(Rep Jean) Schmidt criticized for false drilling claims

[sabra]

Source: ENQUIRER WASHINGTON BUREAU

Ohio Republican said Cuba sold drilling rights to China

WASHINGTON - U.S. Rep. Jean Schmidt is being criticized for repeating false information about Chinese oil drilling in a speech on the House floor.

In the June 5 speech, Schmidt said there is "drilling activity off of our country's coast," but not by U.S. companies, which are barred from drilling there.

"Instead, the Chinese are drilling off the coast of Florida with their new energy partner, Cuba," Schmidt (R-District 2) said in a speech now forever preserved in the Congressional Record.

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"Jean Schmidt needs to come clean just as Dick Cheney was forced to do on this and admit that she lied and distorted the facts for selfish political advantage at a time when her constituents are struggling to pay skyrocketing gas prices," Ryan Rudominer of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee said.

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Schmidt campaign spokesman Bruce Pfaff said he hasn't talked to Schmidt or her office staff yet about the statement.

"This just came up," he said. "We will have a discussion. To us, the real discussion needs to be about which country Cuba is selling the rights to oil to and that communist governments understand the laws of supply and demand better than congressional Democrats."

Read more: http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080617/NEWS01/806170306/1056/COL02

[Mrs. Overall]

1. Mean Jean has a problem with truth telling. She's always in hot water

because of her constant lies. Why is she still in office?

[liberalhistorian]

2. Because that area is so knee-jerk

republican that she'd almost have to murder a baby on live TV before their eyes would be opened.

[Kolesar]

11. Victoria Wulsin came within 1% of ousting mean Jean Schmidt

If I recall correctly

[Ian David]

3. What a Schmidthead. n/t

[Gman]

4. Mean Jean can't help herself

she hears a good lie and compulsively repeats it. Next she'll claim she was the person to expose this atrocity.

[Eurobabe]

5. Ohio needs to fire the liar! n/t

[pattmarty]

6. She barely won last time, so she should lose this time in this political climate.

[Eurobabe]

13. god I hope so

i voted absentee last time for oh, and voted for wulsin, but this cycle i will be voting absentee in pa.

get rid of the schmidt!!

[pattmarty]

18. Did you see the latest poll for Ohio re Obama vs McSame? Obama up by double digits.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

7. Republicans are being called out on their lies a bit faster these days.

That has to be a good sign.

[singilarpoint]

8. Fraud

If I'm not mistaken she is the one that came up with a fake photo of her in a marathon.

[liam_laddie]

14. Actually, it was a legit pic...

a local blogger who loves to create controversy thought he saw a suspicious shadow placement and blew that up into a full-fledged, though mistaken, anti-Schmidt rant. Turns out he was wrong. She is a skinny little runt (mirroring her brain) and actually is the fastest woman Rep in her age class. She better be fast; there'll be a lot of us chasing her out of OH-2!

[Raster]

9. Schmidt wouldn't know the truth if it bit her in the ass, which it frequently does.

Bad dog!

[liam_laddie]

10. About OH-2

I've had an R say to me "We want to keep Schmidt in DC because up there she won't do as much damage locally, like when she was in the Ohio House." Thought that indicates the amount of disgust around here about the Schmitiot.

Dr. Vic Wulsin has an excellent chance to take this seat. If you want to know more about Vic visit <http://www.actblue.com/entity/fundraisers/17969> and She had an expensive primary battle with a seeming DINO, so her funds planned for the General this autumn took a substantial hit.

And to respond to comment #2 (liberalhistorian) - yes, there are pockets of deep red... genetic aberration in their DNA...in Clermont, Warren and Butler, the so-called "ring counties" surrounding Cincinnati. I believe the tide will turn D this fall, especially with OH's new SoS Jennifer Brunner doing her best to assure honest, accurate elections.
BTW, Cincinnati itself suffers from the suburbs' reputation; in 2004 the city went Kerry-Edwards by 2:1. We cut the R margin from 11% in 2000 to 5.5% in 2004.

And not to counter-comment on SD's politics, but I wonder why the Governor et al are still R's? Although Rapid City is in a wonderful natural area (Wind Cave, Badlands, Black Hills, even Sturgis) I'll take OH's trends anytime.

[Kukesa]

17. Yea! Go Dr. Vic! Nice post, liam. n/t

[CanonRay]

12. Does this woman EVER tell the truth?

[Joanne98]

15. She loves free trade agreements too. She went to Colombia....

C-SPAN HAS THE VIDEO. MAKE A COMMERCIAL!

[Supersedeas]

16. same ole song and dance from lying Reskanks

[underpants]

19. Cheney was caught telling this RW lie too-just last week

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/underpants/120

[classysassy]

20. Mean Jean the hag from Ohio

would make an outstanding running mate for Mean John the ass from Arizona.