Rep. Richard Pombo (R-Ca.) is just one of those guys you wish you just wouldn’t hear from anymore.

First he comes along and tries to sneak legislation through that would have allowed the sale of Theodore Roosevelt Island Park to private developers, only to be shamed into removing the offending provision. Now the Post informs us that Pombo — never an enemy of corporate interests and private developers — is trying to allow the sale of large swaths of federal land in the District that city officials and the federal government had agreed would be granted to the city for development purposes.

The provisions are, of course, tucked away in a huge budget bill, and would allow the sale of anywhere from 360,000 to 5.7 million acres of federal land to private interests at discounted rates. The land within the District headed for the auction block, according to the Post:

The areas affected by the bill include 100-acre Poplar Point, where the District is planning a 70-acre waterfront park surrounded by offices, shops, hundreds of apartments and possibly a professional soccer stadium; 15 acres of parking lots and fields just north of Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, where the Washington Nationals baseball team currently plays; and parcels near the Eastern Market Metro station on Capitol Hill, Waterside Mall in Southwest and the site of a new stadium for the Nationals just off South Capitol Street. Much of the land is central to the Anacostia Waterfront Initiative, a 20-year, multibillion-dollar plan to create vibrant neighborhoods, parks, trails and cultural amenities on industrial, blighted or underused land.

Thankfully, Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), one of the principal co-authors of the legislation that would grant these lands to the District for free or at low-cost, has expressed in no uncertain terms that he is not happy with the proposed firesale. Davis, an influential Republican, has threatened to vote against the budget bill as a whole if Pombo’s provision remains.

Given a brief look of Rep. Pombo’s campaign contributors, we can only imagine what great future lays ahead for the District’s lands if this passes.