Reichert Falsely Claims B.A. Degree on Congress Website
After spreading false claims about Darcy Burner, it turns out he does not have the degree he has claimed for years on official site
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Sandeep Kaushik, (425) 443-2564
Bellevue (October 23) – The campaign of 8th District Democratic congressional candidate Darcy Burner today discovered the Republican incumbent Congressman Dave Reichert is falsely claiming on the official biographical directory of the United States Congress to hold a four year B.A. degree.
The claim to hold a four year degree is made here. The biographical directory shows the following:
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This claim is untrue. Reichert holds only a two-year A.A. degree from the college in question.
“Congressman Reichert and his Republican allies, with the assistance of credulous reporting from the Seattle Times, has been trying to discredit Darcy Burner with a technical gotcha about how she has characterized her degree from Harvard, which, as she has repeatedly stated — and has now been confirmed by a Harvard Dean — is a B.A. in computer science with a special field in economics,” said Burner campaign spokesman Sandeep Kaushik. “Meanwhile, Congressman Reichert has misrepresented himself in his official congressional biographical directory as having a four-year degree that he apparently does not have. And that false claim has been posted for years, and has spread onto a host of other web listings, without Reichert ever correcting the record.”
Kaushik added, “Congressman Reichert owes an immediate public apology for his false claim, and should correct the official biographical record today. And he owes Darcy Burner an apology as well for yesterday’s mudslinging.”
Other instances of Reichert’s false claim to a B.A. degree:
The Washington Post’s Congress database also lists Reichert as having a B.A.: http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/r000578/
Same here: http://sharp.sefora.org/people/house/david-george-reichert/
Same here: http://www.legistorm.com/memberbio/439/Rep_David_Reichert.html
Same here: http://www.cleanupwashington.org/sii/sii_tables_member.cfm?Names=462
Same here: http://www.politicalbase.com/people/david-g-reichert/10652/
Since we released this story to the press, many of the pages cited in it have been edited. You can view archived versions courtesy of the Wayback Machine provided by Internet Archive. Here are links to the most recent archived versions of the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress page and Washington Post Congress Votes Database page as well as links to the Internet Archive locations for all versions of these pages in its archive.
