Jun 13, 2012 ... 1 in state debt per person when Mitt Romney was governor. It's true, but there's less there than meets the eye. Massachusetts has historically been a high-debt state. Massachusetts has ranked either first or second in debt per capita in each of the past 11 years. It was second when Romney took office, not a ...
Upon leaving office in January 2007 (the middle of fiscal year 2007), Romney argued that he had left the state with a large budget surplus, after he cut hundreds of millions of dollars of programs. However, upon taking office, successor Governor Deval Patrick said there would be a $1 billion deficit for fiscal 2008 if existing ...
Feb 5, 2015 ... Mitt Romney had used "patches and plugs" to obscure a budget shortfall, the Springfield Republican reported. ... That did not stop President Barack Obama, a Democrat, from charging that Romney left Massachusetts with a $1 billion deficit when Obama and Romney were competing for the presidency.
Mar 8, 2012 ... In February, Restore Our Future, the pro-Mitt Romney Super PAC, pushed an ad portraying Newt Gingrich as a supporter of China's one-child policy, ... Meanwhile, the pro-Santorum camp fired a salvo in Super Tuesday states with an ad claiming Romney left Massachusetts $1 billion in debt during his time ...
Nov 1, 2012 ... Under Romney, Massachusetts' Long-Term Debt Increased By 16.4 Percent Or $2.6 Billion. According to the Massachusetts Office of the Treasurer, Massachusetts had $16,063,162,000 in long-term debt as of January 1, 2003. As of October 1, 2006, shortly before Romney left the Governor's Office, ...
Mitt Romney "left Massachusetts $1 billion in debt."