Spence campaign defends academic record
Spence campaign defends academic record
By Eli Yokley– January 11, 2012
Posted in: GOV 2012
— St. Louis businessman Dave Spence, R., has made his economic expertise the foundation of his campaign for governor. Spence stresses his experience leading Alpha Packaging in his stump speech, and his campaign biography touts a “degree in Economics” from the University of Missouri-Columbia.
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The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported on Tuesday that Spence’s degree is in home economics, not economics. According to the report, Spence majored in consumer economics, and earned a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Home Economics in 1981.
“I was not the greatest student in the world,” Spence told the paper. He explained his grades did not meet the requirements to enter Mizzou’s business school, so he chose an alternative route that allowed him to graduate on time.
Spence acknowledged to the paper that the description on the campaign website may be “misleading,” but the campaign has not changed it. Instead, the campaign accused Democrats of using “sad political smear tactics” to attack Spence.
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