Latest Fact-Checks By Erin O'Neill

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Steve Lonegan
Steve Lonegan
stated on December 27, 2011 in an email newsletter:
"New Jersey taxpayers … will now face the highest tolls in the country."
False
By Erin O'Neill • January 2, 2012
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on December 9, 2011 in a speech in New Hampshire:
Says America spends "over 17 percent of its GDP on health care costs when our closest competitor nations are spending about 12."
True
By Erin O'Neill • December 25, 2011
National Republican Congressional Committee
National Republican Congressional Committee
stated on December 15, 2011 in a web ad posted on YouTube:
Says Joe Biden said Jon Corzine is "the smartest guy that I know, in terms of the economy and on finance, I really mean this."
True
By Erin O'Neill • December 22, 2011
Rush Holt
Rush Holt
stated on December 6, 2011 in a telephone town hall meeting:
Says in 1944 "we were in debt more than twice as much as we are now."
False
By Erin O'Neill • December 18, 2011
Pat Roberts
Pat Roberts
stated on December 6, 2011 in an interview on Fox Business News:
Says with Jon Corzine, "it's the first time, I think, in history where a former Senator has been subpoenaed to testify before his former colleagues."
True
By Erin O'Neill • December 14, 2011
Bear Education and Resource Group
Bear Education and Resource Group
stated on December 6, 2011 in a website:
"99% of NJ voters do NOT support hunting."
Pants on Fire!
By Erin O'Neill • December 8, 2011
Steve Rothman
Steve Rothman
stated on November 2, 2011 in a statement in the Congressional Record:
"Currently it costs more than a penny for the U.S. Mint to make a one cent coin and more than a nickel to make the five cent piece."
True
By Erin O'Neill • November 24, 2011
Leonard Lance
Leonard Lance
stated on November 16, 2011 in a speech on the House floor:
"When the national debt reaches $15 trillion, it means that U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio will reach 99.7 percent of our debt and this is $47,900 for every living American."
True
By Erin O'Neill • November 21, 2011
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on November 14, 2011 in an interview at Facebook headquarters:
Says 23 percent of ninth graders in Newark will graduate with a high school diploma in four years and "we spend $100,000 on their education in those four years, more than is spent on any other set of students in the United States."
Mostly False
By Erin O'Neill • November 17, 2011
Rodney Frelinghuysen
Rodney Frelinghuysen
stated on November 4, 2011 in an email newsletter:
Says the Treasury Department "says 41 percent of all business income reported on individual returns would be hit by the [millionaires’] surtax" that "would harm small businessmen and women, the very people we are counting on to create new jobs."
Mostly False
By Erin O'Neill • November 13, 2011
John Wisniewski
John Wisniewski
stated on November 7, 2011 in a memo on behalf of the New Jersey Democratic State Committee:
"Governor Christie also remains the only Governor since World War II, among both Democrats and Republicans, who failed to have his party win control of at least one legislative body over the course of his term."
False
By Bill Wichert, Erin O'Neill • November 10, 2011
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on October 26, 2011 in a radio interview:
Says "over the last 48 years, every governor at the midterm of his first term or her first term has lost seats in the Legislature, with the exception of Jim McGreevey in 2003."
True
By Erin O'Neill • November 6, 2011
Americans for Prosperity: New Jersey
Americans for Prosperity: New Jersey
stated on October 24, 2011 in a television ad posted on YouTube:
Says state Senate President Stephen "Sweeney gave us the nation's highest income tax rates, driving out jobs."
False
By Erin O'Neill • October 31, 2011
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on October 25, 2011 in a news conference:
Says judges "get better benefits at a lower cost than everybody else in the state."
True
By Erin O'Neill • October 27, 2011
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on October 13, 2011 in a radio interview on WBGO’s “Newark Today”:
Says "if you are shot in the city of Newark, you have over an 80 percent chance that you've been arrested before an average of 10 times."
Mostly True
By Erin O'Neill • October 24, 2011
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on October 19, 2011 in a radio interview:
Says "these ‘Jersey Shore’ folks, they’re from New York."
Half-True
By Erin O'Neill • October 21, 2011
Tom Kean Jr.
Tom Kean Jr.
stated on October 7, 2011 in a news release:
Says Democrats raised taxes over 115 times in the past 10 years, "making New Jersey increasingly unaffordable and chasing jobs to neighboring states."
Half-True
By Erin O'Neill • October 16, 2011
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on October 11, 2011 in a news conference with Mitt Romney:
Says "any attempt to try to compare" the Massachusetts health care law with the federal health care law is "completely, intellectually dishonest. Governor Romney did not raise one tax in doing what he did."
Mostly False
By Bill Wichert, Erin O'Neill • October 13, 2011
New Jersey Democratic State Committee
New Jersey Democratic State Committee
stated on October 1, 2011 in a political mailer:
Says Vince Polistina is "collecting nearly $70,000 in taxpayer-funded salaries -- plus a government pension."
Mostly False
By Erin O'Neill • October 10, 2011
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on October 4, 2011 in a press conference:
Says "New Jersey's unemployment is significantly lower than it was when I got here. And we've created 50,000 new private sector jobs in the last 20 months after having lost 117,000 in the year before I got here."
Half-True
By Bill Wichert, Erin O'Neill • October 4, 2011
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