Joe Kyrillos, Chris Christie claims rate False on Truth-O-Meter

By Caryn Shinske
Published on Tuesday, July 17th, 2012 at 7:30 a.m.

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“New Jersey today has fewer employees in state government than it had when Christie Whitman left office in January of 2001, and I think that’s good. And we did it without any layoffs. We did it through attrition.”

Chris Christie, Monday, July 9th, 2012.

Ruling: False | Details

“We are not producing jobs. We created 80,000 jobs last month. We don’t talk about the jobs that we lost. The net of it all is that we lost jobs.”

Joseph Kyrillos, Wednesday, July 11th, 2012.

Ruling: False | Details

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New Jersey Republican claims about jobs landed in the Truth-O-Meter basement this weekend.

In case you missed it, the Truth-O-Meter handed down False rulings Sunday and Monday to claims from U.S. Senate candidate Joe Kyrillos and Gov. Chris Christie.

Kyrillos claim

Kyrillos claimed in a July 11 interview on WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show that even though the nation created 80,000 jobs in June, the country’s net job growth has been a loss. Kyrillos didn’t specify a timeframe during his interview, but his campaign spokesperson later told PolitiFact New Jersey that Kyrillos was referring to job losses since December 2007 – the start

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