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Latest Fact-Checks In Florida

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U.S. Chamber of Commerce
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
stated on May 8, 2012 attack ad for TV:
"A Florida judge ruled parts of Obamacare unconstitutional."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • May 18, 2012
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on May 10, 2012 TV interview:
Florida has "1,200 golf courses. I think 58 million rounds played a year in Florida. We’ve got 44 percent of all travel golf in the country here. 5 million people come here just for golf."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • May 11, 2012
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on April 18, 2012 radio interview:
"About 230,000 people that were on unemployment when I took office are not on unemployment now."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • April 27, 2012
Will Weatherford
Will Weatherford
stated on March 28, 2012 remarks to the press:
"It's the first time in the nation this many members have been drawn (by a Legislature) into the same districts where it wasn't a court order."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • April 13, 2012
Luis Garcia
Luis Garcia
stated on February 15, 2012 a campaign press release:
Says David Rivera "received a $5,000 campaign contribution from Congressman Spencer Bachus, who is currently under House Ethics investigation for insider trading."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • March 16, 2012
American Civil Liberties Union of Florida
American Civil Liberties Union of Florida
stated on March 1, 2012 interview on "The Colbert Report":
There are "a larger number of shark attacks in Florida than there are cases of voter fraud."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • March 2, 2012
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on February 25, 2012 an interview with WTSP:
"In some communities, for $10,000 worth of (PIP) coverage it’s $1,500 a year."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • March 2, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 23, 2012 a speech in Miami:
"We supported the first new nuclear power plant in three decades."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 2, 2012
Bill Proctor
Bill Proctor
stated on January 6, 2012 a newspaper article:
"Right now, 50 percent of Florida students leaving high school cannot read at grade level."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • February 23, 2012
Connie Mack
Connie Mack
stated on February 4, 2012 an interview:
"I have a very conservative voting record."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • February 22, 2012
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on February 11, 2012 speech at CPAC:
"We are poised to get rid of over 1,000 more regulations in 2012."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • February 17, 2012
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on February 6, 2012 a speech in Tallahassee:
"Nationwide tuition at public universities is up almost 300 percent ... in the last 20 years."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • February 9, 2012
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 31, 2012 a TV interview:
"No candidate has run more negative ads in American history than Barack Obama did in 2008, especially in the general.’’
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • February 6, 2012
No Casinos
No Casinos
stated on January 19, 2012 a television ad:
Nevada is No. 1 in unemployment, violent crime, car theft, divorce, robberies and foreclosures.
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • January 26, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 25, 2012 a Spanish-language radio ad:
Says Newt Gingrich said "Spanish is the language of the ghetto."
Mostly True
By Aaron Sharockman • January 25, 2012
AFSCME
AFSCME
stated on January 20, 2012 a television ad:
"While Romney was a director of the Damon Corporation, the company was defrauding Medicare of millions."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 23, 2012
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on January 10, 2012 State of the State address:
Says the state tax burden per citizen in New York is twice as high as in Florida.
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • January 11, 2012
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on January 10, 2012 his State of the State address:
"In the past year, Floridians, not government, created almost 135,000 new private sector jobs. We netted more than 120,000 total jobs in the first 11 months of 2011; the third most of any state in the nation."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • January 10, 2012
Rod Smith
Rod Smith
stated on October 29, 2011 speech at Florida Democratic Party 2011 Convention:
"Today 46 percent of all Floridians owe more on their home than it is worth."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • November 8, 2011
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on October 10, 2011 a radio show interview:
Says adding toll lanes on I-95 in Broward County improved rush-hour traffic for non-toll lanes from 25 mph to 45 mph.
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • October 28, 2011
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