Latest Fact Checks By Amy Sherman

Donald Trump minimizes number of revoked gun permits in Florida

By Amy Sherman

June 2, 2016

Florida has "issued more than 3 million conceal carry permits in the past 30 years. Only 168 have been revoked."  

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Carlos Lopez-Cantera says he is only Florida lieutenant governor to forgo security detail

By Amy Sherman

May 26, 2016

"I'm also the only lieutenant governor to not take a security detail."  

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Alan Grayson lacks evidence for accusation about Patrick Murphy’s father and All Aboard Florida

By Amy Sherman

May 18, 2016

Says Patrick Murphy "switched his vote on All Aboard Florida ... because his father tried to get in a bid to build it and was…

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Donald Trump attacked for bringing in hundreds of foreign workers on H-2B visas at Mar-A-Lago

By Amy Sherman , Joshua Gillin

May 6, 2016

Says Donald Trump "brings in hundreds of foreign workers to replace Americans."  

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Donald Trump manager Corey Lewandowski botches claim on Florida delegate selection

By Amy Sherman

April 19, 2016

"The chairman of the party of Florida, who is an avid and outward supporter of Marco Rubio, gets to appoint 30 of those delegates."  

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Donald Trump wrongly says Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush had Florida’s winner-take-all primary set

By Amy Sherman

April 18, 2016

Says Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio "had it set so that the winner takes everything, because they wanted to make sure that I didn't get…

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Hillary Clinton says Democratic debate moderators have not asked any questions about abortion

By Amy Sherman

April 15, 2016

In nine Democratic debates, "We've not had one question about a woman's right to make her own decisions about reproductive health care, not one question."…

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Patrick Murphy praises Florida’s payday law as ‘stronger than almost any other state’

By Amy Sherman

April 12, 2016

Florida’s regulations on the payday lending industry are "stronger than almost any other state."  

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Did Gov. Rick Scott really cut access to women’s health care, as Starbucks woman says?

By Amy Sherman

April 6, 2016

Says Rick Scott "stripped women of access to public health care."

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Did Bernie Sanders fundamentally improve the lives of tomato pickers in Florida?

By Amy Sherman

April 5, 2016

Says Bernie Sanders "fundamentally changed the lives" of Immokalee farm workers in Florida for the better.  

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Ted Cruz says EPA tried to regulate puddles and drainage ditches

By Amy Sherman

March 31, 2016

"The EPA has tried to define a puddle or a drainage ditch on your farm to be navigable waters and thus subject to massive environmental…

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Debbie Wasserman Schultz attacked for bank donations and position on payday loan bill

By Amy Sherman

March 30, 2016

"After taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street banks, (Debbie Wasserman Schultz) has voted to prevent the Consumer Financial…

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