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Latest Fact-Checks In Florida

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Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on April 5, 2016 a confrontation with a customer at a Gainesville, Fla., Starbucks
"We got a million jobs."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 6, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 19, 2016 a TV ad
Says Bernie Sanders "fundamentally changed the lives" of Immokalee farm workers in Florida for the better.  
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • April 5, 2016
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on March 23, 2016 a House Oversight Committee National Security Subcommittee hearing
"Recent reports state that the U.S. Customs and Border Protection has apprehended several members of known Islamist terrorist organizations crossing the southern border in recent years."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • April 4, 2016
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on March 26, 2016 a Tampa Bay Times interview
"Florida is investing record amounts of funding for HIV/AIDS prevention."
Mostly False
By Joshua Gillin • March 31, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on March 30, 2016 a CNN town hall in Milwaukee
"The EPA has tried to define a puddle or a drainage ditch on your farm to be navigable waters and thus subject to massive environmental regulations."  
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • March 31, 2016
Tim Canova
Tim Canova
stated on March 24, 2016 campaign website
"After taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street banks, (Debbie Wasserman Schultz) has voted to prevent the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from regulating payday loans and addressing racial discrimination in car loans."    
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • March 30, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 21, 2016 a press conference
"Out of 67 counties (in Florida), I won 66, which is unprecedented. It's never happened before."
Pants on Fire!
By Joshua Gillin • March 24, 2016
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on March 21, 2016 an interview on Fox Business News
Superdelegates "have never been a determining factor in who our nominee is since they've been in place since 1984."  
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • March 22, 2016
Don Gaetz
Don Gaetz
stated on March 11, 2016 Florida Senate floor debate
"We were able to provide $428 million worth of property tax relief."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • March 17, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on March 10, 2016 in a GOP debate in Miami
Says Donald Trump "has said he wants to be neutral on Israel and the Palestinians"  
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • March 11, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 7, 2016 a campaign ad
"As a legislator, (Marco Rubio) flipped on a key vote after making a quick $200,000 from selling the house to the mother of the bill's lobbyist."
Mostly False
By Aaron Sharockman, Joshua Gillin • March 11, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 9, 2016 a Democratic debate in Miami
When New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer wanted to "provide driver’s licenses to those who are undocumented. (Hillary Clinton) said don’t do it."  
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • March 10, 2016
Keep the Promise 1 PAC
Keep the Promise 1 PAC
stated on March 6, 2016 a TV ad
Says Marco Rubio "skipped 18 defense votes including one to arm the Kurds to fight ISIS."  
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • March 8, 2016
Conservative Solutions PAC
Conservative Solutions PAC
stated on February 26, 2016 a TV ad
Says Donald Trump "bans disabled veterans from his high rise."  
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • March 8, 2016
Right to Rise
Right to Rise
stated on March 1, 2016 a television ad.
Like Marco Rubio, Sen. Barack Obama had "one of the worst attendance records in the Senate."
True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 8, 2016
Charles Van Zant
Charles Van Zant
stated on February 29, 2016 a House Finance and Tax committee meeting
"For every time the state gets paid a dollar in taxes (on gambling), somebody loses $6."
Half-True
By Joshua Gillin • March 4, 2016
Conservative Solutions PAC
Conservative Solutions PAC
stated on February 26, 2016 a TV ad
Says Donald Trump has said "he would be neutral between Israel and its enemies."  
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • March 1, 2016
Sierra Club
Sierra Club
stated on February 22, 2016 a letter from Tampa Bay Group chairman Kent Bailey to Hillsborough County commissioners
"Our community (Tampa Bay) is one of the 10 most threatened by the sea level rise in the world."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • February 26, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on February 14, 2016 a web video
"People (are) paying more in taxes than they will for food, housing and clothing combined."  
Half-True
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • February 23, 2016
Janet Adkins
Janet Adkins
stated on February 9, 2016 a House Appropriations Committee meeting
"There is great disparity, tremendous disparity, in the (capital) funding on a per-student basis between our traditional public schools and our charter public schools."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • February 22, 2016
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