'Mean Jean' Goes to Washington, and Invites a Firestorm

[DaveColorado]

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'Mean Jean' Goes to Washington, and Invites a Firestorm

WASHINGTON (Nov. 19) - She grew up in the rough-and-tumble of a family auto racing business, went through concealed-weapons training, and bears a local nickname seldom applied to shrinking violets: "Mean Jean."

So when Representative Jean Schmidt, an Ohio Republican, created a furor on her 75th day in Congress by lobbing the word "coward" toward a Democratic war hero, those who know her best were anything but surprised.

Just this week, a profile in The Hill newspaper, which covers Congress, labeled her "gloriously uncensored." Back home in her suburban Cincinnati district, the Whistleblower, an online newsletter that tracks local politics, rushed out a special I-told-you-so issue calling the speech "vintage Jean Schmidt."

"We have said innumerable times that she would go to Washington and open her mouth and create an embarrassment," said Jim Schifrin, the newsletter's publisher. "She will say things that turn people off like nothing you've ever seen."


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[Bluzmann57]

1. I think she has an offspring or two that are of legal age

They need to enlist so they can prove that Marines don't cut and run. Oh wait, that's unreasonable, she's a loud mouth no spine repuke who will not put her money where her mouth is, so to speak. And I have known plenty of people who were "raised in racing" and so forth who have some friggin' sense. She doesn't. The hell with her.

[stray cat]

2. No reason she can't volunteer herself others her age have gone