Tag Archives: Bill McCollum

Let’s Get to Work – On the Facts

Posted on July 22, 2010

Let’s Get to Work, a political committee largely financed by Florida gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott’s wife, is at it again — falsely claiming that Attorney General Bill McCollum used a “chartered airplane” to commute to work and charged taxpayers $280,000. McCollum has access to a state plane, but it’s not …
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McCollum’s Misleading Accusations

Posted on July 14, 2010

There’s more misinformation in the ugly Florida governor’s race, this time from Attorney General Bill McCollum. He claims his GOP primary opponent Rick Scott "personally" got millions of dollars in federal stimulus funds. The ad, titled “Inner Tube,” says: “Scott tried to hide the fact that he personally bagged millions …
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Jerry Brown, Abortion Providers and Afghanistan Withdrawal

Posted on July 8, 2010

In Episode 19 of FactCheck Radio, we look at a false ad from California GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman about her Democratic opponent Jerry Brown’s supposed "legacy of failure." We also examine whether Bill McCollum has really supported abortion providers, as his opponent charges in the Republican primary for the …
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Fact-Checking Rick Scott on Abortion

Posted on July 6, 2010

In Florida’s Republican primary for governor, a federal political committee founded by candidate Rick Scott and largely financed by his wife falsely accuses Attorney General Bill McCollum of supporting "abortion providers." The group’s new ad masquerades as a “fact check,” but it mangles facts by characterizing ordinary hospitals (such as …
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