Thieves hit Democrats' office (Lee County, Florida)

[seafan]

Thieves hit Democrats' office

By Betty Parker
March 09, 2006


Lee County's Democratic headquarters had its second break-in in almost as many years this week.

Thieves ignored computer equipment and other valuables, and took the party's financial records and voter data, said Lyndia Bradley, Lee County's Democratic chairwoman.
"This was a very targeted, purposeful break-in," she said Wednesday. "They were obviously interested in certain things, not things you sell on the street for money."

Computers were vandalized, but there was no sign of forced entry.
The office is located on Park Meadow Drive in south Fort Myers.
Bradley said the office is not staffed daily this time of year, and she and others were last in the office March 1.

The theft was discovered Monday.

The party's headquarters had a similar break-in shortly before the 2004 elections when the office was in a different location near the intersection of Fowler Street and Colonial Boulevard.
Thieves vandalized the office and stole records and computers in that incident.

And just before the November 2004 presidential election, vans used to carry voters to register to vote, and cast early ballots had their tires slashed outside Kerry-Edwards headquarters in Royal Palm Square in Fort Myers.

The vans carried pro-Democrat signs and bumper stickers.

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[mattclearing]

1. Business as usual...must be an election year in Florida. n/t

[fasttense]

2. This is the third break in of a Democratic office I've heard of in the

last three years. Is this a new trend? Or are repukes getting better at getting away with break ins.

[notadmblnd]

14. Why haven't these people gotten smart enough

to install some sort of security? 2x's now? If it were my office, at a minimum, there'd be two well trained german shepards left in that office at night.

[Blue_Tires]

15. it wouldn't surprise me

if this office was infiltrated by a freep as a volunteer or staffer

[Lost-in-FL]

20. The Dem Party in FL is almost bankrupt

and I think thay need all of the money they get on elections and not security. This is starting to smell rotten to me.

[Mr_Spock]

24. I'm sure there will be motion pictures of the next incident

These new wireless network cams can be installed almost anywhere - no excuse not to have one in this type of office - especially if the RW criminals keep insisting on breaking in because they know only criminal behavior can keep them in power at this rate...

[KurtNYC]

27. Video surveilance?

so we could see exactly who is doing this...

[TankLV]

38. If I were in charge - I'd make a couple staffers STAY there 24/7/365

In light of repuke treachery.

But obviously I know nothing.

Funny how the repukes never seem to have this problem...

[Ian David]

18. There has been a lot more than three. n/t

[RaleighNCDUer]

3. Well, how're they supposed to know who to put on the felons

list if they don't have Democratic voting roles?

[aden_nak]

4. Did G. Gordon Liddy write them a how-to memo?

Oh, wait, no. Then they'd get caught.

[stillcool]

11. maybe he's improved with age...

ya know...practice, practice, practice...and he hasn't been on the tube lately has he?...:hi:

[aden_nak]

19. "How Not To Burgal" - by G. Gordon Liddy

[wordpix2]

5. shades of Watergate---we have GOT to rid ourselves of repuke THUGS

[Demeter]

6. Deja Vu All Over Again

Is somebody CREEPing?

[Roland99]

7. Holy Sh*t!! Stealing financial records and voter information?!?!?!

Who else is in favor of the death penalty for these bastards when they're caught?


:evilfrown:

[Joanne98]

8. They need to know who to take of the rolls!

[MsKandice01]

9. Sooprise, sooprise..

[Stevepol]

10. Why is this not a federal offense? In OH it was never investigated

even tho two (2) Dem offices were broken into preceding the 04 election. Again they only took the computer files that had the lists of Dem voters.

WHY IN GOD'S NAME IS THIS NOT A FEDERAL OFFENSE? An election should be sacred almost.

This should have a really serious punishmeht attached to it.

[Danieljay]

13. because the country we lived in 6 years ago no longer exists. n/t

[Bushy Being Born]

32. On the other hand, when tires of Republican voter-drive cars were slashed

by the son of some high-ranking OH Dem before the election, the Feds were on it right away!

[John Q. Citizen]

12. If they are going to store important data, they need a surveillance cam.

Tires slashed are bad but loss of voter data could be critical.

Given the oppositions disregard for the law, break-ins should be expected and counter measures should be taken.

The cost in cam-equipment is minimal compared to the cost of collecting and defining the information. Also, if the thieves could be pin pointed it might have positive overall political effects on the areas where info theft is occurring.

Someone is using this info for something...

[Ian David]

16. A long while back I posted an idea here on DU...

about putting "decoy" computers in Democratic campaign offices that contained bogus information and/or concealed listening and GPS devices designed to eavesdrop on anyone stealing the computer.

[melissinha]

25. How about GPS tracking devices on computers?

First, we need to make sure data is backed up often during campaign seasons, and second, computers in contested races should have GPS devices implanted in them (that way the police can find the culprits)

[Ian David]

26. Exactly. And each office should have at least one decoy computer...

rigged with a GPS transmitter, listening device, exploding dye packet, and smoke grenade.

And perhaps also loaded with a Trojan Horse to spy upon anyone who steals the computer if they plug it into their own network.

Imagine if KKKarl Rove stole a computer from John Kerry's office, plugged it into his network, and then suddenly The DNC were able to access all of KKKarl's files?

[file83]

31. That's a good idea - create a "honey pot" to lure the

sneaky bastards.:thumbsup:

[mirandapriestly]

17. we're supposed to just except this as normal now.nt

[sickinohio]

21. Hmmm - sounds a bit like what happened

in Toledo Ohio a couple of weeks before the Nov 2004 election. I still say that it was the rePukes that broke in there. But, I haven't heard another thing about it. I would have thought that would have been important information for any kind of vote fraud investigations. Guess not though.

[melissinha]

23. Toledo Break in doesn't get much coverage

But I will NEVER forget about it, and I will post about it every chance I get:

Toledo Democratic Headquarters Break In

I think that this precise break in could have cost us the election.

[sickinohio]

37. I totally agree with you.

Could have had a big hand in us losing the election in Ohio (or helping the rePukes steal the election). Allot of "funny" things happened in Lucas County. Voters purged etc from what I've read. And then - there's the Tom Noe criminal right here and his crooked wife Bernadette helping run the rePuke machine in the town. I sure wish the Dems would have done something about the break-in, like a possible investigation further into the matter. Had to be a connection to the crooks somewhere!!!!

from the Blade article:

"The sentiment was echoed by local Republican chairman Bernadette Noe, who noted that two Republican billboards were defaced by vandals overnight. "It'd be so disillusioning to think our process could stoop to such lows," she said."

Gee - the crook's wife thought it was horrible to have a billboard defaced!! All the while, her husband, Tom Noe doing his criminal activities!! What a joke these crooks are!!!

:grr:

[drm604]

29. My local Democratic office

in Montgomery County PA had their computers stolen before the '04 election. Cash that was lying on a desk was untouched.

[sickinohio]

35. Same thing in Toledo

No cash taken - just computers and lists and things of that sort. But, of course it had to be the "bad neighborhood". Nothing more to it than that. I truly think the Dems should have pursued this. Sounds really fishy to me. Especially with a crook like Tom Noe in the neighborhood and his wife running the rePukes in the county.

[EFerrari]

22. The Republican Party at its finest. n/t

[AndyTiedye]

28. The Repubs Get Away With a Watergate Every Day, Just to Stay in Practice

Since this is Florida, there won't even be an investigation.

[file83]

30. "financial records and voter data" -- this doesn't sound familiar...

...now does it?

[HuffleClaw]

33. hmmmmmmm

this is NOT the first time democratic offices have been selectively targeted like this. and so far as i know, the authorities don't investigate it much.

[NYC]

34. Watergate was a small breaking & entering buglary.

Just a small burglary, the burglars caught by building security.

Interesting.

[goforit]

36. Kathrine DeVille Harris stops at nothing!!!

[brentspeak]

39. Please tell me they got this all on surveillance camera

Because if turns out they failed to have any cameras installed...:argh: