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News Researcher, Tampa Bay Times

John Martin joined the Tampa Bay Times, formerly the St. Petersburg Times, as a news researcher in 1995. He served as Times research editor for three years before returning to research full time in 2006.

Featured Statements

Donald Trump
stated on July 24, 2017 in Twitter:

Amazon has a "no-tax monopoly."

By John Kruzel • July 26, 2017
Andrew Gillum
stated on June 9, 2017 in a news release:

Says his campaign has received donations from "more than 7,000 contributors."

By Amy Sherman • June 14, 2017
Erick Erickson
stated on July 21, 2015 in a column on Redstate.com:

Says Donald Trump "has supported a Canadian-style universal health care system."

By Jon Greenberg • July 24, 2015
Occupy Democrats
stated on May 4, 2015 in a Facebook meme:

"Ben Carson is running for president to ‘eliminate dependency on government.’ But he doesn’t mention that he grew up in public schools, got public housing and food stamps, got free glasses from a government program, was helped by Affirmative Action, and got Pell Grants for college."

By Katie Sanders • May 11, 2015
Hillary Clinton
stated on April 15, 2015 in a roundtable chat in Iowa:

Says "all my grandparents" immigrated to America.

By Katie Sanders • April 16, 2015
Fran Lebowitz
stated on February 20, 2015 in a panel on "Real Time with Bill Maher":

"Not a single unarmed white person has been shot by the police" in New York in about 45 years.

By Katie Sanders • April 1, 2015
David Corn
stated on February 25, 2015 in an interview on "The Rachel Maddow Show" on MSNBC:

Says he "often" appeared on The O’Reilly Factor and "often was praised" by Bill O'Reilly.

By Jon Greenberg • February 26, 2015
Bob Buckhorn
stated on January 15, 2015 in a campaign ad:

Tampa Bay is "leading the state in jobs creation."

By Richard Danielson • January 15, 2015
Facebook posts
stated on December 29, 2013 in a Facebook post:

The No. 2 owner of Fox News is Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who said, "A strong American Government is not good for us."

By Katie Sanders • January 6, 2014
David Caton
stated on November 5, 2009 in a mass e-mail:

If voters agree in November to approve a one-cent sales tax increase, that will give "Hillsborough County the highest sales tax of all Florida counties."

By Bill Varian • June 7, 2010

War of words: The fight over 'radical Islamic terrorism'

By Jon Greenberg • December 11, 2015
Why bloggers, Rush Limbaugh ran with the phony story about Harry Reid

By Katie Sanders • May 1, 2015
Gravel: I'm not dead yet

By Amy Hollyfield • March 26, 2008
Commie e-mail quiz gets an F

By Angie Drobnic Holan • December 12, 2007
Who made Big Apple sweeter?

By Neil Skene • November 21, 2007
McCain overbids on eBay

By Bill Adair • October 8, 2007
Giuliani says a little too much about Democrats and taxes

By John Martin • September 13, 2007