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Latest Fact-Checks By Amy Sherman

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Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on June 13, 2016 an interview with Hugh Hewitt
"In America, radical speech is not a crime."  
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • June 15, 2016
Tim Canova
Tim Canova
stated on June 1, 2016 a post on Medium
Says he "helped to draft parts of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform bill."  
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • June 9, 2016
Carlos Lopez-Cantera
Carlos Lopez-Cantera
stated on April 30, 2016 in an interview with Fox 13
"I've cut the budget of the (lieutenant governor’s) office by more than half."  
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • June 6, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on May 20, 2016 a speech to the NRA
Florida has "issued more than 3 million conceal carry permits in the past 30 years. Only 168 have been revoked."  
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • June 2, 2016
Carlos Lopez-Cantera
Carlos Lopez-Cantera
stated on April 30, 2016 an interview on Fox 13
"I'm also the only lieutenant governor to not take a security detail."  
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • May 26, 2016
Alan Grayson
Alan Grayson
stated on May 15, 2016 an interview with CBS4
Says Patrick Murphy "switched his vote on All Aboard Florida ... because his father tried to get in a bid to build it and was unsuccessful."  
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • May 18, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on May 2, 2016 a TV ad
Says Donald Trump "brings in hundreds of foreign workers to replace Americans."  
Half-True
By Amy Sherman, Joshua Gillin • May 6, 2016
Corey Lewandowski
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."  
False
By Amy Sherman • April 19, 2016
Donald Trump
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.  
False
By Amy Sherman • April 18, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on April 14, 2016 a Democratic debate in Brooklyn
In nine Democratic debates, "We've not had one question about a woman's right to make her own decisions about reproductive health care, not one question."  
True
By Amy Sherman • April 15, 2016
Patrick Murphy
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."  
False
By Amy Sherman • April 12, 2016
Rick Scott's Starbucks heckler
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."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • 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
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
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
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on March 11, 2016 a GOP debate at the University of Miami
Foreign aid "is less than 1 percent of our federal budget."  
True
By Amy Sherman, C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 11, 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
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
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