All Mostly True statements involving Rick Scott
"For the first time in eight years, our budget also increases funding for persons with disabilities by $36 million to help more disabled people receive community-based services."
Says a recent study shows Florida students are second in the world in fourth grade reading, behind Singapore.
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."
"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."
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."
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 the Panhandle has had its highest-ever bed tax collections in 2011.
Says he vetoed $250,000 from the budget for a program to learn how to catch rainwater.
"Hackers broke into Virginia's prescription-drug database (and) ... obtained more than 8.2 million patient records and a total of nearly 36 million prescriptions."
"According to 2009 estimates, an agreement with Panama could result in almost 1,900 Florida jobs in the first year – and about 15,000 jobs after five years."
"I delivered to you a budget that ... cuts taxes by $2 billion."
"On my first day in office, I ordered a review of every regulation in the pipeline and every contract exceeding $1 million."
Says the high-speed rail project provides "short-term jobs."
"We are the only state in the country that state employees don't contribute [to their pensions]."
"Most" of the newspapers that endorsed Alex Sink also endorsed Barack Obama.
"We have 50 state lobbyists that just lobby the Legislature for money every year."
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