But as it turns out – this is just the latest lie from Shady Katie.
BuzzFeed researched McGinty’s claim and reported that her older brother, John, already had a master’s degree before she even graduated from high school.
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Katie McGinty Falsely Claimed To Be First Member Of Her Family To Go To College
BuzzFeed
Democratic Senate candidate Katie McGinty has often claimed on the campaign trail to be the first member of her family to attend college. Records reviewed by BuzzFeed News, however, reveal that McGinty’s older brother graduated from college eight years before she entered.
“I was the first in my family to go to college, and I did so with the help of a scholarship,” wrote McGinty, who is challenging Republican incumbent Sen. Pat Toomey in Pennsylvania, in a Feb. 25 Facebook post.
“As the ninth of 10 kids and the first in my family to go to college, I’ve been privileged to live the American dream,” she is quoted as saying in a January AP story.
As recent as late April, she said “even though I was number nine, I was the very first one to go to college in my family,” in a speech to the NAACP.
According to commencement records, however, her brother, John McGinty graduated from La Salle University, a four-year college, in 1973 with a Bachelor of Arts. John P. McGinty’s LinkedIn account, which is no longer publicly accessible, also listed him as having attended La Salle from 1970-1973, after attending the Community College of Philadelphia from 1968-1970. His Facebook page also lists him as a member of the La Salle class of ‘73 and as a member of the Temple University class of 1978, where his page says he got a Master’s in education.
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