Samantha Putterman

@PolitiFact Florida government reporter | Former: @Bradentonherald @TB_Times | Tips: [email protected]

[Nate Monroe @NateM_Tributary]

New @TheFloridaTrib | In the DeSantis era, the task of finding university and college presidents – once an academic exercise – is a secretive, thorny project that is inextricably linked to the ebbs and flows of Republican politics. 

📝 @MrMikeVasquez

[Samantha Putterman @SamPutterman]

Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz detention center may close. We fact-checked some of President Donald Trump’s, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ statements about the facility https://t.co/WlbfuxIork

[Samuel Larreal @samuellarreal_]

NEW: President Donald Trump bought and sold millions of dollars worth of stock in tech companies and government contractors including Nvidia and Palantir.

Some of those trades overlapped with regulatory decisions that were favorable to these companies.
https://t.co/BtBuyvLNTp

[Joan Alker @JoanAlker1]

PolitiFact: Yes, Florida is the only state removing children from low-cost health insurance https://t.co/voVoPUoE3g

[Samantha Putterman @SamPutterman]

Rep. Kathy Castor said that Florida is the only state removing children from affordable healthcare coverage. She’s right. https://t.co/rDETJZukdi

[Katherine Faulders @KFaulders]

NEWS -- President Trump is expected to drop his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service in exchange for the creation of a $1.7 billion fund to compensate allies who claim they were wrongfully targeted by the Biden administration, sources tell me @PCCharalambous @alex_mallin https://t.co/tuEUDtJvks

[Marc Caputo @MarcACaputo]

"Delgado and other 'local journalists' identified as staff of the South Florida Standard are creations of artificial intelligence – complete with fake headshots and made-up biographies peppered with South Florida cliches"

[Tyler McBrien @TylerMcBrien]

🚨 NEW TOOL for U.S. legal journalists ⚖️

I turned @allyjarmanning's incredible crowdsourced Google doc on accessing state court records into an interactive map.

Check it out and let me know about any errors, missing information, or ways I can improve this thing (link below)

[Samantha Putterman @SamPutterman]

Was the Voting Rights Act created because Democrats established racist gerrymanders, as Rep. Byron Donalds said? No. The law targeted a range of discriminatory practices for voting such as literacy tests, poll taxes and violence.

https://t.co/RYVdbetwOu

[ProPublica @propublica]

New: Babies who don’t get the vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop severe bleeding. In many cases, oxygen can’t reach their brains and blood pools around their skulls. Yet driven by misinformation, more parents are refusing the injection. https://t.co/CdX5i3SKZN

[Lawrence Mower @lmower3]

DeSantis' new congressional map will cost taxpayers nearly $1.6 million in Tampa Bay alone.

By @katelynferral:
https://t.co/srHyLLVLUH

[Louis Jacobson @loujacobson]

My latest @PolitiFact w/ @SamPutterman: Florida redistricting: DeSantis overstates voters’ shift from Democrats to Republicans https://t.co/uXWGIoMtxl

[Jacob Ogles @jacobogles]

It wasn't Demcorats on the committee who laughed. It was the rather raucous crowd in the brimming House hearing.

[Kimberly Leonard @leonardkl]

Florida Playbook today:
-My analysis of how DeSantis wields influence
-@fineout and @KylieWilliams99's redistricting tick tock
-@ArekSarkissian and @ALAtterbury on other priorities getting tanked
- Rep. Webster's retirement and possible replacements
https://t.co/zKfO99u5wt

[Florida Data Geek ✝️🇺🇦🇬🇱 @MappingFL]

Three Republicans voted against the DeSantis map in committee

With all DEMS def a no, that brings the "nos" to 16, with 20 being enough to block

But the path to 20 seems hard or maybe impossible. I'm not sure who among the 11 remaining is likely to defect #flapol

[Lawrence Mower @lmower3]

Two people who bilked the state out of millions of dollars get no prison time under plea deals with @AGJamesUthmeier's office.

The latest deal comes two weeks after Uthmeier said he was forming a task force to go after public fraud.

https://t.co/ZG653yh4KV

[Marc Caputo @MarcACaputo]

DeSantis announces new congressional maps via Fox

DeSantis says this is about truing up the census & ending racial gerrymandering —but he’s not proposing new state legislative maps

FL Legislature, which plans to begin rubber-stamping them tomorrow in an effort to grow the GOP-leaning U.S. House seats, has yet to see the map

[Marc Caputo @MarcACaputo]

Florida’s constitution bans lawmakers from intentionally creating congressional seats to give their party an advantage.

But Gov. Ron DeSantis quietly has launched a three-tiered power play to evade the ban — and create more GOP-friendly seats — in November

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[PolitiFact @PolitiFact]

Florida Democrats say Republicans’ plan to redraw districts before the midterms violates the state constitution. Does it? If it’s intended to benefit a political party, yes.

https://t.co/uO6DupBNhG

[Lawrence Mower @lmower3]

I asked DeSantis twice at a press conference in Tallahassee last week why his PSC commissioners were approving these rate hikes. He wouldn't respond.