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To: SiouxPal who wrote (58018)	10/1/2004 6:38:59 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 89467

Re-election headqtrs burglarized Bush's state headquarters for re-election burglarized By David Postman Seattle Times chief political reporter seattletimes.nwsource.com "The Washington state headquarters for the president's re-election campaign was broken into last night, and police are investigating the theft of three computers from the Bellevue office. Missing are the computers used by the campaign's executive director, the head of the get-out-the-vote effort and one that had been set for delivery to the campaign's Southwest Washington field director,"... ..."data on the computers was backed up and available elsewhere. But, he said, the loss creates a potential security breach about the campaign's so-called 72-hour plan, the Bush get-out-the-vote effort. "Obviously there's some stuff there we wouldn't want our opposition getting their hands on," Seaton said. The campaign has spoken about the importance of the 72-hour plan in swing states across the country. Bush campaign officials say it could make the difference in a close election if Republicans are able to make sure their voters get to a polling place on election day and don't sit home as many did four years ago."... ..."checking to see if anything else had been stolen. 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.".... ...."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,"....