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Allen West
Allen West
stated on December 2, 2013 in a blog on his website:
"Back door gun control is in full effect in the United States" due to "Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency."
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • December 3, 2013
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on November 20, 2013 in a speech at the American Enterprise Institute:
"I did not support the sequester."
True
By Amy Sherman • November 26, 2013
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on November 20, 2013 in a speech at American Enterprise Institute:
"The reason we have a national debt is not because of defense spending. What is driving our long-term debt are Medicare and Social Security programs."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • November 22, 2013
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on November 15, 2013 in a news release about Florida's tourism statistics:
Florida "remains the top travel destination across the world."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • November 21, 2013
Larry Ashley
Larry Ashley
stated on November 7, 2013 in a Florida House criminal justice subcommittee hearing:
"Florida sheriffs unequivocally support" the "stand your ground" law.
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • November 15, 2013
Ken Detzner
Ken Detzner
stated on November 4, 2013 in a state Senate ethics and elections committee hearing:
One of the "main functions" of the Department of Homeland Security’s SAVE database is "checking voter registration citizenship status."
False
By Amy Sherman • November 14, 2013
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on November 5, 2013 in an interview on MSNBC:
Says Rick Scott "cut education by $1.3 billion" in his first year, then "in his second year he decreases funding by $300 million to our state universities."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • November 11, 2013
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on November 4, 2013 in a speech announcing his candidacy for governor:
Charlie Crist stopped "layoffs of some 20,000 school teachers during the global economic meltdown."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • November 7, 2013
Jonathan Karl
Jonathan Karl
stated on November 3, 2013 in a conversation on ABC's "This Week":
"Before the Republican wave in 2010, Democrats had an advantage on the generic ballot in Congress. Even in 1994 with the Gingrich revolution ... Democrats had that advantage."
True
By Amy Sherman • November 3, 2013
Alan Grayson
Alan Grayson
stated on October 26, 2013 in a speech to the Florida Democratic Party:
"This is the year Florida becomes a majority minority state."
False
By Amy Sherman • October 31, 2013
League of Women Voters of Florida
League of Women Voters of Florida
stated on October 10, 2013 in a statement:
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security warned that the SAVE "database is not a foolproof means of verifying (citizenship on) the voter rolls."
True
By Amy Sherman • October 30, 2013
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on October 22, 2013 in an interview on "The O'Reilly Factor.":
In Florida, "300,000 people are going to lose their individual coverage because of Obamacare. Now those people next year, they don’t have health insurance."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • October 25, 2013
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on July 26, 2013 in a statement given to the Tampa Bay Times:
Common Core is being "used by the Obama Administration to turn the Department of Education into what is effectively a national school board."
False
By Amy Sherman • October 22, 2013
Florida Stop Common Core Coalition
Florida Stop Common Core Coalition
stated on October 16, 2013 in a report linked to on a website:
The goal of Common Core is "to instill federally determined attitudes and mindsets in students including political and religious beliefs."
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • October 21, 2013
Tim Curtis
Tim Curtis
stated on October 15, 2013 in a meeting about Common Core in Tampa:
Common Core means "there are over 300 data elements the government is going to be collecting about your children and about you."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • October 21, 2013
X posts
X posts
stated on October 5, 2013 in a tweet:
"Obama has jumped the shark and ordered the ocean closed!"
False
By Amy Sherman • October 7, 2013
Mario Diaz-Balart
Mario Diaz-Balart
stated on October 2, 2013 in an interview on CNN:
There is "a constitutional issue" that affects "the paychecks of members of Congress" during a shutdown.
True
By Amy Sherman • October 7, 2013
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on October 1, 2013 in a tweet:
The shutdown is projected to result in "$10 billion in costs to the economy per week."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • October 3, 2013
Bill Nelson
Bill Nelson
stated on September 19, 2013 in a "Tampa Bay Times" op-ed:
"Many state and federal agencies have such ‘navigators’ involved in helping folks maneuver through the often complex processes associated with filing benefits claims, for example -- even buying health insurance."
True
By Amy Sherman • September 30, 2013
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on September 17, 2013 in a letter to Florida's U.S. senators:
"Over the past 35 years, Florida families have paid into the (National Flood Insurance Program) over $16 billion, four times more than the amount they have received in claim reimbursements."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • September 25, 2013
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