Statements we say are Mostly False

Chris Christie

"The people who were running the budget, in the Corzine years, decided to steal from the unemployment trust fund. … As did other Governors before. We simply don’t do that, haven’t done it, and won’t permit it."

— PolitiFact New Jersey on Thursday, April 11th, 2013

Barbara Buono

"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."

— PolitiFact New Jersey on Sunday, March 10th, 2013

Environment New Jersey

"Hurricane Sandy, the most destructive Atlantic storm ever."

— PolitiFact New Jersey on Sunday, January 6th, 2013

Steve Lonegan

"The price tag amounted to nearly $4,200 for every man, woman and child in the state."

— PolitiFact New Jersey on Sunday, December 23rd, 2012

Robert Singer

"More than 50 percent of those people getting minimum wage in this state are high school students."

— PolitiFact New Jersey on Thursday, December 13th, 2012

John Wisniewski

Says in January 1992, George H. W. Bush "probably had a 90 percent or even higher approval rating after the first Gulf War."

— PolitiFact New Jersey on Sunday, December 2nd, 2012

Frank Lautenberg

Says because of Hurricane Sandy in Atlantic City "much of that boardwalk no longer exists -- just the pillars where the boardwalk used to be."  

— PolitiFact New Jersey on Sunday, November 25th, 2012

Joseph Kyrillos

Says Chris Christie was "behind" in the polls against Jon Corzine during the 2009 governor's race.

— PolitiFact New Jersey on Wednesday, October 24th, 2012

Joseph Kyrillos

"Bob Menendez actually voted in favor of higher taxes more than 70 times!"

— PolitiFact New Jersey on Sunday, September 30th, 2012

Chris Christie

Says there are "fewer jobs in America today than when Barack Obama became president."

— PolitiFact New Jersey on Wednesday, September 26th, 2012

Shelley Adler

Says Congressman Jon Runyan has a "plan to raise Medicare costs $6,400 a year."

— PolitiFact New Jersey on Sunday, September 16th, 2012

Jon Bramnick

"The president promised that if he spent money on a stimulus program that unemployment would go to 5.7 percent or 6 percent. Those were his words."

— PolitiFact New Jersey on Thursday, September 13th, 2012

Upendra Chivukula

"One of the key things about Leonard Lance is that in 2008, when you look at [the] Project Vote Smart website, he was not for guns. Now he has gone too far to the right, saying that you can carry concealed weapons in national parks."

— PolitiFact New Jersey on Thursday, August 9th, 2012

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee

Says Congressman Jon Runyan does not want to cut taxes for the middle class, but only for millionaires.

— PolitiFact New Jersey on Sunday, August 5th, 2012

Scott Garrett

"The president’s health care law raids Medicare by more than $500 billion and creates a Medicare rationing board — a group of 15 unelected bureaucrats — to slow the growth of Medicare spending."

— PolitiFact New Jersey on Friday, August 3rd, 2012

Robert Menendez

Says as a result of the national health care reform, "the Congressional Budget Office says we save $250 million over the first 10 years. Over the next 10 years, we save $1.2 trillion in savings in terms of health care."

— PolitiFact New Jersey on Wednesday, July 11th, 2012

Jon Runyan

Says there are "$500 billion in Medicare cuts required to pay for this flawed [health care law]."

— PolitiFact New Jersey on Friday, June 29th, 2012

Chris Christie

"(Assembly Democrats) wanted to raise the gas tax by $2.4 billion. We said no to that....They’re down on the ground. They’re sweating. They’re twitching. It’s ugly, ‘cause I keep saying no."

— PolitiFact New Jersey on Thursday, June 21st, 2012

Joseph Kyrillos

Says Robert Menendez is "the king of raising money from Wall Street, over a million dollars, one of the leaders in the United States Senate. I haven’t raised any Wall Street money at all."

— PolitiFact New Jersey on Thursday, June 14th, 2012

Barbara Buono

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."

— PolitiFact New Jersey on Sunday, May 13th, 2012