Surprise, surprise! Cincinnati Enquirer endorses Jean Schmidt

[theHandpuppet]

Shocking, I tell ya. NOT. :puke: The Enquirer has also endorsed Blackwell, DeWine, Boehner, and a host of other neocon fascists.

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061029/EDIT01/610290337

Enquirer endorses Schmidt
It has become great sport among some to disparage Rep. Jean Schmidt, the former state lawmaker from Clermont County who won a tough race last year to represent Ohio's 2nd District in the U.S. House.

But Schmidt has made the sport easy with such missteps as her infamous "cowards cut and run" speech about Rep. John Murtha on the House floor, a controversy over which degrees she earned at the University of Cincinnati, and more recently a GOP opinion piece her staff recycled with her name on it.

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Let's face it. Schmidt has had a tendency to step in it.

But while all the shouting and sneering has been going on, Schmidt has quietly been establishing herself as a working Congresswoman, becoming more focused on a range of serious issues - though her comments still can be distressingly simplistic on topics such as North Korea.

It is a very, very close call, but we endorse Schmidt for re-election over Wulsin, an esteemed expert in public health and epidemiology who has done noble work in the fight against AIDS.... MORE

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Yes, here's what Mean Jean has planned for those in here own district who voted for Hackett instead of her -- in this case, the voters in rural Pike County:

Schmidt considers nuke waste
BY HOWARD WILKINSON | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER

This doesn't happen every day: An incumbent member of Congress, in the middle of a re-election battle, says that storing nuclear waste shipments from around the world in her district may be a good idea.

U.S. Rep. Jean Schmidt does say that, and her support for studying the idea has become an issue in her re-election campaign, especially in rural Pike County, in the far eastern end of her sprawling Southern Ohio District, where the nuclear wastes would be stored.

"I'm not advocating for it one way or the other," Schmidt told The Enquirer. "I'm saying it is something we need to look at." MORE

Schmidt said she sees potential to create "hundreds, maybe thousands of jobs" in an economically distressed part of the state, where double-digit unemployment rates are the norm.... MORE

(And where, BTW, cancer rates are nearly epidemic comapred to other parts of the state. What they really need is a good dose of nuclear waste!)