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IA Pol’s Degree Is Bogus

Wile also attacking working families, an Iowa state senator touted his “business degree” from a steakhouse chain.
IA Pol’s Degree Is Bogus
By John Noonan ·
IA Pol’s Degree Is Bogus
Iowa State Sen. Mark Chelgren

DES MOINES, Iowa – In the past few days, the internet has been buzzing over the news that Iowa State Sen. Mark Chelgren – one of the ring leaders of the anti-worker and anti-family movement in the Hawkeye State – faked his academic credentials to bolster his resume.

For years, Chelgren claimed to hold a “business degree” from “Forbco Management School.”

It sounds impressive, but for one problem. Forbco Management School was a training facility for the value steak chain Sizzler.

The problem here isn't that Chelgren worked at Sizzler. The problem is that he tried to gut collective barraging, decimate education funding and attack professors at the University of Iowa. 

Chelgren recently gained notoriety for sponsoring legislation that seeks to freeze faculty hiring at the state's public universities until the number of instructors registered as Republicans is within 10 percent of registered Democrats.

While Chelgren’s actions and policy goals are despicable, the Washington Post has seen the lighter side and offered you some options if you need to bolster your résumé like Iowa’s most notorious anti-worker senator.

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