Jean Schmidt is the woman who called John Murtha a coward on the House floor last night. She is also the woman who barely beat Paul Hackett this summer. Does she now have exclusive rights as the Repuke attack dog against American war vets? What's next? "Max Cleland is a cripple coward?"
The battle boiled over when Representative Jean Schmidt, an Ohio Republican who is the most junior member of the House, told of a phone call she had just received from a Marine colonel back home.
"He asked me to send Congress a message: stay the course," Ms. Schmidt said. "He also asked me to send Congressman Murtha a message: that cowards cut and run, Marines never do."http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/19/national/19military.htmlHer Hill biography says "she has completed 56 marathons and still counting."
http://www.house.gov/schmidt/about/index.shtmlObviously, she's the sacrificial lamb put up to it by the fascist House Republican leadership. But still . . . as someone from southern Ohio she should know "you reap what you sow."
When she ran in 2004 she made a "no pork pledge" yet her record as an Ohio legislator shows that she dined on a little pork herself by introducing. among other things, an "Amendment restructuring the Gasoline Tax bringing over $100,000.00 in added revenue to Miami Township."
http://www.jeanschmidt.com/LeadershipExperiencegroup.htmThen she lied about knowing a fellow Ohio legislator, Tom Noe.
http://www.mydd.com/story/2005/7/31/13476/7832In 1995, she traveled to Russia to offer instruction about political campaigning in a country which had little experience of free elections. On her trip she ran in Moscow's Red Square. "Did I ever feel unsafe?" she said.
"No. And would I jog through Central Park in New York? No way." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Schmidt If you know New York you know how laughable and ignorant that statement is.
From Wikipedia: A month before the election the inspector general of the Ohio General Assembly announced he was investigating three legislators for accepting gifts and failing to report them. Schmidt was implicated in this, but could not be investigated because she was no longer a member of the Ohio house. (The others were Representatives Jim Raussen of Springdale, Michelle G. Schneider of Madeira, and Diana M. Fessler of New Carlisle.) On October 24, 2004, the legislators had accepted dinner at Nicola's Ristorante on Sycamore Street in Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine neighborhood and Cincinnati Bengals tickets from a lobbyist for pharmaceutical company Chiron, Richard B. Colby. Schmidt said she thought the gifts were from former Bengals player Boomer Esiason, who was, like Chiron, interested in cystic fibrosis. Esiason was attempting to gain support for a task force on the disease and a month later Schmidt cosponsored enabling legislation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_SchmidtAfter election ot Congress last summer Schmidt made this speech, amazing in light of her shameful comments about John Murtha:
"I stand here today in the same shoes, though with a slightly higher heel, as thousands of Members who have taken the same oath before me. I am mindful of what is expected of me both by this hallowed institution and the hundreds of thousands of Americans I am blessed to represent. I am the lowest-ranking Member of this body, the very bottom rung of the ladder; and I am privileged to hold that title. . .
I pledge to walk in the shoes of my colleagues and refrain from name-calling or the questioning of character. It is easy to quickly sink to the lowest form of political debate. Harsh words often lead to headlines, but walking this path is not a victimless crime. This great House pays the price. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_SchmidtShe can run but she can't hide. Jean Schmidt, criminal. In her own words.
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