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DeSantis Watch
stated on February 8, 2023 in a Facebook post:

"Ron DeSantis voted to cut $473 billion from Medicare."

By Yacob Reyes • February 22, 2023
Gavin Newsom
stated on January 30, 2023 in a tweet:

"(Ron) DeSantis' bill would remove: background checks, instruction, training and oversight."

By Yacob Reyes • February 6, 2023
Tweets
stated on January 25, 2023 in a tweet:

“Female student-athletes in Florida need to provide their schools with detailed information about their periods.”

By Samantha Putterman • February 3, 2023
Lindsay Cross
stated on January 3, 2023 in a press release:

"Florida's water is dirtier and sicker than when Gov. DeSantis first took office."

By Yacob Reyes • January 13, 2023
Chris Murphy
stated on November 27, 2022 in an interview on CNN:

“60% of counties in this country are refusing to implement the nation's gun laws.”

By Yacob Reyes • December 1, 2022
Florida Immigrant Coalition
stated on October 18, 2022 in un anuncio de campaña:

“Marco Rubio le ha votado en contra a los Dreamers”.

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • November 1, 2022
Val Demings
stated on September 23, 2022 in a tweet:

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio "has denied climate change."

By Yacob Reyes • October 11, 2022
Marco Rubio
stated on September 14, 2022 in an ad:

Val Demings "voted to allow transgender youth sports and teaching radical gender identity without parental consent."

By Tom Kertscher • October 5, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on August 22, 2022 in a Facebook post:

Sarasota, Florida, teachers told they cannot purchase books, accept donated reading materials, order from Scholastic or hold book fairs.

By Yacob Reyes • August 29, 2022
Charlie Crist
stated on May 4, 2022 in a press conference:

“It costs more to live in many Florida cities than New York City.”

By Yacob Reyes • May 16, 2022
Crystal Peoples-Stokes
stated on March 29, 2022 in a news release:

“Cities in notoriously ‘tough on crime’ states like Texas and Florida saw a more significant increase in violent crime than cities in NYS.”

By Jill Terreri Ramos • April 16, 2022
Joe Biden
stated on January 11, 2022 in a speech on voting rights in Georgia:

“In the 2020 election, President Trump voted from behind the desk in the White House in Florida.”

By Amy Sherman • January 13, 2022
Rick Scott
stated on December 7, 2021 in a press release:

The Build Back Better Act “includes $34.5 billion in cuts” for charity care funding to hospitals.

By Jon Greenberg • December 10, 2021
Ron DeSantis
stated on June 16, 2021 in a press conference:

“That meth … it’s almost all coming across the southern border and it’s been accelerating for the last six months.”

By Miriam Valverde • June 21, 2021
Ron DeSantis
stated on November 30, 2020 in a press conference:

“The states that are locked down are increasing at twice the rate we are” in Florida

By Louis Jacobson • December 2, 2020
Congressional Leadership Fund
stated on October 7, 2020 in an ad:

Says Debbie Mucarsel-Powell's family received $700,000 from the firm of "violent warlord Ihor Kolomoisky," who is compared to Fidel Castro and Nicolás Maduro.

By Tom Kertscher • October 16, 2020
Mike Pence
stated on October 7, 2020 in a debate:

“With regard to hurricanes, the National Oceanic (and Atmospheric) Administration tells us that actually, as difficult as they are, there are no more hurricanes today than there were 100 years ago.”

By Amy Sherman • October 14, 2020
Debbie Mucarsel-Powell
stated on September 17, 2020 in a campaign website:

Says Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez “approved a 67% pay raise for himself and increased his own pension. He makes $250,000 a year, more than almost every big-city Mayor in the country. He also kept his taxpayer-funded Mercedes-Benz after slashing $400 million in government jobs and spending.”

By Amy Sherman • September 30, 2020
Debbie Mucarsel-Powell
stated on August 21, 2020 in an ad:

After a bridge collapse killed six people, Carlos Gimenez extended a $130 million contract to the construction company, where one of his sons worked and for which another lobbied.

By Tom Kertscher • September 4, 2020
Ron DeSantis
stated on April 14, 2020 in an April 14, 2020 press briefing:

“Obesity is, like, the No. 1 factor in whether you really get hit hard by COVID-19.”

By Amy Sherman • April 17, 2020
Occupy Democrats
stated on March 12, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Says Rep. Matt Gaetz and Sen. Ted Cruz took two weeks paid sick leave to self-quarantine. Gaetz “voted in 2013 to make it illegal for any city in Florida to enact paid sick leave,” and Cruz “voted in 2015 in the U.S. Senate against paid sick leave.”

By Amy Sherman • March 17, 2020
Bernie Sanders
stated on January 13, 2020 in a Sun Sentinel op ed:

"In Florida children are required to take their first standardized test within 30 days of beginning kindergarten and Gov. DeSantis wants to extend that requirement to preschoolers."

By Amy Sherman • January 15, 2020
Florida Democratic Party
stated on September 30, 2019 in a tweet:

"$575 billion cut from Medicare in Trump’s proposed 2020 budget."

By Amy Sherman • October 3, 2019
Donna Shalala
stated on July 21, 2019 in an interview on CBSMiami with Jim DeFede:

Says children at Homestead migrant facility "get 30 minutes over a month to talk to family members. If they were in a prison — a federal prison — they would get 300 minutes."

By Amy Sherman • July 23, 2019
Rick Scott
stated on July 8, 2019 in a tweet:

"Americans are traveling to Canada to pay 12 times less for insulin than they would here in the US."

By Jon Greenberg • July 11, 2019
Florida Democratic Party
stated on June 17, 2019 in a press release:

The Trump administration has denied "4.2 million American workers overtime."

By Amy Sherman • June 25, 2019
Alcee Hastings
stated on February 5, 2019 in a statement to the press:

"In 2018, we endured a school shooting nearly once a week."

By Amy Sherman • February 11, 2019
José Oliva
stated on January 30, 2019 in AP legislative day in Tallahassee:

Health care is the "No. 1 reason for bankruptcy."

By Amy Sherman • January 31, 2019
Andrew Gillum
stated on October 24, 2018 in a WPBF debate:

Says Ron DeSantis has not revealed $145,000 in receipts of public taxpayer money.

By Miriam Valverde • October 24, 2018
Andrew Gillum
stated on September 26, 2018 in an ad:

"In Congress, Ron DeSantis demanded that any new health law eliminate protections for people with pre-existing conditions."

By Amy Sherman • October 18, 2018

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