He asked me to send Congress a message: stay the course. He also asked me to send Congressman Murtha a message, that cowards cut and run, Marines never do. Danny and the rest of America and the world want the assurance from this body—that we will see this through. Schmidt's remarks were immediately criticized and within ten minutes, she withdrew them and apologized. Karen Tabor, Bubp's spokeswoman, said Bubp "did not mention Congressman Murtha by name nor did he mean to disparage Congressman Murtha ... He feels as though the words that Congresswoman Schmidt chose did not represent their conversation." Bubp told the "Cincinnati Enquirer" that he never mentioned Murtha by name when talking to Schmidt and would never call another U.S. Marine a coward. Bubp later said, "I don't want to be interjected into this. I wish she never used my name." In discussing the incident, Rush Limbaugh and Tucker Carlson both claimed that Bubp was in Iraq when he spoke to Schmidt in 2005. Bubp was not in Iraq when he spoke to Schmidt in 2005, nor had he served in the Iraq War at the time of the controversy. Bubp would later serve in Iraq from November 2007 to November 2008. On October 22, 2009, the chairman of the local Democratic Party in the three counties comprising District 88 in the Ohio House of Representatives (Clermont, Brown and Adams Counties) filed complaints with their local prosecuting attorneys and the Ohio Attorney General claiming that Bubp was in violation of the Ohio Constitution and Ohio law by serving as both a member of the Ohio General Assembly and as a magistrate judge for the village of Ripley. According to the complaint, the Ohio Constitution and the Ohio Revised Code make it illegal to hold these two public offices at the same time. If the allegations of the complaint were confirmed, the matter could be submitted to the Ohio Supreme Court which would be called upon to rule whether Bubp, by accepting a second public office, forfeited his seat in the Ohio House of Representatives. On July 29, 2014, a letter was received by the Adams County Common Pleas Court raising issues relating to Bubp's handling of the probate estate of Hubert C. Wescott in 2009 to 2010. According to the letter, a parcel of real estate in the probate estate was appraised for $100,000. Through Bubp's handling of the estate, the property was sold to Michael L. Morgan an alleged "close associate" of Mr. Bubp's for $72,000.