{"id":8879,"date":"2006-10-26T15:16:41","date_gmt":"2006-10-26T19:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8879.html"},"modified":"2006-10-26T15:16:41","modified_gmt":"2006-10-26T19:16:41","slug":"the-only-person-in-this-race-who-has-broken-house-rules-is-jean-schmidt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/the-only-person-in-this-race-who-has-broken-house-rules-is-jean-schmidt\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The only person in this race who has broken House rules is Jean Schmidt’"},"content":{"rendered":"

I noticed that both Josh Marshall<\/a> and Charles Pierce<\/a> referred to Rep. Jean Schmidt as “stupid” today, so I was curious what all the fuss was about. It turns out they were onto something<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You may recall that Schmidt helped drag the House down to one of it’s lowest points last year when she lashed out<\/a> at Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), a decorated war hero, as a “coward” because he favors a troop-redeployment strategy for Iraq. She then proceeded to lie<\/a> about the source of her remark, characterize herself as a victim<\/a>, and blame the media<\/a> for her mistake. It was quite a sad display from one of Congress’ more embarrassing members.<\/p>\n

Naturally, Schmidt’s Democratic challenger, Victoria Wulsin, is anxious to remind voters about the lawmaker’s shameful incident, and is running TV ads reminding the district of Schmidt’s comments. For the incumbent, that’s where the “stupid” part comes in.<\/p>\n

Rep. Jean Schmidt blasted Democrat Victoria Wulsin on Wednesday for allegedly breaking a U.S. House rule that prohibits using the broadcast of House floor proceedings in campaign ads.<\/p>\n

“Her continued violation will land her in serious trouble with the House Ethics Committee,” Schmidt’s spokesman Matt Perin said in a release, referring to the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, which the release mistakenly referred to elsewhere as the “House Committee on Official Standards and Conduct.”<\/p>\n

Besides those errors, there’s just one more tiny problem: Wulsin, who is challenging Schmidt in the 2nd District, is not a member of the House. Not yet anyway.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oops.
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\nIn light of the fact that it’s against House rules to refer to another lawmaker by name or to disparage him on the House floor, Wulsin’s campaign spokesperson said, “The only person in this race who has broken House rules is Jean Schmidt. If she didn’t want people to see this ad, then she shouldn’t have given that speech.”<\/p>\n

Pierce added, “It is devoutly to be hoped that, if it does nothing else, a Democratic sweep in the upcoming elections might disenthrall the Republicans from the notion that they can collect anyone off the steam-grates of their party’s boulevards, dress them up, and throw them out there to plague and pester the rest of us.”<\/p>\n

Hear, hear.<\/p>\n

The ad in question is online here<\/a>. Thanks to Schmidt’s, shall we say, poor judgment, the ad she wanted to keep under wraps is now getting quite a bit more play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I noticed that both Josh Marshall and Charles Pierce referred to Rep. Jean Schmidt as “stupid” today, so I was curious what all the fuss was about. It turns out they were onto something. You may recall that Schmidt helped drag the House down to one of it’s lowest points last year when she lashed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}