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April 30, 2012 11:15 PM UTC

Fact Check Your Own Biography, Scott Tipton

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  • by: Colorado Pols

Here’s a discrepancy that could have an easy or more complicated explanation. On the campaign website for incumbent Rep. Scott Tipton of CD-3, here’s what it says:

Scott Tipton, a lifelong Coloradan, [Pols emphasis] was raised in Cortez, CO where he attended public schools with his brother Joe and graduated from Cortez High School. He went onto Ft. Lewis College in Durango where he studied Political Science and became the first person in his family to graduate from college…

His official congressional biography is unambiguous:

Congressman Scott Tipton was born and raised in Cortez, Colorado.

The problem seems to be that this statement, well, it’s wrong. According to his 2006 congressional candidate questionnaire–the first bid for the seat he holds, which he lost–in the Denver paper, Scott Tipton was actually born in Española, New Mexico, not Cortez, Colorado. Tipton’s (presumably) correct birthplace is reported by the National Journal in their subscribers-only 2012 candidate almanac (cached view here), as well as Wikipedia.

We don’t want to assert that Tipton is intentionally lying here, though it’s interesting to note that the two websites Tipton has direct control over, his campaign and official House sites, present misleading and false, respectively, versions of Tipton’s biography. According to these other sources, Tipton moved to Cortez from New Mexico with his family when he was still very young–the Denver paper says one year, National Journal says three months.

But as convenient as it may be to abridge that to “born and raised in Cortez,” it needs to be true.

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18 thoughts on “Fact Check Your Own Biography, Scott Tipton

    1. Why were his parents there?

      Where are they now?

      Are they now, or have they ever been, married to another person? a citizen of another country? Members of the Communist party? Draft dodgers ?

      Speaking of which Rep Tipton was 18 in 1974.  Which branch of the military did he do his service in Viet Nam?

  1. I hate asking this question to my 8 year old. Asking an adult this question just hurts my brain. Why are you lying about this, Tipton?

    “Raised in Cortez” works.

    “Born in Espanola, New Mexico. Tipton moved to Cortez, Colorado at a very young age.” works.

    I am baffled by the sheer stupidity it takes to lie like this.

    1. If he’s sad about it, just leave the “born” out of it. The first bio, by itself, even seems OK to me. (Adding the outright lie kind of paints it differently.) I suppose “lifelong”, like “lifetime”, is completely relative. He didn’t say who’s life he’s measuring by.

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