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Latest Fact-Checks On Chris Christie

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Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on February 21, 2012 his budget speech
Says private-sector job growth in 2011 "places New Jersey in the top third among all of the states."
Half-True
By Bill Wichert • February 27, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on February 21, 2012 his budget speech
"New Jersey has the second highest rate of institutionalization" of people with developmental disabilities "in America. Only Texas puts more of its citizens -- confines more of its citizens -- to institutions than New Jersey. "
Mostly True
By Erin O'Neill • February 26, 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 Christie
Chris Christie
stated on January 22, 2012 an interview on “Meet the Press”
Says the New York Giants "train in New Jersey, they play in New Jersey and most of their players live in New Jersey."
True
By Erin O'Neill • January 29, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on January 17, 2012 a video
Says "we’ve accomplished balancing two budgets without raising taxes. We’ve now created 60,000 new private-sector jobs. We’ve made government smaller."
Half-True
By Bill Wichert, Erin O'Neill • January 17, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on December 29, 2011 a radio interview
Says "kids who start in the ninth grade in the city of Newark this past September, 23 percent of them will graduate in four years."
Pants on Fire!
By Erin O'Neill • January 5, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on December 23, 2011 a radio interview
"By the way, I'm not raising tolls 50 percent....Jon Corzine did."
True
By Bill Wichert • January 3, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on December 20, 2011 an interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe
"And, as of today, New Jersey state government has less employees than when Christie Whitman left office in 2001."
True
By Bill Wichert • December 29, 2011
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on November 18, 2011 a speech at Notre Dame's law school
"They say teachers only make on average in New Jersey 60,000 dollars a year. They only work 180 days."
Mostly True
By Caryn Shinske • December 12, 2011
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on November 9, 2011 a radio interview
Says Barack Obama had "huge majorities" in Congress during his first two years in office and "did nothing with them to create jobs in America."
Pants on Fire!
By Bill Wichert • December 4, 2011
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on November 18, 2011 a forum at the University of Notre Dame
Says "out of 588 school districts, we give 31 (former Abbott) districts 70 percent of the aid."
Mostly True
By Bill Wichert • December 1, 2011
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on November 14, 2011 an interview at Facebook headquarters
Says 23 percent of ninth graders in Newark will graduate with a high school diploma in four years and "we spend $100,000 on their education in those four years, more than is spent on any other set of students in the United States."
Mostly False
By Erin O'Neill • November 17, 2011
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on October 26, 2011 a radio interview
Says "over the last 48 years, every governor at the midterm of his first term or her first term has lost seats in the Legislature, with the exception of Jim McGreevey in 2003."
True
By Erin O'Neill • November 6, 2011
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on October 25, 2011 a news conference
Says judges "get better benefits at a lower cost than everybody else in the state."
True
By Erin O'Neill • October 27, 2011
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on October 19, 2011 a radio interview
Says the national heath care reform is "a government takeover of health care."
Pants on Fire!
By Bill Wichert • October 23, 2011
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on October 19, 2011 a radio interview
Says "these ‘Jersey Shore’ folks, they’re from New York."
Half-True
By Erin O'Neill • October 21, 2011
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on October 11, 2011 a news conference with Mitt Romney
Says "any attempt to try to compare" the Massachusetts health care law with the federal health care law is "completely, intellectually dishonest. Governor Romney did not raise one tax in doing what he did."
Mostly False
By Bill Wichert, Erin O'Neill • October 13, 2011
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on October 4, 2011 a press conference
Says "New Jersey's unemployment is significantly lower than it was when I got here. And we've created 50,000 new private sector jobs in the last 20 months after having lost 117,000 in the year before I got here."
Half-True
By Bill Wichert, Erin O'Neill • October 4, 2011
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on October 4, 2011
On running for the presidency in 2012
No Flip
By Caryn Shinske • October 4, 2011
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on September 27, 2011 a speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
Says his administration balanced "two budgets with over $13 billion in deficits without raising taxes."
Half-True
By Erin O'Neill • October 2, 2011
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