I've needed to stand by and just watch people south of me go goo-goo and elect this woman with a Bush brain to congress. She displayed her political sense very quickly with her attack on John Murtha, calling him a "cut and run" Democrat while she was a "stay the course" good, war-time Bush supporter.
Now, with only a week to go in her re-election she's stepping right into the shit by saying that storing of the worlds nuke materials in my section of Ohio was something she has no problem with and in fact she see's the economical advantages of doing so.
More after the jump;
A very sweet softball article by her own rag tag banner newspaper the Cinicnnati Enquire reports it like this:
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."
http://news.enquirer.com/...
Um..let me see now...I don't really think this is a good thing for this part of America. The beautiful hills of Pike County are a sight to see. The people are poor and could probably use an economical handout but what a way to get it.
She actually shows much more of her ass like this:
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.
Schmidt has signed on to an effort by the Southern Ohio Diversification Initiative (SODI) and a Cleveland-based company called SONIC to seek a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) grant of up to $5 million for a study of whether the former Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion plant should be a site for temporary storage and recycling of spent nuclear fuel rods. The 3,400-acre site near Piketon produced highly enriched uranium through the Cold War years for military purposes and for civilian reactors until 2001, when that activity was consolidated at the similar Paducah plant.
A decision on the grant could come this week.
People in the two counties that will be effected arent very happy with Jean. Here's the big uproar!!!
The idea of nuclear waste storage on a site that is still being cleaned up from its previous use has infuriated environmentalists and neighbors of the plant in Pike County and nearby Scioto County, prompting a communitywide petition drive and vows to fight the storage plan to the bitter end.
That and the fact that Schmidt's Democratic opponent, Victoria Wulsin of Indian Hill, has come out against the idea, mean that the issue could have an impact on Schmidt's re-election - meaning it could help determine who represents 650,000 constituents from Greater Cincinnati to Portsmouth.
"All I can tell you is that when it became known that she supports this, every Jean Schmidt yard sign in the county went down overnight," said Geoffrey Sea, a writer whose home abuts the Piketon plant.
One more little bit here....Jean's God and Saviour George Bush is behind this too...
Storage of nuclear waste became an option for the Piketon site this year after President Bush launched his Global Nuclear Energy Partnership program.
Obviously, with this district coming into play, Jean surely did not need this to pop up this weekend. If I were a republican in southern Ohio I'd be a bit worried what in the hell this woman is thinking.....
UPDATE
BuckeyeHamburger was kind enough to post Victoria Wulsin's web site....we need to send her some money and support her.Looks like she's gonna win this bigtime...
http://www.wulsinforcongress.com/
Go see what she is all about....pretty great candidate for coming from the bowells of conservative Ohio...I'm very impressed.
VOTE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Democrat