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A diploma mill grad representing a district whose major presence is a university…

… would definitely be weird and embarrassing, but this is America, where anything is possible.

On the other hand, this is also the land of evil elites who might try to deny bogus degree-holders the right to represent legitimate universities in state politics…

Carol Ammons is running in Illinois to be the Democratic nominee for the House of Representatives in the 103rd District, home of the University of Illinois. Ammons is quite sure all this talk about her Walsingham University degree being bogus amounts to “the elites” smearing her for being a woman of the people, but so far, try as he might, Erik Jakobsson has not been able to find any evidence that Walsingham is anything other than a scam.

“When I thought about the relationship between what she had done and the possibility that she would represent the district that has Parkland College and the University of Illinois in it, that seemed to me to transcend politics as usual,” he said.

… “One of the reasons I feel so strongly about this is because I’ve spent my whole career at the university, and diploma mills totally undercut and undermine and devalue what real institutions of higher education do, like Parkland and the University of Illinois. We just can’t have someone in Springfield who doesn’t value that.”

Margaret Soltan, February 4, 2014 2:57PM
Posted in: diploma mill

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2 Responses to “A diploma mill grad representing a district whose major presence is a university…”

  1. wayward Says:

    See http://bigdebshouse.wordpress.com/2014/01/31/friday-open-thread-rosenberg-or-ammons/#comments for more discussion. Interesting thread.

  2. Margaret Soltan Says:

    Thanks for the link, wayward.

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