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Latest Fact-Checks On Charlie Crist

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Charlie Crist
stated on May 4, 2022 in a press conference:
“It costs more to live in many Florida cities than New York City.”
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By Yacob Reyes • May 16, 2022
Charlie Crist
stated on October 24, 2014 in in a campaign ad:
Says Rick Scott “spent $800,000 of your tax dollars upgrading the Governor’s Mansion.”
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By Joshua Gillin • October 31, 2014
Charlie Crist
stated on October 15, 2014 in a debate at Broward College:
If Florida expanded Medicaid, “some studies indicate it would create about 120,000 jobs.”
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By Amy Sherman • October 16, 2014
Charlie Crist
stated on September 19, 2014 in a campaign commercial:
Says Rick Scott “pled the Fifth 75 times to avoid jail for Medicare fraud.”
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By Joshua Gillin • September 25, 2014
Charlie Crist
stated on July 10, 2014 in a fundraising email:
“All Aboard Florida is receiving millions in Florida taxpayer dollars.”
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By Amy Sherman • August 7, 2014
Charlie Crist
stated on July 23, 2014 in a TV ad:
Says Rick Scott cut “Bright Futures scholarships in half.”
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By Amy Sherman • July 25, 2014
Charlie Crist
stated on July 2, 2014 in a tweet:
“Expanding Medicaid would create 63k jobs.”
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By Amy Sherman • July 9, 2014
Charlie Crist
stated on May 23, 2014 in a tweet:
41,200 veterans in Florida “don’t have health care because Scott didn’t expand Medicaid.”
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By Amy Sherman • May 28, 2014
Charlie Crist
stated on April 25, 2014 in a post on his campaign website:
Says Rick Scott’s record on jobs includes Florida “ranked 2nd in the nation in long-term unemployment.”
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By Amy Sherman • May 6, 2014
Charlie Crist
stated on March 9, 2014 in an interview on CNN:
The economic “turnaround started at the end of my term.”
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By Amy Sherman • March 11, 2014
Charlie Crist
stated on February 7, 2014 in an interview on MSNBC's "The Daily Rundown.":
“Six people in Florida die as a result of (not expanding Medicaid) every day.”
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By Amy Sherman • February 12, 2014
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.”
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By Amy Sherman • November 7, 2013
Charlie Crist
stated on September 6, 2012 in a Democratic National Convention speech:
“Jeb Bush recently noted, Reagan himself would have been too moderate, too reasonable for today’s GOP.”
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By Amy Sherman, Katie Sanders • September 7, 2012
Charlie Crist
stated on August 26, 2012 in a Tampa Bay Times op-ed:
Republicans included “the Akin amendment in the Republican Party platform, which bans abortion, even for rape victims.”
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By Jon Greenberg • August 27, 2012
Charlie Crist
stated on October 5, 2010 in a TV ad.:
Marco Rubio “wants to raise the Social Security retirement age,” and “cut benefits.”
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By Aaron Sharockman • October 6, 2010
Charlie Crist
stated on April 15, 2010 in in a press conference announcing veto of SB 6.:
The passage of the teacher tenure bill in the Fla. Legislature was like the health care bill in Congress because one party jammed it through.
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By Aaron Sharockman • April 16, 2010
Charlie Crist
stated on April 12, 2010 in in a TV ad.:
Marco Rubio was “subpoenaed.”
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By Aaron Sharockman • April 13, 2010
Charlie Crist
stated on March 28, 2010 in a debate on Fox News Sunday:
Marco Rubio controlled funds that “out of the $600,000 that were raised, only $4,000 went to candidates to try to improve their chances to be…
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 29, 2010
Charlie Crist
stated on March 24, 2010 in a radio ad:
In Cover Florida “thousands already enrolled and climbing.”
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By Amy Sherman • March 25, 2010
Charlie Crist
stated on February 18, 2010 in a statement on a campaign Web site:
Marco Rubio “supported $800,000 for AstroTurf for a field where he played flag football.” 
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By Amy Sherman • March 24, 2010
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