That’s right folks, 2006 is an election year, and we all know what happens in election years, don’t we? Somebody or some bodies (Republican thugs, perhaps?) break into Local Democratic Party headquarters and steal stuff:
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.
Surprise, surprise. Not interested in things you could sell on the street for money, eh? Only stole voter lists and financial records. Jeez, I wonder who could have an interest in boring old stuff like that.
Not!
This is what the Republican party has become. An organized criminal enterprise. From bribes to vandalism, from violating national security to illegal wiretapping, this is what they do. Steal, cheat, lie. They do it at every level, from local party offices right on up to the big enchilada, the Presidency itself. This theft in Lee County, Florida is only small potatoes, but it stands as a metaphor for what Republicans have become: common criminals.
Too bad they are stealing our democracy along with everything else.
