Let the joyous news be spread, the wicked witch is dead.

Not sure, but that flying monkey (starting around 1:14) looks a lot like Barrett Brunsman to me.

SuperPAC has new web ad exposing Jean Schmidt's awful record

Here is Enquirer story on ad.

Ha ha ha! Whose endorsement would matter the most?

The Enquirer asked its readers with respect to the Presidential context, whose endorsement would matter the most, among local elected officials, including Rob Portman, Steve Chabot, Governor Kasich, John Boehner, Jean Schmidt, etc.

Last, dead last, was Schmidt.

We wonder why.

Anderson Tea Party endorses Wenstrup

Is it Schmidt's corruption?  Is it her votes for TARP and to raise the debt limit? Was it her votes to raise the gas tax, personal income tax, sales tax, liquor tax, dry cleaning tax, hair cutting tax and other taxes and fees?

We are not sure, but we are pleased to trumpet this morning the endorsement by the Anderson Tea Party of Dr. Brad Wenstrup for the United States Congress. Read about it here.

2nd District voters are blessed with a clear choice for Congress, an absolute lying, unprincipled scoundrel versus a war hero with integrity, business acumen, healthcare experience, military experience, and common sense.

Umm, hard choice, isn't it?

Wenstrup for Congress, please.

Gosh, this is really funny, really sad

In response to WLWT's questions to Jean Schmidt today about her ethics problems, Schmidt says:

"I am honest and I am above reproach.  What you're looking at is an individual who has been sanctioned by the elections commission for reckless disregard of the truth, and that's Mr. Krikorian."

This is hilarious:

*  This woman was found herself to have lied four times by the Ohio Elections Commission.

*  She was caught plagiarizing articles twice.

*  Even Danny Bubp said she lied about the Murtha comment.

*  The House Ethics Committee found she accepted an illegal $498,000 gift.

*  The House Ethics Committee found that she failed to report that gift on her financial disclosure forms and ordered her to amend them.

Honest and above reproach?

What a joke!

COAST attorney Chris Finney gives two more speeches on Schmidt corruption scandal

This week, COAST attorney Chris Finney presents once again on the topic of the impotence of the House Ethics Committee and the Jean Schmidt corruption scandal.  The speech is Wednesday night at 7 PM before the Cincinnati East Tea Party at the Oakley Community Center (behind Bigg's in Hyde Park Shopping Center).

Finney also has been invited to present to the Hamilton County Blue Chip Young Republicans on the same topic on Monday, February 27 at 7 PM at Molly Malone's on Montgomery Road in Pleasant Ridge.

If you can't make it either, watch Chris' speech here.

Please try to make one of these compelling presentations.

Corruption scandal dogs Schmidt

Last summer, the House Ethics Committee issued a report purporting to whitewash the illegal conduct of Jean Schmidt in accepting what it called an "improper" gift of $498,000 from the Turkish Coalition of America.  The Ethics Committee ordered Schmidt to pay back the illegal gift, and to correct her  failure to report the gift three separate times on her annual financial disclosure statements filed with the House Clerk (three separate felonies).

Schmidt surely thought that the nightmare of the House Ethics Committee investigation was over.

However, since that time, two Complaints have been filed against Schmidt with the Office of Congressional Ethics, one by the Center for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and one by David Krikorian.  These Complaints allege (i) that Schmidt lied to the House Ethics Committee when she said she did not know of the illegal gift and (ii) that she refused to comply with the mandates of the House Ethics Committee in their original decision.  In addition, Krikorian has filed a Complaint with the Internal Revenue Service claiming that the gifts are illegal, unreported income, and a separate Complaint with the Federal Elections Commission for having accepted an illegal campaign contribution.

So, in addition to the headache of needing to raise nearly $1/2 million to pay off her illegal gifts, Schmidt is paying attorneys to defend four separate Complaints filed against her and she continues to pursue her $6.8 million suit in Clermont County Common Pleas Court against Krikorian, a suit that will cost her more than $1 million in additional legal fees to pursue.

COAST predicts that there are other shoes still to drop in the Schmidt corruption scandal.  Stay tuned for additional details.

Schmidt ethics/corruption scandal topic of Clermont Tea Party speech tonight

The fourth in a series of speeches on the Jean Schmidt corruption scandal will be presented this evening at the Clermont County Tea Party at 7 PM at the Eastgate Holiday Inn.

Join us!

Jean Schmidt snubs Three-Tea Parties; is a no-show at their debate!

Schmidt is a no-Show at Three Tea Party Debate

Tonight, the Anderson Tea Party, the Liberty Alliance (formerly the Indian Hill Tea Party), and the Eastern Hills Tea Party united for a Candidates Night among the candidates for the Republican nomination to the U.S. Congress at Miami Valley Christian Academy.  More than 250 citizens were in attendance.

Jean Schmidt was a no-show.

COAST suspects she is fearful of defending her indefensible votes to raise the debt limit, for the TARP program, and in favor of greater regulation in Washington.  Likely, she is also unwilling to address the corruption allegations leveled against her.

So, Jean has snubbed the core of the Republican Party, the fiscal conservatives that comprise COAST and the Tea Party groups.

This is shocking behavior from a woman who claims to want to continue to be our Congressman.

Cincinnati area Tea Parties unite for the really big meeting Monday night

Eastern Cincinnati's allied liberty groups are hosting a candidates night and debate Monday evening at Miami Valley Christian Academy in Newtown at 7 PM.

The first hour of the program will be a debate between the candidates for the Second Congressional Distrct, Jean Schmidt and Brad Wenstrup, and the second hour will be a debate between Tom Brinkman, Jr. and Peter Stautberg for the Republican nomination for the 27th Ohio House District.

COAST intends to confront Schimdt at the debate with questions about her legacy of corruption in Washington.

COAST has endorsed Tom Brinkman for the 27th Ohio House district and Brad Wenstrup for the 2nd Congressional District.

The public is invited to the event.  It is free of charge.

More details are here.

Schmidt attacks COAST attorney Finney

Jean Schmidt must be getting desperate in her race to hold on to her seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Today, Schmidt's taxpayer-funded P.R. person wrote to Dierdre Shesgreen at the Enquirer and said the following about Chris Finney, COAST attorney, who also represents David Krikorian in his legal various proceedings against Jean Schmidt:

• “Is it possible that the lawyer has his right hand up the back of Wenstrup pulling his strings, while the lawyer's left hand is up the back of Krikorian pulling his strings?”

The diatribe was apparently in response to a question the Wenstrup campaign had raised about Schmidt 's campaign paying her back part of an old personal campaign loan at the coincidental time Schmidt was paying her Turk-Am-Paid lawyers the $42,000 that the House Ethics Committee ordered her immediately to repay.

Touchy, touchy, touchy.

And the funniest part is that Schmidt is suing Krikorian for $6.8 million, in part for calling her a "puppet," having used, of course illegal monies from the claimed "puppet masters" of Schmidt.

Read the Enquirer blog here.

Schmidt named one of Congress' "most corrupt"

Citizens for Responsibility & Ethics in Washington (CREW) names local Congressman as one of Washington's worst

This news item caught COAST's attention: The Center for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) has named local Congressman Jean Schmidt as one of the most corrupt members of the United States Congress. You can read the release here and the full 9-page report here.

CREW is the leading, non-partisan voice in D.C. on ethics in Congress, speaking out forcefully on the Charlie Rangel and Maxine Waters ethics investigations, for example.

Ohio unemployment rises to 10.9% in December

Legacy not just of Strickland, but also of Bob Taft and Jean Schmidt

            Ohio unemployment figures for December were 10.9%, one of the worst performances in the nation.  It would be easy to blame this on Ted Strickland and the democrats that presently control Columbus, and Republican leaders are rejoicing in doing so.  But from COAST’s perspective, the news is the bitter fruit of the bloated government embraced by both the Taft administration and the Republican legislature.

            “It took more than three years of Ted Strickland to ruin Ohio’s once-vibrant economy,” said COAST Chairman Jason Gloyd.  “Ohio is uncompetitive for jobs, and the fault for that falls squarely on the shoulders of Bob Taft and Jean Schmidt who voted for his high-tax proposals.”

So, thank you Jean Schmidt

As we head into another year with Jean Schmidt as our Congressman, and with the Ohio economy imploding before our eyes, COAST steps back to take a minute to thank Jean Schmidt for all of the things she brought to us:

· Thank you Jean Schmidt for raising the sales tax

· Thank you Jean Schmidt for raising the gasoline tax

· Thank you Jean Schmidt for instituting a new tax on dry cleaning

· Thank you Jean Schmidt for instituting a new tax on hair cuts

· Thank you Jean Schmidt for an increased Hotel-Motel tax

· Thank you Jean Schmidt for wasted money on the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

· Thank you Jean Schmidt for hundreds of millions wasted on TARP

· Thank you Jean Schmidt for porkbarrel spending in the 2^nd Congressional District.

· Thank you Jean Schmidt for repeatedly embarrassing the district and the Republican Party with your antics, lies, and fawning behavior. 

And who said we never said anything nice about Jean Schmidt?

Big-taxer Schmidt Booed at Tea Party

Attempts to hide tax and spend credentials fall flat

While in the Ohio House of Representatives, Jean Schmidt slavishly supported each one of Bob Taft’s massive tax increases, and proposed a few of her own. Since being in Congress, she has shown a continuing propensity to supporting big government with votes supporting massive spending programs.

Thus, it was refreshing to see Schmidt loudly booed when she spoke at the massive September 4 Tea Party protest in West Chester. Remember to wrap your head with duct tape prior to viewing this clip so you can pick up the pieces when your head explodes. Tea Partiers are a bit more sophisticated than the average voter, Mrs. Schmidt. Peddle your lies elsewhere, please.