Talk:Jean Schmidt

From the Cincinnati Enquirer, the same day the story of Bubp's denial comes Jean's afirmation of his words:

Statement from Jean Schmidt, Cincinnati Enquirer, November 22, 2005

STATEMENT FROM CONGRESSWOMAN JEAN SCHMIDT

Washington, DC - Last week as I returned to the Capitol Building after attending a funeral at Arlington National Cemetery for a local fallen Marine, I found out that the Democrats had just announced their policy position to immediately withdraw troops from Iraq.

I strongly opposed the plan from the moment I heard it.

My good friend Representative Bubp called me to discuss this plan during the House debate on the issue of immediately removing troops from Iraq.

I relayed our conversation with Representative Bubp on the House Floor.

Since that moment I have been attacked from across the country by the left.

I never meant to attack Congressman Murtha personally. I sent him a personal note of apology on Friday evening moments after my words. While I strongly disagree with his policy, neither Representative Bubp nor I ever wished to attack Congressman Murtha. I only take exception to his policy position.

I am amazed at what a national story this has become. It was never intended.

I am thankful for the thousands of supportive messages I have received from the people I represent and others across the nation since Friday. But this story has been way too focused on me, my conviction and word selection. Instead this story should be focused on the extremely poor policy the minority now propose. A policy, I might point out, that through this media storm has now been repudiated by dozens of leading members of the minority.

I have been attacked very personally, continuously since Friday evening. I am quite willing to suffer those attacks if in the end that policy I so strongly oppose is exposed as unsound. First and foremost I support the troops. They dodge bullets and bombs while I duck only hateful words.

While I wish this national media attention had never occurred, I do not shy from my strong opposition of the minority’s position.

I strongly oppose withdrawing our troops until we give them a chance to do what we sent them there to accomplish. They haven’t failed us. We must not fail them.

This is an apology? Hardly, and she is still claiming that her cowardly friend, Danny Bubp told her to relay his insult to Murtha.

DannyBoy is a real piece of Schmidt...

Danny Bubp, a West Union attorney and a Marine Corps Reserve colonel who is not going to Iraq, said about 300 people recently turned out at a rally for local troops headed for Iraq.

"There is much anxiety, worry and concern," he said. "People know we're losing a soldier just about every day in Iraq. "There's been a lot of tears, a lot of emotion and a lot of support for these men."

Home this Christmas, Cincinnati Post, December 23, 2003

You'd think a true blue American Marine Reservist with nearly three decades of service without any battlefield experience would be biting at his bit for an Iraq command, wouldn't you? Better for the troops. Still it seems that he shouldn't be calling anyone a coward, at least not until he washes that big brown spot off of his nose.

Danny just loves to pretend though. At least twice recently he has worn his reserve Marine Uniform to a political event in which he spoke in a partisan fashion. I am not sure, but it seems that this is a violation of regs, and if it isn't, it is still a dishonourable act.

September 30, 2004
You should have seen Colonel Danny Bubp in his full dress Marine uniform. The white gloves, spit shined shoes, and chest full of metals were very impressive. We were at a “Party for The President” in Batavia.

Some sort of Ohio Republican Newsletter

And not long ago during the Schmidt campaign, he wore his uniform, while he disrespected the previpous president. I am dumping the whole article because it points out a Noe/Schimdt connection, and Jean's denial.

With the hours before Tuesday's 2nd District special congressional election dwindling, even the candidates Sunday seemed to have come to the realization that the result will soon be out of their hands.

Democrat Paul Hackett and Republican Jean Schmidt had relatively light schedules of personal campaigning Sunday, compared to the frenetic pace both have maintained for weeks now in a race that, last week, landed abruptly and unexpectedly in the national spotlight, painted as a referendum on the Bush administration and the Republican leadership in Congress.

Instead, the heavy lifting Sunday was done by the armies of get-out-the-vote volunteers on both sides who combed targeted neighborhoods from Cincinnati's east to Portsmouth.

Hundreds more manned phone banks in all seven 2nd Congressional District counties, aided by the unceasing drumbeat of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of TV ads, paid for by the candidates' committees and the national political parties.

If 20 percent of the district's 455,000 registered voters go to the polls in Tuesday's election to replace Republican Rob Portman, it will be more than many on both sides expected.

So, on Sunday, the 2nd District race was being driven not so much by the candidates' rhetoric or hand-shaking prowess as by the intense focus by both campaigns on identifying their supporters and convincing them to vote in a special election in the middle of summer.

"We know where our voters are and we're going after every one of them," said Hackett campaign manager David Woodruff. "It's all about getting our people motivated now."

The same holds true for the Schmidt campaign, which has the help of the Ohio Republican Party in setting up phone bank operations from one end of the district to the other.

"This is a district where Republicans know how to turn out the vote," said Jason Mauk, communications director of the Ohio Republican Party. "But we're not taking anything for granted."

Both candidates kept their schedules light Sunday. Hackett carved out time to see his daughter perform in her summer camp musical Sunday; and both candidates prepared for a last 24-hour blitz of campaign appearances today and Tuesday.

For both candidates, the campaign day started Sunday morning in an unlikely place - the Indian Hill Church, a dual-denomination church on Drake Road where Presbyterian services are followed each Sunday by an Episcopalian service.

Hackett, a member of the church, sat in a pew with his family Sunday morning and listened to a 20-minute speech by Schmidt, a Catholic.

"A couple of weeks ago, my pastor asked if I wanted to speak to the people between services about my candidacy and I said I would if they invited (Schmidt) to come too," Hackett said. "It was the only fair thing to do."

Hackett spoke to the congregation last week; Schmidt had her turn Sunday.

The truce between the candidates ended once they left the church Sunday morning.

A few hours later, Hackett was standing in front of TV cameras at the Hamilton County Courthouse downtown, refuting Schmidt's statement on Channel 12's "Newsmakers" program that she had "never met" and "wouldn't recognize" Thomas Noe, the Republican campaign contributor at the heart of the state GOP's Coingate' scandal.

Hackett produced minutes of a March 2002 Ohio Board of Regents meeting that indicates that then-state representative Schmidt had met with the regents, whose membership at the time included Noe.

"She seems to have a very selective memory," Hackett said.

When reporters asked for copies of the minutes, Hackett and an aide raced two blocks down Court Street to his law office in the Kroger building to run off copies.

Later in the afternoon, the Schmidt campaign staged a "Support Our Troops" rally in Union Township's Veterans Memorial Park, where about 50 people gathered under the park's Vietnam-era medical evacuation helicopter to hear speech-making by Schmidt and some of her supporters, including Glenda Kiser of Amelia, the mother of Sgt. Chuck Kiser, an Army reservist killed last year in Iraq.

The event was billed as a rally to honor veterans and local residents serving in Iraq, but much of the speech-making - particularly from State Rep. Danny Bubp, R-West Union - consisted of criticizing Hackett, an Iraq war veteran, for his differences with President Bush and the administration's policies in Iraq.

Bubp - who, like Hackett, is a Marine Corps Reserve officer - stood under the helicopter's wings in his military dress uniform, saying that the one thing military officers do not do "is criticize their commander in chief."

"I served for eight years under a president who loathed the military but we never said a word about it," Bubp said.

Max Cleland, the former Democratic senator from Georgia who lost both legs and an arm serving in Vietnam, campaigned again with Hackett Sunday and said the Republicans' criticism of Hackett was "just wrong."

"They say they support the troops," Cleland said, "but they won't support this troop."

Howard Wilkinson, "Candidates take it easy in final days", Cincinnati Enquirer, August 1, 2005

There is also a blog claim that Bubp is dissembling about his claim of being a Naval War College Graduate, but I didn't go for the deeper digging:

As for the Naval War College graduate, he is not. He took a 2-week course at the college as part of his reserve duty; nothing more, nothing less. Yet he misrepresents that he is a "graduate". [1]

i'm doing this from my RSS reader, i try and double back later.

cheers --Hugh Manatee 11:39, 23 Nov 2005 (EST)