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Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on March 3, 2015 in the Florida State of the State address:
"The average person only pays about $1,800 in state taxes — which is the lowest of all 50 states."
Mostly True
By Steve Contorno • March 3, 2015
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on March 3, 2015 in the State of the State address:
"We have cut taxes more than 40 times in four years."
Half-True
By Joshua Gillin • March 3, 2015
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on March 3, 2015 in the State of the State address:
Education funding of $7,176 per student is a "historic level."
Half-True
By Joshua Gillin • March 3, 2015
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on January 6, 2015 in his second inaugural address:
"Estimates say individuals who escaped these high tax states have taken with them around $2 trillion in adjusted gross income."
Mostly False
By Joshua Gillin • January 8, 2015
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on October 21, 2014 in a CNN debate:
"We have spent $350 million to deal with sea-level rise" in the Miami area and "hundreds of millions of dollars to deal with coral reefs."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • October 29, 2014
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on October 21, 2014 in the CNN debate:
Says Charlie Crist wants felons who "commit a heinous crime" such as "intentional permanent disfigurement of a child, you walk out of jail, you immediately get to vote."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • October 27, 2014
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on October 21, 2014 in a gubernatorial debate in Jacksonville:
Says Charlie Crist could have expanded Medicaid after the health care law passed but didn't.
Mostly False
By Joshua Gillin • October 22, 2014
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on October 21, 2014 in a CNN debate:
Rick Scott says he supported in-state tuition for Dreamers while Charlie Crist was against it.
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • October 22, 2014
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on October 15, 2014 in a debate:
"While (Charlie Crist) was governor, utility costs went up 30 percent and went from below the national average to above the national average. Since I got elected, utility rates have come down 11 percent and now we are below the average."
False
By Steve Contorno • October 21, 2014
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on October 10, 2014 in a Telemundo debate:
Says a bill he vetoed to give driver licenses to certain immigrants known as Dreamers would have changed "nothing."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • October 20, 2014
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on October 15, 2014 in a gubernatorial debate in Davie:
Says Charlie Crist "voted against minimum wage when he was in the Senate."
False
By Joshua Gillin • October 16, 2014
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on October 15, 2014 in a debate at Broward College:
"3,000 teachers lost their jobs when (Crist) was governor."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman, Lauren Carroll • October 16, 2014
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on October 10, 2014 in a gubernatorial debate:
"The CBO says if we raise the minimum wage the way Charlie (Crist) wants to do it, it would lose 500,000 jobs."
Half-True
By Katie Sanders • October 10, 2014
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on October 10, 2014 in a gubernatorial debate in Miramar:
"832,000 people lost their job while (Charlie Crist was) governor."
Half-True
By Joshua Gillin • October 10, 2014
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on August 27, 2014 in TV ad:
A Scott Rothstein victim says that he was "swindled" by Charlie Crist.
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • September 22, 2014
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on June 30, 2014 in a TV interview:
"All Aboard Florida is a 100 percent private venture. There is no state money involved."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • August 7, 2014
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on August 1, 2014 in a press statement:
"Attorney General Eric Holder’s own Justice Department precleared the voting changes in the 2011 law" about early voting in Florida.
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • August 4, 2014
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on June 25, 2014 in a campaign commercial:
"Candidates for governor routinely disclose" their spouses’ tax returns.
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • June 26, 2014
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on June 23, 2014 in a TV ad:
"Under Governor Crist, 3,000 teachers laid off."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • June 26, 2014
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on June 2, 2014 in a campaign commercial:
"Charlie Crist allowed college tuition to increase up to 15 percent every year."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • June 4, 2014
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