Currently:
46% Kerry
45% Bush
02% Nader
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.
True.
where was cameron kerry? he has a past history of these break-ins
It will be tough pinning this on Rove if they do.
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Currently:
46% Kerry
45% Bush
02% Nader
Thanx for the PING, Rutles.
Seems like it's true: the Left can do anything without fear of reprisal or punishment. The MSM will back them, and nothing will come of it.
I feel for the WashGOP. Their campaign has just been compromised, and there's no way to recover what was lost.
The only computers missing were those with data critical with the campaign. Anyone who thinks this wasn't a surgical strike is nuts, or Leftist.
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things a little slow at DU these days?
In some polls Bush is close, in others he's far behind.
As a Washintonian, I think we have a very good shot at Governor and an outside shot at Senate, but if Washington goes Bush, he's gonna have won 40+ States, so what difference would it make?
Well, the question is--to what extant do the plans in the WA office reflect Republican plans in other states? I think that Terry McAuliffe et. al. may not be directly responsible for this or Rathergate, but have created such a hostile environment that they are practically inviting their people to do anything, including illegal acts, to help their guy win.
I certainly hope that Rove has enough democrat in him (I know, "what a nasty thing to say") to consider planting a fake plan, some forged (but easily disprovable) documents right where a couple of ultra-left wing, Bushaphobic zealots would look. The scumbags steal them, act on their contents and get badly burned and Rove takes the credit.
Republican Headquarters attacked in Gettysburg, PA, plate glass window broken
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Posted on 10/01/2004 10:48:38 AM PDT by Old Lady
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1232770/posts
I've been to the office, a friend of mine, Tom Roberts, works there. It might not be the RNC national headquarters, but it is the headquarters of Bush's Washington State campaign operation, and it is VERY important and hardly something to be shruged off.
The question is, "Does Kerry have a band of burglars?"
First campaign ends in defeatTo win the primary, the newcomer overcame the election eve arrest of his brother, Cameron, and campaign field director Thomas J. Vallely, both then 22, in the basement of a Lowell building that housed the headquarters of Kerry and another Democratic contender, state Representative Anthony R. DiFruscia of Lawrence. It was almost 2 a.m. - 30 hours before the polls opened - when the two were arrested on charges of breaking and entering with intent to commit larceny.
by Brian C. Mooney
6/18/2003
PART 4
That day's Sun blared a memorable, double-deck headline: "Kerry brother arrested in Lowell 'Watergate."' DiFruscia, getting some extra ink in the campaign's waning hours, had drawn the parallel to the break-in at Democratic headquarters in Washington three months earlier.
Clinton might have loaned him Sandy.
This happened last night? If so, why are we just hearing about this? If there really was something to be gained by stealing a couple of computers, we would have heard about this hours ago. Besides it's WA state, probably elf/alf.
==State Democratic Party spokeswoman Kirstin Brost said Democrats had nothing to do with the break-in.==
No big thing. If they get caught after the democrats win, all felons will be allowed to vote from prison.
You got me.
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