All Half-True statements involving Mitt Romney
"I've never voted for a Democrat when there was a Republican on the ballot."
"(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."
"When I was fighting against cap and trade, the speaker was sitting down with Nancy Pelosi on a sofa encouraging it."
"The median income in this country has declined 10 percent in the last four years."
"We have 25 million Americans out of work."
"In campaigns in the past with Sen. McCain and President George W. Bush and others, they have tended to release tax records in April."
"Since the passage of Obama's stimulus package, over 1 million additional jobs were lost and nearly 25 million Americans are out of work, are stuck in part-time work, or have given up looking."
Barack Obama’s recess appointment of Richard Cordray "is precisely what then-Sen. Obama claimed would be ‘the wrong thing to do.’"
"You can hire lots of bureaucrats. That’s what the president’s done. He’s added 135,000 people to the government workforce."
Solyndra "had robots that whistled Disney songs. I'm not kidding."
Says Rick Perry wrote a newspaper item saying he was "open to amnesty" for illegal immigrants in the United States.
Says Texas unemployment is dire in various ways such as a doubling in the jobless rate during Rick Perry's governorship. Also, the Texas rate has increased faster than the national rate during Barack Obama's presidency.
Says more than 1 million Texans are jobless, the state has its highest unemployment rate in more than 20 years and joblessness doubled on Rick Perry’s watch.
"Over the last several years, 40 percent (of) the jobs created in Texas were created for illegal aliens."
Between 2000 and 2010, the illegal immigrant population of Texas increased by 60 percent, while California and Florida had "no increase."
When George W. Bush was governor of Texas, "the percentage uninsured went down." Under his successor, Rick Perry, "it's gone up."
Says Texas’ unemployment rate has doubled on Rick Perry’s watch.
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