Democrats Full of Dirty Tricks

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Registered: 06-17-2004
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.


Renee ~~~

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iVillage Member
Registered: 07-12-2001
Mon, 10-04-2004 - 10:07am
"I seriously doubt Democrats had anything to do with it. If they did, shame on them, but it is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too obvious for anyone with any amount of intelligence to do."

Like the Clinton staff members who removed the "W"s from all the keyboards before they left the White House, huh? Yeah, I never thought they were terribly intelligent either.

Bev

girl in chair
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Registered: 03-24-2003
Mon, 10-04-2004 - 10:14am
Prank versus theft of documents?

We had Republicans charged here for jamming phone lines. One has already been sentenced. Big difference... yes, taking the "W" was childish, but... compare that with taking computers, they are quite differenct events.

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-04-2004
Mon, 10-04-2004 - 10:20am
Raye,

I'm totally with you. The reason I had to post about the treachery comment is because it is just so darned ludicrous when considering the amount of "Treachery" the Republicans have been party to.

That aside, this political campaign has been the funniest and by FAR the most entertaining Americans election preamble that a Canadian has EVER had to watch!

Go Democrats!!!!!

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-24-2003
Mon, 10-04-2004 - 10:31am
It must seem really nutty from north of the border!
iVillage Member
Registered: 06-16-2004
Tue, 10-05-2004 - 11:47am
Your headlines tend to be defamatory and generalizing. I suggest you tone it down. You sound like you are continually attacking all democrats. What if that headline was "republicans full of dirty tricks"???
iVillage Member
Registered: 09-24-2003
Tue, 10-05-2004 - 12:34pm
Do us all a favor and refrain from slandering an entire party based upon the acts of a few idiots, who could very well be Nader supporters, run of the mill vandals, who knows... bottomline is, it's tacky of you to label an entire party based upon such an act. Did you know that here in Florida elderly people with Kerry stickers on their cars are getting the word "BUSH" keyed on their hoods? Did you? Do you think I in turn write some slanderous post on ivillage about republicans. You have sunk low.

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-05-2004
Tue, 10-05-2004 - 2:14pm
I have also heard many stories of people getting signs stolen. There was this one guy on another board I go to who said he kept putting up Kerry signs and every time he would someone would steal it. How right is that? We as democrats have the same freedoms to support our canidate as republicans do theirs.
iVillage Member
Registered: 09-24-2003
Tue, 10-05-2004 - 3:38pm
And this further validates the point that the original poster of this particular thread needs to recognize that "dirty tricks" occur amongst both democrats and republicans.

What is with all the smear tactics people? It's wrong.

iVillage Member
Registered: 04-16-2004
Wed, 10-06-2004 - 9:47am
What is new about playing around with computers.

If I am not mistaken, the former administration was ordered not to delete any information on their computers when they were under investigation, but apparently many of the files (especially on computers from Sandy Berger, etc) were electronically shredded.

It is a game that it seems all politicians like to play.

iVillage Member
Registered: 05-12-2004
Sat, 10-09-2004 - 1:34am
Another very dirt trick that the democrats have pulled this time is that they chose a candidate that has an actual working brain.