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    Local Blogger Chris Bassett Quoted in Oregonian Baird Article

    Local blogger extraordinaire, Chris Bassett, was quoted in an Oregonian (Mapes on Politics) article about Clark County politics and the increasingly odd behavior of the 3rd District Representative Brian Baird.

    Former Democratic activist Chris Bassett, whose blog on Clark County politics I discovered today, points to county-by-county returns on the two big initiatives on last week’s ballot. Voters in each county of the [...]



    Baird the “Lieberman of the Left Coast”

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    Comes now a letter to the editor today in the Columbian re our Congressman Baird:

    FISA vote is last straw

    I recently heard, then read, about Congressman Brian Baird’s rationale for voting for the new FISA bill. What a bunch of half-truths.

    First, I am an independent. Baird has willingly changed his philosophy in recent years, supporting the “surge,” now supporting [...]