A little story from Newsday

Sunday gave us a Profile in Deceit: The Peter Schmitt Story. Okay It wasn't called that but it should have been.
"A Straight Shooter" is how one section is entitled. That is worth at least a chuckle.
The article says "Schmitt stands 6-foot-4, weighs 238 pounds and his face is perpetually flushed. That, he says, is in his makeup." Actually the flushed face is well known at the Forest Inn and doesn't come from makeup.

Amazingly the description of Schmitt goes on to say "Schmitt, who earned $63,500 as minority leader last year, takes pride in his bluntness; he said he has never been able to stomach the evasiveness practiced by politicians from both parties." We wonder how Schmitt can stand himself then. Schmitt is as evasive as they come, squirming out of answering real questions by lying.
Schmitt says of his icons, "All three were known for being sometimes brutally honest, which is something that I have made it a point of trying to do," Schmitt said." "Brutally Honest??!??" This site has outlined and detailed his many lies. Schmitt can't even be honest about not being honest.
The article continues "At a hearing that night, Schmitt asked the woman, 23, about an "inappropriate" relationship with Sylver. Democrats and women's groups criticized him for violating her confidentiality. But Schmitt says that if he hadn't, "that would still be in the bottom drawer of the county attorney's office."
What Schmitt did was INTIMIDATE the young woman into coming forward and forced her into the spotlight when that is not what she wanted. Again, this is something we have been covering from the start.

On his drunk driving Newsday says "While Schmitt acknowledges that he erred by drinking and driving - he was convicted of one charge and pleaded guilty to a lesser offense on the other - he says he never hid his past from the constituents who have re-elected him by large margins." Maybe he gets "re-elected by large margins" because the republicans have a 3-1 voter registration lead over the democrats. The fact is that he got caught driving drunk twice and it is an open secret in Massapequa that he hasn't learned his lesson. Schmitt continued as a TOBAY commisioner after breaking the law not once but twice and he should have been fired. You "err" once when it comes to drinking and driving and the second time is knowingly breaking the law and not caring.
Schmitt claims Reagan as an icon and that is quite understandable. Reagan is quoted as saying "Facts are stupid things" and presided over crimes bordering on treason. Reagan was well known for his lying and evasiveness (158 "I don't recall" statements during Iran-Contra testimony") and out-right lies about himself claiming he was with the liberators of a concentration camp when in fact he never left the US during WWII.

More later......