Statements we say are Half-True
"More than half of last year's U.S. college graduates are unemployed or underemployed."
"Expanding Medicaid would require borrowing more money, drastically expanding our deficit."
"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."
The Dolphins stadium renovation will "create more than 4,000 new local jobs."
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."
"Rick Scott has paid down our debt by about $2 billion. Charlie Crist’s debt went up about $5 billion."
A proposed bill in the Florida Legislature "would authorize the public hoarding of cats by feral cat activists."
Says PETA "is using this really fancy drone to follow hunters around in some places in other countries."
"There are 3 million jobs available in America that are not filled because too many of our people don’t have the skills for those jobs."
The Legislature needs to spend $500 million to "shore up" the pension fund this year and the next 28 years to keep it "afloat."
Says his proposed education spending "is the highest state funding level in Florida history."
The majority of public funding for the Marlins stadium "came from hotel taxes, the burden of which is incurred by tourists who are visiting our city, NOT the resident taxpayers."
Says his budget provides "the highest state funding level in history" for education.
People committed involuntarily for 72 hours under the Baker Act will get their guns back "automatically and immediately upon discharge....and their commitment is never entered into a background check database."
"I sponsored the amendment that expanded the hours of early voting so that people who have irregular work schedules could vote."
"In the four years before I became governor, we increased state debt $5.2 billion. We've paid it down $2 billion."
"Report that #GOP insisting on changes to Social Security as part of #fiscalcliff false. BTW those changes are supported by @barackobama."
Under Charlie Crist, Florida lost 825,000 jobs and the unemployment rate increased from 3.5 percent to 11.1 percent.
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