Leaked Email Reveals Dem Astro-Turf Operation

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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…

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Baird Blasted at Town Hall By Marine Vet

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.

Baird Plunges to New Depths

Southwest Washington Congressman Brian Baird just doesn’t get it.

After finally apologizing for outrageous remarks he made last week about opponents of ObamaCare, and agreeing to schedule town halls to hear from constituents, Baird reverted to the rhetorical equivalence of inserting both feet into his mouth.

At a lunch meeting of the Vancouver Rotary, several sources confirm that Baird cracked: “If there’s a Ryder truck parked outside, it’s probably for me.”  That’s obviously a thinly veiled reference to domestic terrorist Timothy McVeigh, to whom Baird infamously compared constituents that disagree with him last week.

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Town Halls: DeFazio Grilled, Baird Surfaces

First, to Oregon, where Rep. DeFazio faced tough but civil questioning from several town hall audiences tonight:

Across the Columbia River to the north, Brian Baird finally surfaced from his secret hiding place to face constituents. Unsurprisingly, they weren’t universally happy with him…

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Brian Baird: A Junket Junky?

It’s been a rough few news weeks for 3rd C.D. Brian Baird.  Tomorrow, he goes on with Lars Larson to do a radio town hall, which he reluctantly agreed to after weathering several days of negative press.

Ahead of what’s sure to be a debut wrought with fireworks, I thought it fair to review some of the junketeering Representative Baird has been accused of recently.

In comparison to his reluctance to hold town halls–and his associated reprehensible comments–Baird’s travel to far-flung exotic destinations has encountered relatively far less outrage.  Still, his jet-setting has garnered him as much, if not more, time in the national limelight.

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