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Nan Rich
Nan Rich
stated on July 11, 2014 a speech to the Florida Press Association:
"Tourism and retirees are the dominant economic engines in our state."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • July 23, 2014
Nan Rich
Nan Rich
stated on July 11, 2014 a speech to the Florida Press Association:
Florida has the "third most-regressive tax" structure.
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • July 22, 2014
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on July 2, 2014 a tweet:
"Expanding Medicaid would create 63k jobs."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • July 9, 2014
Florida Democratic Party
Florida Democratic Party
stated on July 1, 2014 a TV ad:
Says Rick Scott "cut education to pay for even more tax breaks for big, powerful, well-connected corporations."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • July 7, 2014
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on June 30, 2014 a statement to the media:
"Nearly 60 percent of women who use birth control do so for more than just family planning."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • June 30, 2014
Progressive Choice Florida
Progressive Choice Florida
stated on June 23, 2014 a radio ad:
Says Charlie Crist signed "the nation’s harshest marijuana laws."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman, Joshua Gillin • June 27, 2014
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on June 23, 2014 a TV ad:
"Under Governor Crist, 3,000 teachers laid off."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • June 26, 2014
Republican Party of Florida
Republican Party of Florida
stated on June 17, 2014 a TV ad:
"Gov. Rick Scott cut the cost of prepaid college tuition by nearly $20,000."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • June 25, 2014
Nan Rich
Nan Rich
stated on May 10, 2014 a speech:
"$3 billion over the next five years will be taken out of our public schools and be put into vouchers."  
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • June 19, 2014
Florida Democratic Party
Florida Democratic Party
stated on June 17, 2014 a TV ad:
When Rick Scott "was deposed in lawsuits about his company, he took the Fifth 75 times."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • June 17, 2014
Americans for Safe Access
Americans for Safe Access
stated on June 5, 2014 a TV ad:
Judging by a recent vote, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz "thinks it's okay for medical marijuana patients to go to federal prison."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • June 10, 2014
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
stated on June 2, 2014 a press release:
"Congresswoman Ros-Lehtinen has long record of voting against VA backlog fixes."
False
By Amy Sherman • June 6, 2014
American Civil Liberties Union of Florida
American Civil Liberties Union of Florida
stated on May 27, 2014 a news release:
Florida has "the most errors and exonerations from death row."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • June 2, 2014
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on May 23, 2014 a tweet:
41,200 veterans in Florida "don’t have health care because Scott didn’t expand Medicaid."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • May 28, 2014
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on May 13, 2014 in a question and answer after a speech:
Cap and trade legislation "was originally a Republican idea."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • May 23, 2014
Charles Van Zant
Charles Van Zant
stated on March 22, 2014 speech in March publicized May 16 by Think Progress:
A company hired to do Common Core testing in Florida will "attract every one of your children to become as homosexual as they possibly can."
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • May 20, 2014
Miami Seaport Alliance
Miami Seaport Alliance
stated on May 14, 2014 a TV ad:
David Beckham’s soccer stadium would get a "special tax deal that lets them off the hook for $2 million in taxes every year for 30 years."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • May 20, 2014
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on May 12, 2014 a speech at the Manhattan Institute:
"U.S. teenagers have now fallen behind their counterparts in Ireland, Poland and even Vietnam in math and science."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • May 15, 2014
Miami Seaport Alliance
Miami Seaport Alliance
stated on April 24, 2014 a "Miami Herald" newspaper ad:
David Beckham’s proposed soccer stadium at Miami’s Port "threatens the 207,000 jobs and $27 billion economic impact tied to the cargo and cruise industries."
False
By Amy Sherman • May 14, 2014
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on April 30, 2014 in various social media posts:
"Florida Democrats just voted to impose Sharia law on women."
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • May 8, 2014
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