She's at it again. Yesterday, the Post reported the newest yawning discrepancy between a claim by Yvette Clarke and observable reality.

September 3, 2006 -- Brooklyn congressional candidate Yvette Clarke falsely represented her income on her federal financial disclosure statements, The Post has learned.

Her 2006 statement listed income as $90,000, standard salary for a City Council member.

But the sum didn't include the additional $10,000 stipend she receives each year for chairing a committee.

She also neglected to mention her retirement fund, valued at $35,000 to $60,000.

"These are issues that are in the process of being amended," said Stefan Friedman, spokesman for Clarke's campaign.

Clarke's mistakes are troubling, says Alex Knott, political editor at the Center for Public Integrity. "It sounds like this is probably an oversight," he said, "but it makes you question what else was left out."

Clarke admitted recently that she did not graduate from Oberlin College, as she had previously claimed.

In all fairness, this is probably not a calculated falsehood, merely an oversight; a conclusion that one can arrive at only because there is no conceivable benefit to her from it, as opposed to claiming degrees and endorsements she does not have. The question is, though, what else is out there; I'd bet dollars to donuts that the media are going through her record with the finest of combs right now. The storyline is quickly turning into "Yvette Clarke is a pathological liar"; what's next? She's a guy? A white guy? Ivan Clarke?  read more »

Oh, Ben Smith is so going to love this.

I got handed a flyer yesterday from the Brooklyn Bloggers for Integrity in Government.* Their target? Yvette Clarke. Here's the text (I'll scan or photograph it tomorrow, right now, I am really, really tired):

Washington does not need more corruption and one more cheating liar

Yvette Clarke, candidate for Congress in the 11th Congressional District, recently confessed that she has been claiming to be a graduate of Oberlin College, but in fact, she does not have a college degree at all. She attended Medgar Evers College to obrain certain missing credits but failed a course there. Yvette Clarke has also been sued for $17,000 in student loans owed to the government. [...]

We don't need a Diplomagate in Washington

Ouch ouch ouch. After that comes a sampling of comments from Ben Smith's post on Yvette's rather unfortunate campaign slogan - which is, lest anyone not have guffawed about it yet, "Honest. Strong. For all of us".

*That's right, a paper flyer from some bloggers - too meta for words.  read more »