A July mailer sent by Republican U.S. Rep. Jim Baird ’s congressional office to Hoosiers in Warren County includes an image of not one, but two elected Bairds.

In the photo, Congressman Baird and his son, Greencastle Republican state Rep. Beau Baird , stand alongside a boy and a cow. Bold text on the mailer reads “Congressman Baird champions the One Big Beautiful Bill to support Hoosier farmers.”

For years, Beau Baird has been rumored as a future candidate for the 4th Congressional District, which contains the counties immediately to the west of Marion County, should his father choose not to run for another term in Congress. Recently, the elder Baird has used pictures of his son in taxpayer-funded mailers and has started omitting his first name in some materials when identifying

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