Latest Fact-Checks By Bill Wichert

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Steve Rothman
stated on February 8, 2012 in a speech on the House floor:

"The Republicans just voted last year to end Medicare."

False

By Bill Wichert • February 19, 2012

John Wisniewski
stated on February 7, 2012 in a radio interview:

"Many of the top officials at the Port Authority earn more money than the governors of the states that have jurisdiction over them."

True

By Bill Wichert • February 15, 2012

Joseph Kyrillos
stated on February 1, 2012 in a speech at his campaign kickoff:

"Senator Menendez said he would spend our money wisely. But our annual national deficit climbed from $250 billion a year to $1.6 trillion on his watch."

Half-True

By Bill Wichert • February 13, 2012

Barbara Buono
stated on January 25, 2012 in a column:

Says "as of November, we were ranked 45th in the nation in terms of job creation, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics."

Mostly False

By Bill Wichert • February 10, 2012

Paul Sarlo
stated on January 30, 2012 in opening remarks at a Senate committee hearing:

Says Gov. Chris Christie’s proposal to reduce state income taxes "would be the second tax cut for the rich by the governor in two years."

Half-True

By Bill Wichert • February 5, 2012

Jim Whelan
stated on January 9, 2012 in a speech on the state Senate floor:

"United States of America is twenty-sixth in school performance in the world."

Mostly True

By Bill Wichert • February 3, 2012

Joe Pennacchio
stated on January 30, 2012 in a news release:

Says Pennsylvania charges a top income tax rate of 3 percent and Delaware "has no state income tax at all."

Half-True

By Bill Wichert • February 2, 2012

Richard Codey
stated on January 16, 2012 in a radio interview:

"And by the way, when I was governor, I did make the payment into the pension fund."

Mostly True

By Bill Wichert • January 23, 2012

Chris Christie
stated on January 17, 2012 in a video :

Says "we’ve accomplished balancing two budgets without raising taxes. We’ve now created 60,000 new private-sector jobs. We’ve made government smaller."

Half-True

By Bill Wichert, Erin O'Neill • January 17, 2012

David Sciarra
stated on January 5, 2012 in testimony before the state Assembly Budget Committee:

Says over the last two years, New Jersey Schools Development Authority employees "have not started or completed one single school project, and I’m not talking about major school renovation. I’m talking about replacing boilers, roofs."

False

By Bill Wichert • January 16, 2012

Reed Gusciora
stated on January 9, 2012 in a news release:

"Opinion polls show that the majority of Americans, and the majority of New Jerseyans, favor marriage equality for same sex couples."

Mostly True

By Bill Wichert • January 12, 2012

Jon Huntsman
stated on January 8, 2012 in an NBC-Facebook debate in Concord, N.H.:

Says the Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction proposal went from President Barack Obama's desk to "the garbage can."

False

By Becky Bowers, Bill Wichert, Erin O'Neill, Louis Jacobson • January 8, 2012

Anna Little
stated on December 29, 2011 in a message on her campaign website:

"Bob Menendez just voted to increase the government's debt ceiling to $1.9 TRILLION! In his 19 years in Congress, Menendez has helped overspend America over $15 TRILLION into debt."

Mostly False

By Bill Wichert • January 8, 2012

Declan O'Scanlon
stated on December 16, 2011 in an opinion piece in the Star-Ledger:

"Taxpayers earning $1 million pay an effective tax rate that is about four times what taxpayers earning $100,000 pay."

True

By Bill Wichert • January 4, 2012

Chris Christie
stated on December 23, 2011 in a radio interview:

"By the way, I'm not raising tolls 50 percent....Jon Corzine did."

True

By Bill Wichert • January 3, 2012

Chris Christie
stated on December 20, 2011 in an interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe:

"And, as of today, New Jersey state government has less employees than when Christie Whitman left office in 2001."

True

By Bill Wichert • December 29, 2011

Chain email
stated on December 14, 2011 in a chain e-mail:

"Ever wonder why no one ever came forward from Obama's past, saying they knew him, attended school with him, was his friend, etc.? Not one person has ever come forward from his past."

Pants on Fire!

By Bill Wichert • December 26, 2011

Michael Doherty
stated on December 9, 2011 in a news release:

"Following the catastrophic, cascading collapse of major investment banks on Wall Street in 2007.....Nobody was prosecuted, no hearings were held and no reforms were implemented."

False

By Bill Wichert • December 19, 2011

Julia Sass Rubin
stated on December 3, 2011 in an interview on News 12 New Jersey’s Power & Politics show:

"(The Opportunity Scholarship Act) would be funded directly from public school budgets. So it would absolutely take money out of the public school system to transfer to private and religious schools."

Mostly True

By Bill Wichert • December 15, 2011

Jay Webber
stated on November 28, 2011 in an NJToday interview:

Says "our unemployment insurance trust fund is broke. We're over a billion dollars in debt to the federal government."

True

By Bill Wichert • December 11, 2011

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