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Latest Fact-Checks By Allison Graves

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Tom Bossert
Tom Bossert
stated on September 11, 2017 a White House press briefing
The mobilization of the military in response to the storms in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands "is the largest ever mobilization of our military in a naval and marine operation" and an Air Force carrier there "was the first-ever as well."
Mostly False
By Allison Graves • September 14, 2017
Adam Putnam
Adam Putnam
stated on August 12, 2017 a Republican party meeting in Orlando
"We're still doing dumb things like telling the parent of an 11-year-old that it's against the law for them to tell their parents what they were tested on ... That will end when I'm governor."
Mostly False
By Allison Graves • September 7, 2017
Rick Baker
Rick Baker
stated on June 14, 2017 a "Tampa Bay Times" article
Says Rick Kriseman is $35 million over budget on St. Petersburg’s new police station.  
False
By Allison Graves • August 25, 2017
Rick Kriseman
Rick Kriseman
stated on August 9, 2017 a podcast
"We’ve got a police station that’s under construction right now, they are actually ahead of schedule and under budget."
Mostly False
By Allison Graves • August 24, 2017
Rick Baker
Rick Baker
stated on July 28, 2017 a Facebook post
Says he "made St. Petersburg the state's best maintained large sewer system in 2007."
Half-True
By Allison Graves • August 18, 2017
Seamless Florida
Seamless Florida
stated on August 7, 2017 a television ad
"When Rick Baker heard (racist remarks from another mayoral candidate), he went after Congemi. Rick Kriseman he just looked away. Tolerating bigotry in silence is no virtue; taking it on is."
Half-True
By Allison Graves • August 15, 2017
Rick Kriseman
Rick Kriseman
stated on June 24, 2017 a "Tampa Bay Times" article
Says that compared to Rick Baker's time as mayor, Kriseman "had wet weather events that he did not experience" that caused sewage spills. Baker "went through significant periods of drought during his time as mayor."
Mostly False
By Allison Graves • August 10, 2017
Rick Kriseman
Rick Kriseman
stated on July 25, 2017 a mayoral debate
"The number of complaints against police officers has decreased from an average when Mr. (Rick) Baker was mayor from 78 to 14."
Mostly True
By Allison Graves • August 2, 2017
Rick Kriseman
Rick Kriseman
stated on July 23, 2017 posts on Twitter and Facebook
There were 2,761 auto thefts in 2006 under Rick Baker and 1,095 auto thefts in 2016.
Mostly True
By Allison Graves • July 27, 2017
Rick Baker
Rick Baker
stated on July 13, 2017 an interview with the "Tampa Bay Times" editorial board
"We went from zero A elementary schools when I took office to 16 when I left, and our total A and B schools went up by 260 percent."
Mostly True
By Allison Graves • July 21, 2017
Rick Baker
Rick Baker
stated on June 25, 2017 an interview with News Channel 8
"Midtown crime is up by 30 percent the last quarter."
Mostly False
By Allison Graves • July 11, 2017
Rick Kriseman
Rick Kriseman
stated on June 15, 2017 during a Q&A with reporters inside City Hall
"We are seeing poverty being reduced in south St. Pete at a number larger than the national average, the state average, county or Tampa and Jacksonville."  
Mostly False
By Allison Graves • June 27, 2017
Steve Mnuchin
Steve Mnuchin
stated on April 27, 2017 a April 26 press conference
Says President Donald Trump "has given more financial disclosure than anybody else."
False
By Allison Graves, Louis Jacobson • April 27, 2017
Bob Cortes
Bob Cortes
stated on April 18, 2017 a discussion on HB 7101
"All charter schools are not-for-profit."
Half-True
By Allison Graves • April 27, 2017
Center for American Progress
Center for American Progress
stated on April 25, 2017 a tweet
"Trump's Cabinet is more white and more male than any first Cabinet since President Ronald Reagan’s."  
Mostly True
By Allison Graves • April 26, 2017
Mick Mulvaney
Mick Mulvaney
stated on April 23, 2017 a segment on "Fox News Sunday"
"They voted for (a border wall) in 2006. Then-Senator Obama voted for it. Sen. Schumer voted for it. Sen. Clinton voted for it."
Half-True
By Allison Graves • April 23, 2017
USF Divest
USF Divest
stated on April 11, 2017 a video on Facebook
Says the University of South Florida invests in oil companies like BP, tobacco companies, weapons manufacturers and private prisons.
Mostly True
By Allison Graves • April 19, 2017
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on April 7, 2017 a Pensacola jobs roundtable
Says Florida has "the second-lowest taxes, per capita, state taxes of any state in the country."  
Mostly True
By Allison Graves • April 13, 2017
Richard Corcoran
Richard Corcoran
stated on April 3, 2017 an op-ed
Says small businesses "make up 98.9 percent of all businesses in the state and employ nearly half of the state's private sector workforce" and "almost never receive a penny of government money."
Half-True
By Allison Graves • April 11, 2017
Ben Cardin
Ben Cardin
stated on April 9, 2017 comments on "Fox News Sunday"
"We’ve seen more filibusters on judicial nominees by the Republicans under President Obama than we saw in the whole history of the United States Senate." 
Half-True
By Allison Graves • April 9, 2017
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