Fact Check Posts – Page 16

Marco Rubio
stated on March 4, 2010 in a press release:

"Crist stays in $2,000 a night luxury hotel suites where he racks up $1,300 in mini-bar charges, and doesn't pay for a dime of it himself."

By Aaron Sharockman • March 12, 2010

Marco Rubio
stated on March 4, 2010 in an interview with Fox News.:

Charges on the Republican Party of Florida credit card were made with "my money."

By Aaron Sharockman • March 11, 2010

Jeff Kottkamp
stated on February 28, 2010 in an op-ed published in Florida newspapers:

"Nearly all of the top 50 prescribers of oxycodone in the United States are in Florida."

By Aaron Sharockman • March 9, 2010

Charlie Crist
stated on March 2, 2010 in his State of the State address.:

"Florida's new fingerprint identification system is improving our rate of solving cold cases by 300 percent."

By Aaron Sharockman • March 8, 2010

Alex Sink
stated on March 4, 2010 in an interview with interview with the St. Petersburg Times/Miami Herald.:

"Nobody has been talking about it (Medicaid fraud), focused on it, or paying attention to it."

By Aaron Sharockman • March 6, 2010

Charlie Crist
stated on March 2, 2010 in his State of the State address.:

"We worked together to enact ... the largest tax cut in Florida history."

By Aaron Sharockman • March 3, 2010

Charlie Crist
stated on March 2, 2010 in his State of the State address.:

"Due to ... tax cuts and lower (property) values, 2009 property taxes were almost $3 billion below 2007 property taxes."

By Aaron Sharockman • March 3, 2010

Republican Party of Florida
stated on February 26, 2010 in a press release:

U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson "compared a former vice president to a vampire ... and compared America's health care system to the Holocaust."

By Aaron Sharockman • March 2, 2010

Marco Rubio
stated on February 17, 2010 in an interview with Fox News:

"Charlie Crist was the only prominent Republican in the country to campaign with Barack Obama before the stimulus passed, on behalf of the stimulus."

By Aaron Sharockman • March 2, 2010

Marco Rubio
stated on November 4, 2009 in his campaign Web site:

"Fifty-seven" of Rubio's 100 ideas "ultimately became law."

By Aaron Sharockman • February 26, 2010

Franklin Sands
stated on January 29, 2010 in a press release:

"Florida still averages more students in its classrooms than any other state in the Southeast."

By Aaron Sharockman • February 6, 2010

Charlie Crist
stated on January 27, 2010 in Associated Press' annual legislative meeting:

"I have had the challenge during this administration to suspend no less than 37 public officials in about 36 months."

By Aaron Sharockman • January 29, 2010

Bob McDonnell
stated on January 27, 2010 in the Republican response to the State of the Union:

"The amount of debt is on pace to double in five years and triple in 10. The federal debt is now over $100,000 per household."

By Aaron Sharockman • January 28, 2010

Bob McDonnell
stated on January 27, 2010 in the Republican response to the State of the Union:

"Here in Virginia, we have the opportunity to become the first state on the East Coast to explore for and produce oil and natural gas offshore."

By Aaron Sharockman • January 28, 2010

Marco Rubio
stated on January 14, 2010 in an interview with Glenn Beck:

"Close to half of the folks in this country illegally entered legally (but) overstayed (their ) visas."

By Aaron Sharockman • January 18, 2010

Alex Sink
stated on January 6, 2010 in response to questions about fundraising totals:

"No Democratic campaign for (Fla.) governor has ever had these kinds of resources this early on in an election cycle."

By Aaron Sharockman • January 15, 2010

Kendrick Meek
stated on January 10, 2010 in a television interview:

"A number of the national publications have put this race in a tossup race between Democrats and Republicans. They don't know who's going to win this race."

By Aaron Sharockman • January 12, 2010

George LeMieux
stated on January 8, 2010 in a message on Twitter:

"Why is January 8th an important date in American history? This day in 1835 is the only day in our history when we have not been in debt."

By Aaron Sharockman • January 12, 2010

Rudy Giuliani
stated on January 8, 2010 in an interview on 'Good Morning America':

"We had no domestic attacks under Bush."

By Aaron Sharockman • January 8, 2010

Charlie Crist
stated on January 5, 2010 in a written statement:

"President Obama has broken his pledge to the American people to be transparent throughout (health care reform negotiations)."

By Aaron Sharockman • January 5, 2010

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