Vic Wuslin supposes imaginary Nuclear Waste Dump, blames Jean Schmidt for supporting it.

WLW Radio ^ | 11/3/06 | Bill Cunningham

[dalight]

I heard on Bill Cunningham today all about the wildest most hypocrictical

Vic Wuslin makes up an imaginary nuclear waste dump in her letter supporting a Piketon Project fuel recycling project , then blames Jean Schmidt for supporting it. Cincinnati Enquirer runs with the story! Ignores United Steel Workers letter to Wuslin telling Wuslin to quit making things up. Ohio 2nd Election is impacted because the reporter purposely distorted this story, despite having all of the facts. No correction is forthcoming. Silence on all of the news stations except Bill Cunningham on WLW. This sounds like.. "I was for the Nuclear Waste Dump before I was against it!"

This whole flap was started by an extremely misleading article in the Cincinnati Enquirer titled "Schmidt considers nuke waste" which manages to completely jumble the facts. So much that a mistaken notion of Victoria Wuslin about a project to potentially use the old U.S. Department of Energy plant at Piketon, OH for reprocessing nuclear fuel was instead going to create a nuclear waste dump.

Except, if this was a mistake, why is Victoria Wuslin paying for Radio adds claiming that Jean Schmidt supports locating a nuclear waste dump in Southern Ohio? Duh. Democrats lie.

BizzyBlog posts:

NOBODY is talking about a “waste dump” or a “waste disposal site” — except Vic Wulsin and her Democrat acolytes.

On Page 2 of a “clever” letter on Monday, October 31 to the heads of the two union locals and another official, after spending much of the letter affirming HER SUPPORT for the proposed expansion of work at Piketon, Wulsin slips in this sentence (find the green arrow at the link): “We should strive to create new job opportunities at Piketon, without establishing a nuclear waste disposal site.”

Clearly, this insertion and the hysteria Team Wulsin has created over the fictional possibility of permanently storing nuclear waste at Piketon has troubled those who have worked hard to preserve and expand the facility safely.

It was all apparently too much for the head of the United Steelworkers local, who just yesterday fired back a letter to Wilson with the following:

• Two references (green arrows at the link) thanking Wulsin for her SUPPORT of the facility and Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP), which would expand the facility.

• Two paragraphs (in red boxes at the link) — the first, stating that there is a “fundamental misconception” about the site analysis (the “study” referred to by Rulon above); and second, a firm statement that “no elected official including your opponent Congresswoman Schmidt, union member, or community leader supports the idea of creating a waste dump at the Piketon site.”

This can be summed up in nine words: Wulsin planted the story. She’s making it all up.

Nobody with a conscience can vote for a candidate who would perpetrate such a calculated FALSE smear in the final days of an election campaign (true claims are always fair game, and are always welcome), which is why this is BizzyBlog Dealbreaker 3.

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UPDATE: Well, what have we here? I have learned of a letter (link here), dated today, from the USW to Congresswoman Schmidt, containing this choice sentence in the fourth paragraph:

I appreciate very much the fact that you have continually expressed your strong opposition to Piketon becoming a so-called “waste dump.” As you and the rest of our nation know, Yucca Mountain is where our nation will store nuclear waste.

I guess “the rest of our nation” doesn’t include Vic Wulsin.

[dalight]

The Enquirer's coverage of the Piketon Recycling project is so distorted as to be shameful. If it weren't for Bill Cunningham highlighting this massive distortion on 700 WLW, then there wouldn't be any major media setting the record straight.

[Alter Kaker]

Does the dem Wulsin have a chance here? Ohio-2 is an incredibly conservative district, and the Dems aren't running that clownish ham marine this time around.

[dalight]

Unfortunately yes. Jean was ahead by 8 points in a poll on 10/17 but the a poll from just a few days back had Jean behind 3 points. So they are close. This is the sort of crap that upsets alot of folks and there isn't enough time to really respond to it..so... and the local paper isn't at all interested in getting the story right.

[RedRover]

Any ideas of how we can help from here?

[dalight]

Well.. apparently the campaign paid for 60,000 robo calls. There isn't much that can be done.. except in the trenches. I put out signs last night and all morning.. and will be making calls tonight, Monday and Tuesday.

Its like the finale of fireworks.. there are so many booms and flashes now.. that almost nothing cuts through the smoke.

[dalight]

I just heard another ad based on this lie again today on our Talk Radio station during Hannity. Its disgusting.