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Latest Fact-Checks In Florida

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Adam Putnam
stated on November 30, 2017 in a campaign speech:
Says Tallahassee mayor Andrew Gillum “wants to make Florida not a sanctuary city but a sanctuary state.”  
Half-True
By Allison Graves • December 6, 2017
Marco Rubio
stated on November 26, 2017 in an interview:
“Close to half of the voters in America, the only tax they pay is the payroll tax.”
Half-True
By Allison Graves • November 28, 2017
Rick Scott
stated on November 9, 2017 in a Tampa news conference :
“We’ve cut taxes 75 times, cut $7.5 billion worth in taxes, and as a result we’ve added over 1.3 million jobs.”
Half-True
By Allison Graves • November 21, 2017
Florida Agency for Health Care Administration
stated on October 25, 2017 in a news release:
“Under Gov. (Rick) Scott’s leadership, Florida has had much success in lowering the rate of uninsured children.”  
Half-True
By Allison Graves • November 2, 2017
Adam Putnam
stated on August 30, 2017 in a tweet:
San Francisco and Takoma Park, Md., are “allowing illegals to vote.”
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • September 15, 2017
Marco Rubio's heckler
stated on August 22, 2017 in during Sen. Marco Rubio's speech to Seminole County GOP:
Says Marco Rubio took “three quarters of a million dollars from fossil fuel executives” during the 2016 Senate election.
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • August 29, 2017
Rick Baker
stated on July 28, 2017 in a Facebook post:
Says he “made St. Petersburg the state’s best maintained large sewer system in 2007.”
Half-True
By Allison Graves • August 18, 2017
Seamless Florida
stated on August 7, 2017 in a television ad:
“When Rick Baker heard (racist remarks from another mayoral candidate), he went after Congemi. Rick Kriseman he just looked away. Tolerating bigotry in silence is no virtue; taking it on is.”
Half-True
By Allison Graves • August 15, 2017
Donald Trump
stated on August 8, 2017 in a briefing on opioids:
“At the end of 2016, there were 23 percent fewer federal prosecutions than in 2011, so (prosecutors) looked at this scourge (opioid deaths) and they let it go by.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • August 9, 2017
Tony Fabrizio
stated on July 10, 2017 in an interview with Politico:
Says Adam Putnam “was for amnesty.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • July 24, 2017
John Morgan
stated on July 6, 2017 in a lawsuit:
“Despite decades of marijuana being used for smoking in the United States, there have been no reported medical cases of lung cancer” attributed to marijuana.
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • July 13, 2017
Chris King
stated on May 25, 2017 in a press release:
Says a Congressional Budget Office report found low-income seniors in Florida will face “800 percent premium increases” under the American Health Care Act.
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • June 2, 2017
Richard Corcoran
stated on May 6, 2017 in a tweet:
Says the Florida House of Representatives allocated $24 billion, “the greatest investment in education in Florida history!”
Half-True
By Joshua Gillin • May 15, 2017
Save My Care
stated on May 8, 2017 in a digital ad:
U.S. Rep. Carlos Curbelo voted for a health care bill that will let insurance companies “charge five times more for people over 50.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • May 11, 2017
Florida Democratic Party
stated on April 27, 2017 in a press release:
Donald Trump’s “golf course on the island defaulted, like so many of his other failed business schemes. The failure left Puerto Rican taxpayers with a nearly $33 million bill.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • May 4, 2017
Bob Cortes
stated on April 18, 2017 in a discussion on HB 7101:
“All charter schools are not-for-profit.”
Half-True
By Allison Graves • April 27, 2017
Richard Corcoran
stated on April 3, 2017 in an op-ed:
Says small businesses “make up 98.9 percent of all businesses in the state and employ nearly half of the state’s private sector workforce” and “almost never receive a penny of government money.”
Half-True
By Allison Graves • April 11, 2017
Richard Corcoran
stated on February 12, 2017 in an inteview on CBS4:
“Most of these mass shootings take place in (areas) where you’re not allowed to have a concealed weapons permit.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • February 21, 2017
Richard Corcoran
stated on February 6, 2017 in a tweet:
“Spending more taxpayer money on VISIT FL (or less) has not demonstrated a direct impact on tourism.”
Half-True
By Allison Graves • February 9, 2017
Rick Scott
stated on December 2, 2016 in a press release:
More than two months ago President Barack Obama signed a bill for more than $1 billion in Zika funding, but “the federal government has still only committed $7 million” to help Florida.
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • December 12, 2016
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