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R2RMerge
R2RMerge
stated on April 15, 2012 a flier
Says George Norcross said the "TAKEOVER OF RUTGER$ CAMDEN WILL COST NEW JER$EY BILLION$."
False
By Erin O'Neill • April 26, 2012
Sheila Oliver
Sheila Oliver
stated on April 19, 2012 an interview on WOR-AM
Says "$57,000 is the mean [income] in our state" for a family.
False
By Erin O'Neill • April 25, 2012
John Wisniewski
John Wisniewski
stated on April 13, 2012 a video press release
"If you're earning under $100,000 a year and you commute to New York every day you pay more to the Port Authority in tolls than you pay to the state of New Jersey in income tax."
True
By Erin O'Neill • April 23, 2012
Raymond Bateman
Raymond Bateman
stated on April 9, 2012 an opinion piece on DailyRecord.com
Says "Cape May, Cumberland, Salem and part of Atlantic counties are all south of the Mason-Dixon line."
False
By Bill Wichert • April 22, 2012
Jennifer Beck
Jennifer Beck
stated on April 11, 2012 an interview on NJToday
"The (ARC Tunnel) project was originally estimated to be $8.7 billion, and New Jersey alone was on the hook for all overruns."
True
By Bill Wichert • April 19, 2012
BettyLou DeCroce
BettyLou DeCroce
stated on April 8, 2012 n opinion column in the Gloucester County Times
"While the country’s economy was battered, nine states with no income tax actually grew jobs from 2001 to 2010."
Half-True
By Erin O'Neill • April 16, 2012
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 30, 2012 a post on Facebook
"In April 1997, there was a ‘gas out’ conducted nationwide in protest of gas prices. Gasoline prices dropped 30 cents a gallon overnight."
Pants on Fire!
By Erin O'Neill • April 15, 2012
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on April 4, 2012 a news conference
Says New Jersey Devils managing partner Jeff Vanderbeek "took us into arbitration."
False
By Bill Wichert • April 12, 2012
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on April 9, 2012 an interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe
Says New Jersey Devils managing partner Jeff Vanderbeek "froze all those monies during the toughest years in ‘08-’09" and "refused to give the charitable dollars that he was required to give by the contract."
Mostly True
By Bill Wichert • April 12, 2012
Robert Menendez
Robert Menendez
stated on March 28, 2012 a video posted on YouTube
Says the United States "actually exports more gasoline, diesel and other fuels than it imported in 2011 for the first time since, I think, 1949."
True
By Bill Wichert • April 11, 2012
John Burzichelli
John Burzichelli
stated on March 28, 2012 an interview on NJTV
Says in the governor’s proposed budget "the use of that, what is called one-shots, is a 500 percent increase over the last Corzine budget."
Mostly False
By Erin O'Neill • April 9, 2012
Amy Handlin
Amy Handlin
stated on April 4, 2012 an opinion piece in the Times of Trenton
Says under the Affordable Care Act, New Jersey’s "new (Medicaid) enrollees won’t qualify for the matching federal funds simply because we added them onto the rolls before 2014."
Mostly False
By Bill Wichert • April 8, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on March 23, 2012 an appearance at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University
"To get out of the (teachers) union, you pay 85 percent of $731. Then you're out of the union, but you've got to pay it every year, also required by statute. That’s called a representation fee."
True
By Bill Wichert • April 5, 2012
Donald Verrilli
Donald Verrilli
stated on March 27, 2012 a Supreme Court hearing on health care law
Says when New Jersey adopted guaranteed coverage and cost provisions without a mandate individual health insurance market rates "doubled or tripled" and enrollment dropped from 180,000 people to 80,000 people.
Mostly True
By Erin O'Neill • April 4, 2012
New Jersey Republican State Committee
New Jersey Republican State Committee
stated on March 19, 2012 a tweet
"And the #jerseycomeback keeps rolling! Thanks to @GovChristie NJ now has lowest corruption risk of any state."
False
By Bill Wichert • April 2, 2012
Frank LoBiondo
Frank LoBiondo
stated on March 19, 2012 a letter to the editor
Says "new estimates from the Congressional Budget Office conclude the final price-tag" for the health care law "will exceed $2 trillion — more than double what was initially reported."
False
By Erin O'Neill • April 1, 2012
Bill Pascrell
Bill Pascrell
stated on March 19, 2012 a news release
Says Congressman Steve Rothman voted against funding for President Barack Obama’s auto bailout and would have let automakers go bankrupt.
Half-True
By Bill Wichert • March 29, 2012
Steve Rothman
Steve Rothman
stated on March 16, 2012 an interview on NJToday
Says Congressman Bill Pascrell "voted to remove the public option from the Affordable Health Care Act."
False
By Bill Wichert • March 28, 2012
Joseph Kyrillos
Joseph Kyrillos
stated on March 15, 2012 a campaign e-mail
Says under the new health care law "the patient-doctor relationship will be eliminated."
Pants on Fire!
By Erin O'Neill • March 26, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on February 23, 2012 an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" program
Says he and President Barack Obama have the same position on gay marriage.
Half-True
By Caryn Shinske • March 25, 2012
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