Deplorable lawmaker's bio touted a business degree. It's actually a Sizzler training certificate.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Shall we all laugh at this Deplorable clown at once:

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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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/03/02/this-lawmakers-bio-touted-a-business-degree-it-was-actually-a-sizzler-training-certificate/?tid=pm_pop&utm_term=.ddca533c7d62#comments

[dalton99a]

1. This cretin wants to execute illegal immigrants

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Chelgren

In 2015, he provoked controversy when he suggested "if an undocumented person who committed a felony is deported and then tries to return to the U.S., he or she should be subject to capital punishment."

[erpowers]

6. How Do These People Get Elected

What you mentioned in your post and what Chelgren said in the original post makes me wonder how people like him get elected. How do you say that illegal immigrants should be "subject to capital punishment" and still get elected? How does someone who seems to not know the difference between a degree and a certificate get elected? Maybe he was just joking about the degree/certificate issue, but it is still crazy for him to even pretend to not know the difference between a degree and a certificate.

[dalton99a]

8. And he beat the incumbent Democrat by 10 votes.

This guy is a shameless crook and an opportunist. I think he knew exactly what he was doing as far as a corporate training certificate vs. a real university degree.

[SFnomad]

2. The dog ate my homework would be more believeable n/t

[Initech]

3. Does he use Krusty brand legal forms?

[BSdetect]

4. Huh, "apparently a degree and a certificate are different"

Not so apparent apparently?

The fine lines between lying, ignorance and sheer stoopidity is obvious here.

[KittyWampus]

5. You try to massage your resume into looking it's best... but that's really stretching it.

[DonaldsRump]

7. "Lock Him Up"!

That's going to be my standard DU response to stuff like this.

[world wide wally]

9. LOL

I couldn't help but t laugh at the poor kid in this photograph. Forever famous for not behaving in class.
Then again, he is probably a Republican congressman now with that kind of behavior. A few more spitballs and he could have been President.