School Officials Say Candidate Overstated His Role

[ccharles000]

CHICAGO — A leader of the church in upstate New York where Representative Mark S. Kirk of Illinois claims he worked as a nursery school teacher said on Friday that he had overstated his role there.

The leader, Sally Grubb, a member of the administrative council at Forest Home Chapel, a Methodist church in Ithaca, N.Y., said Mr. Kirk had a limited role while working part-time in a work-study program while he was a student at Cornell University nearly three decades ago.

“He was never, ever considered a teacher,” Ms. Grubb said in a telephone interview after researching the history of Mr. Kirk’s association with the nursery school. “He was just an additional pair of hands to help a primary teaching person.”

The church has been trying to determine whether Mr. Kirk worked there after The New York Times reported on Thursday about the brevity of Mr. Kirk’s teaching experience. Mr. Kirk, a five-term congressman, is the Republican nominee in Illinois for the Senate seat formerly held by President Obama.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/19/us/politics/19kirk.html

[KingFlorez]

1. Cue the Thompson Twins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA43ETEU1Vg

[murielm99]

2. More lies from Kirk!

He lied about his military service, too. Typical republican.

LOL. Some of us were concerned that Alexi Giannoulias would be smeared so badly that we would lose the governor's mansion to the republicans. Alexi may not have so much trouble after all. Thanks, Mark.