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Latest Fact-Checks In Florida

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Samantha Bee
stated on May 10, 2017 in TBS show Full Frontal:
“In Florida felonies can be things like buying weed, tampering with an odometer or disturbing a lobster trap. So basically spring break.”
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • May 25, 2017
Desmond Meade
stated on May 10, 2017 in Samantha Bee's Full Frontal show:
“You could lose your rights for life over something as simple as driving with a suspended license” in Florida.
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By Amy Sherman • May 25, 2017
USF Divest
stated on April 11, 2017 in a video on Facebook:
Says the University of South Florida invests in oil companies like BP, tobacco companies, weapons manufacturers and private prisons.
Mostly True
By Allison Graves • April 19, 2017
Randolph Bracy
stated on April 4, 2017 in in a New York Times op-ed:
“African-Americans are grossly overrepresented on Florida’s death row.”
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By Amy Sherman • April 17, 2017
Rick Scott
stated on April 7, 2017 in a Pensacola jobs roundtable:
Says Florida has “the second-lowest taxes, per capita, state taxes of any state in the country.”  
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By Allison Graves • April 13, 2017
Carlos Guillermo Smith
stated on March 21, 2017 in a vote on HB 697:
Says if a Florida bill (HB 697) punishing sanctuary cities becomes law “it will be the only law of its kind in the nation.”
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By Allison Graves • March 30, 2017
Florida Immigrant Coalition
stated on March 27, 2017 in a Florida House subcommittee hearing:
“As an undocumented immigrant, you do have constitutional rights here in the United States.”
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By Amy Sherman • March 29, 2017
Richard Corcoran
stated on March 17, 2017 in a Tiger Bay speech:
Says Florida officials amended a contract from Lockheed Martin from 305 promised jobs to six.  
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By Allison Graves • March 27, 2017
Kathleen Sebelius
stated on March 12, 2017 in an interview on Meet the Press:
Blue Cross Blue Shield ended “2016 open enrollment with 1 million members in the Florida marketplace.”
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By Amy Sherman • March 15, 2017
Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops
stated on March 15, 2017 in a Florida House subcommittee hearing:
“Unlawful presence (in the United States) is not a crime.”
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By Louis Jacobson • March 15, 2017
Patricia Farley
stated on March 14, 2017 in a news conference in the Capitol:
“A woman working full-time is paid 79 to 80 cents for every dollar a man is paid, and it’s even less for women of color, and on average $11,000 per year is lost simply because she isn’t a man.”
Mostly True
By Allison Graves • March 14, 2017
Rosemary Laird
stated on March 14, 2017 in a Florida Senate committee hearing:
“Currently, half a million Floridians have Alzheimer’s disease, and in less than 10 years, a 40 percent growth rate means that another 200,000 Floridians will develop this devastating illness.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 14, 2017
Janet Cruz
stated on March 7, 2017 in a speech:
“Florida pays our teachers $10,000 a year less than the national average.”
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • March 7, 2017
Carl Bildt
stated on February 20, 2017 in a tweet:
There were “50 percent more murders” in Orlando and Orange County, Fla., last year “than in all of Sweden.”
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By Allison Graves • February 22, 2017
Marco Rubio
stated on January 27, 2017 in an interview:
“In Florida, 70 percent of the people here illegally came on an airplane. They overstayed a visa.”
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By Amy Sherman • February 2, 2017
Cory Gardner
stated on January 23, 2017 in an interview on Fox:
“About 30 percent of terrorists at Guantanamo Bay went back into battle. We know that a dozen or so killed Americans.”
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By Amy Sherman • January 25, 2017
Carlos Gimenez
stated on January 18, 2017 in a state of the county speech:
Miami-Dade is “the first community in the world to break the cycle of local transmission of the Zika virus.”
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • January 24, 2017
Donald Trump
stated on January 20, 2017 in a statement on the White House website:
“Our Navy has shrunk from more than 500 ships in 1991 to 275 in 2016.”
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By Amy Sherman • January 20, 2017
Carlos Guillermo Smith
stated on January 10, 2017 in a press conference:
“Florida is ranked 50th in the nation for mental health care funding.”
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • January 18, 2017
Ted Cruz
stated on November 27, 2016 in an interview on ABC's This Week:
“In 2015 roughly 10,000 political arrests occurred in Cuba. That is five times as many as occurred in 2010, when there were only about 2,000.”
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By Amy Sherman • November 29, 2016
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