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Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on March 18, 2013 in a video with the Human Rights Campaign.:
On same-sex marriage.
Full Flop
By Amy Sherman • June 17, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 4, 2015 in in a speech at Texas Southern University:
"In Florida, when Jeb Bush was governor, state authorities conducted a deeply flawed purge of voters before the presidential election in 2000" and "in 2004 a plan to purge even more voters was headed off."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • June 9, 2015
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on June 2, 2015 in a speech at his economic summit for presidential candidates:
"If you care about the environment, we've got record funding."
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • June 8, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on June 2, 2015 in a speech at Gov. Rick Scott's economic summit in Orlando:
Says that during his eight years as Florida governor, "we created 1.3 million net new jobs -- more jobs created than Texas."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • June 3, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on May 20, 2015 in a roundtable in New Hampshire:
"ISIS didn't exist when my brother was president. Al-Qaida in Iraq was wiped out when my brother was president."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • May 28, 2015
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 13, 2015 in a Facebook post:
Says Marco Rubio said that "felons should not have their voting rights restored" but that "convicted felons should be allowed to own guns after they have done their time."
False
By Amy Sherman • May 27, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on May 16, 2015 in a speech at the Iowa GOP Lincoln Day dinner:
"One person has been fired" at the Veterans Administration for withholding services.
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • May 22, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on May 17, 2015 in an interview on Fox News:
On whether the Iraq War was a mistake.
Half Flip
By Amy Sherman • May 18, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on May 1, 2015 in the National Review Forum:
"We have a legal immigration system in America that accepts 1 million people a year, legally. No other country in the world even comes close to that."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • May 13, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on May 1, 2015 in an interview with reporters at the North Carolina GOP headquarters:
"There are more poor people today as a percentage of our population than the 1970s."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • May 7, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on April 25, 2015 in Faith and Freedom Summit in Iowa:
The United States "is not modernizing its nuclear weapons."
False
By Amy Sherman • May 5, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on April 25, 2015 in a speech at the Iowa Faith and Freedom Summit:
The United States "is not building the aircraft, the long-range bombers, the additional aircraft carriers, the nuclear submarines."
False
By Amy Sherman • May 5, 2015
Alan Grayson
Alan Grayson
stated on April 16, 2015 in an interview with Democracy Now:
"I’m the only member of the House of Representatives who raised most of his campaign funds in the last election from small contributions of less than $200."
True
By Amy Sherman • April 27, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on April 17, 2015 in a speech in New Hampshire:
"We have an 80 percent graduation rate in high school after spending more per student than any country in the world other than Liechtenstein, I think, or Luxembourg and a couple other small countries."
True
By Amy Sherman • April 21, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on April 10, 2015 in a speech to the NRA:
Florida has the most concealed weapon permits in the nation, "nearly double that of the second state, which is Texas."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • April 15, 2015
Greg Steube
Greg Steube
stated on April 2, 2015 in a Florida House judiciary committee hearing:
"You know how many children in the history of the United States have died in a fire (at school)? Zero."
False
By Amy Sherman, Joshua Gillin • April 6, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on March 30, 2015 in an interview with Hugh Hewitt:
"Florida has a law like (Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act)."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • March 31, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on March 13, 2015 in a business roundtable in New Hampshire:
Florida is "one of the few states that has actually had a narrowing of the achievement gap based on income, or based on race or ethnicity."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • March 27, 2015
National Republican Senatorial Committee
National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on March 23, 2015 in a statement on a website:
U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy "voted to allow members of Congress to receive taxpayer-funded health care for life."
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • March 25, 2015
Florida Students for Concealed Carry
Florida Students for Concealed Carry
stated on March 16, 2015 in Florida Senate higher education committee hearing:
"According to the state of Florida, you are almost twice as likely to be attacked by an alligator than by someone who happens to carry a conceal-and-carry permit."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • March 23, 2015
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