The Truth-O-Meter has been busy with claims by Florida House Speaker Will Weatherford this year. Photo by Scott Keeler | Tampa Bay Times.
Fact-checking House Speaker Will Weatherford
The Republican from Pasco County was everywhere during the legislative session. We checked out his talking points.
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Nancy Pelosi
"The Affordable Care Act is bringing the cost of health care in our country ...
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Reclaim America PAC
Says Kelly Ayotte voted to "fix background checks."
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Jason Chaffetz
"We had people that were getting killed (in Benghazi), we had people who are ...
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Barack Obama
"Over the last several months, there was a review board headed by two distinguished ...
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Jay Carney
When Susan Rice spoke about Benghazi on Sunday news shows, she said "that al-Qaida ...
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Tom Coburn "In 2010, everybody said you can't dare let guns go into the national parks, ...
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Bill Richardson
Among Hispanics, support for immigration reform is close to universal.
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Newt Gingrich
The labor market is weak because if you count the unemployed, underemployed, and those ...
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Marco Rubio
"We are dealing with an administration that, quite frankly, has shown a reluctance to ...
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Martina Navratilova
"In 29 states in this country you can still get fired for not just ...
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Bloggers
"Pentagon confirms they may court martial soldiers who hold Christian faith."
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Barack Obama
For people with insurance, the only impact of the health care law "is that ...
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Barack Obama
Long-term federal investment in U.S. airports is urgent because "there was a recent survey ...
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Ted Poe Says new Medicare billing guidelines "have nine codes for (injuries by) turkeys."
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John McCain
"Over half" of science, technology, engineering and mathematics students "receiving advanced degrees are not ...
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"Expanding Medicaid would require borrowing more money, drastically expanding our deficit."
Promise: Eliminate Florida's corporate income tax over 7 years
Update: Scott fails to get Legislature on board with exempting more businesses from corporate income tax
"70,000 three-year-olds and four-year-olds across America will lose access to the preschool Head Start program. ... 2,000 in the state of Florida alone."
Promise: Use inmate labor to grow prison food
Update: Legislature provided small increase for edible crops in 2012-13
Says Gov. Rick Scott allowed Republican legislators to cut his teacher pay raise proposal by 60 percent.
Broward County was one of three counties in the nation "pivotal to an Obama victory" in 2012.
The Dolphins stadium renovation will "create more than 4,000 new local jobs."
"Odd fact for odd draft: No. 2 overall pick will earn more than the No. 1 pick due to no state tax in Florida. So 2 not so bad."
"Abortionists have reduced our black population by more than 25 percent since 1973."
The election bill "allows persons to correct an absentee ballot if they did not sign it and requires an extra two hours a day for early voting. Everything else in this bill is discretionary."
The Miami Dolphins "are the only NFL team in the entire nation that pays property taxes."
The "working tax cut" created "over 40,000 new jobs in just the last four years."
Ché Guevara "wrote extensively about the superiority of white Europeans over people of African descent."
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MOSTLY TRUE – The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information.
HALF TRUE – The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context.
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"The Affordable Care Act is bringing the cost of health care in our country down."
— Nancy Pelosi
Says Kelly Ayotte voted to "fix background checks."
— Reclaim America PAC
"We had people that were getting killed (in Benghazi), we had people who are willing to risk their lives to go save them, and somebody told them to stand down."
— Jason Chaffetz
"Over the last several months, there was a review board headed by two distinguished Americans, Mike Mullen and Tom Pickering, who investigated every element of" the Benghazi incident.
— Barack Obama
When Susan Rice spoke about Benghazi on Sunday news shows, she said "that al-Qaida might be involved, or other al-Qaida affiliates might be involved, or non-al-Qaida Libyan extremists, which I think demonstrates that there was no effort to play that down."
— Jay Carney









