In 2009 Armenian-American candidate David Krikorian called out Schmidt for her failure to publicly define the Armenian Genocide as a genocide . His concern arose from a statement released by Schmidt 's office noting that " at this time she Schmidt does not have enough information to characterize these deaths as genocide especially since those responsible are long since dead . " A few days before the 2008 congressional election , Krikorian published a letter stating that " Jean Schmidt has taken $ 30,000 in blood money from Turkish government sponsored political action committees to deny the slaughter of 1.5 million Armenian men , women and children by the Ottoman Turkish Government during World War I. " Finally , the flier asserted that it could be adequately verified by the Federal Election Commission 's website . He repeated the letter to the Ohio Elections Commission
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Jean Schmidt