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Tea Party Republican and one-time congressional candidate David W. Hedrick pleaded not guilty on Monday to one count of fourth-degree assault domestic violence, court records show. Hedrick was arrested at his Camas home early Sunday morning after his wife alleged he struck her twice in the back of the head during an argument. Hedrick was arraigned Monday and released on bail. He is due in court for a pre-trial hearing Nov. 2. If convicted, he faces up to a year in jail and a possible $5,000 fine. Reached by phone, Hedrick declined comment.

Republicans received further encouraging word in Southwest Washington's open congressional seat Thursday morning. A new poll from SurveyUSA taken for KING-TV in Seattle shows Republican Jaime Herrera, a state representative from Camas, leading Democrat Denny Heck, 54 percent to 41 percent. The two are vying to replace retiring Democratic Rep. Brian Baird of Vancouver. Interestingly, the poll result is not far off the vote totals gathered by the two parties in last week's non-partisan primaries. The latest results show Republicans with 53.7 percent of the vote to 42.4 percent for the Democrats.

Keith Ellison, widely hailed as America's first Muslim congressman, could more accurately be described as CAIR and Hamas' man in Congress. Congressman Ellison has been a regular presence at CAIR fundraisers and at pro-Hamas rallies in the United States. As a former member of Farrakhan's Nation of Islam , Ellison has enough anti-semitic and Islamist credentials to satisfy anyone, and had expressed openly anti-semitic beliefs in the past. Since Ellison got his start with CAIR , his attempt to provide support for Hamas is completely unsurprising. Both Hamas and CAIR are projects of the Muslim Brotherhood, which also helped...

Democratic retirements are beginning to mount, after the announcement Monday that Rep. Bart Gordon (D-Tenn.) will not seek reelection next year. Gordon said in a statement that, after a quarter-century in Congress, it’s time to retire. “Every decision I have made in Congress has been with their best interests in mind,” he said. “I hope the people here at home feel that I have served them as well as their good advice and views have served me. “When I was elected, I was the youngest member of the Tennessee congressional delegation; now, I’m one of the oldest. In fact, I...

Democratic Rep. Neil Abercrombie announced Friday that he will resign before the end of his term, just days after another Democrat, Rep. Brian Baird, announced his retirement. Democratic Rep. Neil Abercrombie announced Friday that he will resign before the end of his term, just days after another Democrat, Rep. Brian Baird, announced his retirement. A source told Fox News Abercrombie is resigning so he can focus on running for governor. In a written statement, the Hawaii congressman said the effective date of his resignation will be announced soon, and that it was a difficult choice. "This is an extremely difficult...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic Rep. Brian Baird said Wednesday he will not seek re-election next year so he can spend more time with his family and pursue other ways to serve. The six-term congressman who represents southwest Washington said the job has been the highest honor and greatest responsibility of his life. Baird, 53, of Vancouver, serves on the House science and transportation committees. While his 3rd District seat is considered competitive, he easily won re-election in 2008 and was not considered in jeopardy this cycle. "I find it is increasingly difficult to spend the time I need with my...

U.S. Rep. Brian Baird announced Wednesday he will not seek a seventh term in Congress next year. "Serving our country and representing the people of Southwest Washington in Congress has been the highest honor and greatest responsibility of my life," the Vancouver Democrat said in a statement. "Since the time I first announced I would seek election in November of 1995, I have done my utmost to work hard, tell the truth, listen, and do what was right for our nation. I am proud of the record of achievements for our district and I am incredibly grateful to the voters...

Threat to Baird not serious, FBI says The FBI said Tuesday it has closed its investigation of an alleged death threat against U.S. Rep. Brian Baird after concluding that the message left on Baird's Washington, D.C., office phone in August did not constitute a serious threat. "The information I received from our agents was that upon investigation, our special agents did not feel that the caller posed any threat and did not intend to conduct any act of terrorism," said Lindsay Godwin, spokeswoman for the FBI's Washington, D.C., field office. "The investigation is now closed."

There was a lot of noise made back in August of this year over Congressman Brian Baird, (D. Wa.) canceling out on all of his town halls over alleged death threats he claims he received. Baird was under fire from both sides for not holding face to face meetings with constituents and was strongly criticized for incendiary comments made comparing town hall attendees to “Nazi’s,” “Brown Shirts,” “Timothy McVeigh” and the like, which he eventually apologized for and agreed to hold some town halls. The day after the first town hall, Baird again came under heavy criticism for what was...

There is a Marine in Southern Washington, Camas to be exact, who became famous because of YouTube and a sternly worded lecture at a Town Hall meeting. David Hedrick had the fortitude to bluntly call Representative Brian Baird to account on several issues. Health care, the teaching of our children, and the upholding of one’s oath to the Nation, were among the issues this brave Marine took Baird to task for.

Here is video of Marine Vet David Hedrick confronting Washington Democrat Rep. Brian Baird A SECOND TIME - this time in Olympia, Washington on August 31, 2009. Hedrick's first confrontation at a Town Hall Meeting occurred on August 18, 2009, in Clark County, Washington. This time, Hedrick took the microphone and introduced himself, telling Baird, "God must be smiling on me, because you have made the unlucky choice of picking my number again." After giving Baird another tongue-lashing for not following the U.S. Constitution, Hedrick then asked Baird to read the 10th Amendment of the Constitution. Baird did so and...

Brian Baird Town Hall meeting Sept 2, 2009 this video is an exchange between a young conservative man and Rep. Baird became a little incensed at the way the young man personalized one key part of his statement. Brian Baird’s rebuttal was interesting in the sense he started to go to half-truths and painted an illusion that the Republican Party was the problem with debt. Because of the spin there is 2-minute segment that address the half-truths and bring some reality back to the issue. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYp0BetIZAE

Video from, Meeting last night Dr covers several issues concerning health care and over regulation and Brian Baird response. At the end the Dr address how good tax paying people feel like the targets, this received a standing ovation. Several more video from this meeting will be coming out in the next few days as soon as I can get through the footage.

U.S. Rep. Brian Baird backed out of a promise to hold a living room meeting at the home of a Pacific County Republican chairwoman, the GOP activist said Monday. Nan Malin of Long Beach said a Baird staffer told her the private meeting was nixed because of unspecified posts Malin had written on a right-leaning blog. "It's really the congressman's loss," Malin said. "He's really missing an opportunity to have a real dialogue. These town halls have not had a real dialogue." A representative for Baird, D-Vancouver, said tonight's 7 p.m. public town hall at Ilwaco High School would serve...

I am the Private citizen who telephoned the Capitol Hill Police Department on Friday morning, August 21 2009, and I was the subject of Columbian Editor Lou Brancaccio’s Press Talk column from August 25th, “Moving Forward on the Baird Story”. http://columbian.com/article/20090825/NEWS02/708259998/Press+Talk++Moving+forward+on+the+Baird+story When I read a report that morning by Katy Durbin of the Columbian that Congressman Brian Baird had reported a second “death threat” to the Capitol Hill Police, but was in fact based on a telephone threat he had received earlier in the month, I decided to see if I could find out any more information than what newspaper...

Wednesday, August 26 | 8:00 a.m. BY KATHIE DURBIN COLUMBIAN STAFF WRITER Former Marine David Hedrick of Camas has become an instant conservative media celebrity after attacking U.S. Rep. Brian Baird and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at Baird's Aug. 18 health care town hall in Ridgefield. A video clip of Hedrick's comments and the raucous response that greeted them, taken from a columbian.com multimedia piece, has gone viral on the Internet, receiving more than 450,000 views on YouTube. *SNIP* Kathie Durbin: 360-735-4523 or kathie.durbin@columbian.com.

Did he or didn't he? It has been a bit of whirlwind especially on a few blog sites. We're talking about whether our Congressman Brian Baird reported a death threat to Capitol Police. Let me back up a little: -- Baird opted not to hold public town hall meetings on health care. He made the decision because he was concerned about what he was seeing out there at other town hall meetings. Safety issues. -- Baird said part of his decision was based on some death threats he had received. -- He called some of the tactics he had seen...

A fellow Washingtonian and veteran marine tells Congressman Brian Baird what's what!!

Here is video of Disabled Marine Veteran David Hedrick on with Sean Hannity tonight to talk about his real slapdown of Democrat Rep. Brian Baird at a Town Hall Meeting several days ago. Hedrick has really made an impact with his remarks. His words have resonated because he encapsulated in a few words what millions of Americans are feeling about ObamaCare and what Democrats have been saying and doing. He particularly hammered Baird for likening anti-ObamaCare protesters to "Brownshirts," reminding the Congressman that Nazis were radicals on the Left and not the Right. They were the National "Socialist" Party. Hedrick...

This is the video that they've been playing all over talk radio and Fox News tonight.