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Latest Fact-Checks In Candidate Biography

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Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on January 31, 2012 in a press release:
Says Mitt Romney’s campaign "has already spent more on negative ads than John McCain did during his entire presidential run."
False
By Amy Sherman • February 3, 2012
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on January 29, 2012 in an interview:
In 1992, Mitt Romney "gave money to Democrats for Congress."
True
By Amy Sherman • January 31, 2012
Chain email
Chain email
stated on January 30, 2012 in a chain e-mail and blog and Facebook posts:
In July 1996, Mitt Romney helped locate the missing teenage daughter of a partner at Bain Capital.
True
By Louis Jacobson • January 30, 2012
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on January 26, 2012 in a Republican presidential debate in Jacksonville, Fla.:
"In 2006, I went out and authored a letter with 24 other senators asking for major reform of Freddie and Fannie, warning of a meltdown and a bubble in the housing market."
Mostly False
By Becky Bowers • January 27, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 26, 2012 in a Republican presidential debate in Jacksonville, Fla.:
"I've never voted for a Democrat when there was a Republican on the ballot."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • January 27, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 23, 2012 in comments to reporters in Tampa, Fla.:
"(Newt Gingrich) voted in favor of establishing the Department of Education, and yet he gets in a debate and says we should get rid of the Department of Education and send all the education issues back to the states."
Half-True
By Becky Bowers • January 25, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 24, 2012 in a Republican debate in Tampa:
Says Newt Gingrich’s contract was with "the lobbyists at Freddie Mac."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 24, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 19, 2012 in a Republican presidential debate in Charleston, S.C.:
"I didn't inherit money from my parents."
Half-True
By Becky Bowers • January 21, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on January 16, 2012 in a Republican presidential debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C.:
"In campaigns in the past with Sen. McCain and President George W. Bush and others, they have tended to release tax records in April."
Half-True
By Becky Bowers • January 18, 2012
Karen Harrington
Karen Harrington
stated on January 9, 2012 in a website:
"In 2011, (Debbie) Wasserman Schultz missed 62 congressional votes — one of the worst records of any member of Congress." 
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • January 17, 2012
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on January 13, 2012 in a campaign ad:
Says Mitt Romney "runs away from Ronald Reagan."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • January 13, 2012
Winning Our Future
Winning Our Future
stated on January 10, 2012 in the online video "King of Bain":
Mitt Romney is worth "at least a quarter billion dollars" and the bulk of his wealth "remains in blind trusts and overseas bank accounts."
Half-True
By Molly Moorhead • January 13, 2012
Winning Our Future
Winning Our Future
stated on January 11, 2012 in the video, "When Mitt Romney Came to Town" :
Says Romney and Bain Capital drove KB Toys into bankruptcy by loading it up with debt.
Mostly False
By Becky Bowers • January 13, 2012
Winning Our Future
Winning Our Future
stated on January 12, 2012 in the video, "When Mitt Romney Came to Town":
Mitt Romney’s and Bain Capital’s profits from KB Toys, which later went out of business, were "described by the Boston Herald as ‘disgusting.’"
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • January 13, 2012
Winning Our Future
Winning Our Future
stated on January 12, 2012 in the video "When Mitt Romney Came to Town":
Mitt Romney is "tearing down his 3,000-square-foot house to build an 11,000-square-foot house."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 13, 2012
Restore Our Future
Restore Our Future
stated on January 12, 2012 in a television ad:
Says Newt Gingrich "co-sponsored a bill with Nancy Pelosi that would have given $60 million a year to a U.N. program supporting China’s brutal one-child policy."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 12, 2012
Winning Our Future
Winning Our Future
stated on January 12, 2012 in the video, "When Mitt Romney Came to Town":
Mitt Romney has 15 homes.
False
By Louis Jacobson • January 12, 2012
Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on January 9, 2012 in comments to reporters in Concord, N.H.:
"What’s clear is (Romney) likes firing people."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • January 11, 2012
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on January 10, 2012 in his State of the State address:
"At my first ‘Let’s Get to Work Day’ … we sold out;" more than 240 dozen doughnuts by 8:30 a.m.
Mostly False
By Aaron Sharockman • January 10, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on December 6, 2011 in a TV airing in Florida:
Says he "helped save" the Olympic games.
Mostly True
By Matt Clary • January 6, 2012
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