Little rates a “Pants on Fire”
6th District congressional candidate Anna Little’s claim that she “made history” and “came the closest in 24 years to defeating Frank Pallone” in 2010 is a fib, according to research compiled by The Star Ledger’s PolitFactNewJersey.
Little made the claim in an interview with NJTV’s Mike Schneider on August 2.
Watch Congressional Candidate Little Believes in Grassroots Effort on PBS. See more from NJToday.
PolitFactNewJersey found that while Little’s margin of defeat was smaller than most who have taken on Pallone, the 2010 election was not Pallone’s closest and that Little’s timing was wrong.
| Year | Republican challenger | Pallone’s margin of victory |
| 2010 | Anna Little | 16,520 |
| 2008 | Robert McLeod | 86,608 |
| 2006 | Leigh-Ann Bellew | 55,076 |
| 2004 | Sylvester Fernandez | 83,039 |
| 2002 | Ric Medrow | 48,900 |
| 2000 | Brian Kennedy | 79,244 |
| 1998 | Michael Ferguson | 22,922 |
| 1996 | Steven Corodemus | 51,233 |
| 1994 | Mike Herson | 33,635 |
| 1992 | Joseph Kyrillos | 17,317 |
| 1990 | Paul Kapalko | 4,170 |
| 1988 | Joseph Azzolina | 9,545 |
More from my site
Cullari: Little Blew It Against Pallone
Little: Highlands Voters Unsophisticated
Anna Little’s Campaign Falls to Respond to FEC Inquiry
Little reports $52K in cash, $96K in debt
CD-6 Primary: It will all come down to turnout
Doesn’t this sound familiar?
Bennett and Doria go On The Record with Michael Aron : Red meat for New Jersey political junkies and history buffs- Cullari Wins The Monmouth GOP Endorsement In NJ CD-6
What is Anna Little running for?
LITTLE CAMP: THE FINAL ARGUMENT
Ya know what? We need to leave this alone: “It is what it is.” Anna Little is our candidate for Congress—why peck away at her at this point? Gains us nothing.
Besides, no harm in envisioning a MASSIVE turnout of disgruntled Taxpayers this fall who happily click click click down the whole Party line, sweeping ALL our guys, including Anna Little, into office.
Anna or Pallone — which would you prefer?
Just seems totally nonproductive at this juncture—-and diverts attention from the REAL job at hand: getting our guys elected.
Lois… how about the fact that even disgruntled voters want their candidates NOT to LIE! Facts are stubborn things. If Anna wants to pontificate on her vision and such that’s fine but when she makes statements as facts that are easily disproved it does her and the Party no good. Its not hard to be truthful.
well, you have to give her props for keeping it under 17,000 in that district, after so many years of entrenched Palloney…am afraid this new district makes it worse, but again, leave her alone: we do not need fellow R’s who can’t get over her primary successes to keep twisting the knife.. voters really don’t care about past vote totals, only political junkies do..:folks are losing homes and jobs on a daily basis.. ANY Rep. has to be given a shot at improving our lot, this go-round!
Two things: I remember Sylvester Fernandez and he actually has some decent ideas, too bad he lost to Frankie Boy. Second, what ever happened to Ric Medrow?
Good interview.
In it’s practical sense “lie” means deceit – intentional whitewash.
There was no deceit here. Just an arithmetic error. The distance between 1992 and 2012 is 20. Based on your research, she did the best in twenty years, not twenty four years. Her lack of elementary artimetic is nitpicking in this instance.
You should always look at a glass as half full, not half empty.
Art…I remember Sen. Kennedy very well but not many of the others who have run in recent years. Do you know if any of the challangers in 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008 had held elective office of any kind prior to challanging Rep Pallone?
Hey Lois while you are a tool of the Republican Party i am happy that the blogger of this website is fair in his criticism of Republicans AND Democrats. Maybe the reason he is not covering up lies of Republicans is the reason more Democrats are now reading his blog
Bob, To my knowledge, the 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008 candidates did not hold elected office prior to challenging Pallone.
Of those four, I believe only Bob McLeod (2008) has held elective office since. He is the mayor of Keyport.
Art…thanks.
It’s interesting that from 1988 to 2000, there were several state legislatures (Azzolina, Kyrillos, Corodemus and Kennedy) that challanged Rep Pallone (along with a future Congressman who later won in another district.) It would be interesting to know if they received significant outside $$$ help at the time and if at some point the possibility of help was cut off for more recent candidates challanging Pallone if future races were not deemed as winable. Someone posted (Justified Right??) about that the other day.
Gota love how the “politifact” guys didn’t fact check anything meaningful here, Little defiantly misspoke, a GAHF, not a LIE. I have seen her presentation with the same info, there she got it correct “20 years”. This was a great interview, thanks for posting it here Art. I guess the old adage is true… any coverage is better than no coverage at all.
The thing that was most disturbing about the interview was not the distortion of the truth, what else would you call it?
What was most disturbing is the fast, personable, without even an eyeblink white lie way she said it. This is typical of little. She comes off great in interviews and ads until you do a little research, or know that shes not telling it like it is.
People that say Republicans have to support her just because shes a registered Republican dont get it. When given a choice between a crap sandwhich and Pallone, they want you to take big bite of the Sandwhich! Thinking people dont work this way!
@WhatsEvenMoreDisturbing
Me thinks you just don’t like her personally from your comment. I know it was a mistake, they know it was a mistake. not a LIE, no sense in lying about facts, So Obama was lying when he said there were 52 states… No, just a brain fart, happens we are all human. I agree was a great interview. GO ANNA !!!