A Brooklyn congressional candidate who claimed to have a college degree admitted yesterday she’s a few credits short – but blamed it on a technicality.
City Council member Yvette Clarke, running in the 11th District, claims on the Campaign Finance Board Web site that she graduated from Ohio’s Oberlin College.
In fact, the Democrat left Oberlin a few credits shy of earning a bachelor’s degree.
She finished her credits at Brooklyn’s Medgar Evers College, but Clarke said she failed to transfer them to Oberlin.
“I left Oberlin a few credits short and went to Medgar Evers to fulfill those credits, which I did. Due to an oversight on my part, those credits were never forwarded to Oberlin,” Clarke said. “But make no mistake, I fulfilled all the requirements of graduation from Oberlin.”