Incredible!
Posted on 10/11/2004 11:42:12 AM PDT by ambrose
President Bush's campaign office in Spokane burglarized, vandalized
By David Postman
Seattle Times chief political reporter
President Bush's campaign office in Spokane was broken into and vandalized last night, the latest in a string of crimes at Bush offices across the country.
Workers arriving this morning found a hole smashed through the wall from an adjacent, vacant office. Bush campaign officials say a small amount of petty cash is missing and a computer and television had been moved and left near the hole.
"They must have gotten spooked because they ultimately left the computer and TV," said Bill Hyslop, the campaign's chairman for the Fifth Congressional District.
Spokane police responded this morning and took the computer's monitor and the TV, Hyslop said.
"We obviously have no idea who did this and are not going to cast aspersions," said Hyslop, who served as U.S. attorney in Spokane under President George H.W. Bush.
Last week computers were stolen in a burglary at the campaign's Bellevue headquarters. Bush campaign officials believe the break ins are part of a broader attack on the president's re-election offices around the country, including a burglary in Canton, Ohio, last night, gun shots fired in West Virginia, Florida and Tennessee and union protestors storming offices in three Florida cities and Minneapolis.
There are no suspects in the burglaries or shootings and no injuries were reported.
Because the protests at campaign offices that were stormed were part of organized union demonstrations, Bush campaign chairman Marc Racicot wrote a letter today to AFL-CIO President John Sweeney asking him to call off any future protests.
"In addition to the injuries, property damage and disruption associated with these acts, these events have created a threatening and intimidating atmosphere abhorrent to our democratic process," Racicot wrote.
The Spokane headquarters for the Bush campaign is a part of a joint operation with the Republican Party. It sits at the corner of two busy streets.
Hyslop said that a security guard checked the building at about 6 a.m. today and did not report any disturbance.
But when construction crews working on the adjacent office arrived within 30 minutes later, they noticed the back door of the adjacent office had been pried open from an alleyway.
They also discovered that a hole appeared to have been kicked through the drywall separating the vacant space from the Bush offices. The computer and TV were found near the hole.
David Postman: 360-943-9882 or dpostman@seattletimes.com
It's an epidemic, isn't it.....
In reading the brief description, it sounded like David Postman did it.
When is the Kerry campaign going to condemn all of these brown shirt tactics?
Which basically means that it was nearing the end of his shift, it was around dawn, and he wasn't as "aware" as he could have been. It happens.
Of course, a security guard also isn't necessarily going to notice a hole in the wall inside when all they probably did was try the door knob to see if it was still locked.
And I ask again...when is John Kerry going to denounce these crimes nationwide?
clearly republican operatives doing so to smear the dems. oh wait, this isn't du?
They won't - it's just a nuisance thing.
Okay..let's get this straight. We have the democrats saying that the Republicans are trying to intimidate voters in Florida and elsewhere, yet they cannot come up with ANY evidence to support a claim. Meanwhile, look at what has happened in Washington, Ohio and elsewhere...burglaries, storming of offices, burning swastikas on the ground of those with Bush-Cheney signs. Talk about intimidation (of course, it will not work, but the dems should be hammered on this everytime Shirley Jackson Lee, Jesse Jackson, et al open their mouths!
Incredible!
I want to know when Brokaw/Rather/Jennings will do an in-depth piece on this rash of violence against Republicans.
Oh, never mind.
Sounds like someone took a nap at around 5am.....
how cheap and immature...a sure sign that they know they are going to lose
How many does this make so far? Anybody keeping count?
Immoral. All I can say.
RICO
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