Posted on 10/11/2004 11:42:12 AM PDT by ambrose
President Bush's campaign office in Spokane burglarized, vandalized
By David Postman
Seattle Times chief political reporter
President Bush's campaign office in Spokane was broken into and vandalized last night, the latest in a string of crimes at Bush offices across the country.
Workers arriving this morning found a hole smashed through the wall from an adjacent, vacant office. Bush campaign officials say a small amount of petty cash is missing and a computer and television had been moved and left near the hole.
"They must have gotten spooked because they ultimately left the computer and TV," said Bill Hyslop, the campaign's chairman for the Fifth Congressional District.
Spokane police responded this morning and took the computer's monitor and the TV, Hyslop said.
"We obviously have no idea who did this and are not going to cast aspersions," said Hyslop, who served as U.S. attorney in Spokane under President George H.W. Bush.
Last week computers were stolen in a burglary at the campaign's Bellevue headquarters. Bush campaign officials believe the break ins are part of a broader attack on the president's re-election offices around the country, including a burglary in Canton, Ohio, last night, gun shots fired in West Virginia, Florida and Tennessee and union protestors storming offices in three Florida cities and Minneapolis.
There are no suspects in the burglaries or shootings and no injuries were reported.
Because the protests at campaign offices that were stormed were part of organized union demonstrations, Bush campaign chairman Marc Racicot wrote a letter today to AFL-CIO President John Sweeney asking him to call off any future protests.
"In addition to the injuries, property damage and disruption associated with these acts, these events have created a threatening and intimidating atmosphere abhorrent to our democratic process," Racicot wrote.
The Spokane headquarters for the Bush campaign is a part of a joint operation with the Republican Party. It sits at the corner of two busy streets.
Hyslop said that a security guard checked the building at about 6 a.m. today and did not report any disturbance.
But when construction crews working on the adjacent office arrived within 30 minutes later, they noticed the back door of the adjacent office had been pried open from an alleyway.
They also discovered that a hole appeared to have been kicked through the drywall separating the vacant space from the Bush offices. The computer and TV were found near the hole.
David Postman: 360-943-9882 or dpostman@seattletimes.com
Spokane police responded this morning and took the computer's monitor and the TV, Hyslop said.
Am I the only one who found this juxtaposition a little strange? "The burglars didn't take it, so we will!" :-)
They really ought not be doing this...
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BTTT
It appears we have a new terrorist threat in America.
Time to hold the FBI accountable.
Today I got a nasty e-mail about Bush from someone called Joe the Rocker. E-mail address:joetherocker@aol.com.
I have no idea how he got my e-mail address, but in his e-mail he blasts me - in very crude language-- for being a supporter of Bush. He calls Bush an "x drunkin cowboy" and "scum." He claims to have a brother in Iraq who supported Bush but now does not.
It is a mystery to me how he got my e-mail address and that he knew I was a Bush supporter. Has anyone else received mail from this guy ?
Not all people doing breakins have been proven to be union workers.
But all breakins were done by Democrats.
The Rats will vandalize one of their own offices, blame the Republicans, and the MSM will be all over it.
Union Thug Neo Nazis are acting under orders from their criminal leadership.
That would be Sheila Jackson Lee (D, Mars).
From now on each headquarters should have an alarm system.
DemoncRATS getting mighty heavy-handed.
sorry.... you are right
Effing Nazis.
This is part of a coordinated effort.
They must be dealt with.
Why are union protesters so violent? I've noticed that every single Kerry event I've driven by around here has had these big thugs dressed in IUPAT or Teamsters t-shirt. Big, burly guys who apparently don't believe in freedom of speech. It is truly scary. Although they don't work for the government, these guys are just as scary as federal agents.
All RNC headquarters should now put false strategy info on these computers. Although, on second thought, the MSM will have headlines "Repulicans trick innocent Democrats" rather than "Victims trick Thieves".
Spokane is known as "America's biggest small town."
We got one here on Grand Ave in Pullman
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