Ummmm, I'll phone in all appearances this year thanks.
Posted on 08/06/2009 8:55:23 AM PDT by ThisLittleLightofMine
Over 10 years in Congress, U.S. Rep. Brian Baird has stayed tethered to his district, flying back to Southwest Washington for more than 300 sometimes-bruising town hall meetings during Congressional recesses.
But this year, he's literally decided to phone it in.
Instead of appearing in person, where "extremists" would have "the chance to shout and make YouTube videos," Baird said Wednesday, he's holding what he calls "telephone town halls" instead.
Baird said he's using the new system because he fears his political opponents may be planning "an ambush" to disrupt his meetings, using methods Baird compared to Nazism.
"What we're seeing right now is close to Brown Shirt tactics," Baird, D-Vancouver, said in a phone interview. "I mean that very seriously."
The coming telephone conference call would be Baird's third this year.
His office used its Congressional allowance to buy the necessary software around the start of 2009, a spokesman said.
This effing chicken $hit!!!!
Simple - it this toord won’t listen to his constituents, they’ll vote him out of office if they care at all about their government.
You now see the Democrat Talking Point papers calling us Nazi’s when they are the Nazi’s wanting people to snitch on anyone that doesn’t agree with OBAMACARE and Lanny Davis wants us taped.
Send the Democrats in Congress to their Unemployment lines in Nov 2010.
This is despicable out of a Congressman.
In his dreams...
I agree. Characterizing your opponents as angry mobs secretly organized and funded by a cabal, hauling in your own "fake grassroots" supporters, and encouraging your neighbors to snitch on anyone not toeing the government line reeks of brown-shirt fascism to me.
Or is that not what you meant?
Ummmm, I'll phone in all appearances this year thanks.
Also from the north end of his district:
http://www.theolympian.com/topstories/story/932112.html
I’m surprised he doesn’t want to have meetings where he can talk up the forest jobs program that he got from Pelosi as a bribe for voting for cap and trade also. Or his grandstanding resolution that Congress gets time to read the bills before they vote on them. Too bad we can’t get some one to run against him.
That’s my representative. Freakin’ coward! Lied about how he was going to vote on cap n’ trade too.
Typical Communist comment: ..................Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
“Accuse others of what you do.”
What a cowardly POS.
But then again, who’s really that surprised with these people anymore?
Yeah, from the White House, you stupid f***ing stooge.
The bastard from his own party that’s sitting in the (Hate) White(y) House
is where the “brownshirting” is coming from.
Oh, this congressbastard needs to be confronted with this statement and with the 0bama admin’s Stasi tactics.
Oh so we are Brown Shirts now.
“His office used its Congressional allowance to buy the necessary software around the start of 2009, a spokesman said.”
Before, or after the inauguration of the Bully Boy President?
How many other Democrats also prepared themselves this way?
Long term planning?
ROFL - POS cannot take the heat. Voters need to put him in the unemployment line next year.
Impossible. He is a D and this is Washington state. His district also includes Vancouver WA which is next door to Portland. Tons of liberals vs the very conservative rural areas of his district.
Ignore them and get louder!
Maybe you all can get a group to go visit him in his lair. But he knows he’s pretty safe from that, air fares being what they are.
Then why is he so concerned about holding a Town Hall? It would be kumbaya all around.
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