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Florida Immigrant Coalition
Florida Immigrant Coalition
stated on March 27, 2017 in a Florida House subcommittee hearing:
"As an undocumented immigrant, you do have constitutional rights here in the United States."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • March 29, 2017
Habitat for Humanity of Broward
Habitat for Humanity of Broward
stated on March 16, 2017 in a press release:
"South Florida ranks No. 1 in the gap between wages and housing."
True
By Amy Sherman • March 23, 2017
Philip Levine
Philip Levine
stated on March 2, 2017 in a post on Facebook:
Says Airbnb "decreases real estate values and increases costs for workforce housing."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • March 20, 2017
Kathleen Sebelius
Kathleen Sebelius
stated on March 12, 2017 in an interview on Meet the Press:
Blue Cross Blue Shield ended "2016 open enrollment with 1 million members in the Florida marketplace."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • March 15, 2017
Bill Nelson
Bill Nelson
stated on March 7, 2017 in an online post:
On filibusters for U.S. Supreme Court nominees.
No Flip
By Amy Sherman • March 9, 2017
Janet Cruz
Janet Cruz
stated on March 7, 2017 in a speech:
"Florida pays our teachers $10,000 a year less than the national average."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • March 7, 2017
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on February 7, 2017 in a statement to press:
"When the House wants to stop Enterprise Florida ... they’re hurting our rural communities."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • February 22, 2017
Richard Corcoran
Richard Corcoran
stated on February 12, 2017 in an inteview on CBS4:
"Most of these mass shootings take place in (areas) where you're not allowed to have a concealed weapons permit."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • February 21, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 6, 2017 in remarks at U.S. Central Command in Tampa:
"I have already saved more than $700 million when I got involved in the negotiation on the F-35."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • February 7, 2017
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on February 1, 2017 in a tweet:
"Not a single Democrat opposed Neil Gorsuch's confirmation in 2006."
True
By Amy Sherman • February 3, 2017
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 27, 2017 in an interview:
"In Florida, 70 percent of the people here illegally came on an airplane. They overstayed a visa."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • February 2, 2017
Mario Diaz-Balart
Mario Diaz-Balart
stated on January 30, 2017 in a press release:
Says former President Barack Obama "took similar action against Cuban refugees" as President Donald Trump did in his executive order.
False
By Amy Sherman • January 31, 2017
Cory Gardner
Cory Gardner
stated on January 23, 2017 in an interview on Fox:
"About 30 percent of terrorists at Guantanamo Bay went back into battle. We know that a dozen or so killed Americans."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • January 25, 2017
Carlos Gimenez
Carlos Gimenez
stated on January 18, 2017 in a state of the county speech:
Miami-Dade is "the first community in the world to break the cycle of local transmission of the Zika virus."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • January 24, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 20, 2017 in a statement on the White House website:
"Our Navy has shrunk from more than 500 ships in 1991 to 275 in 2016."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • January 20, 2017
Carlos Guillermo Smith
Carlos Guillermo Smith
stated on January 10, 2017 in a press conference:
"Florida is ranked 50th in the nation for mental health care funding."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • January 18, 2017
Jeff Brandes
Jeff Brandes
stated on December 22, 2016 in a tweet:
"Unlike California, we in Florida welcome driverless cars - no permit required."
True
By Amy Sherman • December 28, 2016
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on December 2, 2016 in a press release:
More than two months ago President Barack Obama signed a bill for more than $1 billion in Zika funding, but "the federal government has still only committed $7 million" to help Florida.
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • December 12, 2016
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on November 30, 2016 in an op-ed in USA Today:
Obamacare "was invented by liberal academic theorists."  
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • December 5, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on November 27, 2016 in an interview on ABC's This Week:
"In 2015 roughly 10,000 political arrests occurred in Cuba. That is five times as many as occurred in 2010, when there were only about 2,000."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • November 29, 2016
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