Craig Scheidler, a high schooler in Ohio’s 2nd District (Cincinnati area), wants to “send Jean Schmidt packing.” It’s a righteous fight: This is the severe woman who dissed a Vietnam vet on the floor of Congress.
But where we would have simply railed about it over beers, 15-year-old Scheidler decided to do something about it. He started a fund-raising page http://www.actblue.com/page/beatjeanschmidt and began writing about it on notable liberal websites.
He’s already surpassed his goal of 100 contributors and $3,000, which will be donated to the campaign of “Mean” Jean’s challenger, Dr. Victoria Wulsin. But if you got any money left over from the bar, there’d be worse places to put it. — Kevin Hoffman
This article appears in Sep 20-26, 2006.