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
how can bush defend america if he can't defend his campaign offices... just wondering.Just trolling, you mean?
Of course, if you mean we should begin treating these people like terrorists, I'm all for that-- bomb them, round them up, stick panties on their heads.
The difference is that the terrorists he's worried about are Islamists. The terrorists Republican HQs have to worry about are Democrats. One group is dedicated to a religion that is hellbent on the extermination of ethical behavior, capitalism, and republican ideals of freedom and liberty. The other prays to Allah 5 times a day.
"Videotape" - Ah, how about a new political commercial with all these events flashing across the TV screen during FOX's WORLD SERIES Baseball between the Yankees and the Sox! Millions of people (especially all those east coast democrats) will be watching and we need to visually get the word out and we KNOW the media won't do it! It takes a commercial showing them that the democratic party has sunk to stealing, vandalism and desecration of our freedom to vote in peace...THIS is today's DEMOCRATIC PARTY -
Pingggg
I was on teevee!
Do you have a link to the exoneration of Berger? I keep hearing about it, but I haven't seen anything about it yet.
PINGapolooza!!!!
You killed it!!! LOL!
Remember this, they are "the party of tolerance"
Liberals just plain suck.
Ping
FYI: I am contacting EVERY FBI office listed in the email address section on their site and asking them WHY they are not DOING something about the break-ins at GOP offices across America.
This is TERRORISM by Americans, against Americans, and it should not be tolerated.
Anyone want to play with with me? The only rules are to swamp the FBI offices for the next week or two...
PS: Make them WORK for our tax dollars!
Democrats -- ushering in the new "Religion of Peace."
Wouldn't it be nice if we could find a Dim-Seeking missle and...sorry...I got carried away there, for a minute.
(And to THINK that members of my family have been dying since the Revolutionary War to give these ****** the right to bad-mouth America! It is SICKENING!)
RE: At 6, the head of the workmen who are renovating the building
Oh really?
John Fuhrer Kerry??
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