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Lois Frankel
Lois Frankel
stated on September 12, 2014 a fundraising email
Recently Rick Scott "closed 30 women’s health care centers across the state."
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • September 18, 2014
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on September 9, 2014 a TV ad
Says Rick Scott "thinks employers should be able to deny women coverage for birth control."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • September 11, 2014
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on September 4, 2014 a campaign document
"Under Rick Scott, homeowners are paying higher (home insurance) premiums for less coverage."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • September 10, 2014
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on August 17, 2014 a TV ad
Says Rick Scott has "teamed up with a felon convicted of running a Ponzi scheme to smear Charlie Crist."
False
By Amy Sherman • September 2, 2014
NextGen Climate Action Committee
NextGen Climate Action Committee
stated on August 22, 2014 a TV ad
Rick Scott took $200,000 from a family that leased land for drilling "and now he is trying to hide from it."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • August 28, 2014
NextGen Climate Action Committee
NextGen Climate Action Committee
stated on August 8, 2014 TV ad
Says Rick Scott took $200,000 in campaign contributions from a company that "profited off pollution."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • August 15, 2014
NextGen Climate Action Committee
NextGen Climate Action Committee
stated on August 8, 2014 a campaign ad
Says Rick Scott "is letting Duke (Energy) keep collecting billions" despite troubled power plants.
Half-True
August 13, 2014
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on July 31, 2014 a campaign commercial
Says Rick Scott "raised property taxes."
Mostly False
By Joshua Gillin • August 1, 2014
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on July 23, 2014 a TV ad
Says Rick Scott cut "Bright Futures scholarships in half."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • July 25, 2014
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on July 16, 2014 a "Tampa Bay Times" editorial board interview
Says Rick Scott’s per-pupil education spending is "about $200 less" than what it was under Charlie Crist during the recession.
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • July 18, 2014
Florida Democratic Party
Florida Democratic Party
stated on July 1, 2014 a TV ad
Says Rick Scott "cut education to pay for even more tax breaks for big, powerful, well-connected corporations."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • July 7, 2014
Bill Nelson
Bill Nelson
stated on June 13, 2014 his campaign website
"Gov. Rick Scott signed into law a bill that gives Florida's public officials an easy way to avoid disclosing their personal finances."
Half-True
By Joshua Gillin • June 23, 2014
Florida Democratic Party
Florida Democratic Party
stated on June 17, 2014 a TV ad
When Rick Scott "was deposed in lawsuits about his company, he took the Fifth 75 times."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • June 17, 2014
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on May 23, 2014 a tweet
41,200 veterans in Florida "don’t have health care because Scott didn’t expand Medicaid."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • May 28, 2014
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on April 25, 2014 a post on his campaign website
Says Rick Scott’s record on jobs includes Florida "ranked 2nd in the nation in long-term unemployment."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • May 6, 2014
Annette Taddeo
Annette Taddeo
stated on April 21, 2014 an interview on MSNBC
"Over 20 percent of the electorate is Hispanic" in Florida.
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • April 28, 2014
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on March 31, 2014 an online video
"Rick Scott wants to take us back to the days of insurance companies denying coverage for pre-existing conditions."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • April 4, 2014
American Bridge 21st Century
American Bridge 21st Century
stated on March 18, 2014 an online video
Says Rick Scott presided over cuts to the Bright Futures college scholarship program.
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • April 1, 2014
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on March 25, 2014 his campaign website
"Rick Scott tried to slash school funding by $3.3 billion."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • March 27, 2014
Florida Democratic Party
Florida Democratic Party
stated on February 25, 2014 a press release
Says Rick Scott "oversaw the largest Medicare fraud in the nation’s history."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • March 3, 2014
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