Posted on 10/01/2004 12:34:18 PM PDT by tdewey10
The Washington state headquarters for the president's re-election campaign was broken into last night, and police are investigating the theft of three computers from the Bellevue office. Missing are the computers used by the campaign's executive director, the head of the get-out-the-vote effort and one that had been set for delivery to the campaign's Southwest Washington field director, said Jon Seaton, executive director of the state's George W. Bush campaign.
Seaton said data on the computers was backed up and available elsewhere. But, he said, the loss creates a potential security breach about the campaign's so-called 72-hour plan, the Bush get-out-the-vote effort.
"Obviously there's some stuff there we wouldn't want our opposition getting their hands on," Seaton said.
The campaign has spoken about the importance of the 72-hour plan in swing states across the country. Bush campaign officials say it could make the difference in a close election if Republicans are able to make sure their voters get to a polling place on election day and don't sit home as many did four years ago.
Seaton was the first one in the office this morning. He did not notice the break-in until he walked into his office and saw a rock and broken glass on the floor.
A side window of the office on 112-th Ave. N.E. had been smashed.
Seaton said this morning that the campaign staff was still checking to see if anything else had been stolen.
State Republican Party Chairman Chris Vance called it a "Watergate-style break in" and said he suspects Democrats are behind it.
"If you're just some burglar looking for computers to sell to buy drugs you take every laptop in the office maybe," he said. "But they knew exactly whose computers to get. They got the executive director's computer and the get-out-the-vote director's computer."
State Democratic Party spokeswoman Kirstin Brost said Democrats had nothing to do with the break-in.
"I feel really bad. I know how upset I'd be if it happened to us," she said.
"There was nothing for us to gain by stealing those computers. Their secret plan isn't so secret and the fact is we're winning by a lot right now."
Vance said the break in follows reports of vandalized Bush campaign signs and what he said were telephone calls to voters alleging Bush would reinstate a military draft if re-elected.
"To me there is some scary stuff going on from liberal radicals whose Bush hatred is out of control," Vance said.
Locke didn't have good poll ratings either, but the Dems had him give the rebuttal to one of the Prez's speeches. LOL
I think they all have a chance but Murray has her base in Seattle and they tend to swing elections. She isn't popular in other areas of the state but it in order to overcome her base the rest of the state needs to have a high turn out. I am glad to note Nethercutt has finally started to play her words about the Taliban.
Between Nethercutt, G.W. and Rossi, I think Rossi has the best chance.
"It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions." --Thomas Jefferson
I wonder if it is OK to make a Watergate comparison...
Rossi has a good commercial out. It shows Patti giving her "Osama has been better to the locals than we have been" speech.
Yikes...you guys are coming out of the woodwork...now go sit in the corner and take your global test.
this IS another watergate..
LOL!
Where was Roger Clinton last night?
Where was Cameron Kerry?
We'll never get the Washington Post to send out two crack reporters to find a 'deep throat'. But, I doubt they broke in for the computers.
WOW! I just had a de ja vue.....Does the name NIXON remind you if anything?
Really?... not a wise idea.
Bellevuegate.
I suspect that every republican office has a troll or two working for them.
Hannity just mentioned it aobut 10 minutes ago.
Good point!
Where was Kerry's brother at the time the robbery occurred?
BTTT for later.
Bush's [Wash] state headquarters for re-election burglarizedExcerpt:Seaton said data on the computers was backed up and available elsewhere. But, he said, the loss creates a potential security breach about the campaign's so-called 72-hour plan, the Bush get-out-the-vote effort.
"Obviously there's some stuff there we wouldn't want our opposition getting their hands on," Seaton said.
The campaign has spoken about the importance of the 72-hour plan in swing states across the country. Bush campaign officials say it could make the difference in a close election if Republicans are able to make sure their voters get to a polling place on election day and don't sit home as many did four years ago.
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State Republican Party Chairman Chris Vance called it a "Watergate-style break in" and said he suspects Democrats are behind it.
"If you're just some burglar looking for computers to sell to buy drugs you take every laptop in the office maybe," he said. "But they knew exactly whose computers to get. They got the executive director's computer and the get-out-the-vote director's computer."
State Democratic Party spokeswoman Kirstin Brost said Democrats had nothing to do with the break-in.
"I feel really bad. I know how upset I'd be if it happened to us," she said.
"There was nothing for us to gain by stealing those computers. Their secret plan isn't so secret and the fact is we're winning by a lot right now."
The same could have been said by Dick Nixon. Some people just can't resist going too far.
This is all part of Karl Rove's plan. The computers have bogus data intended to throw off the Democratic campaign. They were intended to be stolen. :)
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