Candidate refuses to identify alma mater

A mayoral candidate in Plantation says she has a college degree, but she won’t say where it came from.

Candidate Lynn Stoner, a current council member, said she rolled over credits obtained from Broward Community College and Palm Beach Community College to an online school for a bachelor’s degree in business management.

“I obtained this for me, not for a job or raise, but to also show my children that anything is possible,” she wrote on Facebook.

She won’t say where the degree is from because “I will not subject myself to the comments of the elitist private college candidates who want to chip away as to whether it is a legitimate degree.”

A picture of a degree she provided the South Florida Sun Sentinel shows a date of 2003, but the school’s name is obscured. When Stoner first ran for council in 2011, she said she graduated from Plantation High School in 1972 and attended classes at Broward Community College and Palm Beach Community College.

Stoner recently made news after an unknown number of voters were texted repeatedly in the wee hours of the morning with a message that Plantation’s police union was supporting her bid for mayor. Both Stoner and the police union say they were not to blame.

The source of the texting still remains a mystery: Was it an opponent seeking to antagonize voters against her, or done on her behalf but misfired at the wrong time.

Voters might never know; the Plantation Police Department said it’s not worth investigating.

“The Police Department is impartial regarding political candidates and their agendas,” the agency said in a email to the Sun Sentinel on Thursday. “Free citizens are permitted to rally behind any political candidate that they wish, without government ‘investigations.’ “