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Bush's state headquarters for re-election burglarized
Seattle Times ^ | Seattle Times

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.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: breakin; burglery; bush; democratsarescum; desperadodems; napalminthemorning; washington; watergateredux
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To: blondee123

just shows how much panic the RATS are in ...buncha maggots

thx for the ping


221 posted on 10/02/2004 10:36:27 PM PDT by kingattax
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To: kingattax

You're welcome, I hope all freepers are sending this out in email!


222 posted on 10/02/2004 10:39:12 PM PDT by blondee123 (Proud Member of the FR Pajama Blogger Brigade - New Sheriffs in Town!)
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To: tdewey10
Looks like local Republicans do a seriously piss-poor job of protecting sensitive, valuable data. Don't bother taking the laptops off-site, don't bother backing up to a secured server or multiple sites - don't worry about the data being expensive to create and maybe impossible to recreate.

I'm hearing no off-site backups, either. Way to go, Pubbies.

223 posted on 10/02/2004 10:44:27 PM PDT by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
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To: tdewey10

As always, they must commit crimes to win.


224 posted on 10/02/2004 11:36:48 PM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
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To: blondee123

Didn`t he play Screech on Saved by the Bell?


225 posted on 10/03/2004 8:17:22 AM PDT by infidel29
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To: olde north church
It just cracks me up, the folks here will talk all day about confronting terrorists all day and night but give these political thugs a pass. Is it any wonder every next screwball is writing a play or book or song about assassinating President Bush? There won't be any CWII, there will, however, a lot of mumbling in the back of pubs and diners that "we don't do things like that"

You know, you're probably right. It took more than 40 years of leftist abuse of our law and culture to get people to get off their butts and offer resistance.

226 posted on 10/04/2004 4:01:42 PM PDT by FierceDraka ("Party Before Country" - The New Motto of the Democratic Party)
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To: Old Sarge

We The People of the United States of America call
upon the Governors of all 50 states to station
National Guard troops to protect all political party
headquarters in each state's major metropolitan areas.
For headquarters in smaller areas, and headquarters
which are more limited facilities, we call upon the
governors to station highway patrol, state police, or
state troopers. We call upon the Mayor of the District
of Columbia to coordinate with the applicable
protective agencies as well. All parties on the
ballot should receive the appropriate protection based
on the size of the metro area they are in and the size
of the facility. If warranted, similar measures should
be put in place to protect the polling places on
Election Day.

Orders to guardsmen and law enforcement officers to
shoot-to-kill upon any mob attack should be issued.

Failure to take such actions should be considered
gross incompetence.

In order to address the possibility that the recent
attacks on headquarters of political parties are a
diversion in advance of acts of terrorism or war, we
also call upon the governors to activate their state
militias and if need be to deputize selected citizens
as special reserve state law enforcement officers.
Where state militias and deputation statutes do not
yet exist, we call upon the affected governors to
sponsor such legislation as is needed in order to
instate the applicable mechanisms.

In God We Trust.


227 posted on 10/07/2004 2:16:41 PM PDT by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Right makes right!)
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