claim: says rick scott cut "bright futures scholarships in half."
author: charlie crist
evidence_1: jun 12, 2014 ... rick scott and the republican-dominated legislature for approving cuts to the  state's popular bright futures scholarship program, saying fewer ...
evidence_2: apr 1, 2014 ... says rick scott presided over cuts to the bright futures college ... text on the  screen says, "scott approved cuts to bright future scholarships," ...
evidence_3: oct 9, 2018 ... rick scott over the education cuts he oversaw early in his ... slashed bright  futures scholarships. and over ... to the new ad simply by saying so: “the  governor has suspended ... through late september the committee had spent  more than $6.5 million on a half-dozen commercials so far, starting last spring.
evidence_4: mar 17, 2017 ... ... but fewer students, particularly poor ones, make cut for scholarships .... gov.  rick scott. the expansion of bright futures over the summer is something gov. ...  bright futures, said smith, “has essentially been slashed in half.
evidence_5: sep 16, 2014 ... black freshmen with a bright futures scholarship will drop 75 ... our entire  economy," said crist in a statement reported in the times ... because crist  produced a tv ad claiming scott "cut bright futures in half," politifact florida  checked it ... no governor -- not jeb bush, not charlie crist, not rick scott -- ever  ...