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Swastikas were scrawled over as many as 50 campaign signs in a hate crime against an Israeli-American Richmond District businessman seeking election to the Board of Supervisors.The target of the anti-Semitic vandalism spree was David Heller, president of the Geary Boulevard Merchant Association and first-time candidate for supervisor in District 1.Upon arriving to work Monday morning, Heller was inundated with messages from business owners whose windows had been defaced with swastikas over the weekend. In each reported incident, the campaign sign, which features Heller's picture, was taped to the inside of the store window and the vandal used a black...

KCBS/CBS-5 - A San Francisco man running for political office has become the victim of a hate crime. Someone defaced about 50 campaign posters belonging to David Heller in San Francisco's Richmond District. "I couldn't believe it. I mean, I couldn't handle it," said Heller. "The next day, I just broke. I just cried. The whole day, I couldn't handle it." Heller, who is Jewish and owns a beauty shop, is running for a seat on the Board of Supervisors. He told CBS-5 he lost all of his relatives on his father's side to the Nazis during World War Two....