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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."

By Bill Wichert • May 28, 2012

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."

By Erin O'Neill • May 24, 2012

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."

By Bill Wichert • May 20, 2012

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."

By Bill Wichert • April 29, 2012

R2RMerge
stated on April 15, 2012 a flier:

Says George Norcross said the "TAKEOVER OF RUTGER$ CAMDEN WILL COST NEW JER$EY BILLION$."

By Erin O'Neill • April 26, 2012

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.

By Erin O'Neill • April 25, 2012

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."

By Bill Wichert • April 22, 2012

Cory Booker
stated on April 4, 2012 a news conference:

Says New Jersey Devils managing partner Jeff Vanderbeek "took us into arbitration."

By Bill Wichert • April 12, 2012

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."

By Bill Wichert • April 2, 2012

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."

By Erin O'Neill • April 1, 2012

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."

By Bill Wichert • March 28, 2012

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."

By Bill Wichert • March 21, 2012

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."

By Bill Wichert • March 7, 2012

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."

By Erin O'Neill • March 4, 2012

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."

By Erin O'Neill • March 1, 2012

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."

By Bill Wichert • February 24, 2012

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."

By Erin O'Neill • February 20, 2012

Steve Rothman
stated on February 8, 2012 a speech on the House floor:

"The Republicans just voted last year to end Medicare."

By Bill Wichert • February 19, 2012

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."

By Erin O'Neill • February 12, 2012

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."

By Erin O'Neill • January 27, 2012

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