Candidate for (FL) environment chief denies falsifying education data

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http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/auto/epaper/editions/today/news_044207cf064cd0aa00de.html

Palm Beach Post, 2/7/04

TALLAHASSEE -- One of the leading candidates to become the state's top environmental regulator denies falsifying information implying that he earned a civil engineering degree from the University of Florida in job applications filed with Gov. Jeb Bush and the state Senate.

Kirby B. Green III, who rose from the obscurity of a state land surveyor in 1978 to interim secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection in 1998, wrote, "Civil Engineering," under the category "certificates/degrees received," in a signed and notarized application he filed with Bush's office on Jan. 5.

But University of Florida spokesman Aaron Hoover said, "He has not received a degree from UF."

Green acknowledged Thursday that he does not have a degree from the University of Florida but said he was merely trying to indicate that he attended the university and studied civil engineering, not that he obtained a degree.

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[The Backlash Cometh]

1. That kind of stuff is normal for Florida.

I once pulled the resume of a Land Use specialist from the city and he stated he was once involved in CIA intelligence but he couldn't discuss his job because it was still classified. He also said that he negotiated off shore oil drilling rights off the coast of Florida. He was such a snake in the grass to work with. He once looked at me and said that when he leaves, he was going to go deep into the Louisiana Bayou Country where no one will find him.