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Loretta Weinberg
Loretta Weinberg
stated on June 4, 2012 in a column on Blue Jersey:
Says PolitiFact "listed Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin as the Governor who told the most lies" and "our own ‘untruthful’ Governor Chris Christie made it into Politifact's top five of ‘Lie - en Governors’."
False
By Erin O'Neill • June 7, 2012
Rodney Frelinghuysen
Rodney Frelinghuysen
stated on May 25, 2012 in an e-mail newsletter:
"The U.S. is borrowing approximately $2.52 for every $1 of economic growth so far in 2012."
True
By Erin O'Neill • June 3, 2012
Shelley Adler
Shelley Adler
stated on May 4, 2012 in an interview on NJTV’s “On the Record”:
Says Jon Runyan voted to "end programs to aid homeless veterans."
False
By Erin O'Neill • May 24, 2012
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on May 4, 2012 in a speech at an American Federation for Children event:
Says New Jersey’s prison system is "61 percent African-American even though our state is just 13 percent black."
True
By Erin O'Neill • May 21, 2012
Chain email
Chain email
stated on May 12, 2012 in a chain e-mail:
Says President Barack Obama’s finance team is recommending a "1% tax on all transactions at any financial institution."
Pants on Fire!
By Erin O'Neill • May 16, 2012
Barbara Buono
Barbara Buono
stated on May 7, 2012 in an interview on The Dom Giordano Show:
Says in March New Jersey was "one of only eight states in the nation to lose jobs" and "the state with the highest loss of jobs in the nation."
Mostly False
By Erin O'Neill • May 13, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on May 4, 2012 in a speech at a Cato Institute event:
"We are coming up on our 40th anniversary of electing a Republican to the United States Senate. 1972 was the last time New Jersey sent a Republican to the United States Senate."
True
By Erin O'Neill • May 9, 2012
Loretta Weinberg
Loretta Weinberg
stated on April 30, 2012 in an op-ed published on NorthJersey.com:
Says Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget proposal "would effectively double the interest paid out on existing and future student loans."
Mostly False
By Erin O'Neill • May 6, 2012
Frank Lautenberg
Frank Lautenberg
stated on April 26, 2012 in a speech on the Senate floor:
Says "in our gun laws we’re allowing domestic abusers to sidestep this ban on getting a gun. The loophole allows a convicted abuser to walk into a gun show and walk out with a gun, no questions asked."
True
By Erin O'Neill • May 3, 2012
R2RMerge
R2RMerge
stated on April 15, 2012 in a flier:
Says George Norcross said the "TAKEOVER OF RUTGER$ CAMDEN WILL COST NEW JER$EY BILLION$."
False
By Erin O'Neill • April 26, 2012
Sheila Oliver
Sheila Oliver
stated on April 19, 2012 in an interview on WOR-AM:
Says "$57,000 is the mean [income] in our state" for a family.
False
By Erin O'Neill • April 25, 2012
John Wisniewski
John Wisniewski
stated on April 13, 2012 in a video press release:
"If you're earning under $100,000 a year and you commute to New York every day you pay more to the Port Authority in tolls than you pay to the state of New Jersey in income tax."
True
By Erin O'Neill • April 23, 2012
BettyLou DeCroce
BettyLou DeCroce
stated on April 8, 2012 in n opinion column in the Gloucester County Times:
"While the country’s economy was battered, nine states with no income tax actually grew jobs from 2001 to 2010."
Half-True
By Erin O'Neill • April 16, 2012
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 30, 2012 in a post on Facebook:
"In April 1997, there was a ‘gas out’ conducted nationwide in protest of gas prices. Gasoline prices dropped 30 cents a gallon overnight."
Pants on Fire!
By Erin O'Neill • April 15, 2012
John Burzichelli
John Burzichelli
stated on March 28, 2012 in an interview on NJTV:
Says in the governor’s proposed budget "the use of that, what is called one-shots, is a 500 percent increase over the last Corzine budget."
Mostly False
By Erin O'Neill • April 9, 2012
Donald Verrilli
Donald Verrilli
stated on March 27, 2012 in a Supreme Court hearing on health care law:
Says when New Jersey adopted guaranteed coverage and cost provisions without a mandate individual health insurance market rates "doubled or tripled" and enrollment dropped from 180,000 people to 80,000 people.
Mostly True
By Erin O'Neill • April 4, 2012
Frank LoBiondo
Frank LoBiondo
stated on March 19, 2012 in a letter to the editor:
Says "new estimates from the Congressional Budget Office conclude the final price-tag" for the health care law "will exceed $2 trillion — more than double what was initially reported."
False
By Erin O'Neill • April 1, 2012
Joseph Kyrillos
Joseph Kyrillos
stated on March 15, 2012 in a campaign e-mail:
Says under the new health care law "the patient-doctor relationship will be eliminated."
Pants on Fire!
By Erin O'Neill • March 26, 2012
Susan Cole
Susan Cole
stated on March 13, 2012 in an interview on NJTV:
"New Jersey loses net, that is minus those who come into the state, 30,000 students a year."
True
By Erin O'Neill • March 22, 2012
Chris Smith
Chris Smith
stated on March 8, 2012 in a speech on the House floor:
Says there have been "well over" 54 million abortions since 1973.
Mostly True
By Erin O'Neill • March 18, 2012
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