Democratic Offices Vandalized In Days Surrounding Health Care Vote
Rhetoric surrounding the health care debate has often been very violent, with Rep. Steve King (R-IA) just yesterday promising to “beat that other side to a pulp” and at least one Tea Party sign threatening gun violence if health care reform passes.
In recent days, several Democratic offices around the nation have also been vandalized. Although it’s unclear who the perpetrators are, all the incidents took place shortly before or after the House’s vote on health care yesterday:
– The glass front door of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ (D-AZ) Tuscon office was “smashed out” a “few hours after she voted in favor of health care reform.” Giffords’ spokesman C.J. 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.”
– On the morning of March 19, someone threw a brick through the front window of Rep. Louise Slaughter’s (D-NY) Niagara Falls office. Monroe County Democratic Committee officials also said that a brick shattered the glass doors at their party’s headquarters in Rochester, NY on Saturday or Sunday.
In a more confusing incident, someone spray-painted the word “DORKS” on the window of the Knox County Democratic Headquarters in Mount Vernon, OH. ThinkProgress spoke to Jim Zak, Democratic Party chairman, who said that this morning, he received a call about the vandalism, which seems to have happened sometime after midnight last night. He said that he has “no idea who would have done it,” but noted that “things are running pretty high here in Knox County, as far as the health care reform bill was concerned.”
At the Code Red protest this weekend, Tea Party activists also spat on a lawmaker and shouted racist and homophobic slurs at others.
Honestly, these threats and behavior do not surprise me. They, among fear mongering, have become the norm in the party as of lately. It's really sad.
Quoting Joqui:
this doesn't surprise me.. this happens.. sometimes even for little things...
Like after sports events when a team wins or loses? After a trial is over and people are happy or upset about the verdict? How about when there is a nation political party convention in town and people are upset about it.
I am not surprised by his either, it happens ALL the time. seem some people keep forgetting that.
I thought it was only the conservatives who were capable of such horrible acts?
Quoting Godgaveme4:
Quoting Joqui:
this doesn't surprise me.. this happens.. sometimes even for little things...
Like after sports events when a team wins or loses? After a trial is over and people are happy or upset about the verdict? How about when there is a nation political party convention in town and people are upset about it.I am not surprised by his either, it happens ALL the time. seem some people keep forgetting that.
Quoting Mandipants:
Quoting SxyMartini:
Well I just don't want to hear anymore how peaceful these people are.
Yup. And no amount of 'they started it first, or it happens all the time, or they do it too' changes the fact that this is hateful and assinine.
No one is or has said that. It is horrible behavior. But lets stop pretending that just ONE political party has cornered the market on idiots that protest with or for them.
Quoting Godgaveme4:
Quoting Mandipants:
Quoting SxyMartini:
Well I just don't want to hear anymore how peaceful these people are.
Yup. And no amount of 'they started it first, or it happens all the time, or they do it too' changes the fact that this is hateful and assinine.
No one is or has said that. It is horrible behavior. But lets stop pretending that just ONE political party has cornered the market on idiots that protest with or for them.
You can stop pretending. I never was. I was commenting on the OP that didn't happen to mention any other political parties engaging in this behavior.
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