By Bill Poovey
The Associated Press
More than 150 calls were placed to congressional offices from the cell phone of a Tennessee man charged with threatening to burn down an Ohio congressman’s house during the health care debate, court records show.
A notice filed by federal prosecutors ahead of a Dec. 13 trial in Ohio says they will use the cellular telephone records of 40-year-old James Schmidlin, of Cleveland, Tenn., to show he took part in coordinated “telephone attacks” against supporters of President Barack Obama’s health care plan.
Schmidlin has a master’s degree in divinity and once worked with Church of God World Missions.