North Carolina GOP office burned, graffiti sprayed nearby
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A burnt couch is shown next to warped campaign signs at the Orange County Republican Headquarters in Hillsborough, North Carolina today. Someone threw flammable liquid inside a bottle through a window overnight and someone spray-painted an anti-GOP slogan referring to “Nazi Republicans” on a nearby wall, authorities said today.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
A burned couch is shown next to warped campaign signs at the Orange County Republican Headquarters in Hillsborough, North Carolina today. Someone threw flammable liquid inside a bottle through a window overnight and someone spray-painted an anti-GOP slogan referring to “Nazi Republicans” on a nearby wall, authorities said today.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Melted campaign signs are seen at the Orange County Republican Headquarters in Hillsborough, North Carolina today. Someone threw flammable liquid inside a bottle through a window overnight and someone spray-painted an anti-GOP slogan referring to “Nazi Republicans” on a nearby wall, authorities said today. State GOP director Dallas Woodhouse said no one was injured.
HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. » A local Republican Party office in North Carolina was torched by a flammable device and someone spray-painted an anti-GOP slogan referring to “Nazi Republicans” on a nearby wall, authorities said Sunday.
A bottle filled with flammable liquid was thrown through the window of the Orange County Republican Party headquarters overnight, according to a news release from the town of Hillsborough. The substance ignited and damaged the interior before burning out. No one was injured.
On Sunday afternoon, the walls of the multi-room office were covered in black char, and a couch against one wall had been burned down to its springs. Shattered glass covered the floor, and melted campaign yard signs showed warped lettering.
The news release from authorities said an adjacent building was spray-painted with the words: “Nazi Republicans leave town or else.” The graffiti had been covered in paint by late afternoon.
Another business owner discovered the damage Sunday morning. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is working with local investigators.
State GOP executive director Dallas Woodhouse said people sometimes work after-hours, and he felt lucky that no one was there at the time. He said the bottle appeared to have landed on or near the couch where volunteers sometimes take naps.
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“They are working around the clock. It is a miracle that nobody was killed,” he said in an interview, calling the fire “political terrorism.”
He said Republican offices around the state were re-examining their security.
The violent act in the key battleground state was condemned by public figures across the political spectrum.
Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee for president said on Twitter that the attack “is horrific and unacceptable. Very grateful that everyone is safe.”
Republican nominee Donald Trump blamed the act on Democrats in a Tweet and also he encouraged local Republicans, saying: “With you all the way, will never forget. Now we have to win. Proud of you all!”
At a news conference, Woodhouse urged Republicans to respond peacefully by turning out to vote in November. He said he’d received messages of support from Democrats.
Orange County GOP chairman Daniel Ashley told reporters that no one had previously made violent threats against the office several miles from the town’s historic square. The GOP office is several doors down from a shuttered ice rink in what was once a frontier-themed amusement park that is now a retail complex known as The Shops at Daniel Boone.
Tom Stevens, mayor of the town about 40 miles northwest of Raleigh, said that it was fortunate the fire didn’t burn the office and other adjacent buildings that are decades old to the ground.
Stevens, a Democrat, said the act doesn’t represent the character of Orange County, which also includes much of Chapel Hill and the University of North Carolina campus. Registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by a 3-1 margin in the county that picked President Barack Obama by a lopsided margin in the 2012 election.
“I’d like to believe we aspire to respect hearing differing views,” Stevens said in an interview. “This is very troubling.”
Stevens said he wasn’t aware of any leads on suspects.
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Democrats have no class.
Nomu, it’s that kind of attitude that causes people to do these kinds of things. Clearly, responsible democrats do not, and have not, condoned such acts, just as responsible republicans would not condone violence against democrats.
As far as I know, they don’t know who did it. While the person who did it could be a democrat, fact remains he could have just as easily been a Donald supporter who wants to create a backlash against democrats, or an independent. Until the cops actually gets someone, it probably isn’t wise to jump to conclusions.
Exactly the point I was making. Unless it’s known for sure who did it and their motivation, it is very irresponsible to make baseless accusations.
Perhaps that same attitude ought to include the sexual accusation stories currently making the rounds. Advice cautioning against premature conclusions becomes something entirely else when unevenly applied.
hawaiikone – Except that Mr. Trump, in his own words, explained exactly how he treats women. The stories from the women fit exactly what Mr. Trump described as his normal behavior.
These are not premature conclusions. He said that is exactly what he does. In painful detail.
hawaiikone – At trial, this may be called a spontaneous utterance or an excited utterance. It’s an exception to the hearsay rule. Very hard for him to un-ring that bell.
Readers often rush to judgement, convinced by their own biases of certain guilt, but the wiser ones don’t immediately and repeatedly announce the conviction.
hawaiikone – Wiser. Yes, of course.
Thanks for acknowledging the obvious. Now learn from it.
It looks like you are quite the sleuth! No one in North Carolina knows what happened, but you do?
You really enjoy making up things, don’t you?
Do you have any more stories for us?
Democrats are everywhere, one only need observe. Caldwell’s own daughter lit Republican signs on fire during Caldwwell’s last campaign. perhaps you forget?
And the Republican in that incident had the class to forgive her.
And that has a tangible nexus to a crime in North Carolina?. Bruddha, does us a favor, go back and try finish intermediate school before your further embarrass yourself.
Would you explain what you just posted for us under educated regular folks. Breitbart wiki hasn’t come out yet with the real story. Maybe we will get some more wiki wiki tomorrow while the NYT is searching for groped old ladies.
Like I told you Sarge, if your moms no like be groped, mo betta she quit Rockza.
Ikeie boy…You still hanging out at the bathhouse while the bruddas are visiting your sistas and auntys? Keep calm now with that thin skin. Chive on. bwahaha
Sarge, you moms still doing dollar dances in the parking lot or here recent deal, for cup-of-noodles?
Must have been a rough night at the bath house. Sore okole? The bull must have had fun with you.
And that somehow relates to what happened in north carolina? It’s that kind of generalizations and demonizing that leads to the kind of nastiness we’re seeing more and more in this country. Despite what donald trump thinks, people can disagree without getting seriously personal.
I guess you could always give nomu the benefit of the doubt and take his comment as a suggestion that Maya Caldwell be treated as a suspect – if you could call that a benefit.
Why? Do you disagree with Hillary when she tweeted The attack on the Orange County HQ NCGOP office is horrific and unacceptable. Very grateful that everyone is safe’. I guess she should have wished that a few Trump supporters were in there?
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In a recent interview Dolly Parton put her thoughts about Hillary as straight forward as possible. She called Hillary, “nuts.” Parton then went on to call Hillary’s entire campaign, “just crazy.”
She also argued that Americans deserve to see the real Hillary. Not the façade she’s created to create influence with the population. Dolly is downright sick and tired of seeing the people lied to and she put the spotlight straight onto Hillary for it.
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Nomu, you are exactly the kind of person(s) that this incident intended to inspire.
As far as your perception is concerned, “show the evidence.”
I’m a Hillary supporter. I hope they catch whoever did this and prosecute them FULLY! Stuff like this, conducted by anyone from any party, is just wrong. We can disagree, but let’s do it in civil fashion.
Oh no, now the Donald going blame, blame, blame.
Isn’t this what Hitler did in Germany in 1933? Is it possible that the Republicans did this themselves as an act of desperation? Hope nothing like this happens again.
Someone commits a crime, you don’t know who, but you generaluze and blame all Democrats. Just like Hispanics are murders and rapists and Muslims are terrorists.
If you follow the history of the democratic party starting from Andrew Jackson and see what he did to the Native Americans you may wake up from the con. The true dupe of the American people starts there.From the KKK to Saul Alinsky read the real history.
…and the location is near the UNC. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if a SJW student gets a star from his depraved Marxist professor.
Do you ever write anything that makes sense? Or do you just write your gibberish here?
Greetings Klassless, why don’t you go out and buy a new dress to celebrate the coronation. I know you girls get weary wearing that same old shabby dress.
BlueEyedWhiteDevil – Yes, you are certainly the clever one! You’re very funny!
Why is HiLIARy wearing Monica’s blue dress? At least she had it laundered.
Obama’s and Hillary’s thugs hit the GOP.
show the evidence.
it was probably republicans that did it
Disgusting act by simple minds bent on intimidating the Republicans, but it will do the opposite, the simpletons will succeed in uniting all Americans against this as they always have in the past.
The person or persons that did this should be punished to the full extent of the law.
Of course as always Trump is putting the blame on someone else. IMO people are getting disgusted with his big mouth and all the things that’s coming out of it.
This kind of act should be condemned, period. Trump’s assertions that Democrats are responsible should also be condemned.
Hillary needed to and did respond quickly, calling this “horrific and unacceptable”. There should be no party lines for condemnation of this act.
How’s about a news report where a republican and trump supporter this morning claims that if Hillary Clinton is elected President, then she should be “assasinated.”
That’s how Trump feeds his followers with rhetoric of hate and rigged conspiracies.
Trump’s rantings are dangerous to our entire democracy, let alone our democratic electoral process.
Republicans should at least have the courage to denounce his rhetoric.
Trumpsters religious right say, “forgive and forget.”
Well Bill Clinton while still President, held a White House Prayer attended by over 100 ministers, priests and religious leaders in the East Wing Room, (Friday Sept. 11, 1998). In their presence, he confessed to his sins and asked for forgiveness.
Franklin Graham(son of Billy Graham)claimed that Trump confessed his actions to his wife and America and asked forgiveness?, did he? not sure; but Graham said that was good enough for him.
So Bill Clinton,(Sept.1998), and Trump,(pre-2005 and on thru 2011 beyond).
Further, Graham claims that for him the “most” important issue if who will appoint the next Supreme Court Judge that will affect laws which his religious beliefs supports. His slogan, “hold your nose” and vote.
Rigged!?, give me a break.
Even the Republican party lawyer this morning claims that a rigged election is very highly unlikely. phfffft!!
Ooops, he’ll be on trumps list of rigors.