Efforts by Jean Primordialooze Schmidt to qualify for a congressional pension may yet hit a snag. Schmidt, who represents Ohio's second district (where I live), and whose reelection this November has been assured by action of the Ohio Democratic Party "leadership," now faces very serious charges of ethics violations, filed in a petition to the Office of Congressional Ethics.
Before moving to Schmidt's district, I lived in Charlie Rangell's district. If I seem a bit cynical about politics, please understand.
The current charges arise from Schmidt's two-year vendetta against political challenger David Krikorian. That vendetta has included filing "false statement" allegations with the Ohio Elections Commission, then withdrawing most of the allegations after getting media coverage, and most recently filing a defamation lawsuit against Krikorian, the latter intended to deflect attention away from the ethics charges now filed.