Speaker of the North Carolina House and U.S. Senate candidate Thom Tillis has been lying about his college degree:
A day after questions surfaced about his alma mater, U.S. Senate candidate Thom Tillis said where he went to college shouldn’t matter and dismissed suggestions he misled voters.
In an interview Friday, the House speaker acknowledged his college diploma says “University of Maryland University System,” not the University of Maryland at College Park – which he repeatedly cited as his alma mater in interviews, a resume and his campaign websites, dating to 2003.
Even as he makes his background a central part of his campaign, the Republican downplayed the discrepancy, saying he has never campaigned on the source of his college diploma.
“I’ve never listed my education degree as why people should vote for me,” he said. “I think the average person is thinking more about what I’ve accomplished in my professional career and what I’ve accomplished in my career as a legislator.”
The campaign corrected the two websites, his LinkedIn profile and a legislative page Thursday, in response to questions raised in the Talking Points Memo political blog. A spokesman said they were written by campaign aides, not Tillis.
This is somewhat akin to Rand Paul’s serial plagiarism. It used to be totally disqualifying for higher office, but that no longer seems to be the case, at least in Republican circles. We keep lowering our standards, and, yes, I blame John McCain for forcing the entire right to spend three months defending the qualifications of Sarah Palin. That experience seems to have broken something permanently that urgently needs repair.
Again with the picking on my Rand? Don’t you know he is the bestest, the only, and the handsomest choice progressives have? And, and, and Hillery looks OLD!
Put serial plagiarism in the balance on one side, and dope, drones, and digital privacy on the other, and it’s not even close.
Apart from a few relatively unimportant gonadal issues, who else is there besides Rand Paul for voters with this country’s interest at heart?
Practically anyone else who’s not a conservative wingnut teatard (or one that’s dressed in libertarian clothing).
Rand Paul should lead by example and Go Galt.
That’ll show the ungrateful american public, you betcha.
But it’s hard to grift from the sidelines. You have to get in there and mix it up with the suckers.
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If you lie about college in the real world, you could easily lose your job.
Of course, in today’s economy, if you admit to actually going to college, you won’t get a job – because you’ll be considered “over-qualified.”
Hmm. I wonder if Tillis thinks that Obama should be forced to “unseal” his college records before he votes to impeach.
In right-wing world, just as some people are “more equal” than others, some statements are “more true ” than others. It’s not all black and white, after all there are umm…at least fifty shades of grey. Right??
He could have bragged that his college was so tough that only 4% of students graduate — and he is in that 4%.
This “college” should be shut down. The only way to explain a 4% graduation rate for this mickey-mouse school is that 96% of its students don’t come up with enough money to buy the diploma.
it much more likely that the reason of the low graduation rate is that it’s primarily a school for active military and spouses and they would usually take longer altogether to finish their degree which would fall outside of the cohort window or once they were off active duty they transferred to a local school nearby where they ended up living
statistics like that can be misleading
Thom Tillis isn’t one of those noble defenders of our country, though; he was working at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, and the degree only took him a year to get (you get course credit for work experience); unlike the military students he had plenty of money. The real reason for the low graduation rate is that these places are essentially stealing money from active-duty military and vets.
I disagree, just because this idiot went there doesn’t mean they’re not providing a good service to military students (besides these students don’t get GI Bill since they’re still active military).
Let’s not throw every for profit school together and instead go after the bad actors that are doing wrong by their students.
There are bad actors in every segment of Higher Education, all of them should be held to the same standards.
I should have checked more before posting. Cool that they offer classes in Afghanistan. There are some very serious allegations going around though and even in their own account the terrible graduation rates seem to be related to overreliance on online courses, which is my particular beef.
how else are they going to deliver courses to people deployed overseas?
Online courses aren’t any better or worse than onsite courses, as long as they are delivered correctly. I would even go as far as saying that online courses are harder, especially at the schools that want to deliver strong content and quality service to students
Nobody would say they’re too easy. IMO the problem is not with content at all but with the social setup, which doesn’t provide adequate interaction with professors and among students. In any case it’s well known that there’s a very serious problem leading to catastrophic failure and attrition rates. If it’s too hard for UMUC to deliver the service then they shouldn’t be taking people’s money.
(Although the allegations were aired in the Washington Post and therefore Kaplan, a notoriously abusive competitor in this market.)
No — statistics like that aren’t misleading.
well that certainly convinced me
Anyone looking into the Other colleges Tullis claims to have attended? He was thirteen years old when Chattanooga State Technical Institute became Chattanooga State Community College. Not that I would take his word that he attended either of those two colleges or Georgia State University.
Not impossible but somewhat questionable that he could have become a partner at PriceWaterhouseCoopers (1998 merger of PW and CL) without a sheepskin. (In the past: “The 1991 survey found that 100% of the partners in both audit and tax were CPAs. Over time, most of the big firms have relaxed the CPA requirement, but the renewed focus on the traditional lines of public accounting service may once more make the CPA required for advancement.”)
I’m not prepared to believe that Tillis actually exists, until he produces his ORIGINAL birth certificate, LONG form, VAULT COPY…
…that is, if the fonts check out.
In an interview Friday, the House speaker acknowledged his college diploma says “University of Maryland University System,” not the University of Maryland at College Park – which he repeatedly cited as his alma mater in interviews, a resume and his campaign websites, dating to 2003.
You know what this is, Boo? It’s trying to make it look like you went to PSU(State College) when you actually went to PSU-Great Valley.
And here I thought it was called ‘lying’.
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It is lying. I’m just giving any other PA resident an example of what Tillis was trying to do.
WHAT IF the candidate were Black?
Uh huh
Uh huh
It’s a game of reverse limbo, lower the bar so anyone can get over it
From Raw Story:
“One of the four gubernatorial candidates introduced to at the California Republican state party’s semi-annual convention last week spent a decade in prison for convictions for voluntary manslaughter and assault with intent to commit rape, according to the LA Times.”
Just a youthful indiscretion (or two ) I’m sure.