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Rob Andrews
Rob Andrews
stated on September 12, 2012 an interview with Townsquare Media New Jersey
Says the "number-one source" of illegal immigration "is people legally coming to the United States on a tourist visa or a student visa and then disappearing into the population and never being heard from again."
False
By Bill Wichert • September 23, 2012
Jon Runyan
Jon Runyan
stated on September 17, 2012 an interview with Townsquare Media New Jersey
Says "if we do nothing and continue to let Obamacare siphon off that $700 billion dollars off the top of it, Medicare goes away in less than 10 years -- certain accounts of it -- and it just falls apart at the seams."
False
By Erin O'Neill • September 20, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on August 28, 2012 an interview on "CBS This Morning"
Says Chris Christie was the "first governor in America to endorse" Mitt Romney.
False
By Bill Wichert • September 3, 2012
Barbara Buono
Barbara Buono
stated on August 27, 2012 an op-ed in Politico
Says Gov. Chris Christie has embarked on a tour to "demand that New Jersey’s Democratic legislature approve an immediate tax cut that would disproportionately benefit the wealthiest."
False
By Erin O'Neill • September 2, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on August 28, 2012 a speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa
Says the national health care law puts federal "bureaucrats between an American citizen and her doctor."
False
By Erin O'Neill • August 30, 2012
Anna Little
Anna Little
stated on August 2, 2012 an interview on NJToday
"We actually made history in 2010. We came the closest in 24 years to defeating Frank Pallone."
False
By Bill Wichert • August 13, 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
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
Lou Greenwald
Lou Greenwald
stated on July 15, 2012 an interview on 6abc’s “Inside Story”
Says "the money is in the budget" to give a tax break to "everyone," including people making more than $1 million.
False
By Bill Wichert • July 18, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on July 9, 2012 an appearance at the Brookings Institution
"New Jersey today has fewer employees in state government than it had when Christie Whitman left office in January of 2001, and I think that’s good. And we did it without any layoffs. We did it through attrition."
False
By Bill Wichert • July 16, 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
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
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
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
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
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