The Hill Country News printed an interview with all the candidates for Precinct 2 Commissioner.  Beginning with Melissa Beaudoin, what inquiring minds wanted to know was all about her alleged electrical engineering degree (See Good Enough for Government Work). 

Beaudoin now claims to have received a degree in electrical engineering from IBM.  She even has an emails from a former manager who said it was OK for her to say that she graduated.  If you check out the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, you will find Vermont Technical College, but you won’t find IBM.  Bummer, Melissa.  Bummer.

Beaudoin claims to have a real degree - a Bachelor’s of Psychology - from a real university and is working on a Master’s degree.  Presumedly, she should know about transcripts and diplomas.  You know, the standard documents that prove you have a degree.  She has emails. 

It appears some of the info on Valerie Covey’s (District Clerk candidate) resume is deliberately misleading.  According to the resume posted on her website, Covey was an Audit Manager for a giant accounting firm.  However, the giant accounting firm representative has said most likely not - she didn’t have the five years professional accounting experience required to be an Audit Manager - since she had just graduated from college.

According to our tipster, Covey never did work for the State Comptroller as she claims (see below link).  The vendor she really did work for - for only 8 1/2 months - instead of the Comptroller - did such unsatisfactory work, it lost the contract.  Sorry Val, 8 1/2 months is not two years, no matter what sort of accounting formula you use.

We have a copy of an evaluation that shows the vendor, during Covey’s tenure, was supposed to complete 11 audits.  All the audits were turned in late, all were returned for correction, and only two were ever completed.  Even by government standards, that’s really bad.

Click here to see the documents  comptroller letter and evaluation of services.pdf

An earlier posting (I Can Bring Home the Bacon), indicated Covey held down three jobs between 2002 and 2003.  It was pointed out to us that she was holding down not three, but *four* jobs during that time (our bad).  In addition to the three jobs first posted, she also ran her own CPA firm from 2003 to 2005.  What a worker!  But if part of her resume is fake or inflated, it still doesn’t add up any way you do the math.

Commissioner’s Court candidate Melissa Beaudoin just might be guilty of exaggerating her academic achievements. Beaudoin has been telling folks she is an engineer, and a psychologist, and (soon to be) a master political scientist. According to the Austin American Statesman, opposition research revealed that Beaudoin isn’t an engineer and didn’t have a degree in engineering. Beaudoin then claimed she got an associate’s degree in electrical engineering up in Vermont. Well, the school up in Vermont has no record of her being awarded any degree (don’t you just hate it when that happens?). Then, Beaudoin said she was two credits shy of getting a degree, but she thought it was a “legitimate degree”. Finally, Beaudoin said she got an Associates of Science degree in Business from a different college up in Vermont. But that college said the degree she got was an Associate’s in Science in Secretarial Specialist. Yooo hooooo…. Does the name Lena Guerrero ring any bells?? One of her opponents, Terry Davis, has a real engineering degree - as well as a law degree. Beaudoin changed the degree information on her website, but still boasts of her desire to bring “trust and integrity” to the courthouse.