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Latest Fact-Checks By Aaron Sharockman

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Marco Rubio
stated on March 4, 2010 in a press release:
“Crist stays in $2,000 a night luxury hotel suites where he racks up $1,300 in mini-bar charges, and doesn’t pay for a dime of it himself.”
Half-True
By Aaron Sharockman • March 12, 2010
Marco Rubio
stated on March 4, 2010 in an interview with Fox News.:
Charges on the Republican Party of Florida credit card were made with “my money.”
Mostly False
By Aaron Sharockman • March 11, 2010
Jeff Kottkamp
stated on February 28, 2010 in an op-ed published in Florida newspapers:
“Nearly all of the top 50 prescribers of oxycodone in the United States are in Florida.”
True
By Aaron Sharockman • March 9, 2010
Charlie Crist
stated on March 2, 2010 in his State of the State address.:
“Florida’s new fingerprint identification system is improving our rate of solving cold cases by 300 percent.”
Mostly False
By Aaron Sharockman • March 8, 2010
Alex Sink
stated on March 4, 2010 in an interview with interview with the St. Petersburg Times/Miami Herald.:
“Nobody has been talking about it (Medicaid fraud), focused on it, or paying attention to it.”
False
By Aaron Sharockman • March 6, 2010
Charlie Crist
stated on March 2, 2010 in his State of the State address.:
“We worked together to enact … the largest tax cut in Florida history.”
False
By Aaron Sharockman • March 3, 2010
Charlie Crist
stated on March 2, 2010 in his State of the State address.:
“Due to … tax cuts and lower (property) values, 2009 property taxes were almost $3 billion below 2007 property taxes.”
True
By Aaron Sharockman • March 3, 2010
Republican Party of Florida
stated on February 26, 2010 in a press release:
U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson “compared a former vice president to a vampire … and compared America’s health care system to the Holocaust.”
Mostly True
By Aaron Sharockman • March 2, 2010
Marco Rubio
stated on February 17, 2010 in an interview with Fox News:
“Charlie Crist was the only prominent Republican in the country to campaign with Barack Obama before the stimulus passed, on behalf of the stimulus.”
Half-True
By Aaron Sharockman • March 2, 2010
Marco Rubio
stated on November 4, 2009 in his campaign Web site:
“Fifty-seven” of  Rubio’s 100 ideas “ultimately became law.”
Half-True
By Aaron Sharockman • February 26, 2010
Franklin Sands
stated on January 29, 2010 in a press release:
“Florida still averages more students in its classrooms than any other state in the Southeast.”
Half-True
By Aaron Sharockman • February 6, 2010
Charlie Crist
stated on January 27, 2010 in Associated Press' annual legislative meeting:
“I have had the challenge during this administration to suspend no less than 37 public officials in about 36 months.”
Mostly True
By Aaron Sharockman • January 29, 2010
Bob McDonnell
stated on January 27, 2010 in the Republican response to the State of the Union:
“The amount of debt is on pace to double in five years and triple in 10. The federal debt is now over $100,000 per household.”
Half-True
By Aaron Sharockman • January 28, 2010
Bob McDonnell
stated on January 27, 2010 in the Republican response to the State of the Union:
“Here in Virginia, we have the opportunity to become the first state on the East Coast to explore for and produce oil and natural gas offshore.”
True
By Aaron Sharockman • January 28, 2010
Marco Rubio
stated on January 14, 2010 in an interview with Glenn Beck:
“Close to half of the folks in this country illegally entered legally (but) overstayed (their ) visas.”
Mostly True
By Aaron Sharockman • January 18, 2010
Alex Sink
stated on January 6, 2010 in response to questions about fundraising totals:
“No Democratic campaign for (Fla.) governor has ever had these kinds of resources this early on in an election cycle.”
True
By Aaron Sharockman • January 15, 2010
Kendrick Meek
stated on January 10, 2010 in a television interview:
“A number of the national publications have put this race in a tossup race between Democrats and Republicans. They don’t know who’s going to win this race.”
Mostly False
By Aaron Sharockman • January 12, 2010
George LeMieux
stated on January 8, 2010 in a message on Twitter:
“Why is January 8th an important date in American history? This day in 1835 is the only day in our history when we have not been in debt.”
Mostly True
By Aaron Sharockman • January 12, 2010
Rudy Giuliani
stated on January 8, 2010 in an interview on 'Good Morning America':
“We had no domestic attacks under Bush.”
Pants on Fire!
By Aaron Sharockman • January 8, 2010
Charlie Crist
stated on January 5, 2010 in a written statement:
“President Obama has broken his pledge to the American people to be transparent throughout (health care reform negotiations).”
True
By Aaron Sharockman • January 5, 2010
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