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Latest Fact-Checks By Amy Sherman

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Pam Bondi
Pam Bondi
stated on July 31, 2010 a debate:
"By the year 2015 (Medicaid will) take up half our budget."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • September 8, 2010
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on August 27, 2010 a campaign website:
"Charlie Crist has six different positions on ObamaCare."  
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • September 2, 2010
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on September 1, 2010 a campaign website:
"Florida is enjoying its lowest crime rate in 39 years."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • September 1, 2010
Bud Chiles
Bud Chiles
stated on August 31, 2010 a campaign website:
"Florida is 49th in per capita spending on mental health care."
True
By Amy Sherman • August 31, 2010
Jeff Greene
Jeff Greene
stated on August 10, 2010 a debate:
"Seventy bills [Kendrick Meek] authored, not one of them has passed."  
Half-True
By Aaron Sharockman, Amy Sherman • August 20, 2010
Holly Benson
Holly Benson
stated on July 31, 2010 a debate.:
"Most AGs don't go to court.."  
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • August 19, 2010
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on August 2, 2010 a campaign video:
"If we ban the practice of earmarks, we could save the American taxpayer anywhere between $15 (billion) to $20 billion dollars a year in pork-barrel spending."  
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • August 10, 2010
Jeff Kottkamp
Jeff Kottkamp
stated on July 30, 2010 a position paper on his campaign website:
"Only a few months ago the FBI arrested three Broward County Commissioners for accepting millions of dollars in trade for illegal favors."
False
By Amy Sherman • July 30, 2010
Dave Aronberg
Dave Aronberg
stated on July 26, 2010 a mailer:
Dave Aronberg "was the first to demand that BP create a billion-dollar fund to pay for the devastation."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • July 29, 2010
Dave Aronberg
Dave Aronberg
stated on July 26, 2010 an editorial board interview:
"There are more pain clinics in Broward County than there are McDonald's in Broward County."
True
By Amy Sherman • July 29, 2010
Jeff Greene
Jeff Greene
stated on July 23, 2010 a campaign flier:
Kendrick Meek was "#1 in Florida in taking tobacco cash and then opposed a tax on cigars that would have helped pay for children's health care."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • July 27, 2010
Ellyn Bogdanoff
Ellyn Bogdanoff
stated on July 13, 2010 a TV ad:
"I said no to higher taxes and fees."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • July 15, 2010
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on July 9, 2010 a press release:
"$120,000 will be spent by taxpayers on Charlie Crist's political photo-op special session."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • July 14, 2010
Ron Klein
Ron Klein
stated on June 28, 2010 a fundraising e-mail:
"West has raised $2 million from those that would leave our beaches in ruins, end Social Security and Medicare, and give corporations free reign."
False
By Amy Sherman • July 1, 2010
Kendrick Meek
Kendrick Meek
stated on June 22, 2010 in a U.S. Senate Democratic primary debate:
"The first time he ever voted as a Democrat was here in Florida in 2008. He only voted four times in his life, and he's asking Floridians to come out and vote for him."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • June 29, 2010
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on June 16, 2010 a press release:
Bill McCollum "served as a lobbyist whose clients enabled mortgages for illegal immigrants."
False
By Amy Sherman • June 23, 2010
Bill McCollum
Bill McCollum
stated on June 15, 2010 a press release:
Rick Scott "has heavily invested in a company that is geared to helping illegal aliens transfer money to family and friends out of the country."
True
By Amy Sherman • June 21, 2010
Alex Sink
Alex Sink
stated on June 10, 2010 a speech:
"The minute this proposal for near-beach oil drilling came up, I was against it."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • June 17, 2010
James Carville
James Carville
stated on June 8, 2010 a fundraising letter:
Alex Sink was "the first official who said that BP should pay $25 million for an ad campaign to promote Florida tourism."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • June 16, 2010
Dan Fanelli
Dan Fanelli
stated on June 3, 2010 a video on his campaign website:
Under the new health care law, the elderly will be denied care when they have "passed the age limit for treatment."
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • June 7, 2010
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