Monday, April 03, 2006

The gift that keeps on giving

Schmidt's degrees questioned
Staff says she has hours, if not parchment

BY MALIA RULON ENQUIRER WASHINGTON BUREAU

A second elections complaint against Rep. Jean Schmidt [Editor's note--Rep. Schmidt is pictured left] was filed Friday, this time over allegations that she misrepresented her educational background.

According to the complaint, filed with the state elections commission, Schmidt claimed on candidate surveys, previous campaign Web sites and in official Ohio House literature that she earned two bachelor's degrees from the University of Cincinnati, one in political science in 1974 and one in "social studies-secondary education" in 1986. But UC Registrar Douglas Burgess said the only degree on file for Schmidt is a bachelor of arts in political science..........[more at link above]

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

From the full article: "She has an astounding pattern of dishonesty,"

Now that's one for the resume.