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Jennifer Carroll
Jennifer Carroll
stated on April 19, 2012 Capitol news conference:
"We didn’t go out asking people" to join the "stand your ground" task force.
False
By Katie Sanders, Toluse Olorunnipa • May 3, 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
Bill Nelson
Bill Nelson
stated on April 15, 2012 an op-ed in POLITICO:
At the same time gas prices have increased, "the share of the oil market controlled by speculators has more than doubled over the past 10 years."
Half-True
By Katie Sanders • April 24, 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
Connie Mack
Connie Mack
stated on April 12, 2012 a television ad:
Says Sen. Bill Nelson voted to spend "$144,541 to see how monkeys react under the influence of cocaine."
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • April 13, 2012
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on March 26, 2012 a "Fox and Friends" interview:
Says Barack Obama's health care law "will be the biggest job-killer ever."
False
By Katie Sanders • April 2, 2012
Jimmie T. Smith
Jimmie T. Smith
stated on February 24, 2012 a House committee debate:
"It was found unconstitutional to drug test elected officials because it prevents us, as citizens, from having that First Amendment right."
False
By Katie Sanders • March 27, 2012
Arthenia Joyner
Arthenia Joyner
stated on March 21, 2012 an interview:
"When we passed (the stand your ground law), we said it portends horrific events when people's lives were put into these situations."
True
By Katie Sanders • March 22, 2012
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on February 24, 2012 at a public event:
PIP fraud is "$1 billion in fraud."
Half-True
By Katie Sanders • March 9, 2012
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on March 6, 2012 a press conference:
"Today, you can't rely on (the retirement fund for public employees), it's not funded."
False
By Katie Sanders • March 7, 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
Paige Kreegel
Paige Kreegel
stated on February 15, 2012 remarks in the state Legislature:
About 800 people refused to get a drug screening because they are "out there on drugs."
False
By Katie Sanders • February 28, 2012
Maria Sachs
Maria Sachs
stated on January 17, 2012 a press conference:
Florida is "the largest dog-racing state in the country."
True
By Katie Sanders • February 24, 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
Chain email
Chain email
stated on January 30, 2012 email to MoveOn.org members:
"Private prisons do not chase escaped inmates past the perimeter like the public prisons do, which means more escaped prisoners in our communities."
Half-True
By Katie Sanders • February 7, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 23, 2012 a debate in Tampa, Fla.:
"When I was fighting against cap and trade, the speaker was sitting down with Nancy Pelosi on a sofa encouraging it."
Half-True
By Katie Sanders • January 24, 2012
Ellyn Bogdanoff
Ellyn Bogdanoff
stated on January 9, 2012 a hearing in Tallahassee:
Tampa is "the strip club capital of the world."
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan, Katie Sanders • January 13, 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
Republican National Committee
Republican National Committee
stated on December 12, 2011 an email to reporters:
DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz "denied unemployment went up under Obama."
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • December 15, 2011
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