Christine O'Donell's life --- according to Wikipedia (no background research needed)

[underpants]

LOVE the campaign manager's explanation of not getting the degree that she claimed -- "did not pass enough courses to earn a degree" So it's math :eyes:

Enjoy
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Early life, education and career
Christine O'Donnell was born to a mother of Italian-American descent and a father of Irish-American descent. One of six children (five of them girls), she remembers "sharing a bedroom with my four sisters" and that "my father worked three jobs to take care of our large family."

O'Donnell attended Fairleigh Dickinson University, and for many years claimed she received <3><4> a B.A. in English and Communications in 1993.<1><3><5><4><3><4><3> However, O'Donnell's claims later proved false; Fairleigh Dickinson did not award her degree until September 1, 2010, when she received a bachelor's degree in English literature.<4><3> O'Donnell has never explained the discrepancy; her campaign manager claimed she did not pass enough courses to earn a degree until 2010, while Farleigh Dickinson University claimed that O'Donnell did not pay her tuition. <4><3>

Following college, she lived first in California and then for several years in Washington, D.C.<5> She worked in conservative issue advocacy and for the Republican National Committee<6> for several years in Washington. She founded and was the president of the Savior's Alliance for Lifting the Truth (SALT) in 1996, which lobbied the U.S. Congress on moral issues<5> and which focused on advocating chastity and other Christian values in the college-age generation.<7> O'Donnell also served as a spokesperson for Concerned Women for America, which seeks to apply biblical principles to issues of public policy.<8> She was granted a Lincoln Fellowship from the Claremont Institute in 2002.<3><9>

In 2003, O'Donnell moved to Delaware to work for the conservative publisher Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) in Hockessin, and bought a house in Wilmington.<10><5> She sued the institute for $6.9 million for wrongful termination in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware in 2005;<5> ISI defended it's action by accusing her of conducting a for-profit public-relations business while on their time.<5><11> O'Donnell dropped the suit in 2008, stating she lacked the funds to continue.<5><10><12>

O'Donnell has worked as a marketing consultant;<10> her clients have included the record-breaking 2004 film The Passion of the Christ and Natalia Tsarkova, the Vatican’s first female portrait painter<13> and has provided political commentary on numerous television news programs, such as Politically Incorrect,<5> The O'Reilly Factor,<14> The Live Desk,<15> and Glenn Beck.<16> She is a a member of the Roman Catholic church <1> and has taken political positions in opposition to abortion, pornography, and extramarital sex.<10><12> In the 1990s, she argued on MTV against encouraging masturbation as a safe sexual outlet.<17>


O'Donnell experienced financial difficulties before, during, and after her 2008 campaign.<5> She was unable to pay the mortgage for her Wilmington house and the mortgage company gained a judgment against her for $90,000; the house was due to be sold at a sheriff's auction in August 2008 when she sold it the month prior to her campaign's legal counsel.<5> In 2009, she moved to a townhouse elsewhere in Delaware, where she pays half the rent with campaign contributions because it doubles as her campaign headquarters for her 2010 senate run.<5> Her 2008 campaign ended with $23,000 in debt, and between 2007 and 2009 the Federal Election Commission cited her eight times for failing to supply contributions reports on time.<5> As of 2010, she owes payments to staffers, consultants, and volunteers from the 2008 campaign.<5><24> In 2010, the Internal Revenue Service placed a lien on her for over $11,000 in taxes owed for 2005.<5> O'Donnell noted that the IRS agent handling the matter claimed the agency's action has been inappropriate.<5> She listed herself as self-employed and said she was doing "odd jobs" to make ends meet.<5>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_O%27Donnell

[flvegan]

1. Fix your link, bro.

[underpants]

4. Done. Thanks to Suich

[mitchum]

2. Another grifter

[Suich]

3. This link works:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_O%27Donnell

[woodsprite]

5. Is it all verifiable? I've snagged it as a PDF for future reference. n/t