According to the Cincinnati Enquirer‘s Washington Bureau (AKA Gannett News Service), Rep. Jean Schmidt (R, OH2) has been awarded the annual Marie Antoinette “Let Them Eat Cake” award by the Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes (COAST):
The award – the fifth of its kind – is handed out to the politician who “best displays their blithe ignorance of the plight of the beleaguered taxpayers of Cincinnati and Hamilton County,” the group said.
OK, the award is from one of her former opponents but it IS funny!
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.