Rep. Giffords' Tucson office vandalized after health care vote

[sabra]

Source: Arizona Daily Star

The front door was smashed out at Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’ congressional office last night.

At 2:40 a.m., just a few hours after staff left the building after the late-night vote, the alarm system went off, said spokesman C.J. Karamargin. The panel to the front door and the glass panel alongside it were smashed out. The perpetrator likely had to hop the gated fence to get access to the door, since it’s not viewable from the parking lot.

Karamargin said it was unclear if the glass had been shot out with a kind of pellet gun, if it had been kicked or smashed with an object. The door has been covered with plywood.

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While the calls into the office in the past week were “more nasty and rude” and laced with profanity than the office had ever received before, Karamargin said, they did not reach the level of threat that prompted any police involvement. Throughout all of the protests over the past several weeks as the health care proposal entered its final push, the office was often full of people — many vehemently opposed to the health care proposal — but this incident was the first involving any vandalism.

“It’s unfortunate that the reaction to Sunday night’s vote was a violent one. It’s a good thing no one was here,” he said.


Read more: http://www.azstarnet.com/news/local/crime/article_eb24e4fe-35dc-11df-ad88-001cc4c03286.html

[Sebastian Doyle]

1. Anybody know where John Kyl (and the pet rug on his head) were at the time?

:shrug:

[Not Me]

2. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) also got a brick through a window.

And the Rochester NY Democratic Party offices did as well.

(edit for typo.)

[GoCubsGo]

3. I'm surprised those are the only two incidents like that

I think the violence will get worse before this is over. Just judging by the comments in my local fish wrap, the Ignorati have completely lost what little minds they had.

[Zoeisright]

4. All Democratic legislators should have cameras installed at their offices.

And at their homes, too, for that matter.

Then prosecute the little bastards and throw them in jail.

[Left Coast2020]

5. Absolutely. Jail them. But Secret Service is investigating some

moron posting on Twitter a threat to President the other day before the vote. Really blatant for all to see. Do these morons have any ability to think? Apparently not.

[gratuitous]

6. "It's a good thing no one was here"

Because the terrorists, like their leaders, prefer to attack inanimate objects when no one's around. For example, Rush Limbaugh doesn't have guests - he argues against audiotape that he himself selects and edits. It's hard to lose under those circumstances, though Rush has definitely lost on occasion even with all the built-in advantages on his program. And Limbaugh's terrorist followers mimic their leader in smashing a glass panel when nobody's around. The main person for whom it was "a good thing" that "no one was here" at the time of the terrorist activity was the terrorist himself.

[Joanne98]

7. Catch him and put him in jail.

[marshall]

10. Or catch her and put her in jail

Equal opportunity cuts both ways these days.

[old mark]

8. Republicans support Amreican terrorism. We need Federal investigations into this, but

I beieve they are too busy investigating anti-war groups and environmentalists.

mark

[John Kerry VonErich]

9. They just declared war, pure and simple.

The worst is yet to come.