I gather that the RATS are trying to hang the Coingate thing on Schmidt, and also trying to smear her campaign manager with some kind of sexual innuendo. FWIW. I'm not in the district, but have been following it pretty closely.
Coingate is one of them. They also say she is "a career politican in the mold of Bob Taft" and are tying her to every scandal that has ever been mentioned in Columbus. One Hackett ad show a headline from 1998-- years before she was elected to the statehouse! But don't expect Schmidt or the MSM to bring that up!
The sexual innuendo is especially rich. They found out his e-mail nickname from his AOL account, because a message they sent was bounced back. Then, someone went on a BDSM website and created a profile in the same name as his AOL screen name. Then, the profile was "taken down" hours after the allegations surfaced in the blogosphere.
The MSM, to their credit, is not touching this with a 10-foot pole.