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Barbara Buono
Barbara Buono
stated on December 11, 2012 in a video advertisement:
"I have the experience as Senate Budget Chair of cutting $4.5 billion in spending -- to close the deficit while protecting education and health care."
Half-True
By Caryn Shinske • December 20, 2012
Lou Greenwald
Lou Greenwald
stated on December 4, 2012 in a press conference in Trenton:
"Right now one of our highest job growth sectors is Leisure and Hospitality. We've added jobs that mostly fall within the restaurant and bar sector industry. These are not high-paying jobs, as the U.S. Department of Labor estimates this is an industry sector with the lowest average wages and the lowest proportion of its workforce earning minimum or subminimum wage jobs."
Mostly True
By Caryn Shinske • December 16, 2012
Robert Singer
Robert Singer
stated on November 29, 2012 in a speech on the New Jersey Senate floor:
"More than 50 percent of those people getting minimum wage in this state are high school students."
Mostly False
By Caryn Shinske • December 13, 2012
Frank Lautenberg
Frank Lautenberg
stated on November 13, 2012 in a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate:
"In 2008, tourism brought in $38 billion dollars and supported more than 300,000 jobs in the state of New Jersey."
True
By Caryn Shinske • December 9, 2012
Paul Levesque
Paul Levesque
stated on October 24, 2012 in an interview on NYPost.com:
"We’ve outdrawn the Super Bowl for a little while now in the arenas and stadiums that we’ve followed them in for the Super Bowl. We’ve gone in after [the NFL] and surpassed their ticket sales."
Mostly True
By Caryn Shinske • November 22, 2012
Caroline Casagrande
Caroline Casagrande
stated on October 26, 2012 in an interview with NJTV's Michael Aron for "On The Record":
"Every American now is $51,000 in debt. That’s money I owe, that’s money my children owe before they even go to kindergarten, that’s their check to the federal government right now."
Mostly True
By Caryn Shinske • November 15, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on November 7, 2012 in a press conference :
Says "I was the first governor in America to endorse Mitt Romney."
Pants on Fire!
By Caryn Shinske • November 11, 2012
Jesse Ventura
Jesse Ventura
stated on September 14, 2012 in an interview on MyCentralJersey.com:
"There’s 21 congressmen and senators that have been convicted of felonies that still get their retirement, even in jail. They don’t have to wait until they’re 65."
Mostly True
By Caryn Shinske • October 25, 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
Choose: New Jersey
Choose: New Jersey
stated on July 30, 2012 in an advertisement in the Wall Street Journal:
"We have more scientists and engineers per square mile than anywhere in the world."
True
By Caryn Shinske • September 6, 2012
Michael Doherty
Michael Doherty
stated on May 14, 2012 in a news release:
"There is little if any evidence that the use of red light cameras in New Jersey has reduced the number or severity of accidents at the intersections where they are used."
True
By Caryn Shinske • June 28, 2012
Caroline Casagrande
Caroline Casagrande
stated on April 29, 2012 in an interview on My9TV.com's "New Jersey Now" program:
"Women have come through the recession worse off than men … the numbers bear that out. We went from a 7 percent unemployment rate for women when he (President Barack Obama) was elected to an 8.1 percent now."
Mostly True
By Caryn Shinske • June 4, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on May 23, 2012 in an Assembly Budget Committee hearing:
On transportation financing
Half Flip
By Caryn Shinske • May 27, 2012
Bill Pascrell
Bill Pascrell
stated on May 3, 2012 in an interview on WOR 710-AM's "The John Gambling Show":
"New Jersey has the largest transit system in the entire country."
Mostly True
By Caryn Shinske • May 17, 2012
Lou Greenwald
Lou Greenwald
stated on April 1, 2012 in an interview with on NJTV's "On The Record.":
New Jersey has "the highest property taxes in the nation and not by a little. They are the highest property taxes in the nation, more than double the national average."
True
By Caryn Shinske • May 10, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on February 23, 2012 in an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" program:
Says he and President Barack Obama have the same position on gay marriage.
Half-True
By Caryn Shinske • March 25, 2012
New Jersey Senate Democrats
New Jersey Senate Democrats
stated on January 18, 2012 in a press release:
"The governor is trying to take credit for recent actions taken by these companies. The problem is that for all three companies, the decision to move or stay in New Jersey happened before Chris Christie became governor."  
Mostly True
By Caryn Shinske • February 23, 2012
Chain email
Chain email
stated on January 30, 2012 in a chain email:
"This year President Obama canceled the 21st annual National Day of Prayer ceremony at the White House under the ruse of ‘not wanting to offend anyone.' BUT … on September 25, 2009 from 4 AM until 7 PM, a National Day of Prayer FOR THE MUSLIM RELIGION was HELD on Capitol Hill, Beside the White House."  
Mostly False
By Caryn Shinske • February 9, 2012
Rush Holt
Rush Holt
stated on December 14, 2011 in a press release:
"Before this day is out, 18 more veterans will have taken their own lives.  That is the daily average, it is intolerable, and it has to stop." 
True
By Caryn Shinske • January 26, 2012
James Florio
James Florio
stated on December 14, 2011 in a guest column in The Star-Ledger:
"Many types of fish and shellfish from waters across the state are labeled unsafe to eat." 
Mostly True
By Caryn Shinske • January 20, 2012
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