1. Jeannette Mary Schmidt is an American politician who is a state representative in Ohio's 62nd district.
49 Facts About Jean Schmidt
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Jean Schmidt was a US Representative for, serving from 2005 to 2013.
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Jean Schmidt's father made his money in the savings and loan industry, then ran an auto racing team that competed in the Indianapolis 500.
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Jean Schmidt worked in her father's bank, the Midwestern Savings Association, as a branch manager from 1971 to 1978.
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Jean Schmidt was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1984.
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Jean Schmidt was a fitness instructor from 1984 to 1986, when she began a four-year career as a schoolteacher.
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Jean Schmidt was elected as a Miami Township trustee in 1989.
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When Clermont County Commissioner Jerry McBride resigned in 1991 to become a judge, Jean Schmidt was one of four candidates to replace him, but wasn't appointed.
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Jean Schmidt was reelected to a third term as trustee in 1997.
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Jean Schmidt resigned her trustee seat to enter the Ohio House.
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In 2000, Jean Schmidt ran for the Ohio House of Representatives seat being vacated by Sam Bateman, who was prevented by term limits from running again.
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Jean Schmidt's district was entirely within Clermont County, containing Miami Township as well as Batavia, Goshen, Pierce, Stonelick and Union Townships, plus the villages of Amelia, Batavia and the city of Milford, and the Clermont County part of the city of Loveland.
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Jean Schmidt pushed legislation on the health of women, suicide prevention, abstinence education, and to "lock killers away for good" by making it easier for judges to sentence murderers to life terms.
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Jean Schmidt was excited to be in the Statehouse: "Oh my God, I'm really a state representative" she was overheard telling a fellow freshman.
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In 2020, Jean Schmidt was elected to a second stint in the Ohio House of Representatives from the 65th district.
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In 2004, Jean Schmidt ran for the 14th District seat in the Ohio Senate to replace Senate President Doug White, who was retiring.
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Jean Schmidt had endorsements from key state leaders such as Ohio State Treasurer Joe Deters and Speaker of the Ohio House Larry Householder.
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Jean Schmidt ultimately lost by just 22 votes: 17,076 to Niehaus's 17,098.
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Jean Schmidt faced Hackett in the August 2,2005, special election.
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Jean Schmidt was implicated, but could not be investigated because she was no longer a member of the Ohio house.
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Jean Schmidt said she thought her $644 gift was from former Bengals player Boomer Esiason, who was, like Chiron, interested in cystic fibrosis.
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Jean Schmidt repaid the lobbyist for the cost of the entertainment.
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When she denied she knew or ever met Thomas Noe, at the center of the Coingate investment scandal at the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation, Hackett produced minutes from a meeting of the Ohio Board of Regents that showed Jean Schmidt had indeed met with Noe, once a regent.
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On July 29, the Toledo Blade reported on a 2001 e-mail from Taft's assistant Jon Allison complaining Jean Schmidt was "bugging" him about setting up an Internet lottery for Cincinnati businessman Roger Ach, who gave her a $1,000 contribution the next year.
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Jean Schmidt's defenders pointed out that neither her current official or campaign website had the second degree posted, and said that Jean Schmidt had completed the requirements for the degree but never filed the paperwork to be awarded a diploma.
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The Commission found that Jean Schmidt had made false claims of being endorsed by several organizations, but that these did not warrant any reprimand.
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On January 20,2008, Jean Schmidt received the Hamilton County Republican Party's endorsement for the March 4 Republican primary.
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Jean Schmidt examined data that was supplied to her as part of a literature review, taken from ongoing studies, of experimental AIDS therapies that Wulsin concluded had potential.
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Jean Schmidt knew that those complaints and those allegations had no merit when she mailed the letter.
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Jean Schmidt carried six counties, while Wenstrup only won two counties : Hamilton County and Clermont County.
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Jean Schmidt was sworn in on the evening of September 6,2005.
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Jean Schmidt has called for increasing use of ethanol and drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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At the Chatfield College debate, Schmidt said Roe v Wade was "a flawed law made by activist judges" and would "love to see" it reversed.
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Jean Schmidt has refused to rule out banning married couples from being allowed to use birth control.
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Jean Schmidt appeared in public with a button in her lapel containing a photograph of Keith Matthew Maupin, who was at the time the only prisoner of war of the Iraq campaign who had not been freed and who was a native of Clermont County.
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Jean Schmidt believed in what we were doing is the right thing and had the courage to lay his life on the line to do it.
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Jean Schmidt asked me to send Congress a message: Stay the course.
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Jean Schmidt asked me to send Congressman Murtha a message, that cowards cut and run, Marines never do.
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Jean Schmidt claimed an endorsement from the Family Research Council, which was repudiated by the organization.
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Jean Schmidt had previously listed two degrees on candidate guides, her official Ohio House bio, and past campaign websites.
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Jean Schmidt repeated the letter to the Ohio Elections Commission.
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Jean Schmidt attempted, to no avail, to press criminal charges against Krikorian for his statements.
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In June 2010, Jean Schmidt unsuccessfully filed a $6.8 million lawsuit against David Krikorian.
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In July 2011, the House Ethics Committee announced that it was investigating accusations that Jean Schmidt had accepted roughly $500,000 in free legal services from a Turkish-American interest group.
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Jean Schmidt said that she hadn't received a bill for the legal services in question, and that she had been waiting for more than a year for guidance from the ethics committee on the proper procedure to pay the bill.
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Jean Schmidt failed to do so, but on March 1,2013, she finally filed that form disclosing that she left Congress owing the Turkish Coalition of America a debt in the range between $515,000 and $1.05 million.
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Jean Schmidt was elected chairman of the Greater Cincinnati Right to Life organization in 2005.
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Jean Schmidt was a trustee of the Clermont County Library from 1980 to 1992 and 1994 to 2000.
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Jean Schmidt is a director of the Mercy Hospital Clermont Foundation Board.