Senator Bayh’s Office Not Answering Phone Calls from the Press

During an inquiry to Senator Evan Bayh’s (D-IN) Washington D.C. office regarding the then future confirmation vote of Timothy Geithner, The Smoking Argus Daily’s call was answered by voicemail.  After identifying myself, leaving contact information, the nature of my call, and our publication deadline, I was instructed to press one to confirm my message.  However, upon confirming my message, the automated voice relayed that the message could not be delivered due to the Senator being over his mailbox limit of unanswered messages and the call was then automatically disconnected.

We find this absolutely deplorable that a Senator who spends over $1 million Dollars annually staffing his four various offices would be so arrogantly uninterested in corresponding with constituents or fielding questions from the press.  It is amazing to me, such arrogant audacity on the heels of a controversial confirmation vote as to not have a staff member available to answer the phone.  -Public servant indeed.

The Smoking Argus Daily then phoned Indiana’s Senior Senator, Senator Lugar (R-IN) in hopes he might advise the careless Junior Senator to tend to his inbox in lieu of casting yet another vote to benefit one his wife’s company’s.¹

In the end , Senator Evan “I’m too busy for Constituents” Bayh ended up voting ‘aye’ for tax cheat Timothy Geithner¹ as the next Secretary of the Treasury.  A tax cheat in charge of Treasury as well as the Internal Revenue Service, and inattentive elected officials.  Perhaps fellow readers, we just chalk this up to another fine example of the much ballyhooed “Change” in Washington.

We did manage to reach Senator Bayh’s Press Secretary on Tuesday in hopes of receiving some form of official comment as to the justification for voting to confirm Tim “Turbo-Tax” Geithner.  However, after confirming and reconfirming our email address to said Press Secretary, the promised statement never arrived.  Perhaps it is a difficult task, attempting to rationalize a vote for a Tax-Cheat-in-Chief while the rest of us our coerced into compliance via withholding and the joy of multiple schedule 1040’s.

Source(s): ¹Journal Gazette “Across the boards” -Published: December 16, 2007 • ²Confirming Timothy F. Geithner, of New York, to be Secretary of the Treasury