Statements we say are False
Says President Obama said of the national debt, "If I don't have this done in three years, then there's going to be a one-term proposition."
"Mitt Romney is the first major party candidate for president of the United States in modern times not to release at least 12 years of tax returns."
Says state Senate candidate Aaron Bean voted to give health care subsidies to illegal immigrants.
Says Ron Saunders "made the choice to stand with Rick Scott" on expanding school vouchers, restricting scholarships and giving tax breaks to the wealthy.
FCAT tests "account for less than 1 percent of the instructional time provided during the year."
The Pasco County budget "has doubled in the past three years."
The health care law "adds around $800 billion of taxes on the American people. It does not discriminate between rich and poor."
The health care law could cost up to $2 trillion, "double what we were promised."
"Every one of the 67 supervisors of elections" in Florida refused to carry out the effort to remove noncitizens from the voter rolls.
The Medicaid expansion is "going to cost Florida $1.9 billion a year."
Says the health care law rations care, like systems in Canada and Great Britain.
Under Florida’s voting law, a requirement to turn in voter registrations within 48 hours "makes it impossible to meet the deadline if you’re working right to the end of the week."
An "Obamacare slush fund" paid to spay and neuter dogs and cats, then counted it as an "anti-obesity campaign."
"Millions could lose their health care coverage and be forced into a government pool" under the new health care law.
Democrats plan to keep student loan interest rates low "by raising taxes on small businesses, very small businesses … the kinds of small businesses that give jobs to graduates."
The congressional district for Miami-Dade and Broward counties has a "staggering drop-out rate of almost 61 percent."
"We didn’t go out asking people" to join the "stand your ground" task force.
Gas prices have doubled because "Obama opposed exploring for energy in Alaska. He gave millions of tax dollars to Solyndra, which then went bankrupt. And he blocked the Keystone pipeline. So we will all pay more at the pump."
The Florida Department of Agriculture’s website FreshFromFlorida.com can be used "to get a permit to carry a loaded hidden gun without ever leaving your house."
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