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• From Commie claim to Hooters: the year in PolitiFact Florida

  With 2012 coming to a close, PolitiFact Florida editors decided to look back at your favorite fact-checks of a busy political year. We fact-checked an ad by Democrat U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson who said of his Republican opponent U.S. Rep. Connie Mack IV : "A promoter for Hooters with [...]
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• Actual Miami press conference title: "ONE BULLET KILLS THE PARTY!"

  "It’s sad that a family can be torn apart by something as simple as a pack of wild dogs," Saturday Night Live's Jack Handy once said in a "Deep Thoughts" sketch.

  We don't have many of those in Miami, but we do have guns. Lots of guns. Especially on New Year's [...]

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• 'Bibi's Brain' and former Miami Beach mayor's brother, Ron Dermer, to be Israel's ambassador to U.S.

  Ron Dermer, a conservative Florida-born Republican and brother of Miami Beach's former mayor David Dermer, is slated to be Israel's next ambassador to the United States, according to Israeli news reports.

  Dermer was nicknamed "Bibi's Brain" in a 2011 Tablet profile that compared his relationship with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu [...]

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• The rise and fall of Congressman David Rivera

  For a decade, David Rivera was a political force to be reckoned with, the consummate operative who had a cat-like ability to survive any scrape — even as investigations swirled around him.
  
  This November, the congressman’s ninth life expired.
  
  Voted out of office as the FBI and IRS [...]

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• Taxpayers cough up another $190,000 in legal fees for Scott’s drug testing push

  Gov. Rick Scott’s drug-testing push has racked up even more legal bills, with a federal judge ordering the state to pay $190,000 in attorney’s fees for a case involving state workers.

  The ruling, posted Friday, orders Scott—and by extension, taxpayers—to cover the legal fees of the lawyers that took on the governor’s controversial plan to require [...]

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• PolitiFact reflects on the Obameter and Obama's promises

  As PolitiFact finishes our Obameter updates on President Barack Obama's 2008 campaign promises, we wanted to highlight our observations and reflections on Obama's vision of government, the individual promises and the journalistic challenge of diving into the bureaucracy to determine whether the pledge has been fulfilled.
  
  Here are the [...]
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• Scott warns of devastating ports shutdown; Dems pivot to Obamacare, education

  Gov. Rick Scott called for Pres. Obama to take emergency measures to halt an impending shut down of the nation’s ports stemming from a labor dispute.

  Joined by the state’s ports directors on a conference call on Thursday, Scott said the shut down of ports throughout the state of Florida would lead to unacceptable [...]

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• PolitiFact's oddest fact-checks of 2012: From shark attacks to Glee

  If you want fact-checks on the weighty, wonky issues of the day, you turn to PolitiFact.
  
  But the Truth-O-Meter also has a sense of humor, so we occasionally do light-hearted or downright odd fact-checks.
  
  Here are some of the more unusual fact-checks we did in 2012. [...]
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• Memorial service for Bill McBride is Friday

  A memorial service for former gubernatorial candidate Bill McBride will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at the Palma Ceia Presbyterian Church, 3501 San Jose St. in Tampa.

  The service is open to the public. The family will receive friends in the courtyard of the church at the conclusion of the service.

  McBride, 67, [...]

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• U.S.-Rep.-elect Joe Garcia hires key staffers

  Joe Garcia, who will be sworn in to Congress on Jan. 3, has hired some familiar faces to work in his D.C. and district offices.

  Jeffrey Garcia (no relation) will make the jump to chief of staff after working as Garcia's campaign manager in 2012 and 2010. Giancarlo Sopo, who handled [...]

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