Statements we say are Half-True
Says "the governor took away a billion dollars of rebates, so in real dollars, our property taxes have gone up 20 percent."
Says private-sector job growth in 2011 "places New Jersey in the top third among all of the states."
"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."
Says New Jersey is "down nearly 200,000 jobs from its pre-recession peak" and with Gov. Chris Christie "New Jersey has trailed the rest of America when it comes to unemployment" for 12 consecutive months.
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."
Says Pennsylvania charges a top income tax rate of 3 percent and Delaware "has no state income tax at all."
Says with "Gov. Chris Christie and bipartisan reformers" New Jersey had "the most job growth in 11 years."
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."
"We haven't had any legislation which took away one gun in the past 20 years from anybody in this country--not one."
"Since Obama took office, a net of 540,000 additional black Americans – Obama’s strongest supporters – have lost their jobs."
Says "Essex County residents suffer the second highest property taxes in the nation."
"After I had resigned or announced my resignation, I abolished -- I prohibited pay-to-play for people that had county or state contracts."
Says "these ‘Jersey Shore’ folks, they’re from New York."
"New Jersey's poverty rate has increased since this governor took office and the number of New Jerseyans without health insurance has risen."
Says Democrats raised taxes over 115 times in the past 10 years, "making New Jersey increasingly unaffordable and chasing jobs to neighboring states."
Says Gov. Chris Christie "cut spending (by) $1 billion" and provided "$850 million in new education funding."
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."
Says his administration balanced "two budgets with over $13 billion in deficits without raising taxes."
Because of Jim Whelan, "the 1990s are the only decade since the 1920s when the population of Atlantic City actually went up."
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