Statements we say are False

Says Jon Runyan voted to "end programs to aid homeless veterans."

Says "as we sit right now, Medicare, if we do nothing, will be gone in eight years, if we do nothing to it."

"In my years in the State Legislature, I have never voted for a tax increase."

Says George Norcross said the "TAKEOVER OF RUTGER$ CAMDEN WILL COST NEW JER$EY BILLION$."

Says "$57,000 is the mean [income] in our state" for a family.

Says "Cape May, Cumberland, Salem and part of Atlantic counties are all south of the Mason-Dixon line."

Says New Jersey Devils managing partner Jeff Vanderbeek "took us into arbitration."

"And the #jerseycomeback keeps rolling! Thanks to @GovChristie NJ now has lowest corruption risk of any state."

Says "new estimates from the Congressional Budget Office conclude the final price-tag" for the health care law "will exceed $2 trillion — more than double what was initially reported."

Says Congressman Bill Pascrell "voted to remove the public option from the Affordable Health Care Act."

"Ninety percent of the people who work in this country work for companies under 100 people, maybe even less than that."

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."

Says "we had to cut 13 billion dollars in state spending over two years."

"We've seen in this last year tremendous things happening, including our unemployment rate come down 2 percentage points."

Says "sixty-two percent of small businesses over the last five years went under because they couldn't pay their health care bills."

Says "67 percent of marriages now wind up in divorce."

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

"Here's something that people never talk about with coach Schiano: Rutgers had the best graduation rate of any Division I football program in America."

"Our jobless rate, our unemployment rate, is the lowest of all of the big cities in New Jersey."

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."

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