Latest Fact-Checks By Bill Wichert

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Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on April 4, 2012 in a news conference:
Says New Jersey Devils managing partner Jeff Vanderbeek "took us into arbitration."
False
By Bill Wichert • April 12, 2012
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on April 9, 2012 in an interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe:
Says New Jersey Devils managing partner Jeff Vanderbeek "froze all those monies during the toughest years in ‘08-’09" and "refused to give the charitable dollars that he was required to give by the contract."
Mostly True
By Bill Wichert • April 12, 2012
Robert Menendez
Robert Menendez
stated on March 28, 2012 in a video posted on YouTube:
Says the United States "actually exports more gasoline, diesel and other fuels than it imported in 2011 for the first time since, I think, 1949."
True
By Bill Wichert • April 11, 2012
Amy Handlin
Amy Handlin
stated on April 4, 2012 in an opinion piece in the Times of Trenton:
Says under the Affordable Care Act, New Jersey’s "new (Medicaid) enrollees won’t qualify for the matching federal funds simply because we added them onto the rolls before 2014."
Mostly False
By Bill Wichert • April 8, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on March 23, 2012 in an appearance at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University:
"To get out of the (teachers) union, you pay 85 percent of $731. Then you're out of the union, but you've got to pay it every year, also required by statute. That’s called a representation fee."
True
By Bill Wichert • April 5, 2012
New Jersey Republican State Committee
New Jersey Republican State Committee
stated on March 19, 2012 in a tweet:
"And the #jerseycomeback keeps rolling! Thanks to @GovChristie NJ now has lowest corruption risk of any state."
False
By Bill Wichert • April 2, 2012
Bill Pascrell
Bill Pascrell
stated on March 19, 2012 in a news release:
Says Congressman Steve Rothman voted against funding for President Barack Obama’s auto bailout and would have let automakers go bankrupt.
Half-True
By Bill Wichert • March 29, 2012
Steve Rothman
Steve Rothman
stated on March 16, 2012 in an interview on NJToday:
Says Congressman Bill Pascrell "voted to remove the public option from the Affordable Health Care Act."
False
By Bill Wichert • March 28, 2012
Sheila Oliver
Sheila Oliver
stated on February 27, 2012 in a speech at Rider University:
Says "New Jersey has the most educated population of all the states in this country."
Mostly True
By Bill Wichert • March 23, 2012
Bill Pascrell
Bill Pascrell
stated on March 3, 2012 in a video posted on YouTube:
"Ninety percent of the people who work in this country work for companies under 100 people, maybe even less than that."
False
By Bill Wichert • March 21, 2012
John McKeon
John McKeon
stated on March 4, 2012 in an interview on My9 News' “New Jersey Now”:
Says "the governor took away a billion dollars of rebates, so in real dollars, our property taxes have gone up 20 percent."
Half-True
By Bill Wichert • March 19, 2012
Stephen Sweeney
Stephen Sweeney
stated on March 8, 2012 in an interview on NJToday:
Says "my plan is a property tax cut."
Half-True
By Bill Wichert • March 15, 2012
Steve Rothman
Steve Rothman
stated on February 13, 2012 in a campaign video posted on YouTube:
"They're paying a less rate of tax -- these richest people in America -- than they have in the last 80 years."
Mostly True
By Bill Wichert • March 11, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on February 21, 2012 in his budget speech:
Says the proposed fiscal year 2013 budget "is still below the level of state spending when I took office."
True
By Bill Wichert • March 8, 2012
Gary Chiusano
Gary Chiusano
stated on February 26, 2012 in an interview on My9 News' “New Jersey Now”:
Says pension contributions under Gov. Chris Christie would represent "75 percent of the total contribution made between the years 1995 and 2010. That's right, in 15 years, total state contribution was only $2.1 billion."
False
By Bill Wichert • March 7, 2012
Michael Doherty
Michael Doherty
stated on February 28, 2012 in an interview on NJToday:
Says State Comptroller Matthew Boxer "pointed out that many towns are artificially lowering the real estate values that they report to Trenton" in order to "get hundreds of millions of dollars of additional school aid. This is the kind of fraud that needs to be addressed immediately."
Mostly False
By Bill Wichert • March 5, 2012
Scott Garrett
Scott Garrett
stated on February 15, 2012 in a radio interview:
Says "half the Americans don't pay any income taxes."
True
By Bill Wichert • February 29, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on February 26, 2012 in an interview on CBS News’ "Face the Nation":
"(President Barack Obama) said unemployment was never gonna go over 8 percent if we passed the stimulus plan."
Mostly False
By Bill Wichert • February 27, 2012
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on February 21, 2012 in his budget speech:
Says private-sector job growth in 2011 "places New Jersey in the top third among all of the states."
Half-True
By Bill Wichert • February 27, 2012
Bill Pascrell
Bill Pascrell
stated on February 1, 2012 in a speech on the House floor:
Says "sixty-two percent of small businesses over the last five years went under because they couldn't pay their health care bills."
False
By Bill Wichert • February 24, 2012
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