Barbara Buono

Barbara Buono is a Democratic state senator representing part of Middlesex County. Buono previously served in the State Assembly from 1994 to 2001.

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Barbara Buono
stated on August 23, 2013 a speech to students at the Rutgers New Brunswick campus:

Tuition at Rutgers has increased 10 percent since Gov. Chris Christie took office because he "cut funding for higher education."

By Caryn Shinske • September 22, 2013

Barbara Buono
stated on July 9, 2013 an online gubernatorial campaign ad:

"Guess what, governor? There’s no fried butter in Newark. Just 13 percent unemployment."

By Caryn Shinske • July 14, 2013

Barbara Buono
stated on June 26, 2013 a state Senate budget hearing:

Says spending in the fiscal 2009 budget was lower than spending in the fiscal 2014 budget

By Caryn Shinske • July 7, 2013

Barbara Buono
stated on May 22, 2013 a gubernatorial campaign television ad:

"To hear Gov. Christie tell it, everything in New Jersey is going just fine. Well I see another New Jersey with 400,000 unemployed. One of the worst jobless rates in the country. Working and middle class families have seen costs soar, from property taxes to college tuition."

By Caryn Shinske • May 26, 2013

Barbara Buono
stated on March 19, 2013 a response to the release of employment data by the state Labor Department:

"While the United States has seen its unemployment rate steadily decline, New Jersey's remains nearly two percent higher than the national average and more than a point higher than Connecticut and New York."

By Caryn Shinske • March 28, 2013

Barbara Buono
stated on March 5, 2013 an interview on MSNBC's "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donell":

"Governor Christie, his idea of jumpstarting the economy is to propose a trickle-down income tax cut last year and in his budget address this year, he stated his support for it again."

By Caryn Shinske • March 10, 2013

Barbara Buono
stated on January 28, 2013 an interview on NJToday:

"New Jersey has lost over half of our pharmaceutical jobs to states you know, not low-tax states like in the South, but high-tax states like New York."

By Caryn Shinske • February 24, 2013

Barbara Buono
stated on January 29, 2013 an interview on Fox 5’s Good Day New York:

Says the pension and health benefits reform "eliminated collective bargaining for health benefits."

By Bill Wichert • February 7, 2013

Barbara Buono
stated on January 13, 2013 an interview on bluejersey.com:

Says Chris Christie’s plan "to kick-start our economy" is to propose an "income tax cut that disproportionately benefits the wealthy, and...he's still proposing it."

By Bill Wichert • January 24, 2013

Barbara Buono
stated on December 11, 2012 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."

By Caryn Shinske • December 20, 2012

Barbara Buono
stated on November 29, 2012 a speech on the Senate floor:

Says "the number of Americans living at or below the poverty line is at its highest level since" 1964.

By Bill Wichert • December 3, 2012

Barbara Buono
stated on October 1, 2012 an interview on NJToday:

Says Chris Christie created "this new category where you could get laid off and just be totally denied unemployment benefits forever."

By Bill Wichert • October 11, 2012

Barbara Buono
stated on August 27, 2012 an op-ed in Politico:

Says Gov. Chris Christie has embarked on a tour to "demand that New Jersey’s Democratic legislature approve an immediate tax cut that would disproportionately benefit the wealthiest."

By Erin O'Neill • September 2, 2012

Barbara Buono
stated on May 7, 2012 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."

By Erin O'Neill • May 13, 2012

Barbara Buono
stated on April 30, 2012 a news release:

"Wisconsin lost more jobs over the past 12 months than any other state."

By Bill Wichert • May 2, 2012

Barbara Buono
stated on January 25, 2012 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."

By Bill Wichert • February 10, 2012

Latest Fact-Checks About Barbara Buono

Chris Christie
stated on October 21, 2013 a gubernatorial campaign TV ad:

Says Barbara Buono "voted to raise her own pay 40 percent."

By Caryn Shinske • October 27, 2013

Chris Christie
stated on June 26, 2013 an interview on the "Ask The Governor" monthly radio call-in program:

"Not one tax has been raised since I've been governor."

By Caryn Shinske • June 30, 2013

Republican Governors Association
stated on May 29, 2013 a gubernatorial campaign TV ad:

"Barbara Buono by the numbers: As a Trenton politician, she voted to raise taxes 154 times. Under her, property taxes up 70 percent. Backed a 16 percent sales tax increase. Utilities, nursing homes, cell phones, parking lots, lottery wins, gyms – She taxed them all. Architect of Corzine’s budget, she drove New Jersey $2 billion into debt. Barbara Buono by the numbers: taking New Jersey backwards."

By Caryn Shinske • June 6, 2013

Chris Christie
stated on May 22, 2013 A gubernatorial campaign television ad:

"Jon Corzine, elected governor. Teams up with Barbara Buono. $1.2 billion sales tax increase? Passed. Most spending in state history? Passed. After Buono named budget chair, taxes and fees increase 23 times in just two years. State debt? Up $13.4 billion. Unemployment? Doubled."

By Caryn Shinske • June 2, 2013

Chris Christie
stated on May 13, 2013 a gubernatorial campaign television ad:

"Buono voted 154 times to raise our taxes -- like the sales tax, the income tax, health care taxes, even small business taxes."

By Caryn Shinske • May 19, 2013

Chris Christie
stated on April 22, 2013 an interview on NJ101.5 FM's "Ask the Governor" program:

"We’re spending less money today, in upcoming fiscal year 2014 than the Corzine-Buono budget spent in fiscal year 2008."

By Caryn Shinske • May 5, 2013

Chris Christie
stated on April 22, 2013 a statement on NJ101.5 FM's "Ask the Governor" program:

"If anyone should know irresponsible it should be Senator Buono. She’s the one, her budget left us with a $2 billion budget deficit in fiscal 10 that I had to fix. Her mistakes. And for fiscal year 2011 an $11 billion budget deficit. Her mistakes, along with her partner Jon Corzine."

By Caryn Shinske • April 28, 2013