Man! These 'RATS are BUSY trashing GOP offices lately.Warming up to pitch a fit November 3rd after they LOSE BIG-TIME, I guess.
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
Unlike the AG, I think aspersions need to be cast, and cast quickly. Only a donkey could have kicked a hole through a wall like that, if you know what I mean;) This shiite is way past out of control by now!!!
What is up with these thugs? What are they looking for?
AFL-CIO welcoming committee . . . . ???
Man! These 'RATS are BUSY trashing GOP offices lately.Warming up to pitch a fit November 3rd after they LOSE BIG-TIME, I guess.
Because only thugs are Democrats.
There are many union members who don't support Kerry. Quit ticking them off by these stupid statements!
I know that many union members support Kerry, and I was not generalizing.
I was strictly talking about the union thugs at the Kerry events, and the union bosses, NOT union members in general. Of course there are good union members: firefighters and police come to mind. And then there are useless ones too.
These thugs are going to be the end for National Unions. How can anyone argue the rights of union labor when they are nothing but thugs and criminals.
RICO
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Dead on. My favorite part of this whole thing is:
"Spokane police responded this morning and took the computer's monitor and the TV."
Well, bully for them. How is the campaign going to use the computer now!?!? What was the point of taking the stuff, to do the burglars' job for them?!?!
If I were a campaign hq that had the labor goons break in, I'd be suing these bastards and their organization for an organized, systematic violation of civil rights. There are starving lawyers begging for this kind of thing. The AFL-CIO and these punks stealing signs and intimidating Bush voters need to pay, just like the KKK and Aryan Nations did.
I caught that too (see earlier post). They probably took `em for prints, but the effect was the same as stealing them--the campaign now can't use the computer!
Dumb, dumb, dumb!
Feel free to report him to AOL Mgmt for harassing your 8 year old daughter at that email address. How sad that someone would feel so eager to go after a poor little kid. ;)
You can turn that 'what about the children' crap right onto liberals, too, ya know.
But remember that the thugs (union or not) are all pro-Kerry supporters (i.e., Democrats)
Thanks for the tip. I'll do that.
The answer is intimidation to instill FEAR!
The computer is up and running.
They could have dusted for prints at HQ, but we have another monitor, so we let them take the monitor with the prints.
Also, the fingerprinting is not being done on a speculative basis. They have three good prints.
Videotape. Get footage of one of these thug-a-thons and the media couldn't ignore it.
how can bush defend america if he can't defend his campaign offices... just wondering.
Very cool! Awesome to know y'all are doing okay...any evidence regarding their intent, or are the police just assuming a jackass breaking in for $$$?
I was the first Republican notified of the break-in (not that I'm anyone so special; they got my name and number off a list of people who volunteer at HQ, and they needed someone who worked there to come down and identify anything which might be missing). I called the County Party's Vice Chairman, and by the time I got there, he was there talking to the cops. All three of our local TV channels were there, as was our local newspaper (I showed the reporter around, so I may be quoted in the Spokesman-Review tomorrow). I was there from about 8:10 until about 3:30.
The time of the break-in was between 6 and 6:30 this morning. At 6, the head of the workmen who are renovating the building checked all the doors and they were fine. At 6:30, the painting crew arrived and found the evidence of the burglary.
The burglars pried away a door jamb and kicked in a door in an alleyway between two buildings. They then went up a set of stairs and down another set of stairs, kicked through some wallboard in the back of a closet, and slipped in between two studs.
They dumped some desk drawers and took about $100 in petty cash, then went upstairs and took our computer (which was placed fairly inconspicuously and covered with a cloth) and a TV set and placed them by one of the doors.
The exit they intended to use is difficult to unlock from inside. They may have heard the painters coming or been spooked by something else. In any case, they left the swag (apart from the money) sitting on the floor, slipped back through the closet wall and out a different door.
Today, the workmen closed off the alley door completely and replaced and reinforced the closet wall.
The police found three good fingerprints on the computer monitor, and they also took the TV to try to lift some prints from inside the little handle thingies. They also tookm the prybar, which the burglars had left.
Fortunately, we had another monitor, so we got the computer back up and running quickly.
Anything else I could say would be pure speculation.
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