Another big politico liar:  John Perez, California’s Assembly speaker,  lied about his educational background. And this politico continued to lie about his educational achievements   until after he won his first election.
When Rep. Hilda Solis inserted remarks in the Congressional Record praising Los Angeles activist John Pérez as “an asset to the labor movement,” she was recounting the life story of a man who would later become California’s Assembly speaker.
“After graduating from the University of California Berkeley, John began working on designing and organizing education programs,” Solis, then a Los Angeles congresswoman and now U.S. secretary of labor, wrote in 2004.
But the record is wrong: Pérez dropped out of UC Berkeley and never returned.
For a decade, Pérez’s designation as a UC Berkeley graduate went unchallenged in newspaper articles, biographies and public pronouncements – until after he won his first Assembly race in 2008.
Since his election, Pérez has emerged as one of California’s most powerful officials. He was elected Assembly speaker in 2009. As speaker, he is also an ex-officio regent of the University of California.
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Firenze Sage:  Perez  couldn’t handle the rigors of the Chicano studies program so he went into politics.
