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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: tdewey10
State Democratic Party spokeswoman Kirstin Brost said Democrats had nothing to do with the break-in.

Hard to be sure unless she knows the perps. LOL

21 posted on 10/01/2004 12:40:14 PM PDT by Fatalis
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To: newheart

No important data should ever be kept on the local hard drive. It should have been kept on a server in a secure site.


22 posted on 10/01/2004 12:40:35 PM PDT by todd1
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To: tdewey10
Do we have a name for this Gate? burglargate ??
23 posted on 10/01/2004 12:41:03 PM PDT by Taxbilly
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To: Political Junkie Too

LOL. You know your history...


24 posted on 10/01/2004 12:41:17 PM PDT by Zack Nguyen
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To: TheBigB

Shouldn't it be
Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo?


25 posted on 10/01/2004 12:42:20 PM PDT by tdewey10 (But Monks working by candlelight in the dark ages could produce kerning)
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To: tdewey10

They weren't content with Dan Rather. I think they are determined outdo watergate.

I am NOT a bit surprised the Liberals in our state would stoop this low. I am surprised they considered it necessary in my state, I thought we only had a far shot at being a swing state so why the desperation?


26 posted on 10/01/2004 12:42:21 PM PDT by Soul Seeker
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To: TheBigB
Boy that was an awful movie! The sequel, if possible, was even worse. I mean it outstrips Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, and that means it is in a class by itself.
27 posted on 10/01/2004 12:43:10 PM PDT by Zack Nguyen
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To: tdewey10

Where was Kerry's brother last night...


28 posted on 10/01/2004 12:43:59 PM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
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To: fritzz

No, it is another Watergate!


29 posted on 10/01/2004 12:44:19 PM PDT by stockpirate (Kerry; supported by, financed by, trained by, guided by, revered by, in favor of, Communists.)
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To: sarasotarepublican
Does this surprise anyone? Anything and everything goes with those scumbags at the DNC.

I heard a few months ago that the DemocRATS said they would do ANYTHING to get the President out of office.

30 posted on 10/01/2004 12:44:52 PM PDT by SheLion (FnKerry is coming unglued before our very eyes. Let's watch the melt down.)
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To: Taxbilly

So THIS is the "impeachable source" that Dan Rather used. A rock-throwing, computer stealing, Dem Thief!


31 posted on 10/01/2004 12:45:00 PM PDT by Integrityrocks
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To: Zack Nguyen
I once took a date to see Cool World, and spent an hour immediately afterwards apologizing.
32 posted on 10/01/2004 12:45:00 PM PDT by TheBigB (I < heart > Sam McPherson!)
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To: zbigreddogz

create the story like Dan Rather did, whats the worst that could happen


33 posted on 10/01/2004 12:45:24 PM PDT by kendu
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To: MeekOneGOP; gubamyster; MistyCA

Ping.


34 posted on 10/01/2004 12:45:32 PM PDT by Brownie74
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To: Integrityrocks

"UN-impeachable source"


35 posted on 10/01/2004 12:45:42 PM PDT by Integrityrocks
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To: tdewey10

Environmentalists...BANK ON IT.


37 posted on 10/01/2004 12:46:32 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache (Absalom, Absalom, Absalom....)
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To: Lazamataz
There is no such partisan anti-Kerry press.

Conservative talk radio, FOX News, the internet and publications such as the Weekly Standard will not make this story go away. The MSM is becoming increasingly more irrelevant.
38 posted on 10/01/2004 12:46:38 PM PDT by jdm
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To: Mo1

You too? LOL


39 posted on 10/01/2004 12:47:12 PM PDT by GoLightly (If it doesn't kill ya, it makes ya stronger.)
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To: CyberCowboy777

Please ping, O' Washington State Ping Master. : )


40 posted on 10/01/2004 12:47:18 PM PDT by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet (The police never think it's as funny as you do.)
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