Statements about Candidate Biography
After they bought GST Steel, "Mitt Romney and his partners loaded it with debt, closed the Kansas City plant and walked away with a healthy profit, leaving hundreds of employees out of work with their pensions in jeopardy."
Says Mitt Romney "has refused to say whether he would have vetoed or signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act."
Says Mitt Romney's comments indicated he would not have pursued Osama bin Laden.
Says Barack Obama "is the only president to ever cut $500 billion from Medicare."
"(GM and Chrysler) repaid their loans."
"Romney adviser admits Romneycare was blueprint for Obamacare."
"Obamacare (hit) Americans with over $500 billion in new taxes."
Says Barack Obama "endorsed a total ban on the manufacture, sale and possession of all handguns."
Newt Gingrich "was fined $300,000 for ethics violations."
In July 1996, Mitt Romney helped locate the missing teenage daughter of a partner at Bain Capital.
"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."
"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."
"In campaigns in the past with Sen. McCain and President George W. Bush and others, they have tended to release tax records in April."
Mitt Romney is worth "at least a quarter billion dollars" and the bulk of his wealth "remains in blind trusts and overseas bank accounts."
Says Romney and Bain Capital drove KB Toys into bankruptcy by loading it up with debt.
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.’"
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