"If you think America needs another career politician steeped in a culture of corruption who does as she's told and tows the line on failed policies, then I'm not your candidate," he wrote in a guest column for "The Cincinnati Post". Hackett hammered on Schmidt's ethics. When she denied she knew or ever met Thomas Noe, at the center of the Coingate scandal at the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation, Hackett produced minutes from a meeting of the Ohio Board of Regents that showed Schmidt had indeed met with Noe, once a regent.