When Mitt Romney was governor of Massachusetts, he "stood in front of a coal  plant and pointed at it and said, 'This plant kills.'" — PolitiFact National on  Tuesday, October 16th, 2012. Mostly False. Fees raised once, not eight times.  Barack Obama · As governor, "Mitt Romney raised nursing home fees eight times. ".
Willard Mitt Romney (born March 12, 1947) is an American businessman and  politician who served as the 70th Governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007  and the Republican Party's nominee for President of the United States in the  2012 election. Raised in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, by his parents George and  Lenore ...
Dec 14, 2011 ... In both his runs for the White House, Mitt Romney has hewed to this Republican  line. But whether he cut or actually raised taxes as governor of Massachusetts is  a subject for debate. All politicians like to talk about cutting taxes. But at the state  level during tough economic times, many end up cutting ...
In addition to proposing reductions in payments to hospitals and nursing homes  for care of Medicaid patients, and restrictions on Medicaid patients' access to  prescription drugs and eligibility for nursing homes admission, Romney proposed  that the low-income Medicaid patients be charged monthly fees for participation  in ...
Jun 22, 2012 ... The narrator then says that, “As governor, Mitt Romney did cut taxes on  millionaires like himself, but he raised taxes and fees on everyone else — $1.5  billion. Over a thousand fee hikes. On health care. On school bus rides. On milk.  On driver's licenses. On nursing homes. On lead poisoning prevention.
As governor, "Mitt Romney raised nursing home fees eight times."