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Greg Gutfeld
Greg Gutfeld
stated on June 2, 2017 in Fox News The Five show:
"Every single year that there's an increase (in temperature) it's within the margin of error -- meaning it isn't increasing."
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • June 9, 2017
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on June 6, 2017 in a Facebook post:
Says an Internet meme shows people rejoicing over the Paris agreement.  
False
By Amy Sherman • June 7, 2017
Al Gore
Al Gore
stated on June 4, 2017 in an interview on Fox News Sunday:
"70 percent of Florida is in drought today."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • June 5, 2017
Chris King
Chris King
stated on May 25, 2017 in a press release:
Says a Congressional Budget Office report found low-income seniors in Florida will face "800 percent premium increases" under the American Health Care Act.
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • June 2, 2017
Samantha Bee
Samantha Bee
stated on May 10, 2017 in TBS show Full Frontal:
"In Florida felonies can be things like buying weed, tampering with an odometer or disturbing a lobster trap. So basically spring break."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • May 25, 2017
Desmond Meade
Desmond Meade
stated on May 10, 2017 in Samantha Bee's Full Frontal show:
"You could lose your rights for life over something as simple as driving with a suspended license" in Florida.
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • May 25, 2017
American Action Network
American Action Network
stated on May 23, 2017 in an ad:
Under the American Health Care Act "people with pre-existing conditions are protected."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • May 24, 2017
Kris Kobach
Kris Kobach
stated on May 14, 2017 in an interview on Fox:
The Department of Homeland Security’s database of legal immigrants has "never" been "bounced against a state’s voter rolls."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • May 23, 2017
Richard Corcoran
Richard Corcoran
stated on May 12, 2017 in a tweet:
It is a myth that Florida's education legislation was "negotiated in secret."
False
By Amy Sherman, Kristen M. Clark • May 17, 2017
Save My Care
Save My Care
stated on May 8, 2017 in a digital ad:
U.S. Rep. Carlos Curbelo voted for a health care bill that will let insurance companies "charge five times more for people over 50."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • May 11, 2017
Tom Price
Tom Price
stated on May 7, 2017 in an interview on CNN's State of the Union:
"We have got 20 million folks out there across this land who have told the federal government, ‘Phooey, nonsense, I’m not going to participate in your program, because it doesn’t do what I need done.’ "
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • May 8, 2017
Florida Democratic Party
Florida Democratic Party
stated on April 27, 2017 in a press release:
Donald Trump’s "golf course on the island defaulted, like so many of his other failed business schemes. The failure left Puerto Rican taxpayers with a nearly $33 million bill."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • May 4, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 30, 2017 in an interview:
Says of the GOP health care proposal, "pre-existing conditions are in the bill."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • May 1, 2017
Edward Markey
Edward Markey
stated on April 20, 2017 in a tweet:
"Trump looking to open up E Coast & new areas for offshore oil drilling when Congress has passed no new safety standards since BP"
True
By Amy Sherman • April 21, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 18, 2017 in a tweet:
"The weak illegal immigration policies of the Obama Admin. allowed bad MS 13 gangs to form in cities across U.S. We are removing them fast!"
False
By Amy Sherman, Miriam Valverde • April 18, 2017
Randolph Bracy
Randolph Bracy
stated on April 4, 2017 in in a New York Times op-ed:
"African-Americans are grossly overrepresented on Florida’s death row."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • April 17, 2017
Randolph Bracy
Randolph Bracy
stated on April 4, 2017 in a New York Times op-ed:
"There are no federal or state laws that say prosecutors must seek death sentences. And the United States Supreme Court has banned all state laws that make executions mandatory for murders."
True
By Amy Sherman • April 6, 2017
Volusia County Republican Party
Volusia County Republican Party
stated on April 2, 2017 in in an email:
"The United States Department of Education has introduced an Islamic indoctrination program for the public schools, called ‘Access Islam.’ "
False
By Amy Sherman • April 5, 2017
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on April 26, 2015 in posts on social media:
"Florida Sheriff: Blacks should learn to act like white people in order to stay alive."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • April 2, 2017
Ted Yoho
Ted Yoho
stated on March 14, 2017 in an interview on PBS:
"It’s been proven over and over again Medicaid has the worst outcomes in the industrialized world as far as the quality of health care."
False
By Amy Sherman • March 31, 2017
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