{"id":819904,"date":"2021-09-27T11:13:58","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T15:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=819904"},"modified":"2021-09-27T11:13:59","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T15:13:59","slug":"dem-inflates-resume-ahead-of-crucial-iowa-house-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-inflates-resume-ahead-of-crucial-iowa-house-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Dem Inflates R\u00e9sum\u00e9 Ahead of Crucial Iowa House Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdem-inflates-resume-ahead-of-crucial-iowa-house-run%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=819904&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"30.25\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Extent of &#8216;environmental engineer&#8217; Christina Bohannan&#8217;s engineering experience was a college internship<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/ChristinaBohannon_736x514-1.jpeg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/ChristinaBohannon_736x514.jpeg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/ChristinaBohannon_736x514-300x210.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/ChristinaBohannon_736x514-703x491.jpeg 703w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tIowa state representative Christina Bohannan\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/matthew-foldi\/\" title=\"Posts by Matthew Foldi\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Matthew Foldi<\/a> \u2022 September 27, 2021 11:10 am<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"84.398826979472\">\n<div dir=\"auto\" readability=\"17.80686695279\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">During Christina Bohannan\u2019s brief political career, the Iowa Democrat has put her experience as an environmental engineer front and center. &#8220;As a law professor, an environmental engineer and a mother, I believe I have the skills, energy and passion that <span class=\"il\">Iowa<\/span> City needs at this critical point in time,&#8221; Bohannan <a href=\"https:\/\/littlevillagemag.com\/letter-to-the-editor-from-christina-bohannan-why-im-running\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-mt-original-track-url=\"https:\/\/mailtrack.io\/trace\/link\/e44a108f6eb00b6d15be609cad874e72ce15a5ba?url=https%3A%2F%2Flittlevillagemag.com%2Fletter-to-the-editor-from-christina-bohannan-why-im-running%2F&amp;userId=6348687&amp;signature=2753adcd3e03ad6e\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\">wrote<\/a> in May 2020.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Left out of Bohannan&#8217;s description is that the extent of her environmental engineering career was an internship over two decades ago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> review of Bohannan\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/law.uiowa.edu\/sites\/law.uiowa.edu\/files\/2020-05\/bohannan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-mt-original-track-url=\"https:\/\/mailtrack.io\/trace\/link\/1d57c08bdd2650ae7946fa56eec0411fb785c4c5?url=https%3A%2F%2Flaw.uiowa.edu%2Fsites%2Flaw.uiowa.edu%2Ffiles%2F2020-05%2Fbohannan.pdf&amp;userId=6348687&amp;signature=7012133f2e50e8ff\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\">r\u00e9sum\u00e9<\/a> on file at the University of Iowa finds that the full extent of her engineering experience came as she earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Florida, where she graduated in 1994. Her r\u00e9sum\u00e9 lists three years of work from 1991 to 1994 as an engineer for Florida&#8217;s Department of Environmental Protection. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myfloridalicense.com\/LicenseDetail.asp?SID=&amp;id=A49C129CA9F98A94C5A23FF2A507D398\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-mt-original-track-url=\"https:\/\/mailtrack.io\/trace\/link\/ae97dc7d416abdbf1d3378e28e301b34a9529a2b?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbohannan&amp;userId=6348687&amp;signature=14197758083a9124\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\">Florida public records<\/a> show Bohannan never achieved a rank higher than &#8220;engineering intern.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Now that Bohannan is running for Congress against Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R., <span class=\"il\">Iowa<\/span>), her experience as an environmental engineer has been highlighted by her campaign and allies. 314 Action, a liberal group that backs scientist candidates, endorsed Bohannan for Congress in large part due to her experience as an environmental engineer.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Christina is an environmental engineer and law professor who&#8217;s ready to take the fight for pro-science policies to the floor of the U.S. House,&#8221; the group wrote. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.press-citizen.com\/story\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/2020\/04\/28\/letters-bohannan-partner-local-government\/3038376001\/\">local Democratic official<\/a> said last year that Bohannan&#8217;s &#8220;experience as an environmental engineer will be of critical importance for improving <span class=\"il\">Iowa<\/span>\u2018s water quality issues.&#8221; Bohannan&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/bohannanforcongress.com\/\">campaign website<\/a> describes her as a &#8220;former engineer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Bohannan did not respond to a request for comment about her work experience as an intern in Florida. The <em>Free Beacon<\/em> was unable to find any sign of engineering work at any other point in her career.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Bohannan went to the University of Florida for law school immediately after earning her undergraduate degree. After a stint as a judicial clerk in Alabama, she became a visiting law professor at the University of Iowa, where she remains employed.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Bohannan is at least the second former intern that 314 Action endorsed. Former congressman Joe Cunningham (D., S.C.) in 2020 campaigned as an ocean engineer, even though he did not have an engineering license in South Carolina. The extent of his engineering experience was, like Bohannan\u2019s, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fitsnews.com\/2018\/10\/08\/joe-cunningham-inflated-his-resume-in-tv-ad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-mt-original-track-url=\"https:\/\/mailtrack.io\/trace\/link\/50f665cc7e853f702405a64d5367ce58b7542d6d?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fitsnews.com%2F2018%2F10%2F08%2Fjoe-cunningham-inflated-his-resume-in-tv-ad%2F&amp;userId=6348687&amp;signature=61b51dce7e1b5730\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\">working as an intern<\/a> in Florida. Cunningham lost his 2020 reelection campaign.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">314 Action touts Cunningham\u2019s work as an &#8220;ocean engineer&#8221; on its <a href=\"https:\/\/314action.org\/candidates\/joe-cunningham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-mt-original-track-url=\"https:\/\/mailtrack.io\/trace\/link\/09dd78acc38e7dee7435e11b76b9b773e06fad67?url=https%3A%2F%2F314action.org%2Fcandidates%2Fjoe-cunningham%2F&amp;userId=6348687&amp;signature=45b49998fae727ec\" data-mt-detrack-inspected=\"true\">fundraising page<\/a> for his current run for South Carolina governor.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Bohannan is running for Iowa&#8217;s Second Congressional District, which Miller-Meeks won by just six votes in 2020. Miller-Meeks&#8217;s opponent in that election, Rita Hart, worked with Democrats including lawyer Marc Elias in a failed attempt to overturn the result through a vote in the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats Extent of &#8216;environmental engineer&#8217; Christina Bohannan&#8217;s engineering experience was a college internship  Iowa state representative Christina Bohannan  Matthew Foldi \u2022 September 27, 2021 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-819904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}