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Latest Fact-Checks By Bill Wichert

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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
John Wisniewski
John Wisniewski
stated on February 7, 2012 a radio interview
"Many of the top officials at the Port Authority earn more money than the governors of the states that have jurisdiction over them."
True
By Bill Wichert • February 15, 2012
Joseph Kyrillos
Joseph Kyrillos
stated on February 1, 2012 a speech at his campaign kickoff
"Senator Menendez said he would spend our money wisely. But our annual national deficit climbed from $250 billion a year to $1.6 trillion on his watch."
Half-True
By Bill Wichert • February 13, 2012
Barbara Buono
Barbara Buono
stated on January 25, 2012 a column
Says "as of November, we were ranked 45th in the nation in terms of job creation, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics."
Mostly False
By Bill Wichert • February 10, 2012
Paul Sarlo
Paul Sarlo
stated on January 30, 2012 opening remarks at a Senate committee hearing
Says Gov. Chris Christie’s proposal to reduce state income taxes "would be the second tax cut for the rich by the governor in two years."
Half-True
By Bill Wichert • February 5, 2012
Jim Whelan
Jim Whelan
stated on January 9, 2012 a speech on the state Senate floor
"United States of America is twenty-sixth in school performance in the world."
Mostly True
By Bill Wichert • February 3, 2012
Joe Pennacchio
Joe Pennacchio
stated on January 30, 2012 a news release
Says Pennsylvania charges a top income tax rate of 3 percent and Delaware "has no state income tax at all."
Half-True
By Bill Wichert • February 2, 2012
Richard Codey
Richard Codey
stated on January 16, 2012 a radio interview
"And by the way, when I was governor, I did make the payment into the pension fund."
Mostly True
By Bill Wichert • January 23, 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
David Sciarra
David Sciarra
stated on January 5, 2012 testimony before the state Assembly Budget Committee
Says over the last two years, New Jersey Schools Development Authority employees "have not started or completed one single school project, and I’m not talking about major school renovation. I’m talking about replacing boilers, roofs."
False
By Bill Wichert • January 16, 2012
Reed Gusciora
Reed Gusciora
stated on January 9, 2012 a news release
"Opinion polls show that the majority of Americans, and the majority of New Jerseyans, favor marriage equality for same sex couples."
Mostly True
By Bill Wichert • January 12, 2012
Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on January 8, 2012 an NBC-Facebook debate in Concord, N.H.
Says the Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction proposal went from President Barack Obama's desk to "the garbage can."
False
By Becky Bowers, Bill Wichert, Erin O'Neill, Louis Jacobson • January 8, 2012
Anna Little
Anna Little
stated on December 29, 2011 a message on her campaign website
"Bob Menendez just voted to increase the government's debt ceiling to $1.9 TRILLION! In his 19 years in Congress, Menendez has helped overspend America over $15 TRILLION into debt."
Mostly False
By Bill Wichert • January 8, 2012
Declan O'Scanlon
Declan O'Scanlon
stated on December 16, 2011 an opinion piece in the Star-Ledger
"Taxpayers earning $1 million pay an effective tax rate that is about four times what taxpayers earning $100,000 pay."
True
By Bill Wichert • January 4, 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
Chain email
Chain email
stated on December 14, 2011 a chain e-mail
"Ever wonder why no one ever came forward from Obama's past, saying they knew him, attended school with him, was his friend, etc.? Not one person has ever come forward from his past."
Pants on Fire!
By Bill Wichert • December 26, 2011
Michael Doherty
Michael Doherty
stated on December 9, 2011 a news release
"Following the catastrophic, cascading collapse of major investment banks on Wall Street in 2007.....Nobody was prosecuted, no hearings were held and no reforms were implemented."
False
By Bill Wichert • December 19, 2011
Julia Sass Rubin
Julia Sass Rubin
stated on December 3, 2011 an interview on News 12 New Jersey’s Power & Politics show
"(The Opportunity Scholarship Act) would be funded directly from public school budgets. So it would absolutely take money out of the public school system to transfer to private and religious schools."
Mostly True
By Bill Wichert • December 15, 2011
Jay Webber
Jay Webber
stated on November 28, 2011 an NJToday interview
Says "our unemployment insurance trust fund is broke. We're over a billion dollars in debt to the federal government."
True
By Bill Wichert • December 11, 2011
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