Threatening Calls Follow Baird Cancellation
Politics by Nansen on September 1st, 2009 with 14 Comments so far.In case you missed it, The Columbian, picked up on Baird’s cancelling the town hall he agreed to have in my living room.
My phone started ringing off the hook early this morning. At some point, I have to get work done, so I’m letting calls go to voicemail. Suspiciously, the calls have all followed the same talking points: “We will destroy you!” and “This is War!”
Here’s an example of one of the threats (left on my voicemail), from Cliff Hazen of Vancouver, WA. Nothing like a threat to destroy one’s livelihood to get the morning going, heh?
More as I get time to upload them. Some of us have to work for a living…
Running Scared: Baird Backs Out of Town Hall
Politics by Nansen on August 31st, 2009 with 3 Comments so far.Brian Baird continues to sink deeper into the partisan pit sands. In doing so, he’s losing any remaining semblance of being a moderate.
A few weeks back, I managed to join one of his “tele-town hall” calls, after a source sent me the call-in info. Last week I blew the top off Baird’s sham tele-town halls. Among other questionable practices, Baird intentionally keeps the date, time, and call-in info for his “tele-town halls” secret. Indeed, you might say his calls amount to taxpayer funded private focus groups.
Baird’s ‘Tele-Town Halls’ Appear to be a Sham
Politics by Nansen on August 27th, 2009 with 3 Comments so far.Our S.W. Washington Congressman has taken a drubbing in the press for his initial decision not to hold town halls. As cover, he tried lashing out. He then had to apologize. Now, even his apology has seemingly backfired.
At the moment, he needs to be perceived as reaching out, and re-building bridges he burnt to a charred crisp.
Baird’s first attempt at preempting criticism by trying to short-circuit the democratic process not only failed, it caused one heck of a backlash. Rather than be honest and earnest, Baird appears to be right back at it again: holding sham “town hall” calls with constituents.
Leaked Email Reveals Dem Astro-Turf Operation
Politics by Andrew on August 23rd, 2009 with 15 Comments so far.UPDATE: Welcome MichelleMalkin.com readers!
A leaked email originating from Congressman Jay Inslee’s office may reveal a widespread astroturfing effort on behalf of Washington Democrats and liberal interest groups to pack town halls with “grassroots supporters” of government-run health care.
In stark contrast to a spontaneous grassroots groundswell against President Obama and Congressional Democrats’s government-run health plan, it appears both overt and covert efforts are underway to orchestrate support for the President’s agenda from the highest-levels of the political Left.
In the email which follows below the jump, Inslee’s official Congressional scheduler forwarded to State Democratic Chairman Dwight Pelz a list of upcoming town halls the Congressman has scheduled.
Pelz then forwarded the email with a note saying “Let’s keep turning people out for these!” to high-ranking Democrat and union organizers including: “progressive” political group FUSE Executive Director Aaron Ostrom, Organizing for America State Director Dustin Lambro (the President’s on-going campaign arm housed at the DNC), and Washington State Labor Council Political Director Benjamin Lawver (one of the state’s most powerful union committees).
A Longview event focusing on Mt. St. Helens with Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, along with embattled Congressman Brian Baird, was cancelled in recent weeks after Lambro, the OFA organizer, mis-construed the purpose of the event in an email to supporters.
NWD Contributor Nansen blew the lid off that story in an earlier post titled, “Going Stealth in Longview.”
The email trail seems to suggest an on-going and coordinated campaign among Democratic Congressmen, Democratic Party leaders, as well as official campaign arms of liberal interest groups and unions, to issue marching orders for members and activists. Similar efforts to disguise ObamaCare astroturfing as spontaneous grassroots efforts have occurred in other parts of the country as well.
The email follows…
Baird Blasted at Town Hall By Marine Vet
Politics by Nansen on August 23rd, 2009 with 1 Comment so far.Interesting to note that this exchange is only now surfacing. Little or nothing was mentioned in mainstream media reports about the town hall regarding this impassioned veteran taking Baird to task…
(H/T: OrbusMax.com. At this writing — Sunday afternoon — the video had 80,000 views)
UPDATE: The video now has over 250,000 914,384 views.
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