have the skills for those jobs."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 14, 2013
Will Weatherford
Will Weatherford
stated on March 5, 2013 remarks on first day of session:
The Legislature needs to spend $500 million to "shore up" the pension fund this year and the next 28 years to keep it "afloat."
Half-True
By Katie Sanders • March 11, 2013
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on March 5, 2013 his State of the State address:
Says his proposed education spending "is the highest state funding level in Florida history."
Half-True
By Katie Sanders • March 5, 2013
Jeffrey Loria
Jeffrey Loria
stated on February 24, 2013 an ad:
The majority of public funding for the Marlins stadium "came from hotel taxes, the burden of which is incurred by tourists who are visiting our city, NOT the resident taxpayers."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • March 5, 2013
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on January 31, 2013 a news conference:
Says his budget provides "the highest state funding level in history" for education.
Half-True
By Katie Sanders • February 6, 2013
Mike Ryan
Mike Ryan
stated on January 14, 2013 a column in a political blog:
People committed involuntarily for 72 hours under the Baker Act will get their guns back "automatically and immediately upon discharge....and their commitment is never entered into a background check database."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • January 25, 2013
Don Gaetz
Don Gaetz
stated on January 11, 2013 an editorial board interview:
"I sponsored the amendment that expanded the hours of early voting so that people who have irregular work schedules could vote."
Half-True
By Katie Sanders • January 15, 2013
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