Posted on 11/19/2005 2:46:21 PM PST by bad company
The break-in that occurred sometime late Tuesday night at the headquarters of Michael S. Steele's U.S. Senate campaign did not involve an iconic D.C. apartment complex. No tape was left behind in the doorjamb. No dutiful night watchman summoned police. And to the best of anyone's knowledge -- despite aggressive prodding from reporters who wanted badly not to miss the next story of a lifetime -- this third-rate burglary was no Watergate. "We have no reason to suspect this was anything other than, well, a burglary," said Leonardo Alcivar, a campaign spokesman for Steele, who is Maryland's Republican lieutenant governor. Police said they were called at 5:12 a.m. by a tenant of the vanilla-hued, two-story stucco building in the historic section of Annapolis. Don Paxton, who works at a title research firm in the building, reported finding a broken window and desks that had been rifled through. Later, Alcivar said, Steele's campaign aides discovered that their ground-floor office had been hit, too. Four laptops were gone. But no, the computers did not contain sensitive strategies or top-secret files, Alcivar said. Still, in the building there was banter about political intrigue. "Of course that's the first thing I thought about," said landlord Carl Tenner, who twice mentioned he fancies the moniker "Tennergate." If the culprits really were political plumbers, he said, "they sure went to a lot of trouble to divert interest." In all, five offices were hit, Tenner said. Petty cash was pinched from his office. Three windows were busted. State GOP Chairman John Kane joked about "maybe putting some of our pit bulls down there to stand watch." But even he's not blaming political foes. "Best I can tell," Kane said, "Howard Hunt is not in Annapolis."
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Y'all seen this one? This is going to be an ugly one.
If I was looking for ammo on Steele, and would stoop to the level of MD's racist Democrats, that is how I would do it. How easy is it to make it look like a standard burglary?
I wouldn't put it past MD's Democrats, a conservative black man is a huge threat to them.
Idiots. Pure and simple.
Because of that, this will be the race to watch.
How come this kind of stuff (post Nixon, anyway) always happens at a Republican's campaign office and never at a Democrat's?
Paging Bob Woodward, Mr. Woodward please pick up the house phone...oh, wait, he's already doing another deep throat isn't he?
He has a history of this sort of thing.
Breaking and entering, theft, fraud...the felonies just keep adding up.
Maryland DemocRATS are dog s**t.
Click on that link, and it takes you to a website known as "RightWing" blogs. And that lists a bunch of websites that no one has ever heard of. No FreeRepublic. No Captains Quarters. No LittleGreenFootballs. But the research work at the Post is so lame that they figure a site that bills itself as "RightWing" must be command central for the VRWC.
What fools. And they call themselves a "leading newspaper."
Congressman Billybob
Latest column: "What If the French Had Pulled a 'Murtha' in 1781?"
Or are you man enough to admit you were wrong?
Here's what you wrote to me. Read it.
Wrong..if it hasnt in the last 12 years, it won't, period.
I know grannies that have more backbone than you. Adults admit when they are wrong. Kids run and hide...and some even blame others.
Yo' sweetheart, take it outside.
If you are going to assume responsibility, you have accepted the burden to seek the truth. Right?
Yeah. Smart for them not to make a big deal about it though. It just sounds like a fourth-rate burglary to me.
Funny thing about online discussion...accountability is freely offered by posters. It is not required, but adults assume it and behave accordingly. Cowards and sissies go forth and bully people with the knowledge that they cannot be identified. They say what they want without consequence.
People with a love of integrity post as though they are standing face to face with those to whom they are posting.
Still want to post a pancake?
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