PolitiFact on Rick Scott, Alan Grayson, and Led Zeppelin

What do Rick Scott, Alan Grayson and Led Zeppelin have in common? They're all targets of the truth-o-meter this week as PolitiFact Florida's John Bartosek explains to WUSF's Scott Finn.

PolitiFact gave the ruling “Mostly true” to Rick Scott’s claim that, "We have 50 state lobbyists that just lobby the Legislature for money every year."

The lobbyists do more than just ask for money, but if anything, the number is a low estimate, Bartosek said.

But Scott received a “False” ruling for when his campaign said that his Democratic opponent in the governor’s race, Alex Sink, wants to cut Medicare.

Scott says Sink’s support for President Obama’s health care overhaul means she supports the Medicare cuts in that bill.

PolitiFact ruled that most of those cuts were to an adjunct to Medicare, called Medicare Advantage, as well as reduced increases to payments to providers – not cuts to Medicare services to most seniors.

Also, Sink’s support of healthcare overhaul was lukewarm, and she never said she supported the Medicare changes within.

Rep. Alan Grayson had an advertisement that was not lukewarm at all, criticizing opponent former House Speaker Dan Webster for building a “stairway to nowhere.” He uses music from the Led Zeppelin hit, "Stairway to Heaven."

"When career politician Daniel Webster became speaker of the House, he wasted $32,000 of our money on a spiral staircase for his office," Grayson said.

Webster did install a spiral stairway between his office and that of the majority leader. It cost several thousand less than $32,000, however.

Since then, a subsequent speaker closed off the opening between the third and fourth floors and walled off the spiral staircase, making it a stairway to nowhere, Bartosek said, ruling that Grayson’s ad was “Mostly true.”

The ad pictured a white, fancy staircase which wasn’t like the utilitarian staircase that was actually installed.

Since PolitiFact made this ruling, the Grayson ad has been removed from his site and You Tube.