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Raymond Bateman stated on November 23, 2012 in a column:

Says that in the 1985 election former Gov. Tom Kean had "the largest winning margin for a gubernatorial candidate in Jersey history."

By Erin O'Neill• November 29, 2012

Chris Christie stated on January 08, 2013 in a speech:

"A far different picture from the prior eight years, which saw 115 increases in taxes and fees."

By Caryn Shinske• January 10, 2013

Tom Kean Jr. stated on October 17, 2012 in an interview with reporters at William Paterson University:

"New Jersey is the only state in the union that spent less on higher education than it did at the beginning of the decade."

By Erin O'Neill• October 28, 2012

Christine Whitman stated on June 04, 2013 in an interview on The John Gambling radio show:

"We haven't had a Republican senator in Washington for ... why, I think Clifford Case was our last Republican senator."

By Caryn Shinske• June 13, 2013

Tom Kean Jr. stated on October 07, 2011 in a news release:

Says Democrats raised taxes over 115 times in the past 10 years, "making New Jersey increasingly unaffordable and chasing jobs to neighboring states."

By Erin O'Neill• October 16, 2011

Chris Christie stated on August 28, 2012 in a speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa:

Says "taxes were raised 115 times in the eight years before I became governor" and those increases were part of a "path that led to wealth and jobs and people leaving our state."

By Bill Wichert• August 29, 2012

Tom Kean Jr. stated on May 24, 2011 in a press release:

"The state’s tax burden has, according to census figures released today, cost our state another 190,000 residents in 2009."

By Erin O'Neill• June 27, 2011

Joseph Kyrillos stated on April 17, 2012 in a blog post on his campaign website:

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

By Bill Wichert• April 29, 2012

Tom Kean stated on August 30, 2011 in a radio interview on WNYC:

Says the U.S. Department of Homeland Security must report to about 100 congressional committees and subcommittees.

By Bill Wichert• September 8, 2011

Chris Christie stated on May 04, 2012 in a speech at a Cato Institute event:

"We are coming up on our 40th anniversary of electing a Republican to the United States Senate. 1972 was the last time New Jersey sent a Republican to the United States Senate."

By Erin O'Neill• May 9, 2012

Chris Christie stated on May 13, 2013 in a gubernatorial campaign television ad:

"Buono voted 154 times to raise our taxes -- like the sales tax, the income tax, health care taxes, even small business taxes."

By Caryn Shinske• May 19, 2013

Jack Keane stated on February 01, 2015 in comments on "Fox News Sunday":

"Al-Qaida has grown fourfold in five years."

By Lauren Carroll• February 1, 2015

Republican Party of Texas stated on June 04, 2010 in an e-mail:

"Bill White has a long history of trying to limit or even disenfranchise military voters."

By Ciara O'Rourke• June 14, 2010

Tom Kean stated on August 01, 2011 in a question-and-answer column in The Star-Ledger:

"I built the last nuclear plant — not only in the state, but in the country."

By Erin O'Neill• August 9, 2011

Facebook posts stated on November 04, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Detroit has “2,503 dead people registered” including “one voter born in 1823.”

By Amy Sherman• November 5, 2020

John Wisniewski stated on November 07, 2011 in a memo on behalf of the New Jersey Democratic State Committee:

"Governor Christie also remains the only Governor since World War II, among both Democrats and Republicans, who failed to have his party win control of at least one legislative body over the course of his term."

By Erin O'Neill, Bill Wichert• November 10, 2011

David Rible stated on November 30, 2013 in an interview on NJTV's 'On the Record' with Michael Aron program:

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

By Caryn Shinske• December 29, 2013

Carly Fiorina stated on December 15, 2015 in a GOP debate on CNN:

"One of the things I would immediately do … is bring back the warrior class -- Petraeus, McChrystal, Mattis, Keane, Flynn. ... Every one was retired early because they told President Obama things that he didn’t want to hear."

By Jon Greenberg• December 16, 2015

Julia Sass Rubin stated on December 03, 2011 in an interview on News 12 New Jersey’s Power & Politics show:

"(The Opportunity Scholarship Act) would be funded directly from public school budgets. So it would absolutely take money out of the public school system to transfer to private and religious schools."

By Bill Wichert• December 15, 2011

Bernie Sanders stated on December 17, 2019 in a video posted on his presidential campaign’s social media accounts.:

"I am very proud that I am the only candidate in the Democratic primary to have voted against all of Trump's defense budgets."

By Kit Norton• December 20, 2019

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