By Thomas C. Nash
Mirror-Spectator Staff
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A long-awaited September 3 Ohio Elections Commission hearing relating to charges of Armenian Genocide denial by an Armenian American candidate against an incumbent US House Rep. ended with no decision, leaving the case continued to October 1.
Republican Jean Schmidt, who represents Ohio’s second district, filed false claims charges against 2008 independent challenger David Krikorian in April shortly after he announced he would run for the seat as a Democrat in 2010.
In the 2008 election season, Krikorian accused Schmidt of taking “blood money” to “deny the genocide of Christian Armenians by Muslim Turks” as a co-chair of the Caucus on US Turkish Relations and Turkish Americans.