{"id":107545,"date":"2018-11-06T13:33:17","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T17:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=107545"},"modified":"2018-11-06T13:33:49","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T17:33:49","slug":"busted-democrat-candidate-for-house-lied-about-nursing-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=107545","title":{"rendered":"BUSTED! Democrat Candidate for House Lied About Nursing Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dem candidate for Congress busted for lies about being a nurse<\/h1>\n

By Thomas Lifson<\/p>\n

Lauren Underwood, the Democrats\u2019 candidate hoping to flip the 14th Congressional District of Illinois from incumbent Republican Randy Hultgren, has presented herself to voters as a practicing nurse, whose values are infused with the wisdom of a caregiver. But it\u2019s a lie, a big fat one, because although she studied nursing in college at the University of Michigan, she has never once spent a single day in practice as a professional nurse.<\/p>\n

Underwood\u2019s fraud was busted by a local newspaper, The\u00a0Kane County Reporter<\/a>, which would probably get a Pulitzer of the fraud had been on the part of a Republican. We will watch and wait to see if this outstanding work of a local paper gets any such recognition. The entire article should be read to take in the depth of the phoniness. It\u2019s clear from the lede paragraph onward that Underwood put aside the actual practice nursing in favor of left wing politics:<\/p>\n

\u00a0In college, congressional candidate Lauren Underwood studied to be a nurse.<\/p>\n

Not that she ever aspired to work with actual patients.<\/p>\n

Her University of Michigan classmates spent their summers working at hospitals, assisting doctors and learning on the job. But Underwood headed to Washington, D.C., instead, to intern for then-U.S. Senator Barack Obama.<\/p>\n

\u201cICU (intensive care unit) or mother-baby, like that just wasn\u2019t my interest,\u201d she told former Obama campaign staffer turned podcaster Ravi Gupta on his show, \u201cThe Arena,\u201d back in April. “I always knew that this policy space was where I would land.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That honest self-assessment was put aside in campaigning, as voters were repeatedly presented with images of Underwood as a medical caregiver:<\/p>\n

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Screen grab from Underwood TV Commercial (via Kane County Reporter)<\/p>\n

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From the\u00a0\u201cIssues\u201d page<\/a>\u00a0header showing her pretending to be a medical practitioner.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Underwood chose politics rather than caregiving right out of college:<\/p>\n

According to her Linkedin page, Underwood’s first job out of school in 2010 was with the Obama Administration working on Obamacare\u2019s roll-out. She says she was \u201cpreparing memos and briefing materials\u201d for Kathleen Sebelius, the then-U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services.<\/p>\n

Underwood worked six years for President Obama, her salary rising from $67,114 to $98,289, before quitting after he left office, in Jan. 2017.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That was pretty damn good money for someone six years out of college. But when the political job ran out, rather than taking up the profession for which she was trained, she preferred to collect unemployment money from taxpayers:<\/p>\n

She moved back to Naperville to live with her parents,<\/a>\u00a0collecting nine weeks worth of unemployment benefits\u2014 approximately $4,000 from the District of Columbia, according to her personal financial disclosure statement\u2014before deciding to run for Congress.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The bespeaks a commitment to\u00a0not<\/em>\u00a0caring for people. Taking unemployment insurance instead of taking a job as a nurse, for whom there are no shortages of opportunities.<\/p>\n

But the lies were pounded over and over in her TV commercials:<\/p>\n

In her television advertisements, she has been regularly portrayed in \u201chands-on\u201d nursing situations\u2014 ones her own biography also makes clear she has never experienced.<\/p>\n

In her first commercial, Underwood strolls out into what looks like a doctor\u2019s waiting room, a stethoscope around her neck and clipboard in her hand.<\/p>\n

Underwood introduces herself.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a registered nurse, treating patients\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

The spot was actually shot in a Naperville dentist\u2019s office, White Eagle Dentistry, a few blocks from her parents home in the White Eagle Golf Club subdivision.<\/p>\n

A February casting call, advertised on Facebook, asked for \u201ca few volunteers to join us for a photoshoot tomorrow (2\/8) midday. Looking for friendly faces of all ages, genders, backgrounds. Please let us know by emailing sarah@underwoodforcongress.com.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the last election, the 14th District narrowly voted for Trump,\u00a049 to 45<\/a>\u00a0percent, and re-elected Hultgren with\u00a059% of the vote<\/a>, so flipping the district may have been difficult even without Underwood’s exposure as a fraudster.<\/p>\n

But keep in mind that Democrats say they \u201ccare for you\u201d they may be lying and masking pure political ambition.<\/p>\n

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