Statements we say are Half-True

Marie Corfield

Says New Jersey has "the highest unemployment rate in the region" and "stagnant job growth."

— PolitiFact New Jersey on Sunday, January 5th, 2014

David Rible

"This governor has given us continual balanced budgets without raising taxes."

— PolitiFact New Jersey on Sunday, December 29th, 2013

Kim Guadagno

Chris Christie "has not increased the taxes on anyone."

— PolitiFact New Jersey on Sunday, October 13th, 2013

Steve Lonegan

"Violent crime is up since the last year of Sharpe James’ administration. This year it’s higher. … The unemployment rate is almost 15 percent. The high school dropout rate is over 50 percent."

— PolitiFact New Jersey on Thursday, October 10th, 2013

Barbara Buono

Tuition at Rutgers has increased 10 percent since Gov. Chris Christie took office because he "cut funding for higher education."

— PolitiFact New Jersey on Sunday, September 22nd, 2013

Cory Booker

Newark is "now home to one-third of all commercial and multi-family development."

— PolitiFact New Jersey on Sunday, September 15th, 2013

BookerFail

Says Cory Booker "supports late-term and partial-birth abortion and opposes safety regulations."

— PolitiFact New Jersey on Sunday, September 1st, 2013

Steve Lonegan

Says under Mayor Cory Booker, Newark has seen "violent crime up five years in a row, murder up five years in a row."

— PolitiFact New Jersey on Sunday, August 25th, 2013

Rush Holt

"We need to pass a carbon tax to stop climate change. Break up the Wall Street banks. And stop the government spying on innocent Americans. Cory Booker doesn’t support any of these ideas."  

— PolitiFact New Jersey on Sunday, August 11th, 2013

Chris Christie

"Not one tax has been raised since I've been governor."

— PolitiFact New Jersey on Sunday, June 30th, 2013

13th District GOP slate

"New Jersey’s once-broken pension system is now solvent."

— PolitiFact New Jersey on Sunday, June 9th, 2013

Chris Christie

"Jon Corzine, elected governor. Teams up with Barbara Buono. $1.2  billion sales tax increase? Passed. Most spending in state history? Passed. After Buono named budget chair, taxes and fees increase 23 times in just two years. State debt? Up $13.4 billion. Unemployment? Doubled."

— PolitiFact New Jersey on Sunday, June 2nd, 2013

Barbara Buono

"To hear Gov. Christie tell it, everything in New Jersey is going just fine. Well I see another New Jersey with 400,000 unemployed. One of the worst jobless rates in the country. Working and middle class families have seen costs soar, from property taxes to college tuition."

— PolitiFact New Jersey on Sunday, May 26th, 2013

Chris Christie

"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."

— PolitiFact New Jersey on Sunday, May 12th, 2013

Chris Christie

"If anyone should know irresponsible it should be Senator Buono. She’s the one, her budget left us with a $2 billion budget deficit in fiscal 10 that I had to fix. Her mistakes. And for fiscal year 2011 an $11 billion budget deficit. Her mistakes, along with her partner Jon Corzine."

— PolitiFact New Jersey on Sunday, April 28th, 2013

Chris Christie

Said the year before he took office, the state lost 119,000 private-sector jobs, labeling them "Corzine jobs losses of 2009."

— PolitiFact New Jersey on Thursday, March 21st, 2013

Jeff Tittel

"DEP has 2,812 employees, the lowest level since the mid-’80s."

— PolitiFact New Jersey on Sunday, March 17th, 2013

Cory Booker

Says 2012 was the "first year in American history that more minorities are being born than people in the majority."  

— PolitiFact New Jersey on Sunday, February 17th, 2013

Barbara Buono

Says the pension and health benefits reform "eliminated collective bargaining for health benefits."

— PolitiFact New Jersey on Thursday, February 7th, 2013

Chris Christie

Says "in Katrina, they approved $60 billion within 10 days of the storm on a voice vote."

— PolitiFact New Jersey on Wednesday, February 6th, 2013