Politifact and WOKQ have both debunked this claim and will continue to eat their delicious chicken tenders...and mudslides.

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Congressional Candidate Shawn O’Connor has recently made wild statements regarding possible health contamination at the Puritan Backroom in Manchester, a popular candidate destination on election nights.

In a recent weeks, O'Connor has been outspoken over a number of issues related to anything from domestic abuse to making allegations that people within his own party were spreading lies about him planting rodents in the Puritan Backroom to prove a point.

According to Politifact, O’Connor claimed that a Democratic state senator was spreading rumors that he  planned to put rats into the kitchen of the Puritan Backroom.

In a press release dated 4/25/16, O'Connor states:

......a simple review of the Backroom’s health code records will reveal that the restaurant already has a long-standing problem with rodent infestations.

Only one problem Mr. O'Connor: That is completely not the case.

Simple research actually proves that in the last ten years the Puritan Backroom has only had one violation and it was for a food temperature violation. This seems to have nothing to do with any rodent infestation.

If you're interested, the actual research and inspections on each restaurant is right here. This includes the most recent inspection, which shows the Puritan had no violations. In fact, they got a perfect score of 100 on that inspection.

Politifact wrote an article in response to the press release citing that such a claim was false.

Our ruling

O’Connor said the Puritan Backroom restaurant has a "long-standing problem with rodent infestations."

Inspection records from the last decade show officials have never noted rodents inside the restaurant. While more than five years ago inspectors noted gaps where pests could potentially enter the restaurant, none have been documented inside over the last ten years. That's a far cry from a long-standing infestation.

We rate this claim Pants on Fire!

We agree.

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