A Washougal city councilman is the latest Republican to announce his intentions to run against incumbent Democrat Brian Baird in the 2010 3rd Congressional District race.
Jon Russell, the 33-year-old co-owner of the Columbia Gorge Medical Center, announced his candidacy in an e-mailed press release Friday. Russell has a degree in political science and was the deputy campaign manager for U.S. Rep. John Hostettler of Indiana’s 8th Congressional District.
He’s the former director of the Faith and Freedom Foundation
“I represent a new generation of reformers who are fed up with career politicians in Congress because they suffer from a lack of vision and the will to do the right thing for the people,” he said in the release. “Restoring trust in government can only happen when we send people to Congress who recognize their place in history and serve a short time and then return to their careers outside of government.”
Russell joins Olympia financial advisor David Castillo in an early Republican field. The 3rd Congressional District encompasses the southernmost portion of Western Washington, from Olympia south to the Columbia River.
It includes the counties of Lewis, Pacific, Wahkiakum, Cowlitz and Clark, and the majority of Thurston and Skamania counties.
Baird, a Vancouver resident, has held the seat since defeating Republican Linda Smith in 1999.
randydutton
Please make the following vow "I pledge NEVER to vote for a bill I haven't read". Only then will you be taken seriously. Since we know no Congressional rep read either the Stimulus Bill nor the Carbon Tax Bill it shall be assumed they have dishonored their position and should be removed. Remember, any lawyer who signs a contract he hadn't read, obligating their client to pay money, should be fired, sued, and disbarred. A legislator should be held to no lesser standard.
ElGringo
Brian Baird LOST to Linda Smith back in 1996. He beat Don Benton in 1998 to make it to Congress.Linda Smith left politics after losing to Patty Murray in the Senate race of 1998.