Fact Check Posts – Page 34

Alan Grayson
stated on April 25, 2016 an Orlando debate:

Says LeBron James "stops paying his Social Security taxes at the beginning of the second quarter of the first game of the season."

By Joshua Gillin • April 28, 2016

David Jolly
stated on April 25, 2016 an Orlando debate:

Says he "was the only Republican" to vote against creating a House panel to investigate Planned Parenthood.

By Joshua Gillin • April 26, 2016

Rick Scott
stated on April 13, 2016 a press release:

"Over the past two years, Florida has cut more than $1 billion in taxes."

By Joshua Gillin • April 25, 2016

Corey Lewandowski
stated on April 17, 2016 an interview on Fox News Sunday:

"The chairman of the party of Florida, who is an avid and outward supporter of Marco Rubio, gets to appoint 30 of those delegates."

By Amy Sherman • April 19, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on April 12, 2016 a speech in Rome, N.Y.:

Says Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio "had it set so that the winner takes everything, because they wanted to make sure that I didn't get anything" in the Florida primary.

By Amy Sherman • April 18, 2016

Alan Grayson
stated on April 5, 2016 a Tampa Bay Times interview:

In every ethics case that has resulted in a formal sanction, "there's been an investigative subcommittee that's been established first."

By Joshua Gillin • April 13, 2016

Patrick Murphy
stated on April 6, 2016 a conference call with reporters:

Florida’s regulations on the payday lending industry are "stronger than almost any other state."

By Amy Sherman • April 12, 2016

David Jolly
stated on April 4, 2016 a statement on his campaign website:

Race to the Top grants "require participating states to adopt the Common Core standards as a condition for receiving federal funding."

By Joshua Gillin • April 8, 2016

Rick Scott's Starbucks heckler
stated on April 5, 2016 a confrontation with Rick Scott at Starbucks:

Says Rick Scott "stripped women of access to public health care."

By Amy Sherman • April 6, 2016

Rick Scott's Starbucks heckler
stated on April 5, 2016 a confrontation with Rick Scott at Starbucks:

Says Rick Scott "cut Medicaid" so people can't "get Obamacare."

By Joshua Gillin • April 6, 2016

Rick Scott
stated on April 5, 2016 a confrontation with a customer at a Gainesville, Fla., Starbucks:

"We got a million jobs."

By Louis Jacobson • April 6, 2016

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.

By Amy Sherman • April 5, 2016

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."

By Joshua Gillin • April 4, 2016

Rick Scott
stated on March 26, 2016 a Tampa Bay Times interview:

"Florida is investing record amounts of funding for HIV/AIDS prevention."

By Joshua Gillin • March 31, 2016

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."

By Amy Sherman • March 31, 2016

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."

By Amy Sherman • March 30, 2016

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."

By Joshua Gillin • March 24, 2016

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."

By Amy Sherman • March 22, 2016

Don Gaetz
stated on March 11, 2016 Florida Senate floor debate:

"We were able to provide $428 million worth of property tax relief."

By Joshua Gillin • March 17, 2016

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"

By Amy Sherman • March 11, 2016

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