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Rita Harris
stated on December 14, 2022 in a press release:

Florida Senate Bill 2A does not provide "immediate relief" to homeowners dealing with high property insurance rates and "will force some … constituents to pay up to 20% more."

By Yacob Reyes • December 19, 2022
Val Demings
stated on October 31, 2022 in a campaign ad:

Sen. Marco Rubio "helped write the law to raise prescription prices."

By Yacob Reyes • November 7, 2022
Charlie Crist
stated on October 4, 2022 in a campaign ad:

"When I was your governor, we reduced insurance rates by 10%."

By Yacob Reyes • October 19, 2022
Yuh-Line Niou
stated on September 28, 2022 in a tweet:

Sen. Marco Rubio and U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis “voted against aid for Hurricane Sandy.”

By Amy Sherman • September 30, 2022
Val Demings
stated on July 13, 2022 in a campaign ad:

Sen. Marco Rubio has "one of the worst attendance records in the Senate."

By Yacob Reyes • July 14, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on May 17, 2022 in a Facebook post:

“Florida Highway Patrol has a semi-truck … The FHP uses a fleet of three such ‘hidden in plain sight’ trucks to snitch on bad drivers.”

By Yacob Reyes • May 26, 2022
Ron DeSantis
stated on September 13, 2021 in remarks at an event in Gainesville, Fla.:

People who “have recovered (from COVID-19) have very strong immunity.”

By Jon Greenberg • September 15, 2021
Ron DeSantis
stated on March 13, 2021 in in an interview on Fox News:

"When I became governor, we banned sanctuary cities and we also did E-Verify."

By Amy Sherman • March 19, 2021
Ron DeSantis
stated on August 10, 2020 in during a televised roundtable discussion on education:

“The fact is that in terms of the risk to schoolkids, this is lower risk than seasonal influenza.”

By Phil Galewitz • August 20, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on May 12, 2020 in a headline in a Facebook post:

“Beachgoers trash Florida beaches with 13,000 pounds of litter after beaches reopen.”

By Amy Sherman • May 18, 2020
Val Demings
stated on January 29, 2020 in the impeachment trial:

“All of the aid has not arrived” to Ukraine.

By Amy Sherman • February 3, 2020
Frederica Wilson
stated on December 12, 2019 in a hearing:

Says Betsy DeVos is the "most unpopular person in our government."

By Amy Sherman • January 6, 2020
Nikki Fried
stated on October 29, 2019 in a pre-legislative media forum:

While previous clemency boards granted restoration of civil rights to thousands of Floridians, "so far this year, under this clemency board, four (felons) have gotten their rights back."

By Amy Sherman • November 21, 2019
Greg Steube
stated on May 28, 2019 in a press release:

"It’s estimated that in 2018 alone, dead people received $1 billion in benefits from Medicare, Medicaid, social security payments, and federal pensions."

By Amy Sherman • June 13, 2019
Gary Farmer
stated on March 7, 2019 in a Florida Senate meeting:

"Some patients who are on transplant lists for kidney or other organs are being dropped from the list simply because they are shown as a licensed card holder" for medical marijuana.

By Amy Sherman • March 27, 2019
Matt Gaetz
stated on February 7, 2019 in an interview on CNN:

"In 1992, the Democratic Party had in their platform provisions that said that illegal aliens were coming in this country, committing felonies, sent back and then they were right back across the border to do the same thing."

By Amy Sherman • February 13, 2019
Marco Rubio
stated on November 8, 2018 in a tweet:

"#Broward elections department has a history of violating the law."

By Amy Sherman • November 12, 2018
Scott Galloway
stated on November 7, 2018 in a tweet:

"The number of people who just got their voting rights restored in Florida is greater than the populations of Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Delaware, Rhode Island, Montana, Maine and New Hampshire."

By Amy Sherman • November 8, 2018
Ron DeSantis
stated on October 24, 2018 in a debate at Broward College:

Says Andrew Gillum was "singing a different tune" about charter schools at the Florida debate.

By Amy Sherman • October 29, 2018
Andrew Gillum
stated on September 30, 2018 in CBS4 interview:

Says Tallahassee "is experiencing a five-year low in our crime rate."

By Amy Sherman • October 8, 2018
Ron DeSantis
stated on September 23, 2018 in CBS4 interview:

Says Andrew Gillum has presided over "the highest crime in Florida four years running."

By Amy Sherman • October 8, 2018
Rick Scott
stated on September 18, 2018 in an ad:

Says Bill Nelson "skipped 45 percent of the hearings on national security."

By Amy Sherman • October 1, 2018
Republican Governors Association
stated on September 12, 2018 in an ad:

Says Andrew Gillum "wants to increase Florida taxes by a billion dollars."

By Amy Sherman • September 14, 2018
Andrew Gillum
stated on August 29, 2018 in an MSNBC interview:

Says he was sued by the NRA and the gun lobby "all because in my city we refused to repeal an ordinance which said you couldn’t shoot guns in city parks."

By Miriam Valverde • September 5, 2018
Florida Democratic Party
stated on August 5, 2018 in a tweet:

Says Rick Scott "cut $700 million from water management."

By Lucia Geng • August 14, 2018
Jeff Greene
stated on July 29, 2018 in a TV interview:

"There is a big correlation between third grade reading level and whether you go to college or whether you go to prison. And in Florida right now only 56 percent of kids are coming out of third grade at third grade reading level."

By Katie Akin • August 7, 2018
Ron DeSantis
stated on June 28, 2018 in a Fox News debate:

Says Adam Putnam "endorsed the Schumer-Obama Gang of Eight immigration amnesty."

By Allison Graves • June 29, 2018
Bill Nelson
stated on June 21, 2018 in an ad:

Says he "actually wrote the bipartisan law that makes it illegal to drill off Florida’s coast."

By Allison Graves • June 29, 2018
Andrew Gillum
stated on June 20, 2018 in a debate:

Under Philip Levine, Miami Beach "passed a resolution to ban assault rifles, which was not enforceable and never enforced. He passed a resolution to raise the minimum wage, which actually no one got the benefit of because it was not enforced."

By Allison Graves • June 9, 2018
Gwen Graham
stated on May 18, 2018 in a Facebook post:

"So far this year, more students have been killed in schools than soldiers in combat zones."

By Louis Jacobson • May 21, 2018

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