Ah, dirty tricks.

[grinninfoole]

"Someone" stole two computers with crucial campaign information from a Democratic Party office in Lucas County, Ohio.

"Two other computers, holding less sensitive information, were untouched, as were a petty cash box that usually holds $80 to $100, televisions, portable radios, and other electronics. Moreover, other offices inside the building, 1817 Madison Ave., were not entered. Files, papers, and pamphlets remained in neat piles, and campaign signs leaned, apparently undisturbed, against a wall."

Do you think G. Gordon Liddy's eyes are moistening a little with nostalgia and pride?

Full story here-- http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041013/NEWS03/410130378/-1/ARCHIVES30

Comments

[crouchback.livejournal.com]

There are two possibilities:

a) it could be Republicans or
b) it could be Democrats, looking to frame Republicans.

On the federal level, the Repubs have the nastier dirty tricks machine, but on the local level, it depends where you are.

Whoever did it should be going to jail, but the recent history of campaign dirty tricks suggests they'll be untouched.

[grinninfoole.livejournal.com]

I would bet on the Republicans. They strike me as more desperate than the Dems.

[grinninfoole.livejournal.com]

Arrgh, stupid email. I think the Reps are more desperate because their guy is a known quantity, and while they deny it vehemently, they secretly know he's done a terrible job. If he lived up to his own hype, he'd be walking away with the election. And the Dems strike me as too incompetent to stage a fake-out theft. Let's face it--given Bush's horrible performance in office, Kerry should be walking away this election--but he isn't.