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Latest Fact-Checks In New Jersey

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Barbara Buono
Barbara Buono
stated on October 1, 2012 in an interview on NJToday:
Says Chris Christie created "this new category where you could get laid off and just be totally denied unemployment benefits forever."
Mostly True
By Bill Wichert • October 11, 2012
Robert Menendez
Robert Menendez
stated on October 4, 2012 in a debate on NJTV:
"When (Joe Kyrillos) had an opportunity to vote for women in terms of their health care, not once, not twice, but six times, he voted against women’s health care in our state."
True
By Bill Wichert • October 8, 2012
Joseph Kyrillos
Joseph Kyrillos
stated on October 4, 2012 in a debate on NJTV:
Says under U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez’s watch the nation’s unemployment rate and debt doubled and the federal budget deficit quadrupled.
Half-True
By Erin O'Neill • October 7, 2012
Robert Menendez
Robert Menendez
stated on October 4, 2012 in a debate on NJTV:
Says Paul Ryan’s budget would turn Medicare into a "voucher."
Mostly True
By Bill Wichert • October 5, 2012
Joseph Kyrillos
Joseph Kyrillos
stated on October 4, 2012 in a debate on NJTV:
Says the United States has the "highest corporate tax rate in the world."
Mostly True
By Erin O'Neill • October 5, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on September 30, 2012 in an interview on NBC’s “Meet The Press”:
"(Barack Obama) says he’s going to reduce the long-term debt and deficit by $4 trillion, doesn’t say how he's going to do it."
Pants on Fire!
By Bill Wichert • October 4, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on September 25, 2012 in a campaign event in New Hampshire:
"The income tax that started at 2 percent under Governor Byrne is now 9 percent."
Half-True
By Erin O'Neill • October 3, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on September 24, 2012 in a news conference:
Says Ronald Reagan "was behind in the polls in 1980 going into the debate with Jimmy Carter and then turned around 10 days later and won 40 states."
Half-True
By Bill Wichert • October 1, 2012
Joseph Kyrillos
Joseph Kyrillos
stated on August 29, 2012 in an online news release:
"Bob Menendez actually voted in favor of higher taxes more than 70 times!"
Mostly False
By Caryn Shinske • September 30, 2012
Jennifer Beck
Jennifer Beck
stated on September 20, 2012 in an interview with NJToday:
"We have more people working in the state of New Jersey today than we've ever had in our history."
False
By Erin O'Neill • September 27, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on September 23, 2012 in a campaign speech:
Says there are "fewer jobs in America today than when Barack Obama became president."
Mostly False
By Bill Wichert • September 26, 2012
John Burzichelli
John Burzichelli
stated on September 19, 2012 in an interview with NJToday:
Says "the governor is going around the state talking about [how] we should fund an income tax cut" that benefits higher income earners and not lower income earners
False
By Erin O'Neill • September 24, 2012
Rob Andrews
Rob Andrews
stated on September 12, 2012 in an interview with Townsquare Media New Jersey:
Says the "number-one source" of illegal immigration "is people legally coming to the United States on a tourist visa or a student visa and then disappearing into the population and never being heard from again."
False
By Bill Wichert • September 23, 2012
Jon Runyan
Jon Runyan
stated on September 17, 2012 in an interview with Townsquare Media New Jersey:
Says "if we do nothing and continue to let Obamacare siphon off that $700 billion dollars off the top of it, Medicare goes away in less than 10 years -- certain accounts of it -- and it just falls apart at the seams."
False
By Erin O'Neill • September 20, 2012
Menendez Facts
Menendez Facts
stated on September 4, 2012 in a blog:
"Sen. Bob Menendez voted to enact a new tax on the sale of homes of 3.8%."
Pants on Fire!
By Erin O'Neill • September 17, 2012
Shelley Adler
Shelley Adler
stated on September 12, 2012 in a video posted on YouTube:
Says Congressman Jon Runyan has a "plan to raise Medicare costs $6,400 a year."
Mostly False
By Bill Wichert • September 16, 2012
Jon Bramnick
Jon Bramnick
stated on September 7, 2012 in an interview on NJToday:
"The president promised that if he spent money on a stimulus program that unemployment would go to 5.7 percent or 6 percent. Those were his words."
Mostly False
By Erin O'Neill • September 13, 2012
Leonard Lance
Leonard Lance
stated on September 5, 2012 in an interview on NJToday:
"The Senate has not passed a budget in more than three years, not a good budget, not a bad budget, no budget."
True
By Bill Wichert • September 12, 2012
Upendra Chivukula
Upendra Chivukula
stated on August 31, 2012 in an interview on NJToday:
Says Republicans "have declared that they’re going to convert the Medicare program into a voucher program."
Mostly True
By Bill Wichert • September 10, 2012
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on September 5, 2012 in an interview with #waywire:
Says the Republican Party platform says "pull back even more of the rules on campaign finance reform, get rid of McCain-Feingold" while the Democratic Party platform says "we want to find a way to put more fair rules on campaign finance reform."
True
By Erin O'Neill • September 9, 2012
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