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Allison Graves is a PolitiFact Florida staff writer based in St. Petersburg, Fla. Before PolitiFact Florida, she held a year-long internship with PolitiFact National and reported for PolitiFact Missouri. Graves is a 2016 graduate from the University of Missouri, where she majored in journalism.

Featured Statements

Ron DeSantis
stated on July 16, 2018 in an interview on Fox News:

Says John Brennan "was a member of the Communist Party during the Cold War."

By Heaven Taylor-Wynn • July 19, 2018
Democratic Governors Association
stated on July 13, 2018 in a post on Medium:

Says Adam Putnam "backed a water bill that gutted water quality regulations."

By Allison Graves • July 18, 2018
Rick Scott
stated on June 13, 2018 in an ad:

Says Sen. Bill Nelson "voted for higher taxes" 349 times.

By Allison Graves • July 5, 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
Adam Putnam
stated on June 7, 2018 in an interview with Fox News:

Florida taxpayers "pay tens of millions of dollars a year to feed and house in our prison system criminal illegal aliens."

By Allison Graves • June 26, 2018
New Republican PAC
stated on June 11, 2018 in a political ad:

Says Bill Nelson voted for "cuts to Medicare providers" and voted to weaken "Social Security protections" as a U.S. senator.

By Allison Graves • June 15, 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
Florida Democratic Party
stated on June 6, 2018 in in a press release:

"Flip Flop! After opposing term limits for decades, Adam Putnam adopts Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis’ position."

By Allison Graves • June 8, 2018
Ron DeSantis
stated on June 2, 2018 in during a BBQ :

"The bulk of the problem with the opioid epidemic is the fentanyl and all the synthetic drugs coming across the southern border."

By Allison Graves • June 7, 2018