Senate Candidate Blames False MBA Claim On Staffer

The Ohio Capitol Journal reports:

The claim that car dealer and Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bernie Moreno held an MBA from the University of Michigan has appeared in both a car dealership application and in a short biography of Moreno when he joined the board of the Cleveland Foundation.

However, a spokeswoman for the university on Monday said all Moreno has is a bachelor’s degree in business that was awarded in 1989.

Moreno’s campaign on Tuesday afternoon blamed the first instance on “a staffer who made a mistake.” It said it didn’t know how the claimed credential made its way into the Cleveland Foundation bio. Moreno is in the middle of what is expected to be a close race against incumbent Democrat Sherrod Brown for a pivotal U.S. Senate seat.

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Bernie Moreno‘s bio for the Cleveland Foundation said he had an MBA. He doesn’t. https://t.co/aAl55tY9Hg

— Stephanie Haney (@_StephanieHaney) September 11, 2024