In 2013, the National Review published an article about Baer titled This Conservative Mega-Donor Is the World’s Most Successful E-mail Harasser.
The article said that he was known for "sending combative and colorful e-mail missives in past months to a who’s-who list of power brokers in the conservative world.
"[1] A 2016 Huffington Post critic said, "Baer’s style is to liberally cc and bcc an endless stream of powerful people, and it usually has the effect of getting none of them to listen.
[3] He received around 250,000 votes in the 1990 Illinois Republican gubernatorial primary on an anti-tax,[4] anti-abortion and school choice platform versus GOP Secretary of State Jim Edgar, who later became governor.
[5] After his loss, The Chicago Tribune wrote that "Baer fancies himself as a foot soldier of the Republican Right.