NextGen Rick Scott ad: True or false?

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NextGen climate has unleashed another attack on Gov. Rick Scott as it relates to a drilling project that the state ultimately shut down.

“The Collier family, owners of the company that leased their land for oil exploration to the drillers that threatened drinking water for seven million Floridians,” stated the narrator in the TV ad. “Rick Scott took $200,000 from them and now he is trying to hide from it. Sound familiar?”

At that point, the screen shows a photo of Scott while the text states, “He took the 5th 75 times.”
The ad then replays video footage of Scott at a 1995 legal deposition saying, “I don’t recall. I have no idea. What’s your question?”

PolitiFact Florida previously fact-checked a NextGen ad about that $200,000 donation, rating it Half True. And we have fact-checked a Florida Democratic Party ad about Scott taking the 5th 75 times and rated it Mostly True. Scott’s pleading the 5th was related to a Medicare case, though, not oil drilling.

But this new ad tacked on another allegation that we will fact-check here: Is Scott trying to hide from this donation?

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Last modified: August 29, 2014
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