The Command Post - 2004 US Presidential Election

October 12, 2004

| Another Bush HQ Burglarised

Offices that house President Bush’s re-election campaign in Spokane were broken into and vandalized last night, the latest in a string of crimes at Republican 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.

The computer and the TV had recently arrived in Spokane and the computer was loaded with information from the Republican get-out-the vote program.

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.

In Bellevue last week, computers that stored the Republican get-out-the-vote database were stolen in a burglary at the Republican headquarters there.

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is Enemy Action.

Posted by Alan Brain at October 12, 2004 07:31 AM | TrackBack

Comments

Hmmmm, union thugs? Whacko leftist nitwits pining for a return to the sixties?

Desperate drug addicts in need of something to pawn to sustain their self destructive habits?

Mythical burning of so called black churches made headlines, but this pattern of behavior gets scant mention. There’s a pattern and it’s troubling to say the least.

Posted by: skip at October 12, 2004 09:26 AM

Skip,

What the heck are you talking about? This story is being reported all over. Try google news for instance.

ok, ep

Posted by: elvispresley2k at October 12, 2004 09:39 AM

to quote Bob Dole: Where’s the outrage?

Posted by: skip at October 12, 2004 10:41 AM

More attacks by the “Party of Peace”, you know, the embracers of Diversity.

I guess they feel their anger at the attrocities in Iraq committed by Coalition Forces, like these:

http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=282896

… justifies any action against the “Evil Bush”

Posted by: Max Darkside at October 12, 2004 10:48 AM

Is there any evidence this was politically motivated?

Racicot…said he does not blame Democratic groups for the incidents.

The same article also notes:

The break-ins happened amid other reports of crimes and altercations at Bush campaign offices in other states, and vandalism at some John Kerry offices around the country.

Source: Seattle Times

Call me a skeptic, but this one sounds like your typical B&E (petty cash stolen and an attempt to steal a TV).

Perhaps this campaign office was targeted because the thiefs, being enterprising capitalists and therefore looking for the largest possible economic gain vs. risk, realized a Bush campaign office probably has more cash lying around than the typical Kerry campaign office.

It’s also curious why any (organized/rational) lib/dem group committed to defeating the current administration would attempt such a stupid, pointless exercise, with Bush falling in polls (perhaps not in WA though?), a stagnant economy, and with Iraq boiling over—assuming these kind of acts would hinder the Bush campaign in any serious way. Actually I think the reverse effect is true: These incidents, reports help the Bush campaign.

The mention of Dole is ironic (to me) since B.D. so staunchly defended the Nixon administration during the early stages of its scandals (denouncing the reports of a link between the White House and the watergate business.)

ok, ep

Posted by: elvispresley2k at October 12, 2004 01:19 PM

Ah, EP look how wrong you can be. note that I pointed out that there might be several reasons behind the break ins.

As for your assessment of the current political environment, look how wrong you can be.

Posted by: skip at October 12, 2004 02:53 PM

Elvis, could it be due to such rabid hatred that drove these losers to carry out these attacks. After all, they are only standing up to the “chimp in chief”, and laws only apply to republicans anyway.

Despite all that you quote as going wrong, and how Bush “obviously reeks of evil” as one DU poster put it, the left can’t seem to pull ahead of the President. So in their fustrated rage they break in to the local republican HQ so they can sabotage the mind control beams forcing all those otherwise Kerry supporters to vote for Bush.

Sarcasm, yes. But I would put money on this being seriously considered on a DU thread, right after they finish blaming Carl Rove.

Posted by: Brian at October 12, 2004 03:01 PM

Brian,
But how then do we explain crimes committed at Kerry/Edwards offices?

I’ve seen quite a few off-colour remarks pointed at JK/JE (as well as the omniscient/scary liberal media overlords) on this very site, so I guess we can conclude the right-wing is suffering from the very same frustrated fits of violent rage. :)

ok, ep

Posted by: elvispresley2k at October 12, 2004 03:49 PM

Wow…maybe I have been all wrong about Kerry. I guess I never thought about it this way…

Kerry04

Posted by: DevilDoc at October 12, 2004 04:00 PM

Democrat HQ in Toledo, OH got burglarized last night, they took the computers. Story in the Toledo Blade. Workers swore they put tha alarm on before they left. Sounds like pros to me, but WTF do I know.

Posted by: Mark Adams at October 13, 2004 01:00 AM

I have yet to hear anyone mention the fact that, Heinz Corp has moved and opened facilities in foreign country’s to CASH in on CHEAP LABOR.

Kerry bashes Pres. Bush for sending jobs outside the US. Its time the voters see Kerry for what he is, a forked tongue serpent.

Please, lets get this info out in the mainstream of voters, BEFORE ITS TOO LATE!

Posted by: MARGOT M at October 24, 2004 01:46 PM