Latest Fact-Checks In New Hampshire 2012

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Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 4, 2012 in a town hall meeting in Peterborough, N.H.:
"You can hire lots of bureaucrats.  That’s what the president’s done.  He’s added 135,000 people to the government workforce."
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By Jon Greenberg • January 9, 2012
Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on January 7, 2012 in a Republican presidential debate in Manchester, N.H.:
"I delivered a flat tax for my state. I took my state to No. 1 in job creation. With all due respect to what Rick Perry has said about Texas, we did a little bit better."
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By Louis Jacobson • January 8, 2012
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on January 2, 2012 in a Web ad:
"Santorum also voted for a teapot museum in North Carolina."
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By Jake Berry • January 3, 2012
Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on November 1, 2011 in a speech on energy policy at University of New Hampshire:
The United States sends "$300 billion -- half our trade deficit -- overseas for oil to unstable and unfriendly regimes."
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By John Gregg • November 8, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on October 11, 2011 in a Republicam debate in Hanover, N.H.:
When George W. Bush was governor of Texas, "the percentage uninsured went down." Under his successor, Rick Perry, "it's gone up."
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By Louis Jacobson • October 13, 2011
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on October 11, 2011 in a Republican presidental primary debate:
The poverty rate for families in which a husband and a wife work is 5 percent, but in families headed by one person … "it's 30 percent today."
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By Molly Moorhead • October 13, 2011
Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on October 11, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Hanover, N.H.:
"I created a flat tax in the state of Utah. It took that state to the number-one position in terms of job creation."
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By Louis Jacobson • October 12, 2011
Gary Johnson
Gary Johnson
stated on September 19, 2011 in a meeting with the Nashua "Telegraph" editorial board:
"It costs more money to put a person on death row than it does to lock them up for the rest of their lives because of attorney fees."
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By Jon Greenberg • September 29, 2011
Gary Johnson
Gary Johnson
stated on September 19, 2011 in an interview with the editorial board of the 'Telegraph.':
Says the United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world with 2.3 million inmates, and the majority of Americans are imprisoned because they sold small amounts of drugs.
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By Maryalice Gill • September 22, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on September 16, 2011 in answer to questions.:
Says he did not support the October 2008 legislation to rescue Wall Street firms.
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By W. Gardner Selby • September 21, 2011
New Hampshire Democratic Party
New Hampshire Democratic Party
stated on August 17, 2011 in an interview with the 'Telegraph.':
Since Rick Perry became governor, "Texas has gone from 46th in the country to 50th in the population that graduates from high school."
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By Jake Berry • September 8, 2011
New Hampshire Democratic Party
New Hampshire Democratic Party
stated on August 29, 2011 in a statement on the state Democratic website.:
Says Jon Huntsman supports changes in Medicare that would deny guaranteed benefits to 980,000 New Hampshire residents.
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By Jon Greenberg • September 6, 2011
Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on July 26, 2011 in a speech at Dartmouth College.:
China is or soon will be "the largest English-speaking nation" in the world.
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By John Gregg • August 19, 2011
Buddy Roemer
Buddy Roemer
stated on July 20, 2011 in candidate's forum in Bedford, N.H. :
Says Obama has never submitted a budget, and Congress has worked for two years without passing one.
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By Gregory Trotter • August 5, 2011
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on July 18, 2011 in a tweet:
"Since 2000, nearly 12 million Americans have slipped out of the middle class and into poverty."
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By Louis Jacobson • July 20, 2011
Gary Johnson
Gary Johnson
stated on July 14, 2011 in an interview with the 'New Hampshire Business Review":
"New Mexico is the second Hollywood" because of tax incentives for the film industry.
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By John Gregg • July 15, 2011
Timothy Geithner
Timothy Geithner
stated on June 24, 2011 in a speech at Dartmouth College:
For people in the top 1 percent for income, "your effective tax burden is in the low 20s, the lowest it’s been in decades and decades and decades -- lower than somebody who might make substantially less money." 
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By Jeffrey Good • July 12, 2011
Richard Swett
Richard Swett
stated on June 21, 2011 in a conference call with reporters.:
Says that in 2009, Jon Huntsman "said that the Recovery Act wasn't large enough and as governor he asked for $14.4 billion in federal stimulus funds. Now he's saying that he never supported it."
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By Jake Berry • July 3, 2011