Fact Check Posts – Page 4

Tom Bossert
stated on September 11, 2017 in a White House press briefing:

The mobilization of the military in response to the storms in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands "is the largest ever mobilization of our military in a naval and marine operation" and an Air Force carrier there "was the first-ever as well."

By Allison Graves • September 14, 2017

Adam Putnam
stated on August 12, 2017 in a Republican party meeting in Orlando:

"We're still doing dumb things like telling the parent of an 11-year-old that it's against the law for them to tell their parents what they were tested on ... That will end when I'm governor."

By Allison Graves • September 7, 2017

Rick Baker
stated on June 14, 2017 in a "Tampa Bay Times" article:

Says Rick Kriseman is $35 million over budget on St. Petersburg’s new police station.

By Allison Graves • August 25, 2017

Rick Kriseman
stated on August 9, 2017 in a podcast:

"We’ve got a police station that’s under construction right now, they are actually ahead of schedule and under budget."

By Allison Graves • August 24, 2017

Rick Baker
stated on July 28, 2017 in a Facebook post:

Says he "made St. Petersburg the state's best maintained large sewer system in 2007."

By Allison Graves • August 18, 2017

Seamless Florida
stated on August 7, 2017 in a television ad:

"When Rick Baker heard (racist remarks from another mayoral candidate), he went after Congemi. Rick Kriseman he just looked away. Tolerating bigotry in silence is no virtue; taking it on is."

By Allison Graves • August 15, 2017

Rick Kriseman
stated on June 24, 2017 in a "Tampa Bay Times" article:

Says that compared to Rick Baker's time as mayor, Kriseman "had wet weather events that he did not experience" that caused sewage spills. Baker "went through significant periods of drought during his time as mayor."

By Allison Graves • August 10, 2017

Rick Kriseman
stated on July 25, 2017 in a mayoral debate:

"The number of complaints against police officers has decreased from an average when Mr. (Rick) Baker was mayor from 78 to 14."

By Allison Graves • August 2, 2017

Rick Kriseman
stated on July 23, 2017 in posts on Twitter and Facebook:

There were 2,761 auto thefts in 2006 under Rick Baker and 1,095 auto thefts in 2016.

By Allison Graves • July 27, 2017

Rick Baker
stated on July 13, 2017 in an interview with the "Tampa Bay Times" editorial board:

"We went from zero A elementary schools when I took office to 16 when I left, and our total A and B schools went up by 260 percent."

By Allison Graves • July 21, 2017

Rick Baker
stated on June 25, 2017 in an interview with News Channel 8:

"Midtown crime is up by 30 percent the last quarter."

By Allison Graves • July 11, 2017

Rick Kriseman
stated on June 15, 2017 in during a Q&A with reporters inside City Hall:

"We are seeing poverty being reduced in south St. Pete at a number larger than the national average, the state average, county or Tampa and Jacksonville."

By Allison Graves • June 27, 2017

Steve Mnuchin
stated on April 27, 2017 in a April 26 press conference:

Says President Donald Trump "has given more financial disclosure than anybody else."

By Allison Graves, Louis Jacobson • April 27, 2017

Bob Cortes
stated on April 18, 2017 in a discussion on HB 7101:

"All charter schools are not-for-profit."

By Allison Graves • April 27, 2017

Center for American Progress
stated on April 25, 2017 in a tweet:

"Trump's Cabinet is more white and more male than any first Cabinet since President Ronald Reagan’s."

By Allison Graves • April 26, 2017

Mick Mulvaney
stated on April 23, 2017 in a segment on "Fox News Sunday":

"They voted for (a border wall) in 2006. Then-Senator Obama voted for it. Sen. Schumer voted for it. Sen. Clinton voted for it."

By Allison Graves • April 23, 2017

USF Divest
stated on April 11, 2017 in a video on Facebook:

Says the University of South Florida invests in oil companies like BP, tobacco companies, weapons manufacturers and private prisons.

By Allison Graves • April 19, 2017

Rick Scott
stated on April 7, 2017 in a Pensacola jobs roundtable:

Says Florida has "the second-lowest taxes, per capita, state taxes of any state in the country."

By Allison Graves • April 13, 2017

Richard Corcoran
stated on April 3, 2017 in an op-ed:

Says small businesses "make up 98.9 percent of all businesses in the state and employ nearly half of the state's private sector workforce" and "almost never receive a penny of government money."

By Allison Graves • April 11, 2017

Ben Cardin
stated on April 9, 2017 in comments on "Fox News Sunday":

"We’ve seen more filibusters on judicial nominees by the Republicans under President Obama than we saw in the whole history of the United States Senate."

By Allison Graves • April 9, 2017

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