The Latest from PolitiFact Florida Friday, February 3rd, 2012

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Says Mitt Romney’s campaign "has already spent more on negative ads than John McCain did during his entire presidential run."

Promise: Make recall process easier

Update: Voters approve charter change related to petitions

"Gov. Romney cut off kosher meals for Jewish senior citizens who were on Medicaid to save $5 a day."

Promise: No layoffs for police; no closed fire stations

Update: To avoid police lay-offs, commission strikes budget deal

In 1992, Mitt Romney "gave money to Democrats for Congress."

"The Obama administration ... would impose on every Catholic institution, every Jewish institution, every Protestant institution the Obamacare standard of what you have to buy as insurance." 

In July 1996, Mitt Romney helped locate the missing teenage daughter of a partner at Bain Capital.

Students today "take more years to get through" college.

"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."

"This president went before the United Nations and castigated Israel for building settlements. He said nothing about thousands of rockets being rained in on Israel from the Gaza Strip."

"I've never voted for a Democrat when there was a Republican on the ballot."

"Romneycare … is a top-down, government-run health care system."

"We balanced the budget with the 1997 Balanced Budget Act, and ultimately had four consecutive balanced budgets."

"Romneycare sent costs spiraling out of control" in Massachusetts, "hiking premiums, squeezing household budgets."

Nevada is No. 1 in unemployment, violent crime, car theft, divorce, robberies and foreclosures.

Says Mitt Romney "was one of the first national Republican leaders to endorse" Marco Rubio.

Says Newt Gingrich said "Spanish is the language of the ghetto."

"When I was fighting against cap and trade, the speaker was sitting down with Nancy Pelosi on a sofa encouraging it."

There are 86 languages spoken at Miami Dade College.

Florida's economy "became a bad economy ... because of a huge spike in oil prices in the summer of 2008."

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