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: 05-12-2004
Sun, 10-10-2004 - 3:17am
Thank you nicecanadianlady, You are very right. People have been booted for less, and the things I am seeing posted lately sayign foul things about democrats, candidates, and people who disagree are very unfair!
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Registered: 05-12-2004
Sun, 10-10-2004 - 3:22am
Hey, my own neighbors sent their CHILDREN to come yell at my kids "flip flop" my boys are seven and four. all because of my sign. Also, they will not talk to me unless I approach them, and then they comment on my sign, and tell me it is embarassing to them. *plain kerry/edwards sign. But I do not assume that all rebublicans are morons like my neighbors. Normally they are nice neighbors, and there is no problem, they all have bush signs and when i saw them go up I realized I was a minority here...
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Registered: 05-12-2004
Sun, 10-10-2004 - 3:26am
why would they have to sell it? they publish it as free information on tv.
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Registered: 08-05-2004
Sun, 10-10-2004 - 12:04pm
That sucks for your kids. :( Parents shouldn't get their kids involved in that and if I had kids now days (I don't since I'm too young, 22 here) and if someone did that to my kids I'd have a long talk with their parents. Heh.
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Registered: 03-24-2003
Sun, 10-10-2004 - 12:18pm
They tell you it embarrasses them? Oh, the cookie cutter mentality at work...

Little boxes on the hillside,

Little boxes made of ticky-tacky,

Little boxes, little boxes,

Little boxes, all the same.

There's a green one and a pink one

And a blue one and a yellow one

And they're all made out of ticky-tacky

And they all look just the same.



And the people in the houses

All go to the university,

And they all get put in boxes,

Little boxes, all the same.

And there's doctors and there's lawyers

And business executives,

And they're all made out of ticky-tacky

And they all look just the same.

And they all play on the golf-course,

And drink their Martini dry,

And they all have pretty children,

And the children go to school.

And the children go to summer camp

And then to the university,

And they all get put in boxes

And they all come out the same.

And the boys go into business,

And marry, and raise a family,

And they all get put in boxes,

Little boxes, all the same.

There's a green one and a pink one

And a blue one and a yellow one

And they're all made out of ticky-tacky

And they all look just the same.



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Registered: 10-01-2004
Sun, 10-10-2004 - 6:26pm
I interact with doctors, lawyers, and business people every day. I can assure you they do not all believe the same things or support the same political candidates - or - even have the same sexual preferences. What was the point of the poem?
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Registered: 03-24-2003
Sun, 10-10-2004 - 7:39pm
The point is that people who send their children to harass someone over their political point of view desire a world that where we are all from cookie cutters. I know full well that doctors and lawyers and business people do not share the same views... I owned a business for 12 years, and am staunchly liberal.
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Sun, 10-10-2004 - 8:39pm


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