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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
Shelley Adler
Shelley Adler
stated on May 4, 2012 an interview on NJTV’s “On the Record”
Says Jon Runyan voted to "end programs to aid homeless veterans."
False
By Erin O'Neill • May 24, 2012
Jon Runyan
Jon Runyan
stated on May 4, 2012 an interview on NJTV’s “On the Record”
Says "as we sit right now, Medicare, if we do nothing, will be gone in eight years, if we do nothing to it."
False
By Bill Wichert • May 20, 2012
Joseph Kyrillos
Joseph Kyrillos
stated on April 17, 2012 a blog post on his campaign website
"In my years in the State Legislature, I have never voted for a tax increase."
False
By Bill Wichert • April 29, 2012
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
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
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
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
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
Bill Pascrell
Bill Pascrell
stated on March 3, 2012 a video posted on YouTube
"Ninety percent of the people who work in this country work for companies under 100 people, maybe even less than that."
False
By Bill Wichert • March 21, 2012
Gary Chiusano
Gary Chiusano
stated on February 26, 2012 an interview on My9 News' “New Jersey Now”
Says pension contributions under Gov. Chris Christie would represent "75 percent of the total contribution made between the years 1995 and 2010. That's right, in 15 years, total state contribution was only $2.1 billion."
False
By Bill Wichert • March 7, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on February 21, 2012 an interview on CNN’s “Piers Morgan Tonight”
Says "we had to cut 13 billion dollars in state spending over two years."
False
By Erin O'Neill • March 4, 2012
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on February 23, 2012 an interview on WBGO’s “Newark Today”
"We've seen in this last year tremendous things happening, including our unemployment rate come down 2 percentage points."
False
By Erin O'Neill • March 1, 2012
Bill Pascrell
Bill Pascrell
stated on February 1, 2012 a speech on the House floor
Says "sixty-two percent of small businesses over the last five years went under because they couldn't pay their health care bills."
False
By Bill Wichert • February 24, 2012
Stephen Sweeney
Stephen Sweeney
stated on February 10, 2012 an interview on WNYC’s “The Brian Lehrer Show”
Says "67 percent of marriages now wind up in divorce."
False
By Erin O'Neill • February 20, 2012
Steve Rothman
Steve Rothman
stated on February 8, 2012 a speech on the House floor
"The Republicans just voted last year to end Medicare."
False
By Bill Wichert • February 19, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on January 31, 2012 a radio interview on New Jersey 101.5's "Ask the Governor"
"Here's something that people never talk about with coach Schiano: Rutgers had the best graduation rate of any Division I football program in America."
False
By Erin O'Neill • February 12, 2012
Chris Bollwage
Chris Bollwage
stated on January 15, 2012 a speech at the Cuban Club in Elizabeth
"Our jobless rate, our unemployment rate, is the lowest of all of the big cities in New Jersey."
False
By Erin O'Neill • January 27, 2012
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