What were the “ill-advised comments?”
He was simply telling the Congressman, that because of his voting record, and support for the Health Care bill, moving vans will be showing up. In other words, you will be voted out of office.
Washinton State *ping*
What this means is that Congressman Baird had an un-redacted, original FBI report in his hands, three days after this “telephone death threat” was made. He knew the FBI had already looked into this but he never let anyone else know that, it was apparently too good of a crisis to let go by.
Instead, Baird and his Staff used the lie of these supposed “death threats” as an excuse to cancel live townhall meetings in the 3rd CD, and substitute “telephone townhalls” instead. The hue and cry was immediate and loud, and they backed down, but the rumors persisted, and the local media printed inflammatory stories about these death threats on the morning of the very first live townhall. He also used these supposed “death threats” to repeatedly categorize anyone in the District who disagreed with him as “Brwonshirts” and using “Tim McVeigh tactics”, when in fact nothing even remotely close to that was being done anywhere here in the 3rd CD. Like everywhere, Lyndon LaRouch fanatics abounded here at that time, and they were the ones portraying Obama as Hitler, and nobody else. Most of them had out of State license plates as was well documented on the internet at the time, but local media ignored that too.
Nobody on Baird’s Staff nor Baird himself ever came clean about this and still haven’t. What took the columbian seven months to get a redacted copy of, Congressman Baird could have given them an original of three days after the first telephone call if only someone at the columbian were competent enough to ask that deep of an investigative question.
Sure gives new meaning to “never waste a good crisis”, huh??
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Old news. This was reported February 27 by a blogger here.
http://clarkcountypolitics.blogspot.com/2010/02/report-on-my-brian-bairdfbi-foia.html
Of course, if you read the Columbian, bloggers have little credibility.
Left unanswered by the Columbian, why did it take until November to disclose a case that was closed in August?