Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-OH) is back in the news, this time for reportedly taking free legal advice from the Turkish-American Legal Defense Fund in a series of cases she is pursuing in Ohio, reported Roll Call. Schmidt was front and center in a lawsuit filed by her opponent David Krikorian, who charged that the Congresswoman took money from Turkish interests during her election bid.
Rep. Schmidt was just appointed to the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The Turkish American Legal Defense Fund is a subsidiary of the Turkish Coalition of America, which has lobbied actively against Armenian Genocide recognition legislation. The TCA also “organized and sponsored” Rep. Schmidt’s trip to Turkey in 2009.
Read Roll Call’s here report on Rep. Schmidt’s latest legal woes involving her entanglements with Turkish interests.
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US foreign policy being partially manipulated form Ankara using skilfully different kinds of “Turkish coalition groups”.. How corrupt could politic else be?
If you have time, check out my Horizon Armenian TV news report from Columbus from September 2009, when Jean Schmidt, David Krikorian, Mark Geragos, Bruce Fein and David Saltzman all gathered at the Ohio Elections Commission. Schmidt’s true colors are quite apparent.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En7HhLV4oIA
Peter Musurlian
Globalist Films
Remember the character in the movie The Wizard of Oz named The Wicked Witch of the West, if you get my drift?
Particularly fitting – especially considering that “Oz” is sometimes a Turkish name – don’t you think?