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Bilbray Sighting in San Diego

by: Lucas O'Connor

Tue Jul 29, 2008 at 11:22:57 AM PDT


Brian Bilbray was spotted in San Diego yesterday holding a joint press conference with Rep. Duncan Hunter. Of course, it wasn't actually in Bilbray's district- he avoid his home district like the plague, refusing to even enter the district to campaign. So while Nick Leibham gears up to strike a symbolic blow tomorrow against Big Oil price gouging, Rep. Bilbray took a break from voting against insisting that oil companies drill in the land they've been given before they get more and against drilling responsibly. A bit ironic perhaps since his Congressional website touts right at the top that Bilbray is "working to reduce gas prices." Right. Work paid for by Big Oil.

So he came all the way back to San Diego and didn't go to his district. Why? So that he could burnish his fake-environmentalist credentials by...celebrating the destruction of local wetlands. Now this might be a bit confusing if you've been receiving any of Bilbray's official franking mail recently, because they claim he's "keeping our beaches and water clean." Except of course that he's not. It's convenient though- he can send these barely-legal and completely dishonest mail pieces from DC so he never has to go to the district and face the voters, then he can come to San Diego and claim he's been to town even though his event isn't in the district and directly contradicts his mailers, and then he can go back to DC hoping that everyone noticed a little bit but not too much. Because it probably wouldn't be too good for him if people looked very closely at him or his voting record.  

Lucas O'Connor :: Bilbray Sighting in San Diego
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