Latest Fact-Checks In New Jersey

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Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on January 22, 2013 a radio interview on New Jersey 101.5’s “Ask the Governor”
Says "on the state level, we spend less today than Jon Corzine spent in fiscal year 2008, five years later."
Mostly True
By Bill Wichert • February 3, 2013
Rodney Frelinghuysen
Rodney Frelinghuysen
stated on January 15, 2013 a speech on the House floor
Says "the area damaged by Hurricane Sandy represents roughly 10 percent of our nation's economy."
Mostly True
By Bill Wichert • January 31, 2013
Stephen Sweeney
Stephen Sweeney
stated on January 8, 2013 a radio interview
Says Chris Christie "vetoed" a "jobs package" of "30 bills."
Half-True
By Bill Wichert • January 27, 2013
Barbara Buono
Barbara Buono
stated on January 13, 2013 an interview on bluejersey.com
Says Chris Christie’s plan "to kick-start our economy" is to propose an "income tax cut that disproportionately benefits the wealthy, and...he's still proposing it."
Pants on Fire!
By Bill Wichert • January 24, 2013
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on January 8, 2013 State of the State address
"In total, we have added nearly 75,000 private sector jobs in New Jersey since we took office in January 2010."
True
By Caryn Shinske • January 20, 2013
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on January 8, 2013 State of the State address
"Gross income tax receipts are exceeding the Administration’s projections for this fiscal year prior to Sandy."
True
By Caryn Shinske • January 17, 2013
Bill Pascrell
Bill Pascrell
stated on December 31, 2012 an interview on WOR-AM
Says "how much money the government is collecting from people...in terms of the gross domestic product" is "the lowest in 40, 50 years."
Mostly True
By Bill Wichert • January 13, 2013
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on January 8, 2013 a speech
"A far different picture from the prior eight years, which saw 115 increases in taxes and fees."
True
By Caryn Shinske • January 10, 2013
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on January 8, 2013 a State of the State address
Says in fiscal year 2011, the state had "a projected $11 billion deficit."
Half-True
By Caryn Shinske • January 9, 2013
Environment New Jersey
Environment New Jersey
stated on December 18, 2012 an online post about global warming
"Hurricane Sandy, the most destructive Atlantic storm ever."
Mostly False
By Caryn Shinske • January 6, 2013
Robert Menendez
Robert Menendez
stated on December 27, 2012 a speech on the Senate floor
Says "10 days after Hurricane Katrina, this chamber passed two separate bills amounting to $60 billion. It has been nearly two months since we had Superstorm Sandy, and nothing has passed."
True
By Bill Wichert • January 3, 2013
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on December 19, 2012 a radio interview on New Jersey 101.5’s “Ask the Governor”
Says "our economy in New Jersey gets $38 billion from the businesses at the Shore."
False
By Bill Wichert • December 30, 2012
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on December 23, 2012 a roundtable discussion on ABC’s "This Week with George Stephanopoulos"
"You see 34 people (are) murdered every single day" by gunfire in America.
Mostly True
By Bill Wichert • December 27, 2012
Steve Lonegan
Steve Lonegan
stated on December 18, 2012 a news release
"The price tag amounted to nearly $4,200 for every man, woman and child in the state."
Mostly False
By Caryn Shinske • December 23, 2012
Barbara Buono
Barbara Buono
stated on December 11, 2012 a video advertisement
"I have the experience as Senate Budget Chair of cutting $4.5 billion in spending -- to close the deficit while protecting education and health care."
Half-True
By Caryn Shinske • December 20, 2012
Lou Greenwald
Lou Greenwald
stated on December 4, 2012 a press conference in Trenton
"Right now one of our highest job growth sectors is Leisure and Hospitality. We've added jobs that mostly fall within the restaurant and bar sector industry. These are not high-paying jobs, as the U.S. Department of Labor estimates this is an industry sector with the lowest average wages and the lowest proportion of its workforce earning minimum or subminimum wage jobs."
Mostly True
By Caryn Shinske • December 16, 2012
Robert Singer
Robert Singer
stated on November 29, 2012 a speech on the New Jersey Senate floor
"More than 50 percent of those people getting minimum wage in this state are high school students."
Mostly False
By Caryn Shinske • December 13, 2012
Frank Lautenberg
Frank Lautenberg
stated on November 13, 2012 a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate
"In 2008, tourism brought in $38 billion dollars and supported more than 300,000 jobs in the state of New Jersey."
True
By Caryn Shinske • December 9, 2012
Michael Doherty
Michael Doherty
stated on November 28, 2012 an op-ed on NorthJersey.com
Says a new state report "confirms" that red-light cameras "lead to more accidents, more injuries and greater cost."
Half-True
By Bill Wichert • December 6, 2012
Barbara Buono
Barbara Buono
stated on November 29, 2012 a speech on the Senate floor
Says "the number of Americans living at or below the poverty line is at its highest level since" 1964.
Mostly True
By Bill Wichert • December 3, 2012
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