Fact Check Posts – Page 11

Stacy White
stated on June 2, 2016 in a Hillsborough County Commission meeting:

Says it's not true that Florida black bears are an "apex predator."

By Joshua Gillin • June 8, 2016

Marco Rubio
stated on May 16, 2016 in a tweet:

Says he never told anyone he hated the U.S. Senate.

By Joshua Gillin • June 3, 2016

Todd Wilcox
stated on May 20, 2016 in a newspaper interview:

"I can tell you that the enhanced interrogation techniques that have since been banned by this administration — specifically waterboarding — work."

By Joshua Gillin • May 24, 2016

Vote No On 2
stated on May 16, 2016 in a video:

"Amendment 2 will put almost 2,000 pot shops in Florida ... more pot shops than Walmart and Walgreens combined."

By Joshua Gillin • May 19, 2016

Alan Grayson
stated on May 11, 2016 in a fundraising email:

Says Patrick Murphy is one of "only three Democrats in the House today who voted" to create the Benghazi committee.

By Joshua Gillin • May 16, 2016

Carlos Beruff
stated on May 5, 2016 in a press release:

Says President Obama’s deal "allows Iran to produce a nuclear weapon."

By Joshua Gillin, Louis Jacobson • May 11, 2016

David Jolly
stated on April 25, 2016 in an Orlando debate:

Under a new federal regulation, it will cost Pinellas County "$31 million to fix a single ditch."

By Joshua Gillin • May 9, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on May 2, 2016 in a TV ad:

Says Donald Trump "brings in hundreds of foreign workers to replace Americans."

By Amy Sherman, Joshua Gillin • May 6, 2016

Alan Grayson
stated on April 25, 2016 in an Orlando debate:

"There's only three countries in the entire world where there's no paid vacation by law, we happen to be one of them."

By Joshua Gillin • May 3, 2016

Alan Grayson
stated on April 25, 2016 in an Orlando debate:

Says LeBron James "stops paying his Social Security taxes at the beginning of the second quarter of the first game of the season."

By Joshua Gillin • April 28, 2016

David Jolly
stated on April 25, 2016 in an Orlando debate:

Says he "was the only Republican" to vote against creating a House panel to investigate Planned Parenthood.

By Joshua Gillin • April 26, 2016

Rick Scott
stated on April 13, 2016 in a press release:

"Over the past two years, Florida has cut more than $1 billion in taxes."

By Joshua Gillin • April 25, 2016

Alan Grayson
stated on April 5, 2016 in a Tampa Bay Times interview:

In every ethics case that has resulted in a formal sanction, "there's been an investigative subcommittee that's been established first."

By Joshua Gillin • April 13, 2016

David Jolly
stated on April 4, 2016 in a statement on his campaign website:

Race to the Top grants "require participating states to adopt the Common Core standards as a condition for receiving federal funding."

By Joshua Gillin • April 8, 2016

Rick Scott's Starbucks heckler
stated on April 5, 2016 in a confrontation with Rick Scott at Starbucks:

Says Rick Scott "cut Medicaid" so people can't "get Obamacare."

By Joshua Gillin • April 6, 2016

Ron DeSantis
stated on March 23, 2016 in a House Oversight Committee National Security Subcommittee hearing:

"Recent reports state that the U.S. Customs and Border Protection has apprehended several members of known Islamist terrorist organizations crossing the southern border in recent years."

By Joshua Gillin • April 4, 2016

Rick Scott
stated on March 26, 2016 in a Tampa Bay Times interview:

"Florida is investing record amounts of funding for HIV/AIDS prevention."

By Joshua Gillin • March 31, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on March 21, 2016 in a press conference:

"Out of 67 counties (in Florida), I won 66, which is unprecedented. It's never happened before."

By Joshua Gillin • March 24, 2016

John Kasich
stated on March 20, 2016 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

Says Donald "Trump got, you know, $1.8 billion worth of free media. I got, like, none."

By Joshua Gillin • March 20, 2016

Don Gaetz
stated on March 11, 2016 in Florida Senate floor debate:

"We were able to provide $428 million worth of property tax relief."

By Joshua Gillin • March 17, 2016

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