Latest Fact-Checks In New Jersey

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Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on July 2, 2012 a speech before the state Legislature
Says "our 12 month job increase was the sixth highest in the nation."
Half-True
By Bill Wichert • July 4, 2012
Albio Sires
Albio Sires
stated on June 20, 2012 a speech on the House floor
"Just in the past 10 years, college tuition has increased 28 percent."
Mostly True
By Bill Wichert • July 2, 2012
Jennifer Beck
Jennifer Beck
stated on June 25, 2012 a speech on the state Senate floor
"New Jersey's citizens are working at the highest rate in three years."
False
By Erin O'Neill • July 1, 2012
Jon Runyan
Jon Runyan
stated on June 28, 2012 a press release
Says there are "$500 billion in Medicare cuts required to pay for this flawed [health care law]."
Mostly False
By Erin O'Neill • June 29, 2012
Michael Doherty
Michael Doherty
stated on May 14, 2012 a news release
"There is little if any evidence that the use of red light cameras in New Jersey has reduced the number or severity of accidents at the intersections where they are used."
True
By Caryn Shinske • June 28, 2012
Paul Sarlo
Paul Sarlo
stated on June 25, 2012 a speech on the State Senate floor
"The state's unemployment rate is fifth-highest in the country, a full point above the nationwide rate and higher than all of our...neighboring states."
True
By Bill Wichert • June 27, 2012
Vincent Prieto
Vincent Prieto
stated on June 17, 2012 an interview on My9 News' “New Jersey Now”
Says Gov. Chris Christie’s proposed budget is "the biggest spending budget in the history of the state of New Jersey. It is the largest in the nation at this point in time."
False
By Erin O'Neill • June 25, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on June 15, 2012 a video posted on YouTube
Says New Jersey’s job growth in May represents "25 percent of all the jobs created in the country."
False
By Bill Wichert • June 24, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on June 14, 2012 a video posted on YouTube
"(Assembly Democrats) wanted to raise the gas tax by $2.4 billion. We said no to that....They’re down on the ground. They’re sweating. They’re twitching. It’s ugly, ‘cause I keep saying no."
Mostly False
By Bill Wichert • June 21, 2012
Lou Greenwald
Lou Greenwald
stated on June 6, 2012 a tweet
"In 2011, NJ economy ranked 47th--at the bottom with Alabama, Mississippi & Wyoming. Under Christie, NJ is falling behind."
Mostly True
By Bill Wichert • June 19, 2012
Robert Menendez
Robert Menendez
stated on June 8, 2012 an interview on NJTV’s “On the Record”
Says Joe Kyrillos "voted to raid the state's pension funds by $2.8 billion that is costing New Jersey taxpayers still today to the tune of nearly $15 billion dollars to repay that money."
False
By Erin O'Neill • June 17, 2012
Joseph Kyrillos
Joseph Kyrillos
stated on June 6, 2012 an interview on NJToday
Says Robert Menendez is "the king of raising money from Wall Street, over a million dollars, one of the leaders in the United States Senate. I haven’t raised any Wall Street money at all."
Mostly False
By Bill Wichert • June 14, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on June 6, 2012 a town hall meeting
"When I was U.S. Attorney we wound up putting 10 percent of the state Legislature in jail during my seven years."
False
By Erin O'Neill • June 11, 2012
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on June 2, 2012 a video posted on YouTube
"It took us four years to balance the budget. Then I gave you four surplus budgets for the first time in more than 70 years, paid $600 billion down on the national debt."
Mostly True
By Bill Wichert • June 8, 2012
Loretta Weinberg
Loretta Weinberg
stated on June 4, 2012 a column on Blue Jersey
Says PolitiFact "listed Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin as the Governor who told the most lies" and "our own ‘untruthful’ Governor Chris Christie made it into Politifact's top five of ‘Lie - en Governors’."
False
By Erin O'Neill • June 7, 2012
New Jersey Democratic State Committee
New Jersey Democratic State Committee
stated on June 1, 2012 a newsletter
Says PolitiFact issued a True ruling on Paul Krugman calling "Governor Christie a ‘fiscal phony.’"
False
By Bill Wichert • June 6, 2012
Caroline Casagrande
Caroline Casagrande
stated on April 29, 2012 an interview on My9TV.com's "New Jersey Now" program
"Women have come through the recession worse off than men … the numbers bear that out. We went from a 7 percent unemployment rate for women when he (President Barack Obama) was elected to an 8.1 percent now."
Mostly True
By Caryn Shinske • June 4, 2012
Rodney Frelinghuysen
Rodney Frelinghuysen
stated on May 25, 2012 an e-mail newsletter
"The U.S. is borrowing approximately $2.52 for every $1 of economic growth so far in 2012."
True
By Erin O'Neill • June 3, 2012
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman
stated on May 28, 2012 a column in The New York Times
Says "there have been some job gains in the McMansion State since Mr. Christie took office, but they have lagged gains both in the nation as a whole and in New York and Connecticut, the obvious points of comparison."
True
By Bill Wichert • May 31, 2012
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on May 20, 2012 a roundtable discussion on NBC’s “Meet The Press”
Says under President Barack Obama there’s been "the lowest discretionary spending we’ve had in decades in the United States."
False
By Bill Wichert • May 28, 2012
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