Acting Milw, WI Sheriff Richard Schmidt touts degrees from unaccredited and defunct colleges [View all]
Another weird duck!!--what is it with these sheriff's from Milwaukee??
Bice: Acting Sheriff Richard Schmidt touts degrees from unaccredited and defunct colleges
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/investigations/daniel-bice/2018/08/01/bice-acting-sheriff-schmidt-touts-degrees-unaccredited-and-defunct-colleges/866466002/
Daniel Bice, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Published 9:30 a.m. CT Aug. 1, 2018 | Updated 2:36 p.m. CT Aug. 1, 2018
Milwaukee County Sheriff Richard Schmidt, a prophecy preacher, discusses the European Union, Satan and the one world order in a May sermon in Oak Creek. sermonaudio.com
(Photo: Mike De Sisti / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Acting Milwaukee County Sheriff Richard Schmidt likes to tout his education credentials in his bid to win a full term.
Schmidt will tell crowds that he has bachelor's and master's degrees and recently was awarded a doctorate. And he has even begun work on yet another doctorate.
"Dr. Richard Schmidt," proclaim his yard signs for the Aug. 14 Democratic primary. "Milwaukee County sheriff."
But his is not your traditional academic record.
Schmidt got his first two degrees from an unaccredited, Christian fundamentalist college, with a checkered recent history, in which men earn degrees in Bible and theology while programs "specifically for ladies" include "marriage and motherhood" and "missionary wife."
So, literally, it's a college where women can get an MRS degree.
Then Schmidt — who replaced controversial Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. when he abruptly resigned last year — in recent years got his doctorate from a tiny Baptist college in Marinette County where he once served as an unpaid consultant before it shut down in 2015. He is pursuing a second doctorate from yet another unaccredited religious school based in Louisiana....................................
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