“It’s really embarrassing, and I think it’s probably my error,” said Congresswoman Mary Peltola.
But the university says she left in spring 1993.
Peltola said she assumes she relied on memory and misreported the date back in the late 1990s for her Alaska Legislature bio. Then she and others continued to rely on that information.set out to see if other freshmen Congress members lied about their educational background the way Rep. George Santos of New York did. The USA Today reporters found one congress member who didn’t accurately describe his graduate degree. And they found Peltola’s date discrepancy.
Her case is unlike that of Santos. For one, she never pretended to have a college degree. But, she said, when you’re in the public eye, every part of your life is examined. “And I think that’s fine. That’s as it should be,” she said this week, between votes on the House floor. “If you’re in public service, that is the cost of service.”
Peltola spent a decade in the Alaska House, representing Bethel and other western Alaska communities. She was elected to Congress twice last year, in a special election and then for a full term.
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