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Latest Fact-Checks By Erin O'Neill

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Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on August 20, 2012 a news conference
"I haven't raised taxes in the time I've been the governor of New Jersey."
Half-True
By Erin O'Neill • August 23, 2012
Lou Greenwald
Lou Greenwald
stated on August 9, 2012 an interview with Blue Jersey
Says "about 100,000 kids in this country leave their home state and go to another state to be educated. Out of that 100,000 young people, 30,000 of them are from New Jersey, by far the largest amount."
Half-True
By Erin O'Neill • August 16, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on August 7, 2012 a news conference
Says "a Republican hasn't won [an election] for a presidency in New Jersey since 1988."
True
By Erin O'Neill • August 15, 2012
Upendra Chivukula
Upendra Chivukula
stated on August 5, 2012 an interview posted on BlueJersey.com
"One of the key things about Leonard Lance is that in 2008, when you look at [the] Project Vote Smart website, he was not for guns. Now he has gone too far to the right, saying that you can carry concealed weapons in national parks."
Mostly False
By Erin O'Neill • August 9, 2012
Frank Lautenberg
Frank Lautenberg
stated on July 30, 2012 an op-ed on NorthJersey.com
"Guns have murdered more Americans here at home in recent years than have died on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan."
Half-True
By Erin O'Neill • August 6, 2012
Scott Garrett
Scott Garrett
stated on July 29, 2012 an op-ed on NorthJersey.com
"The president’s health care law raids Medicare by more than $500 billion and creates a Medicare rationing board — a group of 15 unelected bureaucrats — to slow the growth of Medicare spending."
Mostly False
By Erin O'Neill • August 3, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on July 23, 2012 a news conference
"What I look at every month is how many more New Jerseyans are back to work. You have another 9,900 last month that are back to work and over almost 90,000 that are back to work now since I became governor."
False
By Erin O'Neill • July 30, 2012
Rush Holt
Rush Holt
stated on July 20, 2012 an e-mail newsletter
"As we watch the news from Colorado with horror and sympathy for the families, we should remember that each day more than 80 Americans are killed by gunfire, unnecessary tragedies."
Half-True
By Erin O'Neill • July 27, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on July 23, 2012 a news conference
"We created as many jobs in the first six months of this year as we did in all of 2011 and 2011 was the best single year for private-sector job growth since the year 2000."
True
By Erin O'Neill • July 26, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on July 9, 2012 a speech at the Brookings Institution
"I used my line-item veto authority to veto $360 million dollars in special interest spending, so that our budget this year ... is still smaller than the fiscal year 2008 and 2009 budgets signed by my predecessor."
False
By Erin O'Neill • July 23, 2012
Bill Pascrell
Bill Pascrell
stated on July 18, 2012 an interview on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal
Says President Barack Obama "has not raised taxes."
False
By Erin O'Neill • July 22, 2012
Joseph Kyrillos
Joseph Kyrillos
stated on July 11, 2012 an interview on WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show
"We are not producing jobs. We created 80,000 jobs last month. We don't talk about the jobs that we lost. The net of it all is that we lost jobs."
False
By Erin O'Neill • July 15, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on July 9, 2012 a speech at the Brookings Institution
Says New Jersey’s tenure law "has now been reformed to say that if teachers get two years of partially effective or ineffective ratings they lose tenure."
False
By Erin O'Neill • July 12, 2012
Stephen Sweeney
Stephen Sweeney
stated on July 2, 2012 an interview on WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show
Says "tenure still exists but it's been overhauled" for teachers in New Jersey.
True
By Erin O'Neill • July 9, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on July 3, 2012 an interview on CNBC
"If you look at most of the polls, this is a margin-of-error race on Fourth of July between Mitt Romney and the president."
True
By Erin O'Neill • July 5, 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
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
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
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
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