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Corzine didn't divert money
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
Similar story, similar concerns
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
Katrina's the most destructive storm
Environment New Jersey
"Hurricane Sandy, the most destructive Atlantic storm ever."
— PolitiFact New Jersey on Sunday, January 6th, 2013
Number based on Jersey damages only
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
Try less than half
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
Rating fell below 50% by January '92
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
Storm destroyed dilapidated section
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
A much closer race
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
When is a vote a vote?
"Bob Menendez actually voted in favor of higher taxes more than 70 times!"
— PolitiFact New Jersey on Sunday, September 30th, 2012
Depends when you start counting
Says there are "fewer jobs in America today than when Barack Obama became president."
— PolitiFact New Jersey on Wednesday, September 26th, 2012
Outdated and misleading
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
A projection from top advisers
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
Not for guns? Nope.
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
GOP bill extends all Bush tax cuts
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
Ignores critical details
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
An uncertain estimate
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
A reduction in future growth, not a cut
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
Democrats never pushed bill
"(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
Wall Street cash gets around
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
Try 20, not 8
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