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Latest Fact-Checks In Florida

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Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on January 30, 2023 a tweet
"(Ron) DeSantis' bill would remove: background checks, instruction, training and oversight."
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By Yacob Reyes • February 6, 2023
X posts
X posts
stated on January 25, 2023 a tweet
“Female student-athletes in Florida need to provide their schools with detailed information about their periods.”
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By Samantha Putterman • February 3, 2023
Lindsay Cross
Lindsay Cross
stated on January 3, 2023 a press release
"Florida's water is dirtier and sicker than when Gov. DeSantis first took office."
Half-True
By Yacob Reyes • January 13, 2023
Chris Murphy
Chris Murphy
stated on November 27, 2022 an interview on CNN
“60% of counties in this country are refusing to implement the nation's gun laws.”
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By Amy Sherman, Yacob Reyes • December 2, 2022
Florida Immigrant Coalition
Florida Immigrant Coalition
stated on October 18, 2022 un anuncio de campaña
“Marco Rubio le ha votado en contra a los Dreamers”.
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By Maria Ramirez Uribe • November 1, 2022
Val Demings
Val Demings
stated on September 23, 2022 a tweet
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio "has denied climate change."
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By Yacob Reyes • October 11, 2022
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on September 14, 2022 an ad
Val Demings "voted to allow transgender youth sports and teaching radical gender identity without parental consent."
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October 5, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 22, 2022 a Facebook post
Sarasota, Florida, teachers told they cannot purchase books, accept donated reading materials, order from Scholastic or hold book fairs.
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By Yacob Reyes • August 29, 2022
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on May 4, 2022 a press conference
“It costs more to live in many Florida cities than New York City.”
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By Yacob Reyes • May 16, 2022
Crystal Peoples-Stokes
Crystal Peoples-Stokes
stated on March 29, 2022 a news release
“Cities in notoriously ‘tough on crime’ states like Texas and Florida saw a more significant increase in violent crime than cities in NYS.”
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By Jill Terreri Ramos • April 16, 2022
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on January 11, 2022 a speech on voting rights in Georgia
“In the 2020 election, President Trump voted from behind the desk in the White House in Florida.”
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By Amy Sherman • January 13, 2022
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on December 7, 2021 a press release
The Build Back Better Act “includes $34.5 billion in cuts” for charity care funding to hospitals.
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By Jon Greenberg • December 10, 2021
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on June 16, 2021 a press conference
“That meth … it’s almost all coming across the southern border and it’s been accelerating for the last six months.”
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By Miriam Valverde • June 21, 2021
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on November 30, 2020 a press conference
“The states that are locked down are increasing at twice the rate we are” in Florida
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By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • December 2, 2020
Congressional Leadership Fund
Congressional Leadership Fund
stated on October 7, 2020 an ad
Says Debbie Mucarsel-Powell's family received $700,000 from the firm of "violent warlord Ihor Kolomoisky," who is compared to Fidel Castro and Nicolás Maduro.
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October 16, 2020
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on October 7, 2020 a debate
“With regard to hurricanes, the National Oceanic (and Atmospheric) Administration tells us that actually, as difficult as they are, there are no more hurricanes today than there were 100 years ago.”
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By Amy Sherman • October 14, 2020
Debbie Mucarsel-Powell
Debbie Mucarsel-Powell
stated on September 17, 2020 a campaign website
Says Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez “approved a 67% pay raise for himself and increased his own pension. He makes $250,000 a year, more than almost every big-city Mayor in the country. He also kept his taxpayer-funded Mercedes-Benz after slashing $400 million in government jobs and spending.”
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By Amy Sherman • September 30, 2020
Debbie Mucarsel-Powell
Debbie Mucarsel-Powell
stated on August 21, 2020 an ad
After a bridge collapse killed six people, Carlos Gimenez extended a $130 million contract to the construction company, where one of his sons worked and for which another lobbied.
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September 4, 2020
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on April 14, 2020 an April 14, 2020 press briefing
“Obesity is, like, the No. 1 factor in whether you really get hit hard by COVID-19.”
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By Amy Sherman • April 17, 2020
Occupy Democrats
Occupy Democrats
stated on March 12, 2020 a Facebook post
Says Rep. Matt Gaetz and Sen. Ted Cruz took two weeks paid sick leave to self-quarantine. Gaetz “voted in 2013 to make it illegal for any city in Florida to enact paid sick leave,” and Cruz “voted in 2015 in the U.S. Senate against paid sick leave.”
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By Amy Sherman • March 17, 2020
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