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Latest Fact-Checks In Florida

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Republican Party of Florida
Republican Party of Florida
stated on September 23, 2014 a TV ad
Health insurance costs for Floridians are up 30 percent or more.
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • September 29, 2014
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on September 19, 2014 a campaign commercial
Says Rick Scott "pled the Fifth 75 times to avoid jail for Medicare fraud."
Half-True
By Joshua Gillin • September 25, 2014
Carlos Curbelo
Carlos Curbelo
stated on September 18, 2014 a speech to a college GOP group
Social Security and Medicare are "a Ponzi scheme."
False
By Amy Sherman • September 24, 2014
Steve Southerland
Steve Southerland
stated on September 10, 2014 a campaign commercial
Says Gwen Graham "was a Washington lobbyist."
Mostly False
By Joshua Gillin • September 23, 2014
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on September 16, 2014 a TV ad
Says Rick Scott cut education by over a billion dollars, meaning thousands of teachers "lost their jobs" and "class sizes went up."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • September 22, 2014
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on August 27, 2014 TV ad
A Scott Rothstein victim says that he was "swindled" by Charlie Crist.
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • September 22, 2014
Lois Frankel
Lois Frankel
stated on September 12, 2014 a fundraising email
Recently Rick Scott "closed 30 women’s health care centers across the state."
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • September 18, 2014
Pam Bondi
Pam Bondi
stated on September 8, 2014 a campaign commercial
Of the 98 top oxycodone-dispensing doctors who used to live in Florida, "today, there are none."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • September 16, 2014
Joe Garcia
Joe Garcia
stated on September 5, 2014 a web ad
Says U.S. House candidate Carlos Curbelo "supported raising flood insurance rates."
False
By Amy Sherman • September 16, 2014
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on September 9, 2014 a TV ad
Says Rick Scott "thinks employers should be able to deny women coverage for birth control."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • September 11, 2014
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on September 4, 2014 a campaign document
"Under Rick Scott, homeowners are paying higher (home insurance) premiums for less coverage."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • September 10, 2014
Joe Garcia
Joe Garcia
stated on September 5, 2014 a Web ad
Says U.S. House candidate Carlos Curbelo "supported ending the Medicare guarantee."
False
By Amy Sherman • September 9, 2014
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on August 17, 2014 a TV ad
Says Rick Scott has "teamed up with a felon convicted of running a Ponzi scheme to smear Charlie Crist."
False
By Amy Sherman • September 2, 2014
Drug Free America
Drug Free America
stated on August 20, 2014 a "Tampa Bay Times" editorial meeting
Under a proposed medical marijuana amendment in Florida, "you don't get refills -- you get it forever."
Mostly False
By Joshua Gillin • August 28, 2014
NextGen Climate Action Committee
NextGen Climate Action Committee
stated on August 22, 2014 a TV ad
Rick Scott took $200,000 from a family that leased land for drilling "and now he is trying to hide from it."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • August 28, 2014
Republican Party of Florida
Republican Party of Florida
stated on August 17, 2014 a TV ad
Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein "gave hundreds of thousands of campaign cash to control Crist’s appointments of key state judges."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • August 25, 2014
Republican Party of Florida
Republican Party of Florida
stated on August 6, 2014 a Facebook Q&A with Charlie Crist
Obamacare "prevents (Florida) from regulating insurance."
Pants on Fire!
By Joshua Gillin • August 20, 2014
Republican Party of Florida
Republican Party of Florida
stated on August 12, 2014 a campaign commercial
Says Charlie "Crist made it easier for Duke to take your money."
False
By Joshua Gillin • August 15, 2014
NextGen Climate Action Committee
NextGen Climate Action Committee
stated on August 8, 2014 TV ad
Says Rick Scott took $200,000 in campaign contributions from a company that "profited off pollution."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • August 15, 2014
Republican Party of Florida
Republican Party of Florida
stated on August 7, 2014 a campaign commercial
Says Charlie Crist rode on a jet that "belongs to a serial polluter with a history of environmental violations fined nearly $2 million for polluting water."
True
By Joshua Gillin • August 15, 2014
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