All statements involving Alex Sink
"150,000 (oil spill) claims have been filed by Floridians, but only 40 percent of them have been paid."
"Rick Scott got a majority of the Hispanic vote in Florida."
"Most" of the newspapers that endorsed Alex Sink also endorsed Barack Obama.
Rick Scott "has said that he would do away with the Department of Community Affairs."
"Your tellers were paid kickbacks for directing elderly consumers from ... safe deposits to risky ones."
The lawyer who brought the case against NationsBank said "publicly that Alex Sink had nothing to do with the case, had nothing to do with the situation and didn't know about the problems."
Says Alex Sink's plans for governor include $12.5 billion in new spending.
"Newspapers say Florida made bad investments, lost hundreds of millions of dollars, billions in pension funds lost. Who was in charge of Florida's investments? Alex Sink."
"Alex Sink funneled three quarters of a million dollars in no-bid contracts to Bank of America."
"Rick Scott's prison plan would cut Florida's prison budget in half, close prisons, and release tens of thousands of prisoners early -- murderers, rapists, sex offenders, armed robbers, drug dealers."
When Tallahassee politicians and bureaucrats tried to run our schools, "I've stood up to them to protect local control."
State pension fund staffers "lost billions. Then Sink gave them bonuses."
"Florida spends more than $300 million a year just on children repeating pre-K through 3rd grade."
"The stimulus has not created one private sector job."
"Florida ranks last in the ratio of employees to residents... And Florida is dead last in the nation in state employee payroll expenditures per resident."
Alex Sink wants to "cut Medicare."
House Republicans who complained they didn't have enough time to consider a constitutional ban against oil drilling "shoved through a proposal in just a few days to open state waters to oil drilling."
"Florida’s high school graduation rate falls well below the national average."
"The minute this proposal for near-beach oil drilling came up, I was against it."
Rick Scott "was forced to resign as the head of a company that pled guilty to massive amounts of systematic fraud, including 14 felonies, leading to a historic $1.7 billion fine."
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