Laptops Stolen From Bush Campaign Office

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

More Karl Rove dirty tricks in the making?

By MELANTHIA MITCHELL, Associated Press Writer

SEATTLE - Three laptop computers containing campaign plans were stolen overnight from the Bush-Cheney state headquarters office, Republican officials said Friday.



Between 2 a.m. and 8 a.m., after the last campaign worker had gone home from the office in the Seattle suburb of Bellevue, someone threw a rock through the office window of Jon Seaton, executive director for President Bush's state campaign, said Chris Vance, state GOP chairman.


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


The computers contained much of the Bush-Cheney campaign strategy for the state and advertising schedules, Vance said.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041001/ap_on_el_pr/bush_campaign_burglary&cid=694&ncid=2043

[DRoseDARs]

1. So Mr. Democrats-Made-My-Daughter-Cry, where were you last night...?

Things that make you go, "Hmmm..."

[beaconess]

2. Check Karl Rove's trunk . . .

[blm]

3. Is this going to be their excuse for losing in Washington?

Rove is so obvious. He probably is working on planting the computers at Dem HQ there as we speak.

[gardenista]

4. It was the ubiquitous guy with the crying 3-year old.

Why are these idiots leaving laptops with important information in the office, anyway?

Do you trust these morons to run the country?

[LiberalFighter]

33. If they were really doing their job

They wouldn't leave their computer laying around in the open AND they would take the computer home with them in case they needed access or needed to do work while gone.

[Fleshdancer]

5. Come on Rove, get some new tricks already

seriously man, you're boring me.

[snippy]

6. These probably will be mailed to the Kerry campaign.

Rove should learn some new tricks.

[ParanoidPat]

7. This is a bullsh*t cover story.......

.....I'll bet they actually got smashed against a wall last night during the debate! :evilgrin:

[SlavesandBulldozers]

8. wake me up when KKKarl's done with his project

:boring:

[life_long_dem]

9. newswire

F.B.I. investigators found the computers, nothing on them except
free cell, tic-tac-toe, old maid and video poker. Authorities dont think the Kerry camp was involved in the theft.

[TrueAmerican]

35. Don't forget the gay porn.

n/t

[mzmolly]

10. Well you know what's coming don't you ... a smear on Cameron Kerry

As it happened, the basement Cam and Vallely broke into also served an office belonging to one of Kerry's opponents. The next afternoon, the Lowell Sun covered the incident on its front page under a double-barreled headline: "Kerry Brother Arrested in Lowell ‘Watergate.'" "Cam was crushed," says Marco Trbovich, the House campaign's communications director. "But John suffered his brother no incrimination, no antagonism." Kerry maintained that his brother had been set up, and the scandal didn't prevent him from coasting to victory in the primary. It also was not a factor in his defeat in the general election. Credit for the loss rested largely with the Sun's editorial board, which viewed Kerry as a carpetbagging ultraliberal using outside money to try to buy a seat he would no doubt represent ineffectually. To ensure it covered all its points, the paper broke its anti-Kerry editorial into a four-part series.

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/ArticleDisplay.php?id=353

[AmerDem]

11. oh yes, "the rock through the window trick"

Professional indeed. They picked that one up from none other then.....



Let's see how Rove tries to spin this one.

[Roland99]

12. Anyone else smell "SET UP"??

[necso]

13. "someone threw a rock through the office window"

Nothing like the hi-tech approach.

Probably sold them for a couple of hundred bucks.

Be interesting to know what's on them... but I wouldn't get close, or trust anything I found there.

As the day gets closer, our esteemed opponents will grow more devious (and desperate) and some others will (hopefully) rise to try to thwart their plans.

It looks like a common enough B&E and theft. But, of course, this is also good cover. So who knows? Rove, maybe.

[AgadorSparticus]

14. same shit. different day different year. this has rove's fingerprints

all over it. they're not even amusing anymore.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

15. How can they protect the US and not their own office?

[Lexingtonian]

16. Well, good place to go for expensive laptops

After all that fundraising and 'organizing', of course your average newspaper-reading larcenist knows that Republican HQ is going to have top of the line gizmos.

As for the oh-so-secret "Bush-Cheney campaign strategy for the state", no informed Democrat would care. The Rs don't have the base to win and if Washington State becomes as close as they need it to be to win it, Democrats' chances in the states that decide the election are zilch and it's all over anyway.

[Booster]

17. Why don't they look for that young woman who went to the

Post Office with a similar situation during the Gore/Bush campaign. Wasn't that traced back to Karl Rove? Karl's running out of ideas it seems.

[elperromagico]

18. Did somebody bug Rove's office too? n/t

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

19. Well it gets even better

-snip-

State Republican Party Chairman Chris Vance called it a "Watergate-style break in" and said he suspects Democrats are behind it.

"If you're just some burglar looking for computers to sell to buy drugs you take every laptop in the office maybe," he said. "But they knew exactly whose computers to get. They got the executive director's computer and the get-out-the-vote director's computer."

-snip-

Vance said the break in follows reports of vandalized Bush campaign signs and what he said were telephone calls to voters alleging Bush would reinstate a military draft if re-elected.

"To me there is some scary stuff going on from liberal radicals whose Bush hatred is out of control," Vance said.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002051443_webbush01.html

[Heath.Hunnicutt]

22. Not really Watergate-style

In Watergate, the people who broke in were involved in the RNC and the CIA. They picked the locks and posted look-outs. Other than these obvious differences...

[ParanoidPat]

25. For it to be a "Watergate-style break in", wouldn't the pResident.......

......have to know? :think: Wait a minute! Maybe Chris is on to something! :evilgrin:

[Jacobin]

26. Bush is so incompetent he's burgling his own campaign offices!!!

[ParanoidPat]

31. He heard that there were actual "plans" on the computer........

......so naturally, lacking any real plans of his own, ...... :evilgrin:

[Insomnicole]

28. Woot! Liberal radicals rock!

State Republican Party Chairman Chris Vance called it a "Watergate-style break in" and said he suspects Democrats are behind it.

"If you're just some burglar looking for computers to sell to buy drugs you take every laptop in the office maybe," he said.

Interesting that Vance is such a freakin' expert on what burglars do when they need drug money. Why on earth would you leave laptops with Soopah-Secret campaign information on them in an unattended office in a neighborhood not unaccustomed to break-ins, anyhow? This whole thing stinks to high heaven.

[Blue-Jay]

20. ----pssst. who wants to buy a laptop?----

[npincus]

21. can someone PhotoShop Karl Rove with 2 laptops?

tee hee

[SammyWinstonJack]

23. Look under Karl "baby huey" Rove's lunchbox

[featherman]

24. Whatta joke! As if Kerry is gonna have any problem crushing

Bush in Washington state. Who needs GOP "inside info" to do something that simple? There no interest in continuing the Bush presidency here on the West Coast (except among the usual minority of RW "christians" and assorted nuts and angry white men)

[girl gone mad]

27. Rove was on Nixon's dirt y trcks team..

and he's never gotten over Watergate. He so wants the Dems to be saddled with the same type of scandal.

[LiberalFighter]

29. Police confirmed the burglary?

Bellevue police confirmed the burglary Friday afternoon but offered no support for Vance's claims about motive.


How were they able to confirm that the burglary took place?

They don't report where the computers were kept. In the office under lock and key? Out in the common area? In their conference room? Hidden in the ceiling?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

37. Yeah but I just saw Vance on TV spouting the same BS

THE DEMOCRATS STOLE EM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THE DEMOCRATS STOLE EM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fucking asshole.

[Ksec]

30. Yes but how did those computers do the superscript????

Hmmm. Maybe we should call in Mr Holmes on this one.

[undercoverduer]

32. Wasn't there something about a videotape in 2000

:kick:

[bobthedrummer]

34. They stole the laptops themselves.

[liberal N proud]

36. Where do you suppose they will plant them?

If you see a computer and it is not yours. DO NOT TOUCH IT!
Make sure your finger prints are not on it.

[bush equals idiot]

38. Get your stories straight.

You should have made it appear we needed the computers be-e-fore the debate. Not after.:spank:

[JI7]

39. i sense a "Parlock" here

[AntiCoup2K4]

40. If they have such sensitive info on a LAPTOP, why do they leave it .......

....in the office????

Oh that's right.... CHRIS VANCE IS A FUCKING IDIOT, that's why :silly:

[Sugarbleus]

41. Exactly.....

But then, we are suppose to be too stupid to think of that...:eyes:

[elvisbear]

42. How did they climb through the hole in the broken window?

It looks a little small for a person to climb through.