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Lee Logan is a staff writer for the Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau.

Featured Statements

Rachel O'Connor
stated on July 12, 2012 in an interview:

The Pasco County budget "has doubled in the past three years."

By Lee Logan • July 22, 2012
Ron Oakley
stated on April 16, 2012 in a campaign mailer:

Ron Oakley's "conservative leadership protected local taxpayers over government bureaucrats" as the Water Management District’s budget decreased by "58 percent in the four years he served on the board."

By Lee Logan • April 22, 2012
Tom Scott
stated on February 8, 2011 in a mayoral debate:

A 2005 gay pride vote "had nothing to do with discrimination."

By Lee Logan • February 21, 2011
Ed Turanchik
stated on December 9, 2010 in an interview with 'Creative Loafing':

"No one in the private sector gets unlimited accruals of vacation and sick leave."

By Lee Logan • January 28, 2011
Bob Buckhorn
stated on January 4, 2011 in a radio interview on WFLA-AM 970:

"There was no panhandling when I left office."

By Lee Logan • January 21, 2011
Mike Fasano
stated on November 23, 2010 in an interview with the St. Petersburg Times:

"Seven more people will die each and every day until the Legislature ratifies these (pain clinic) rules that are being approved by the Board of Medicine and the Department of Health."

By Lee Logan • November 24, 2010
Rick Scott
stated on November 18, 2010 in a speech to the Council of 100:

Regulations are an "endemic weakness in government -- so old that Thomas Jefferson listed this problem among his charges against the King of England in the Declaration of Independence."

By Lee Logan • November 22, 2010
Alan Grayson
stated on August 27, 2010 in an ad.:

"When career politician Daniel Webster became speaker of the House, he wasted $32,000 of our money on a spiral staircase for his office."

By Aaron Sharockman • August 31, 2010
Anitere Flores
stated on April 30, 2010 in a House floor speech:

For the new state budget, "Floridians have sent us $3 billion less of their funding."

By Lee Logan • May 5, 2010
Charlie Justice
stated on December 18, 2009 in a news release:

"The Florida Legislature raised taxes and fees by almost $2 billion" in the 2009 session.

By Lee Logan • March 8, 2010