The latest statements we've reviewed for PolitiFact Florida
"No candidate has run more negative ads in American history than Barack Obama did in 2008, especially in the general.’’
Says Mitt Romney’s campaign "has already spent more on negative ads than John McCain did during his entire presidential run."
In 1992, Mitt Romney "gave money to Democrats for Congress."
"This president went before the United Nations and castigated Israel for building settlements. He said nothing about thousands of rockets being rained in on Israel from the Gaza Strip."
"Romneycare sent costs spiraling out of control" in Massachusetts, "hiking premiums, squeezing household budgets."
Nevada is No. 1 in unemployment, violent crime, car theft, divorce, robberies and foreclosures.
Says Mitt Romney "was one of the first national Republican leaders to endorse" Marco Rubio.
Says Newt Gingrich said "Spanish is the language of the ghetto."
"When I was fighting against cap and trade, the speaker was sitting down with Nancy Pelosi on a sofa encouraging it."
Says Newt Gingrich’s contract was with "the lobbyists at Freddie Mac."
"While Romney was a director of the Damon Corporation, the company was defrauding Medicare of millions."
Says Rick Santorum "voted to let convicted felons vote."
"In 2011, (Debbie) Wasserman Schultz missed 62 congressional votes — one of the worst records of any member of Congress."
Tampa is "the strip club capital of the world."
Says Newt Gingrich "co-sponsored a bill with Nancy Pelosi that would have given $60 million a year to a U.N. program supporting China’s brutal one-child policy."
"Since the passage of Obama's stimulus package, over 1 million additional jobs were lost and nearly 25 million Americans are out of work, are stuck in part-time work, or have given up looking."
Says the state tax burden per citizen in New York is twice as high as in Florida.
"In the past year, Floridians, not government, created almost 135,000 new private sector jobs. We netted more than 120,000 total jobs in the first 11 months of 2011; the third most of any state in the nation."
"My recommended budget includes $1 billion in new state funding for education."
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