FRAUD: Ill. Democratic congressional candidate running as a â€œregistered nurseâ€ has never actually been one

(National Sentinel)Â Campaign Tales:Â While itâ€™s a crime almost everywhere to impersonate a police officer, itâ€™s not a crime to impersonate a healthcare provider, at least not while youâ€™re running for office.

As such, Illinois Democratic congressional candidate Lauren UnderwoodÂ isnâ€™t likely to suffer any legal fallout for claiming to be a nurse, though sheâ€™s never actually done any nursing.

According to the Kane County Reporter, Underwood â€” who hopes to unseat incumbent U.S. Rep. Randy Hultgren â€” is being portrayed as â€œthe Naperville nurse running for Congress,â€ though the newspaper is reporting that she herself has said she has no interest in the profession and never really did:

In college, congressional candidate Lauren Underwood studied to be a nurse.

Not that she ever aspired to work with actual patients.

Her University of Michigan classmates spent their summers working at hospitals, assisting doctors and learning on the job. But Underwood headed to Washington, D.C., instead, to intern for then-U.S. Senator Barack Obama.

â€œICU (intensive care unit) or mother-baby, like that just wasnâ€™t my interest,â€ she said in an interview with former Obama campaign staffer and podcaster Ravi Gupta on his program, â€œThe Arena,â€ in April. â€œI always knew that this policy space was where I would land.â€



