Democrats’ 13 resume lies

The Spectator put together a list of 13 resume embellishments from Democrat politicians.

Funny how none of these received “breathless coverage.” 

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Illinois representative Lauren Underwood: Fake Nurse

In 2018, Democrats seized on healthcare as the issue that would win them the House majority — and they were right. Candidates such as Lauren Underwood campaigned in scrubs, assuring suburban voters that they could be trusted to protect their healthcare.

Underwood ran ads clad in a stethoscope and bearing a clipboard, in which she spoke about her experience treating patients herself. However, Underwood had never treated patients — and actually had said she had no interest in doing so. “ICU (intensive care unit) or mother-baby, like that just wasn’t my interest,” she told a podcast in 2018. “I always knew that this policy space was where I would land.” The New York Times reported that Underwood “never worked specifically with patients,” despite the ads showing her doing so. 

The ad in which she treats patients itself is a core part of her invented career. Ironically, it was filmed in a dentist’s office near her parents’ house.

New Jersey representative Andy Kim: ‘résumé puffery’

Ossoff isn’t the only Democrat that the Washington Post has accused of “résumé puffery.” And unlike Ossoff, Andy Kim won his first election, despite lying about his national security work.

While running in one of the most competitive seats in America, Kim played up his bipartisan bona fides by claiming in an ad that he was “a national security officer for Republican and Democratic presidents.” His work for Obama is unquestioned; however, the extent of his work in the Bush administration was, per the Post, at a “USAID job [that] was an entry-level position, [he] held it for only five months in 2005, [the job was] low on the totem pole, and Bush did not at the time place much focus on Africa in his national security strategy.” 

“It seems,” the Post concluded, “like a classic case of résumé puffery.”

Michigan representative Haley Stevens: The chief of staff who wasn’t

The auto industry is huge in Michigan, so it’s no surprise that when Haley Stevens was first running for Congress that she played up her role in the Treasury Department’s task force that bailed out several automakers.

“I’m Haley Stevens and I was chief of staff to President Obama’s auto rescue,” she claimed in ads during the 2018 cycle.

However, personnel records obtained by America Rising list her titles as “special assistant” and “confidential assistant,” contradicting both Stevens and her allies, who claim that she acted as chief of staff to the taskforce, despite seeming to have never actually held that role.

Read about all 13 Democrat liars here.