Latest Fact Checks By Joshua Gillin

Gov. Rick Scott makes misleading claim about record funding for HIV/AIDS prevention

By Joshua Gillin

March 31, 2016

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

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No, Donald Trump, winning 66 of 67 Florida counties is not ‘unprecedented’

By Joshua Gillin

March 24, 2016

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

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John Kasich calls out Donald Trump’s ‘$1.8 billion worth of free media’

By Joshua Gillin

March 20, 2016

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

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Legislature provided $428 million worth of property tax relief, Sen. Don Gaetz says

By Joshua Gillin

March 17, 2016

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

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Common Core is ‘education through Washington, D.C.,’ Trump says

By Joshua Gillin

March 11, 2016

Common Core is "education through Washington D.C."

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Trump attack inaccurately implies Rubio traded auto insurance vote for house sale

By Aaron Sharockman , Joshua Gillin

March 11, 2016

"As a legislator, (Marco Rubio) flipped on a key vote after making a quick $200,000 from selling the house to the mother of the bill's…

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Bernie Sanders has a point: Water in Flint much more expensive than in Burlington

By Joshua Gillin

March 7, 2016

"(Flint, Mich., is) paying three times more for poison water than I am paying in Burlington, Vt., for clean water."

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Gamblers lose $6 for every $1 Florida gets, Rep. Van Zant says

By Joshua Gillin

March 4, 2016

"For every time the state gets paid a dollar in taxes (on gambling), somebody loses $6."

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Tampa Bay among top 10 regions most threatened by climate change, Sierra Club chapter says

By Joshua Gillin

February 26, 2016

"Our community (Tampa Bay) is one of the 10 most threatened by the sea level rise in the world."

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Marco Rubio: We ‘wiped out’ Obamacare ‘bailout fund’ for insurance companies

By Joshua Gillin

February 26, 2016

"When they passed Obamacare, they put a bailout fund in Obamacare. … We led the effort and wiped out that bailout fund."

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Traditional schools get much more capital funding than charter schools, state Rep. Adkins says

By Joshua Gillin

February 22, 2016

"There is great disparity, tremendous disparity, in the (capital) funding on a per-student basis between our traditional public schools and our charter public schools."

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New gaming compact offers Florida biggest guaranteed share of any state, Seminoles say

By Joshua Gillin

February 11, 2016

The Seminole gambling compact offers "$3 billion in guaranteed revenue, the largest share for any state in history."  

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