Former "child prodigy" environmentalist leading Dem convention "greening" efforts

It's been my experience about people who lie about their past, especially about innocuous things, is that it usually exposes a major character flaw. For instance, I used to work with a guy who would regularly make Baron Münchhausen type claims that could not possibly be true. My liar was a fairly young guy, and I simply did that math and concluded that he could not have possibly done all the things he said he did. He didn't last long--he got fired for stealing.

Erick Erickson of Red State got his calculator out yesterday, and did the math on Andrea Robinson, the director of greening for the Democratic National Convention Committee. However Robinson's "youth" isn't what blows her cover.

The DNCC will take place in Denver next month.

Erickson in is post notes that earlier this month the Rocky Mountain News listed her age as "thirtysomething."

From yesterday's Rocky Mountain News:

But if you read Robinson's profile on the DNCC Website it says she has "more than 25 years in the environmental field." That means she started when she was 13.

Smith reports she did, in fact, start her first environmental non-profit when she was 13 - though that particular job does not show up on Robinson's resume. It also took the DNCC about a month to produce a resume for her when the Rocky requested it. When the resume was finally produced, it actually included her current job title as the Director of Sustainability and Greening for the DNCC.

This is a high-profile position and the DNCC has made no secret about Robinson being the DNCC's first ever Director of Greening. The DNCC recently launched a challenge to all 50 state delegations to commit their delegates to being carbon neutral during the convention - but as of a month ago, only three states had signed up - California, Nevada and Vermont. Damon Jones, spokesman for the DNCC said now there are 37 delegations participating. Robinson is leading that effort.

Robinson, who was born in Orange County, Calif., does list a bachelor's degree in environmental science from the University of California, Santa Barbara on the resume. And her experience listed includes being the the consultant and greening manager for Giants Stadium and Shanghai for the Live Earth concerts in 2007.

Robinson is also an actress, and has a body of work, mostly in television, going back to the 1990s, which the Rocky Mountain News says is not on the-DNCC supplied resume.
Back to the Rocky Mountain News:

Robinson, for her part, declined to comment on why she left the TV career off her resume.

But does Robinson have more than 25 years of environmental experience?

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