O'Donnell's Oxford Education Claim On Second Website Was Authored By Her,
Says Site Spokesman
First Posted: 09-30-10 12:06 PM | Updated: 09-30-10 12:22 PM

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Delaware Republican Senatorial candidate Christine O'Donnell has responded to accusations that she overstated her education in her resume by insisting that a LinkedIn profile erroneously stating she went to Oxford University wasn't authored with her knowledge.

But now a new website has surfaced listing the same erroneous biographical information. And a website spokesman claims that O'Donnell entered the data herself.

On Thursday, the Democratic National Committee pointed out a second O'Donnell Internet profile also lists the candidate as having studied at the University of Oxford (O'Donnell took a course with the Phoenix Institute on Oxford's campus). On a Zoom Info entry, the Delaware Republican is described as having received a "Certificate" in "Post Modernism in the New Millennium" at the University of Oxford. The entry, as noted in the top right corner, was "User Verified."

Resume websites are notorious for scraping information from other sites, which would raise the possibility that the ZoomInfo entry was merely a duplication of what appeared on LinkedIn. But O'Donnell's biography is described differently in each. And a spokesman for Zoominfo told the Huffington Post that the company has a policy of not grabbing information from its main competitor.

"We scan the web to pull most of our info so it is pulled from a variety of sources just as a starting point," said Matt Lloyd, a ZoomInfo spokesperson. "We will look at news articles and a variety of different things. We do not actually pull from LinkedIn. LinkedIn has some strong privacy laws and they are our competition so we have been pretty rigid about not taking information from them."

So where (if not LinkedIn) did ZoomInfo get the false information that O'Donnell attended Oxford? Lloyd said it came from the candidate herself.

"The profile was actually claimed in 2008 which means that she has verified the information and updated it," he said. "Anyone can go in and claim a profile and update the information... She claimed it in 2008 and then, as I mentioned, we are going out there and looking for stories about her that we probably pulled in. But the education material would have probably been pulled from her own update back in 2008."

Lloyd's explanation for how the ZoomInfo profile came to be contradicts the explanation O'Donnell has offered with respect to the LinkedIn page. The Delaware Republican has insisted that the latter profile was done without her knowledge or authorization and she has called for the information to be removed from the page.

"I have always been clear about my educational background," she said in a statement released this week. "I completed undergraduate work at Fairleigh Dickenson University. After my undergraduate work, I completed a summer program run by the Phoenix Institute, at the Institute's Oxford University location. The Institute runs programs around the world at various universities, and participants study issues of human dignity. I also completed a Lincoln Fellowship at the Claremont Institute in Claremont, CA. We would encourage LinkedIn to remove this profile."

O'Donnell's campaign did not immediately return a request for comment. And the possibility does exist that the same person who, without authorization, posted the resume on one webpage theoretically could have done the same on the other. But as Hari Sevugan, the DNC Press Secretary who first posted about the ZoomInfo website, asked: "If a profile is "user verified" & has unique info, it's user created (not grabbed from the net), right?"

Who here hasn't s t r e t c h e d or left impressions open-ended on resumes?

25+ years ago when I needed a job (thank God I don't anymore) I gave only the information I needed to to get the type of work I was seeking.

You seem desperate, Kirk.

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Yeah, Yeah, Yeah...... and Blumenthal in CT.served in Vietnam too.
A lie most men would consider more serious than a "Certificate" in "Post Modernism in the New Millennium" at the University of Oxford, whatever relevance that has to serving in the US Congress??
I hope she did lie bout it. Otherwise, I'd have to write her off as a useless intellectual wannabe. That would be strike 3.

My last MB an '83 300SD had a HARVARD window sticker across the bottom portion of the rear window. It was a hoot, I had a lot of fun with it! I eventually replaced it with a; WENTWORTH MILITARY ACADEMY window sticker.


We NEED an ultra-Conservative young, working-class woman with a long future ahead of her like Christine O'Donnell to start to clean-up the mess being made by the leftwing extremists, like Obama.

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As a general rule, I don't believe in decals or bumber stickers, but a couple of years ago, I stuck an old small 1"x2" Gadsen flag in the lower right corner of the rear window, just so the folks I pass won't miss it. Little did I know then that it would become the "adopted" standard of the tea party.
The Gadsen snake was on my ship's patch, along with the DTOM warning.


Back to the thread, I don't have a dog in either the CA or DE fight. If the socialist Coons wins and takes Biden's seat, no gain or loss to me. Boxer in CA? The Calis deserve what they get...and have. A moron. (Don't call me Ma'am. Call me Senator! )

David Broder has an interesting article in today's Post. His take on the coming Dem losses is interesting.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/29/AR2010092905384.html?wpisrc=nl_opinions

Me. It's dishonest.

Me either, ditto.

- Peter.

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Yo. +1

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My youngest is 2 classes (6 credits) short of a degree. In 2009 she took a new job in LA. I made sure she did not say she had a Bachelors degree on her job app. I don't know if she'll ever get around to getting the degree, but soon she won't need it. Her work experience and networking contacts will make that irrelavent in her field.

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I don't know why she WOULD either - say on her job application or resume that she did, have a BS degree when in fact she did not.

That would be a lie if she didn't possess a BS degree, now wouldn't it....

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Now you're getting it. Good.