Comments on: Brian Baird is a Flake – Part II http://www.democracyforvancouver.org/2008/07/13/brian-baird-is-a-flake-%e2%80%93-part-ii/ Federal, Washington State and Clark County Politics Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:14:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: bushtool http://www.democracyforvancouver.org/2008/07/13/brian-baird-is-a-flake-%e2%80%93-part-ii/#comment-44984 bushtool Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:55:17 +0000 http://www.democracyforvancouver.org/?p=1566#comment-44984 And don't forget that we paid for a very important trip to the <a href="http://www.columbian.com/opinion/news/2008/07/07022008_Brian-Baird-defends-visit-to-Galapagos.cfm" target="blank" rel="nofollow">Galapagos for Rep. Baird.</a> <blockquote>Baird maintains there is no substitute for being on the site of research to learn what is being done about the problems of global warming, and effects of natural phenomena such as El Niño. “You can’t learn about this just by reading scientific papers or in a telephone conversation.”</blockquote> What a bunch of hooey. And our Congressman <a href="http://fortune535.sunlightprojects.org./lawmaker/13/" target="blank" rel="nofollow">can afford </a>to pay for his own vacations: <blockquote>Brian Baird (WA-3)Lawmakers Avg. Net Worth Movement Avg. Net Worth in 1998 $-40,700 (Range: $-62,615 to $-18,786) Avg. Net Worth in 2006 $1,917,517 (Range: $452,036 to $3,382,998) </blockquote> And don’t forget that we paid for a very important trip to the Galapagos for Rep. Baird.

Baird maintains there is no substitute for being on the site of research to learn what is being done about the problems of global warming, and effects of natural phenomena such as El Niño. “You can’t learn about this just by reading scientific papers or in a telephone conversation.”

What a bunch of hooey.

And our Congressman can afford to pay for his own vacations:

Brian Baird (WA-3)Lawmakers Avg. Net Worth Movement
Avg. Net Worth in 1998 $-40,700 (Range: $-62,615 to $-18,786)
Avg. Net Worth in 2006 $1,917,517 (Range: $452,036 to $3,382,998)

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