Democrats Full of Dirty Tricks

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Sat, 10-02-2004 - 12:41pm

Laptops stolen from Bush campaign office


By MELANTHIA MITCHELL
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER


SEATTLE -- The state's Bush-Cheney campaign headquarters in Bellevue were burglarized overnight and three laptop computers containing campaign plans were stolen, Republican Party officials said Friday.


Sometime between 2 a.m., when campaign workers went home, and 8 a.m., when the office reopened, a person threw a rock through the window of Jon Seaton, executive director for the state's Bush campaign, said Chris Vance, state GOP chairman.


Stolen were three laptops that Vance said belonged to Seaton and Chris Taylor, head of the office's get-out-the-vote campaign. A third computer had been slated for a field office.


Information on the computers included much of the Bush-Cheney campaign strategy for the state, he said.


Leah Yoon, Washington state Bush-Cheney campaign spokeswoman, declined to comment on what was on the computers, but said they did not contain advertising schedules, as had been previously reported.









"We've already been violated enough," she said.


The headquarters are located northeast of downtown Bellevue, in an area with several office buildings.


"This looks like it was politically motivated," Vance said in an interview from the Republican party offices in Tukwila.


Bellevue police confirmed the burglary Friday afternoon, but could not confirm Vance's claim.


"No evidence at the scene indicated this was politically motivated," police spokeswoman Jessamyn Poling said.


State Democratic Party spokeswoman Kirstin Brost said Democrats knew nothing about the break-in.


"We think it's awful and we definitely condemn the actions of those who stole these computers," she said.


Vance said a similar incident occurred in 2000 when a joint Bush-Slade Gorton office was broken into and a laptop was stolen. Gorton is a former Republican senator from Washington state.


"Somebody is trying to get a look at the Bush campaign plan or disrupt the campaign plan," he said.


In recent months, there have been several complaints of various acts of subterfuge against the Bush campaign, Vance said.


The party's office was called by Republican voters who said they received telephone calls alleging Bush would reinstate a military draft if re-elected, which Vance said isn't true.


Cars with Bush bumper stickers also have been vandalized, he said, and campaign signs have been painted over with swastikas and burned.


"There's always some tension in the campaign, but this is out of control," Vance said.


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Registered: 08-04-2004
Sun, 10-03-2004 - 4:17am
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This is hilarious! Treachery? LMPBO!!!!

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Registered: 08-11-2004
Sun, 10-03-2004 - 4:28am
So glad you thought it was hilarious. Most liberals do think it is funny to be deceitful and they think they are so cute and smug. Makes you want to puke!
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Registered: 04-23-2004
Sun, 10-03-2004 - 7:13am
you wrote:

"Most liberals do think it is funny to be deceitful and they think they are so cute and smug"

can you elaborate. i don't follow. (examples would help)

as far as treacherous dangerous deceit, i can think of Nixon/Watergate, and this (Bush misleading us into war) -- both outrages and criminal breaches of trust against the american people

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Registered: 03-24-2003
Sun, 10-03-2004 - 10:16am
I'm sorry, but I've been watching politics for... almost 40 years, and both parties are quite capable. Yet we've had Watergate and Iran-Contra, and the accessing of Democratic computers... you have Bill Clinton having sex with a subordinate.
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Registered: 03-24-2003
Sun, 10-03-2004 - 10:17am
My reaction as well, mbeanz! Not how I remember things at all!

How are ya?

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Registered: 03-24-2003
Sun, 10-03-2004 - 10:19am
Sorry, but the evidence says otherwise. Are there sleazy Democrats? Of course... but I'd love for you to outline these Democratic transgressions, or at least the ones you are aware of.
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Registered: 07-20-2003
Sun, 10-03-2004 - 10:36am
One of the dirtiest political tricks of them all is to spin unsubstantiated accusations and allegations as established fact.

>>>"This looks like it was politically motivated," Vance said in an interview from the Republican party offices in Tukwila.

Bellevue police confirmed the burglary Friday afternoon, but could not confirm Vance's claim.

"No evidence at the scene indicated this was politically motivated," police spokeswoman Jessamyn Poling said.<<<

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Registered: 07-20-2004
Sun, 10-03-2004 - 10:46am
Right! Here's a thought! Maybe one of "their own" workers did this so it would look like a Democrat "broke" into the place! I wouldn't put it past them, they can be so vile.
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Registered: 03-24-2003
Sun, 10-03-2004 - 10:56am
If Democrats were involved, they deserve to be roasted and toasted for it... but doing this seems like it was way too obvious, too easy to point the cannon at them, which leads me to suspect Democrats were not involved. And if some overly exuberant persons did this and try to give it to Democrats, they should turn them in.
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Registered: 03-31-2003
Sun, 10-03-2004 - 10:57am
Don't forget that time they set up a shadow government, negotiated with terrorists and diverted taxpayer money without telling Congress - a little things called Iran /Contra. We've got to keep an eye on these people.