PolitiFact Florida is tracking Gov. Rick Scott's promises on the Scott-O-Meter. Photo by Joe Burbank | Orlando Sentinel.
Our latest tally of Rick Scott's campaign promises
How did Scott's promises fare during this year's legislative session? We pulled out our Scott-O-Meter.
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Mike Rogers
The IRS scandal "clearly showed some criminal behavior."
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Jeb Bush "Immigrants are more fertile."
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Saxby Chambliss
"The United States has never stood by and seen innocent people slaughtered to the ...
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Peter Roskam
"Worldwide credit card transactions, the credit card fraud rate is 0.04 percent, compared to ...
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Jim Bridenstine
"This president spends 30 times as much money on global warming research as he ...
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Mike Rogers
"It's expressly prohibited by law that you can read and wholly surveil domestic email ...
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Mark Udall
Currently, the intelligence community "can collect business records on law-abiding Americans who have no ...
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Rush Limbaugh "One person, Kathleen Sebelius, was going to determine whether or not" 10-year-old lung patient ...
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Kirsten Gillibrand
The problem of unwanted sexual contacts in the military "is not just a woman's ...
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Tim Griffin
"There was no surge in 501(c)(4) applications in 2010."
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Barack Obama
"My judicial nominees have waited three times longer to receive confirmation votes than those ...
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Bernie Sanders "Nearly 6 out of 10 believe that money and wealth should be more evenly ...
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Jim McDermott
"During the Bush administration, liberal groups were targeted" by the IRS, similar to recent ...
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Chuck Grassley Says President Barack Obama is trying to "pack" the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Democratic National Committee
"Republicans actually doctored emails between administration officials about Benghazi. Then, they released them to ...
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If Gov. Rick Scott activates "the National Guard in anticipation of a federal disaster, the state’s costs, including the costs to recall any furloughed guardsmen, will be fully reimbursable by FEMA."
"More than half of last year's U.S. college graduates are unemployed or underemployed."
Says Gov. Rick Scott returned "$1 million in federal funding that would have helped the state cover the cost of overseeing insurance rates under the new health care law."
Promise: Attract new investment and create high-paying quality jobs
Update: Early signs of some job growth
Promise: Lower electricity costs for business
Update: Data points to a drop for businesses but hard to quantify total dollars
Promise: Adopt the Daubert standard on scientific knowledge
Update: Scott signs bill for a stricter threshold for scientific evidence in court
In Miami-Dade County, "we spend at our school system over $20 million every year" educating recent immigrants.
Promise: Return Florida's state and local spending to at least the 2004 level
Update: If you account for inflation, he's met the goal
"Two weeks after signing a taxpayer protection pledge, (Charlie Crist) breaks it."
Promise: Bring state employee health insurance costs in line with the U.S. average
Update: House isn't going along with Scott on health care goal
"This budget also reflects the smallest state government workforce per 1,000 residents in Florida in this century."
"We are already almost halfway to our 2010 goal of creating 700,000 new jobs in seven years."
Promise: Institute Accountability Budgeting for each state agency
Update: Legislature has shown no interest in accountability budgeting
"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
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The IRS scandal "clearly showed some criminal behavior."
— Mike Rogers
"Immigrants are more fertile."
— Jeb Bush
"The United States has never stood by and seen innocent people slaughtered to the extent that's happening in Syria."
— Saxby Chambliss
"Worldwide credit card transactions, the credit card fraud rate is 0.04 percent, compared to almost 8 percent, 9 percent, 10 percent of Medicare fraud."
— Peter Roskam
"This president spends 30 times as much money on global warming research as he does on weather forecasting and warning."
— Jim Bridenstine








