On Mar 5, 2009, at 9:48 PM, Michael Perelman wrote:
> Wow! John Schmitz! At least he had family values. Is his daughter
> out of
> jail? Is his son still with Xe?
My god, I didn't know that Mary Kay Letourneau is his daughter. Damn. Nor did I realize at the time that he was thrown out of the JBS for being too far right!
Re: Nixon and the right, there's this interesting passage from his Wikipedia entry:
> When Richard Nixon, whose permanent residence at the time was in San
> Clemente--located in Schmitz' district--first went to China in 1972,
> Schmitz was asked if he supported President Nixon going to China.
> Schmitz replied, "I didn't care that Nixon went to China, I was only
> upset that he came back." Nixon recruited Orange County Tax Assessor
> Andrew J. Hinshaw, a more moderate Republican, to run against
> Schmitz in the primary. Hinshaw edged out Schmitz in the Republican
> primary. Angry at Nixon's role in his defeat, Schmitz ran as
> theAmerican Independent Party candidate for president in the 1972
> election. He won just over a million votes. His best showing was in
> Idaho, where he won almost 10 percent of the vote and even finished
> second in some counties, ahead of Democrat George McGovern.
And the love child with the near-severed penis is a helluva story too! Thanks for pointing this out to me, Michael - I'd lost track of the loon.
Doug