Latest Mostly True Fact-checks in New Jersey Chris Christie stated on January 14, 2014 in his “State of the State” address: "In the entire public school system in Camden last year, only three students graduated college ready." Chris Christie stated on January 14, 2014 in a State of the State address: "Today, our unemployment rate is 7.8 percent. That is the lowest in five years." Chris Christie stated on October 21, 2013 in a gubernatorial campaign TV ad: Says Barbara Buono "voted to raise her own pay 40 percent." Milly Silva stated on October 7, 2013 in a speech to an American Legion in Little Ferry: "Property taxes have increased 20 percent under four years of Chris Christie." Sheila Oliver stated on July 11, 2013 in an interview on NJToday: "Most of the U.S. Senate is comprised of multimillionaires." Stephen Sweeney stated on June 1, 2013 in an interview on "On The Record with Michael Aron" program: "People want the minimum wage, they want marriage equality, they want women’s health care. There’s issues that actually that really do matter, social issues that matter to the people of this state. So I know Barbara would support those issues, I know the governor hasn’t. You’ve seen the actions he’s taken on them." Christine Whitman stated on June 4, 2013 in an interview on The John Gambling radio show: "We haven't had a Republican senator in Washington for ... why, I think Clifford Case was our last Republican senator." Republican Governors Association stated on May 29, 2013 in 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." AFL-CIO of New Jersey stated on April 30, 2013 in a Facebook page post: "New Jersey's governor cut $1.6 billion from public education while handing out $2.1 billion in corporate tax breaks, more than the entire previous decade." One New Jersey stated on May 3, 2013 in A radio ad: "Under Republican Governor Chris Christie, tolls cost more. Train and bus rides cost more. College tuition goes up. But Christie protected a tax cut for millionaires." Chris Christie stated on May 1, 2013 in a television ad: "Four balanced budgets in a row, with no new taxes for anyone. The best job growth in 12 years. Nearly 130,000 new private-sector jobs. Merit pay to reward New Jersey’s best teachers, and the most education funding ever." Chris Christie stated on April 22, 2013 in 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." Leonard Lance stated on April 15, 2013 in a press release: "The Internal Revenue code has ballooned to a 5,600-page, 4 million-word complicated mess that is seven times as long as the Bible with none of the good news." Leonard Lance stated on April 15, 2013 in a news release about tax reform: "The United States currently has the highest corporate tax rate in the world." One New Jersey stated on April 9, 2013 in a TV ad: "Under Republican Chris Christie, New Jersey had the highest increase in unemployment in the country last year. Nearly 1 in 10 jobless. The worst unemployment in the region. Near the bottom in economic growth, yet Christie protected a tax cut for millionaires but vetoed a minimum wage hike." Barbara Buono stated on March 19, 2013 in 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." Chris Christie stated on February 26, 2013 in a budget speech to the New Jersey Legislature: "Since January 2010, New Jersey has added 103,000 new private sector jobs. The last two years -- 2011 and 2012 -- have been the best two years of private sector job growth since 1999." Chris Christie stated on February 26, 2013 in a budget speech to the state Legislature: "Property taxes had increased 70 percent in the previous 10 years." Barbara Buono stated on January 28, 2013 in 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." Jon Bramnick stated on February 8, 2013 in a panel discussion for "On The Record with Michael Aron": Says, "when this governor came to office, he had (an) 11 billion dollar - I call it mismanagement – deficit." John Wisniewski stated on February 2, 2013 in a campaign rally: "We have a governor who's vetoed measures like increasing our minimum wage and restoring the earned income tax cut." Chris Christie stated on January 22, 2013 in a radio interview on New Jersey 101.5’s “Ask the Governor”: Says "on the state level, we spend less today than Jon Corzine spent in fiscal year 2008, five years later." Rodney Frelinghuysen stated on January 15, 2013 in a speech on the House floor: Says "the area damaged by Hurricane Sandy represents roughly 10 percent of our nation's economy." Bill Pascrell stated on December 31, 2012 in an interview on WOR-AM: Says "how much money the government is collecting from people...in terms of the gross domestic product" is "the lowest in 40, 50 years." Cory Booker stated on December 23, 2012 in a roundtable discussion on ABC’s "This Week with George Stephanopoulos": "You see 34 people (are) murdered every single day" by gunfire in America. 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." Barbara Buono stated on November 29, 2012 in 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. Robert Menendez stated on November 14, 2012 in a speech: "For the first time in history, the share of the national popular vote margin is smaller than the Latino vote margin." 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." Big Gamble NJ stated on November 13, 2012 in a website: "In 2011, our state-run lottery funded New Jersey classrooms by over $930 million."
Chris Christie stated on January 14, 2014 in his “State of the State” address: "In the entire public school system in Camden last year, only three students graduated college ready." Chris Christie stated on January 14, 2014 in a State of the State address: "Today, our unemployment rate is 7.8 percent. That is the lowest in five years." Chris Christie stated on October 21, 2013 in a gubernatorial campaign TV ad: Says Barbara Buono "voted to raise her own pay 40 percent." Milly Silva stated on October 7, 2013 in a speech to an American Legion in Little Ferry: "Property taxes have increased 20 percent under four years of Chris Christie." Sheila Oliver stated on July 11, 2013 in an interview on NJToday: "Most of the U.S. Senate is comprised of multimillionaires." Stephen Sweeney stated on June 1, 2013 in an interview on "On The Record with Michael Aron" program: "People want the minimum wage, they want marriage equality, they want women’s health care. There’s issues that actually that really do matter, social issues that matter to the people of this state. So I know Barbara would support those issues, I know the governor hasn’t. You’ve seen the actions he’s taken on them." Christine Whitman stated on June 4, 2013 in an interview on The John Gambling radio show: "We haven't had a Republican senator in Washington for ... why, I think Clifford Case was our last Republican senator." Republican Governors Association stated on May 29, 2013 in 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." AFL-CIO of New Jersey stated on April 30, 2013 in a Facebook page post: "New Jersey's governor cut $1.6 billion from public education while handing out $2.1 billion in corporate tax breaks, more than the entire previous decade." One New Jersey stated on May 3, 2013 in A radio ad: "Under Republican Governor Chris Christie, tolls cost more. Train and bus rides cost more. College tuition goes up. But Christie protected a tax cut for millionaires." Chris Christie stated on May 1, 2013 in a television ad: "Four balanced budgets in a row, with no new taxes for anyone. The best job growth in 12 years. Nearly 130,000 new private-sector jobs. Merit pay to reward New Jersey’s best teachers, and the most education funding ever." Chris Christie stated on April 22, 2013 in 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." Leonard Lance stated on April 15, 2013 in a press release: "The Internal Revenue code has ballooned to a 5,600-page, 4 million-word complicated mess that is seven times as long as the Bible with none of the good news." Leonard Lance stated on April 15, 2013 in a news release about tax reform: "The United States currently has the highest corporate tax rate in the world." One New Jersey stated on April 9, 2013 in a TV ad: "Under Republican Chris Christie, New Jersey had the highest increase in unemployment in the country last year. Nearly 1 in 10 jobless. The worst unemployment in the region. Near the bottom in economic growth, yet Christie protected a tax cut for millionaires but vetoed a minimum wage hike." Barbara Buono stated on March 19, 2013 in 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." Chris Christie stated on February 26, 2013 in a budget speech to the New Jersey Legislature: "Since January 2010, New Jersey has added 103,000 new private sector jobs. The last two years -- 2011 and 2012 -- have been the best two years of private sector job growth since 1999." Chris Christie stated on February 26, 2013 in a budget speech to the state Legislature: "Property taxes had increased 70 percent in the previous 10 years." Barbara Buono stated on January 28, 2013 in 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." Jon Bramnick stated on February 8, 2013 in a panel discussion for "On The Record with Michael Aron": Says, "when this governor came to office, he had (an) 11 billion dollar - I call it mismanagement – deficit." John Wisniewski stated on February 2, 2013 in a campaign rally: "We have a governor who's vetoed measures like increasing our minimum wage and restoring the earned income tax cut." Chris Christie stated on January 22, 2013 in a radio interview on New Jersey 101.5’s “Ask the Governor”: Says "on the state level, we spend less today than Jon Corzine spent in fiscal year 2008, five years later." Rodney Frelinghuysen stated on January 15, 2013 in a speech on the House floor: Says "the area damaged by Hurricane Sandy represents roughly 10 percent of our nation's economy." Bill Pascrell stated on December 31, 2012 in an interview on WOR-AM: Says "how much money the government is collecting from people...in terms of the gross domestic product" is "the lowest in 40, 50 years." Cory Booker stated on December 23, 2012 in a roundtable discussion on ABC’s "This Week with George Stephanopoulos": "You see 34 people (are) murdered every single day" by gunfire in America. 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." Barbara Buono stated on November 29, 2012 in 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. Robert Menendez stated on November 14, 2012 in a speech: "For the first time in history, the share of the national popular vote margin is smaller than the Latino vote margin." 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." Big Gamble NJ stated on November 13, 2012 in a website: "In 2011, our state-run lottery funded New Jersey classrooms by over $930 million."
Chris Christie stated on January 14, 2014 in his “State of the State” address: "In the entire public school system in Camden last year, only three students graduated college ready."
Chris Christie stated on January 14, 2014 in a State of the State address: "Today, our unemployment rate is 7.8 percent. That is the lowest in five years."
Chris Christie stated on October 21, 2013 in a gubernatorial campaign TV ad: Says Barbara Buono "voted to raise her own pay 40 percent."
Milly Silva stated on October 7, 2013 in a speech to an American Legion in Little Ferry: "Property taxes have increased 20 percent under four years of Chris Christie."
Sheila Oliver stated on July 11, 2013 in an interview on NJToday: "Most of the U.S. Senate is comprised of multimillionaires."
Stephen Sweeney stated on June 1, 2013 in an interview on "On The Record with Michael Aron" program: "People want the minimum wage, they want marriage equality, they want women’s health care. There’s issues that actually that really do matter, social issues that matter to the people of this state. So I know Barbara would support those issues, I know the governor hasn’t. You’ve seen the actions he’s taken on them."
Christine Whitman stated on June 4, 2013 in an interview on The John Gambling radio show: "We haven't had a Republican senator in Washington for ... why, I think Clifford Case was our last Republican senator."
Republican Governors Association stated on May 29, 2013 in 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."
AFL-CIO of New Jersey stated on April 30, 2013 in a Facebook page post: "New Jersey's governor cut $1.6 billion from public education while handing out $2.1 billion in corporate tax breaks, more than the entire previous decade."
One New Jersey stated on May 3, 2013 in A radio ad: "Under Republican Governor Chris Christie, tolls cost more. Train and bus rides cost more. College tuition goes up. But Christie protected a tax cut for millionaires."
Chris Christie stated on May 1, 2013 in a television ad: "Four balanced budgets in a row, with no new taxes for anyone. The best job growth in 12 years. Nearly 130,000 new private-sector jobs. Merit pay to reward New Jersey’s best teachers, and the most education funding ever."
Chris Christie stated on April 22, 2013 in 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."
Leonard Lance stated on April 15, 2013 in a press release: "The Internal Revenue code has ballooned to a 5,600-page, 4 million-word complicated mess that is seven times as long as the Bible with none of the good news."
Leonard Lance stated on April 15, 2013 in a news release about tax reform: "The United States currently has the highest corporate tax rate in the world."
One New Jersey stated on April 9, 2013 in a TV ad: "Under Republican Chris Christie, New Jersey had the highest increase in unemployment in the country last year. Nearly 1 in 10 jobless. The worst unemployment in the region. Near the bottom in economic growth, yet Christie protected a tax cut for millionaires but vetoed a minimum wage hike."
Barbara Buono stated on March 19, 2013 in 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."
Chris Christie stated on February 26, 2013 in a budget speech to the New Jersey Legislature: "Since January 2010, New Jersey has added 103,000 new private sector jobs. The last two years -- 2011 and 2012 -- have been the best two years of private sector job growth since 1999."
Chris Christie stated on February 26, 2013 in a budget speech to the state Legislature: "Property taxes had increased 70 percent in the previous 10 years."
Barbara Buono stated on January 28, 2013 in 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."
Jon Bramnick stated on February 8, 2013 in a panel discussion for "On The Record with Michael Aron": Says, "when this governor came to office, he had (an) 11 billion dollar - I call it mismanagement – deficit."
John Wisniewski stated on February 2, 2013 in a campaign rally: "We have a governor who's vetoed measures like increasing our minimum wage and restoring the earned income tax cut."
Chris Christie stated on January 22, 2013 in a radio interview on New Jersey 101.5’s “Ask the Governor”: Says "on the state level, we spend less today than Jon Corzine spent in fiscal year 2008, five years later."
Rodney Frelinghuysen stated on January 15, 2013 in a speech on the House floor: Says "the area damaged by Hurricane Sandy represents roughly 10 percent of our nation's economy."
Bill Pascrell stated on December 31, 2012 in an interview on WOR-AM: Says "how much money the government is collecting from people...in terms of the gross domestic product" is "the lowest in 40, 50 years."
Cory Booker stated on December 23, 2012 in a roundtable discussion on ABC’s "This Week with George Stephanopoulos": "You see 34 people (are) murdered every single day" by gunfire in America.
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."
Barbara Buono stated on November 29, 2012 in 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.
Robert Menendez stated on November 14, 2012 in a speech: "For the first time in history, the share of the national popular vote margin is smaller than the Latino vote margin."
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."
Big Gamble NJ stated on November 13, 2012 in a website: "In 2011, our state-run lottery funded New Jersey classrooms by over $930 million."