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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
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
Frank Lautenberg
Frank Lautenberg
stated on November 13, 2012 a speech on the Senate floor
Says because of Hurricane Sandy in Atlantic City "much of that boardwalk no longer exists -- just the pillars where the boardwalk used to be."  
Mostly False
By Erin O'Neill • November 25, 2012
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on July 25, 2012 an announcement at the Ohio State Fair
"Ninety percent of the topsoil has inadequate moisture to grow crops."
True
By Aaron Marshall • August 8, 2012
Michael J. Gardiner
Michael J. Gardiner
stated on July 26, 2012 a debate
After the 9/11 terrorist attacks grounded commercial air traffic, "there was a temperature drop while the airplanes weren't flying, for the week afterwards."
Mostly False
By Tom Mooney • August 1, 2012
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on May 8, 2012 comments to the press
Citizens Property Insurance has "over $500 billion worth of risk, with less than $10 billion worth of surplus."
Mostly False
By Toluse Olorunnipa • June 13, 2012
Jersey Central Power & Light
Jersey Central Power & Light
stated on September 7, 2011 an advertisement
Hurricane "Irene was the second-largest storm to hit North America in terms of power outages -- and the first hurricane to make landfall in New Jersey since 1904."  
Mostly True
By Caryn Shinske • September 16, 2011
Maureen Dowd
Maureen Dowd
stated on August 30, 2011 an oped column.
Says Ron Paul insisted FEMA should be shut down.
True
By W. Gardner Selby • September 3, 2011
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on August 29, 2011 a TV interview.
On disaster aid offsets
Full Flop
By Warren Fiske • September 2, 2011
John Buss
John Buss
stated on March 23, 2011 comments before a state House subcommittee
Tallahassee is "the ninth-rainiest (city) in the nation."
Mostly True
By Aaron Sharockman • April 1, 2011
General Beauregard Lee
General Beauregard Lee
stated on February 2, 2011 his website
Says he predicts the weather better than Punxsutawney Phil.
Mostly True
By Willoughby Mariano • February 4, 2011
John Eaves
John Eaves
stated on January 12, 2011 a newspaper article
"This kind of snowstorm happens every 10 or 15 years."
True
By Eric Stirgus • January 17, 2011
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