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Latest Fact-Checks By Amy Sherman

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Allen West
Allen West
stated on September 26, 2014 a Facebook post:
Says President Barack Obama "ordered our military to enlist illegal aliens."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • October 2, 2014
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on July 10, 2014 a fundraising email:
"All Aboard Florida is receiving millions in Florida taxpayer dollars."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • August 7, 2014
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on June 30, 2014 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 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
Ed MacDougall
Ed MacDougall
stated on July 26, 2014 a radio ad:
Says U.S. House candidate Carlos Curbelo "opposes the repeal of Obamacare."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • July 31, 2014
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on July 23, 2014 a speech at Catholic University:
"Having an active father makes children 98 percent more likely to graduate from college."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • July 29, 2014
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on July 23, 2014 a TV ad:
Says Rick Scott cut "Bright Futures scholarships in half."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • July 25, 2014
Republican Party of Florida
Republican Party of Florida
stated on July 22, 2014 a TV ad:
"With Rick Scott, there are more funds for preschool education."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • July 24, 2014
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