This lawmakers bio touted a business degree. It was actually a Sizzler training certificate.

[demmiblue]

Source: WaPo

The information that was posted on the Iowa Senate Republican’s website used to suggest that Mark Chelgren, a state lawmaker, held a business degree.

But that wasn’t exactly the case, according to NBC News and other media outlets, which this week reported that Chelgren instead held a certificate for a training program for the chain restaurant Sizzler.

Still, Chelgren — a Republican who represents the Iowa Senate’s 41st District in the southeastern part of the state — told the Associated Press that he didn’t mean to mislead people.

“I know they’ve changed that, because apparently a degree and a certificate are different,” Chelgren told AP. “And I’m okay with their change, but there was never any intent at all to mislead anyone.”

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“This was a management course he took when he worked for Sizzler, kind of like Hamburger University at McDonald’s,” Ed Failor Jr., chief of staff for the Iowa Senate majority leader, told NBC News. “He got a certificate.”

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“I had to take their school and their classes and they gave me their degree — as they termed it — and I have used that terminology,” he told the newspaper. “I was told, ‘Well, it is probably better terminology to say ‘certificate,’ ” so regardless of however they want to do it, that is the semantics (NBC News is) arguing.”

Chelgren made headlines this month as the author of Senate File 288, proposed legislation that seeks to “require partisan balance” of faculty members who work at higher-ed institutions that are governed by the Iowa Board of Regents, according to its text.

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[bullimiami]

1. Ralphie grew up and moved to Iowa?

[Xipe Totec]

2. Well, there are degrees of lying. On that scale, his is an advanced degree. nt

[dalton99a]

8. Heck, he'll use "Nationally Mentioned by the Washington Post" in his next campaign.

[calimary]

3. Oh Dear God...

Yep, looks and sounds like a real Mensa member to me.

[rsdsharp]

6. Well he claims he majored in astro-physics

geo-physics and mathematics while attending the University of California at Riverside. UC says he went there for 1 year with a major in physics, and he now says he got an AS degree from Riverside Community College. So you know. . .

[calimary]

15. Ahh, moving the goal posts again. Sounds like what he actually earned is an ASS degree.

[Pacifist Patriot]

4. I'm betting it won't take much digging to find that...

most, if not all, of his claims of accomplishment are bogus.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Based on his thinking, my son has about 12 business degrees. He was

a manager for Village Inn, Cracker Barrel, Applebee's, Tony Roma's, Chili's, Fire Mountain, and a few more. Also got certificates for bar tending, supply management, and safety.

Then at age 40, quit, went back to college and got a computer science degree in 2014.

[dalton99a]

7. Looks like a fucking doofus

[Initech]

12. He look as mal-nourished as Steve Bannon and Alex Jones.

[pinboy3niner]

9. The Ph.D. in Sneeze Guards raised suspicions

[tavernier]

10. I visited The Old Jail in St. Augustine, Fl.

They gave me a badge and made me a deputy sheriff. Hey, maybe that's how Comey got into the FBI!!

[pinboy3niner]

11. By that logic we're all airline captains

[rusty fender]

13. "...apparently a degree and a certificate are different."

Are you sure about that, Einstein

[Initech]

14. He must use Krusty brand legal forms!