Laptops stolen from Bush campaign office

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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.

[qwerty]

Kerry's Watergate?

[Friar]

LOL

Give me a break. Why would Kerry camapign steal laptops?

[Gabu]

It took almost an hour before someone blamed this on Kerry!  What was the hold-up?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

It took almost an hour before someone blamed this on Kerry!  What was the hold-up?

Kerry hid all the republicans in a cave

[TheWildCard]

LOL

Give me a break. Why would Kerry camapign steal laptops?

Because they contained the Republican game plan for the state of Washington.

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

There is some serious jumping to conclusions in this thread.

[TheWildCard]

There is some serious jumping to conclusions in this thread.

If you're reffering to me I've already heard on Fox News that those laptops did have that info. on them

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

There is some serious jumping to conclusions in this thread.

If you're reffering to me I've already heard on Fox News that those laptops did have that info. on them

Ummm, and?

[12th Doctor]

There is some serious jumping to conclusions in this thread.

And if the story was "Laptops stolen from Kerry campaign", what would you say then?

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

There is some serious jumping to conclusions in this thread.

And if the story was "Laptops stolen from Kerry campaign", what would you say then?

Why would Kerry steal some laptops the night that Bush got his ass kicked in the debates?

[TheWildCard]

There is some serious jumping to conclusions in this thread.

If you're reffering to me I've already heard on Fox News that those laptops did have that info. on them

Ummm, and?

Who else would want laptops from the Bush-Cheney campiagn?

Theres nothing wrong wth speculating. Perhaps this is some brilliant plan by some robbers to steal some laptops in hopes that the Kerry camp would get blamed. But you have to admit this is a little fishy.

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

There is some serious jumping to conclusions in this thread.

If you're reffering to me I've already heard on Fox News that those laptops did have that info. on them

Ummm, and?

Who else would want laptops from the Bush-Cheney campiagn?

Theres nothing wrong wth speculating. Perhaps this is some brilliant plan by some robbers to steal some laptops in hopes that the Kerry camp would get blamed. But you have to admit this is a little fishy.

Joe random thief?
Or it could just be Karl Rove trying to distract attention from the debate.

[ATFFL]

There is some serious jumping to conclusions in this thread.

If you're reffering to me I've already heard on Fox News that those laptops did have that info. on them

Ummm, and?

Who else would want laptops from the Bush-Cheney campiagn?

Theres nothing wrong wth speculating. Perhaps this is some brilliant plan by some robbers to steal some laptops in hopes that the Kerry camp would get blamed. But you have to admit this is a little fishy.

Joe random thief?
Or it could just be Karl Rove trying to distract attention from the debate.

Random thief would likely have taken more, unless spooked off.

The Rove option is always posible.  But he would have gone for  amore high profile state.

[??????????]

In 1972 no one would have ever thought people working for Nixon would have broken into the DNC HQ because Nixon was supposed to win handily anyhow.

[TheWildCard]

There is some serious jumping to conclusions in this thread.

If you're reffering to me I've already heard on Fox News that those laptops did have that info. on them

Ummm, and?

Who else would want laptops from the Bush-Cheney campiagn?

Theres nothing wrong wth speculating. Perhaps this is some brilliant plan by some robbers to steal some laptops in hopes that the Kerry camp would get blamed. But you have to admit this is a little fishy.

Joe random thief?
Or it could just be Karl Rove trying to distract attention from the debate.

No offense but thats digging deep in the conspricy bin if you ask me.

[zachman]

Its either a loony Democrat or Rove. I'd give equal odds to both. In 1996 Rove secretly distributed political literature with personal attacks on his judicial candidate in Alabama. The move allowed Rove to portray his candidate as a victim. If it is him, I'd expect an all press attack on the heist by late this week.

[TheWildCard]

If it is him, I'd expect an all press attack on the heist by late this week.

Wouldn't you expect that anyway? I mean lets assume for one moment that a top democrat ordered this(not saying they did). The media would be all over it anyway would they not?

[Gabu]

There is some serious jumping to conclusions in this thread.

And if the story was "Laptops stolen from Kerry campaign", what would you say then?

Personally, I would say, "Oh, that's interesting" and would probably forget about it by the next day.

[Wakie]

*Yawn

This is ridiculous.  Back in March a laptop was stolen from the Kerry campaign.  Not much was made of it.

Don't believe me?  Go hit Yahoo and do a search on "kerry laptop stolen".

Whiney GOP punks.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

This looks like just good old fashioned thievery.  A quick smash and grab and from the POV of a common crook, those laptops were obvious portable wealth.  If anyone is going to make political hay out of this, it should be Kerry, as this could be used as an example of Bush's neglect of homeland security.

[12th Doctor]

*Yawn

This is ridiculous.  Back in March a laptop was stolen from the Kerry campaign.  Not much was made of it.

Don't believe me?  Go hit Yahoo and do a search on "kerry laptop stolen".

Whiney GOP punks.

Why would the Bush/Cheney people have stolen it way back in March when Kerry wasn't even campaigning against Bush yet?  He was still campaigning against Edwards.

Condecending Dem punks.

[Donovan]

Washington is not a swing state. So why bother stealing stuff from headquarters in a non-swing state? Doesn't make sense.

It was either;

A) Idiot(s) that think this helps the Democrats

B) A Republican that wants the Democrats to look bad

[A18]

If they want to help the Democrats, they're already idiots by definition

[Donovan]

If they want to help the Democrats, they're already idiots by definition

Oh, I think that both parties have their share of idiots. But reality check here will tell you that the most highly educated people in the country swing heavy for the Democrats.

Take Care