Latest Fact-Checks By Becky Bowers

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Rep. Matt Gaetz says ethanol study shows it’s not worth the energy

October 19, 2011

"A Cornell University research study concludes that ethanol generates a 29 percent energy loss, meaning it takes more than a gallon of gasoline to produce…

Sen. Mike Fasano says most of your Progress Energy Florida power bill is pass-throughs

October 18, 2011

"Just a little over 60 percent of your electric bill, my electric bill, 60 percent of that is pass-throughs, whether they be for building of…

Truth about fluoride doesn’t include Nazi myth

October 6, 2011

Say water fluoridation started in Nazi Germany ghettos and death camps to pacify the Jews.

Gov. Rick Scott changes the math for ‘700,000 jobs’

October 4, 2011

On how he measures his promise to create 700,000 private-sector jobs in seven years.

Chain e-mail claims Florida is the first state to require drug testing for welfare

September 30, 2011

"Florida is the first state requiring drug testing to receive welfare!"

Gov. Rick Scott’s primary math: Florida has more people than early primary and caucus states combined

September 27, 2011

"At nearly 19 million people, the population of Florida is larger than all the earlier primary and caucus states combined."

Rick Perry says Mitt Romney shifted stance when he deleted health care line from his book

September 23, 2011

Says that Romney touted the Massachusetts health plan for the nation in his hardcover book but then deleted it for the paperback edition.

Gov. Rick Perry says the federal government “has not engaged” in border security

September 23, 2011

"The federal government has not engaged in (border security) at all."

Debbie Wasserman Schultz says Wolf Blitzer was wrong to say the wealthiest pay the most in taxes

September 16, 2011

Says CNN's Wolf Blitzer was wrong to say that "the wealthiest Americans, they pay the most in taxes already -- 50 percent of Americans don't…

Rick Perry says the 2009 stimulus ‘created zero jobs’

September 13, 2011

"The first round of stimulus ... it created zero jobs."

Mitt Romney says Rick Perry wrote that Social Security is a ‘failure’

September 13, 2011

"In writing his book, Gov. Perry pointed out that … by any measure Social Security has been a failure."

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