All statements involving Rick Scott
Florida has "1,200 golf courses. I think 58 million rounds played a year in Florida. We’ve got 44 percent of all travel golf in the country here. 5 million people come here just for golf."
"About 230,000 people that were on unemployment when I took office are not on unemployment now."
"The University of Florida announced this past week that it was dropping its computer science department ... Meanwhile, the athletic budget for the current year is $97.7 million, an increase of more than $2 million from last year."
"Today, you can't rely on (the retirement fund for public employees), it's not funded."
"In some communities, for $10,000 worth of (PIP) coverage it’s $1,500 a year."
"We are poised to get rid of over 1,000 more regulations in 2012."
Florida "unemployment has dropped more than 2 percentage points, down from 12 percent to 9.9 percent, the second-largest drop in the nation."
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."
"At my first ‘Let’s Get to Work Day’ … we sold out;" more than 240 dozen doughnuts by 8:30 a.m.
The Affordable Care Act is "not the law of the land."
The United States' regulations "are among the most difficult in the world."
Says adding toll lanes on I-95 in Broward County improved rush-hour traffic for non-toll lanes from 25 mph to 45 mph.
Says Anthropology is a STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) field.
On how he measures his promise to create 700,000 private-sector jobs in seven years.
"At nearly 19 million people, the population of Florida is larger than all the earlier primary and caucus states combined."
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