Bush's campaign office in Spokane burglarized, vandalized

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Come on Karl Rove and Chis Vance. This stuff's getting old.

By David Postman
Seattle Times chief political reporter

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.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002059735_webbushoffice11.html

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

1. Why are they worried...

... about the computer and the GOP "get out the vote" software and databases? Just a few weeks ago it was announced that the GOP "outsourced" Voter Vault programming to India.

<snip>

PC World has recently learned that the major development work on the Voter Vault was done in India. Though the RNC began work on a national database of voters in the mid-1990s, the Voter Vault wasn't ready to be put into the field until the 2002 elections. Two years prior to the 2002 elections, the RNC hired Advanced Custom Software (ACS) of Seattle to build a Web-based database to help campaign workers target likely Republican voters.

<snip>

<http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,117930,00.asp>

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

5. Ya mean dey ain't employin mercans?

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

2. This is getting old!

[Philostopher]

3. What's kind of bizarre is ...

I haven't heard anything like this happening in any of the really close swing states -- why wouldn't it be, if things are so much closer and more competitive? Washington State isn't that close, is it? I don't mean I don't think they did this to themselves, but why do it in a place where the Dems aren't nearly as worried about Kerry winning? You'd think they'd have the goddamned sense to pretend to have been vandalized in places where the race was closer, wouldn't you?

[Carson]

15. The article does say there were other offices vandalized in other areas...

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

[tinanator]

22. thats simply a real burglary

make no mistake.

[schultzee]

4. I used to live in Seattle, and they have a low boiling point when

it comes to politics.

[Eye and Monkey]

6. Parlockery. They took the cash, left the computer so the office can work.

If someone had wanted to cripple the efforts of the office, would they have taken the computer, or the petty cash?

[sandnsea]

12. Exactly, a burglarly

Fuck the fat cat Republicans, sounds like to me.

[amber dog democrat]

7. Just like the mailed videotape of the Chimp's debate practice

and the mike "planted" in Rove's office during the Gubenatorial race.
We know who is doing it:boring:

[GinaMaria]

8. Riiiiggghhtt

Just like Karl's made up story about the Clinton staffers destroying the White House :eyes: They never get tired of the same trick do they? These are the type that still leave flaming bags of dog poo on people's front steps thinking anyone would fall that in this day and age.

Happy Halloween, you tired old repukes.

[rocktivity]

9. The hole in the wall was big enough for someone to get in

But it wasn't big enough to get a computer through?

:headbang:
rocknation

[dArKeRuSa]

11. Yes, according to FOX Spokane TV Whore News

on Monday. Not spooked because enough time to dismantle the pc. I saw the hole on TV and it was big enough to fit any computer I've ever seen through it.

FOX said it must have been the labor unions. Gave no reason or evidence or hear-say to back this statement up. Then broke to the office repuke manager who said that everyone hopes for a fair election! PUKE!

I'd like to find out in the 4 places of break-ins around the country if the local police/mayor was repuke controlled!

[BiggJawn]

14. "It MUST have been the Labour Unions..."

Why not the Communists? Oh, yeah, Ronaldus Rex beat the Commies, so it HAS to be the Unions...Besides, most of them are run by Bolsheviks, anyway...

Blame the Unions. And some of you folks STILL don't think the BFEE acts like Nazis?

[dArKeRuSa]

18. Why doesn't Whore FOX report, "100 Mil. Americans think

the Republican Party planned a dirty tricks campaign on themselves?"

[dArKeRuSa]

16. Spokane has a nasty winter. This building had outer

insulation, plywood, inner insulation, two-by-fours, inner plywood or drywall. What I saw on FOX WHORE TV, three verticle two-by-fours were taken 'punched out'. Wonder how they did that without taking down the building? Unless it was Fire Rescue's Jaws of Life! I can't imagine why a tire-iron wasn't used to pop off the front or rear door hinges or lock. If Kerry were smart he'd send a private investigative team up here!

I'm going to go by the building if I can find it and see if there are any ATM or gas station cameras in the area.

[jmowreader]

21. Where is the Bush headquarters building?

Knowing the Repugs, they probably put it on Browne or Bernard somewhere between Main and Sprague. (And probably in the building at the corner of Sprague and Bernard, which is better known as P.M. Jacoy's--dealer in low-cost wines, cheap cigars and the Daily Racing Form.)

[BiggJawn]

10. What, ANOTHER Reichstag fire?

This shit's getting old, Karl.

You fat, bald FUCK! You think you're the ONLY one who's read "It Can't happen Here!"?

So when are you unveiling your "Minute Man Marching Clubs", you cretin?

Makes me wonder about that power line "job" in Chicago over the weekend....More RNC "tricks"?

[Seabiscuit]

13. Look, folks...

the Repukes are all greedy thieves. What do they expect when they run a campaign??? That their employees arent' going to steal from them???????

[Zorra]

17. They were probably suspected of voter fraud and had to

destroy the evidence by making it look like a burglary.

[tom_paine]

19. Looks like this is a Bushevik Op

Doing it to themselves. An old Rovian Pravda Stratagem.

[struggle4progress]

20. <snip> ... Kerry offices in Florida, Illinois and Ohio have been hit ...

... by vandalism. "From the Democrats' perspective, we would much rather have these final two weeks be about the economy under Bush, rising health care under Bush, rising gas prices under Bush, than anything like this as a distraction," Cabrera said. <snip>
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002060393_breakin12m.html

[iamjoy]

23. I'm Afraid The Stuff About The Union Protesters

has some truth to it. I know there was an incident locally (Orlando area) where some protesters "stormed" an office. But thugs? No way. I have met the man who was arrested for battery in connection with the protest. I always thought he was a very nice, congenial man even when I put my foot in my mouth and made an anti-Union/labor comment. Thug is one of the last words I would use to describe him. I don't really know him well, so maybe I can't speak, but well, I've seen some Union guys that I'm like, yeah, I believe they'd do crap like this (not that they DID, but they could)

A lot of this though where they don't catch anyone I bet is Rove operatives. After all, he has a long history of these types of shenanigans.