Florida News Online reports:
After FLA News exclusively reported Tuesday that Republican State House candidate Melissa Howard didn’t have the college degree from Miami University in Ohio that she claimed to have earned, Mrs. Howard flew to Ohio Friday to prove our report wrong. She posted a picture of a partial college transcript on her Facebook page and then later that day posted a picture of her sitting with her mother and holding a copy of a diploma. FLA News took her word and, despite evidence to the contrary, rescinded our story.
There is, however, one problem – the degree is a fake, Miami University General Counsel Robin Parker has confirmed to FLA News. Not only were Howard’s friends and supporters looking at the picture she posted on Facebook, so were officials at Miami University. Sometime during the afternoon Friday, Howard removed the diploma pictures from Facebook as her story of earning a Bachelor of Science in Marketing began to unravel.
Miami University doesn’t offer a bachelor’s in marketing.
Fed up with fibber, Melissa Howard tells Tommy Gregory to ‘stop the lies’ https://t.co/BeWqjIN1Ku via @DrewWilsonFL #FlaPol pic.twitter.com/Rw1HUtNgDi
— Florida Politics (@Fla_Pol) August 10, 2018
I don’t care if she faked her diploma, Melissa Howard still ROCKS that mini-dress Sharon Tate gave her in 1972 after Melissa’s last tour of duty in Vietnam…. pic.twitter.com/qsFgOrhsiA
— RON COULTER (@RONCOULTER) August 11, 2018
New New Story: Woman in Melissa Howard photograph is not her mother. “I’ve never met Melissa Howard. I’m a stock image model”.
— Will Grello (@grello_will) August 11, 2018
NEW NEW NEW Story: Melissa Howard “borrows” dogs from shelter and then returns them. Local homeless man paid to hold one in photograph. pic.twitter.com/DbsXpEeZut
— Will Grello (@grello_will) August 11, 2018