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Tag Archives: Mitt Romney
Romney’s Jobs Record Is Best (or Worst)
A campaign ad that praises Mitt Romney’s performance as governor of Massachusetts presents a slanted view of his record on jobs, unemployment and taxes. To every claim, there is a “yes, but” qualifier. The Romney ad claims that as governor, “Romney had the best jobs record in a decade.” Yes …
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More Government Takeover Spin
Mitt Romney counts both public and private health care spending to come up with the exaggeration that government will make up “almost 50 percent” of the U.S. economy once the federal health care is fully in effect. See our May 10 article, “Romney’s ‘Gross’ Exaggeration on ‘Obamacare,’ ” for more.
Posted in factcheck.org On the Air
Tagged government takeover, health care, Mitt Romney
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Massachusetts Health Care Overhaul
The Massachusetts health care law signed by then-Gov. Mitt Romney did not create a “government-run” system, as some critics have said. But Romney wrongly claims everyone under his law was covered by private insurance, ignoring his own expansion of Medicaid. Read more in our Jan. 20 article, “South Carolina Smackdown.”
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Tagged Massachusetts health care law, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum
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Gillespie Twists the Facts on Bain Capital
A letter Bain Capital sent to its investors is now becoming a talking point for Mitt Romney surrogates. But once again the company letter, which boasts of Bain’s success, is being misrepresented — this time by Ed Gillespie, a senior adviser to the Romney campaign. Gillespie claimed that “less than …
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Sununu Misfires on Bain ‘Jobs’ Claim
John H. Sununu, a top surrogate for Mitt Romney, wrongly claimed Bain Capital was “able to save jobs … about 80 percent of the time” at companies in which it had invested. Sununu was misreading or misrepresenting a Bain statement on revenues, not jobs. Sununu, a former governor of New …
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Lemon-Picking Bain Capital, Obama-style
President Obama and a super PAC that supports him are stealing a page from Newt Gingrich and Ted Kennedy in running TV ads and web videos that slam Mitt Romney for his years at Bain Capital. And, like Gingrich and Kennedy before him, Obama is lemon-picking — that is, highlighting …
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Tagged Bain Capital, Edward Kennedy, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, President Obama
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