Latest Fact-Checks In New Jersey

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Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on January 14, 2014 his “State of the State” address
"In the entire public school system in Camden last year, only three students graduated college ready."
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By Bill Wichert • January 26, 2014
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on January 14, 2014 a State of the State address
"Today, our unemployment rate is 7.8 percent. That is the lowest in five years."
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By Caryn Shinske • January 19, 2014
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on October 21, 2013 a gubernatorial campaign TV ad
Says Barbara Buono "voted to raise her own pay 40 percent."
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By Caryn Shinske • October 27, 2013
Milly Silva
Milly Silva
stated on October 7, 2013 a speech to an American Legion in Little Ferry
"Property taxes have increased 20 percent under four years of Chris Christie."
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By Caryn Shinske • October 20, 2013
Sheila Oliver
Sheila Oliver
stated on July 11, 2013 an interview on NJToday
"Most of the U.S. Senate is comprised of multimillionaires."
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By Bill Wichert • July 25, 2013
Stephen Sweeney
Stephen Sweeney
stated on June 1, 2013 an interview on "On The Record with Michael Aron" program
"People want the minimum wage, they want marriage equality, they want women’s health care. There’s issues that actually that really do matter, social issues that matter to the people of this state. So I know Barbara would support those issues, I know the governor hasn’t. You’ve seen the actions he’s taken on them."
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By Caryn Shinske • June 23, 2013
Christine Whitman
Christine Whitman
stated on June 4, 2013 an interview on The John Gambling radio show
"We haven't had a Republican senator in Washington for ... why, I think Clifford Case was our last Republican senator."
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By Caryn Shinske • June 13, 2013
Republican Governors Association
Republican Governors Association
stated on May 29, 2013 a gubernatorial campaign TV ad
"Barbara Buono by the numbers: As a Trenton politician, she voted to raise taxes 154 times. Under her, property taxes up 70 percent. Backed a 16 percent sales tax increase. Utilities, nursing homes, cell phones, parking lots, lottery wins, gyms – She taxed them all. Architect of Corzine’s budget, she drove New Jersey $2 billion into debt. Barbara Buono by the numbers: taking New Jersey backwards."
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By Caryn Shinske • June 6, 2013
AFL-CIO of New Jersey
AFL-CIO of New Jersey
stated on April 30, 2013 a Facebook page post
"New Jersey's governor cut $1.6 billion from public education while handing out $2.1 billion in corporate tax breaks, more than the entire previous decade."
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By Caryn Shinske • May 23, 2013
One New Jersey
One New Jersey
stated on May 3, 2013 A radio ad
"Under Republican Governor Chris Christie, tolls cost more. Train and bus rides cost more. College tuition goes up. But Christie protected a tax cut for millionaires."
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By Caryn Shinske • May 16, 2013
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on May 1, 2013 a television ad
"Four balanced budgets in a row, with no new taxes for anyone. The best job growth in 12 years. Nearly 130,000 new private-sector jobs. Merit pay to reward New Jersey’s best teachers, and the most education funding ever."
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By Caryn Shinske • May 9, 2013
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on April 22, 2013 an interview on NJ101.5 FM's "Ask the Governor" program
"We’re spending less money today, in upcoming fiscal year 2014 than the Corzine-Buono budget spent in fiscal year 2008."
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By Caryn Shinske • May 5, 2013
Leonard Lance
Leonard Lance
stated on April 15, 2013 a press release
"The Internal Revenue code has ballooned to a 5,600-page, 4 million-word complicated mess that is seven times as long as the Bible with none of the good news."
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By Caryn Shinske • May 2, 2013
Leonard Lance
Leonard Lance
stated on April 15, 2013 a news release about tax reform
"The United States currently has the highest corporate tax rate in the world."
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By Caryn Shinske • April 25, 2013
One New Jersey
One New Jersey
stated on April 9, 2013 a TV ad
"Under Republican Chris Christie, New Jersey had the highest increase in unemployment in the country last year. Nearly 1 in 10 jobless. The worst unemployment in the region. Near the bottom in economic growth, yet Christie protected a tax cut for millionaires but vetoed a minimum wage hike."
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By Caryn Shinske • April 14, 2013
Barbara Buono
Barbara Buono
stated on March 19, 2013 a response to the release of employment data by the state Labor Department
"While the United States has seen its unemployment rate steadily decline, New Jersey's remains nearly two percent higher than the national average and more than a point higher than Connecticut and New York."
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By Caryn Shinske • March 28, 2013
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on February 26, 2013 a budget speech to the New Jersey Legislature
"Since January 2010, New Jersey has added 103,000 new private sector jobs. The last two years -- 2011 and 2012 -- have been the best two years of private sector job growth since 1999."
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By Caryn Shinske • March 3, 2013
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on February 26, 2013 a budget speech to the state Legislature
"Property taxes had increased 70 percent in the previous 10 years."
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By Caryn Shinske • February 28, 2013
Barbara Buono
Barbara Buono
stated on January 28, 2013 an interview on NJToday
"New Jersey has lost over half of our pharmaceutical jobs to states you know, not low-tax states like in the South, but high-tax states like New York."
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By Caryn Shinske • February 24, 2013
Jon Bramnick
Jon Bramnick
stated on February 8, 2013 a panel discussion for "On The Record with Michael Aron"
Says, "when this governor came to office, he had (an) 11 billion dollar  - I call it mismanagement – deficit."
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By Caryn Shinske • February 21, 2013
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