What were the “ill-advised comments?”
Here’s what we know now:
On Aug. 11, 2009, at 9:24 p.m., a male caller left this message on Baird’s office voice mail: “Brian … You think we’re all Timothy McVeigh types, huh? I’d keep a close eye out for those Ryder rental trucks if I were you. You never know when one might show up. Bye.”
The call was a response to Baird’s remark that the political climate surrounding health care reform in August of 2009 reminded him of the climate in the spring of 1995, when Timothy McVeigh was plotting the Oklahoma City bombing.
Baird got a lot of grief over the McVeigh comment at home, too, especially from Republicans, who also took him to task for mentioning the death threat in a public appearance. Some opponents flatly accused him of fabricating the story.
He called people racist if they didn’t agree with obama.