Liberal values? Republican party headquarters and Trump campaign offices vandalized in different US cities

DeJuan Hoggard
ABC11.com
Fri, 04 Nov 2016 05:29 UTC

The GOP headquarters in Burlington was vandalized overnight.

BURLINGTON, NC --The Alamance County Republican Party headquarters has been vandalized.

Dallas Woodhouse, executive director of the North Carolina Republican Party, sent ABC11 photos that show the headquarters on Ramada Road in Burlington with graffiti spray-painted on walls, signs, and doors.

"F*** Trump" was written on a wall, and "NA" spray-painted on the door. "Republican" is crossed out in paint on a sign.

The Burlington Police Department circulated a surveillance photo of a suspect.

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"It's an unfortunate thing. Really, it's sad that someone wants to express themselves that way as opposed to having a civil discussion and talking about where we have differences," said Alamance County GOP Chairman Ben York.

Burlington residents also expressed disappointment.

"I mean, it's like people don't have any respect for nothing anymore. Not for anybody's property and it's just really, really terrible to see people do something like this for an election," offered resident David Woodruff.

Last month, someone threw a bottle filled with flammable liquid through the front window of the Orange County Republican Party headquarters in Hillsborough.

Rep. Mark Walker, who represents North Carolina District 6, represents Alamance and Orange counties.

"One of life's greatest opportunities is to bring healing when you've been treated unfairly or wronged,' Walker said. "These words of hate create an opportunity for us to serve one another, be hands and feet for this community, and to do so with grateful hearts. We are incredibly blessed to live in a country where we may live and work in accordance to our peacefully held beliefs without fear of encountering violence."

Comment: And similar news out of Denver, Colorado:

A brick wall on the side of Donald Trump's campaign office in Denver was vandalized late Thursday or early Friday by a perpetrator or perpetrators who wrote foul language and called the Republican presidential nominee a "thief" and "pervert" in big, block letters. The building's windows were also defaced.

Sonny Jackson, Denver police spokesman, said a call was made at 7:20 a.m. about anti-Trump graffiti.

"It's an anti message. We'll investigate it using all the tools we have at our disposal including viewing (footage from security cameras) to determine who did this," Jackson said.

Later, at about 9 p.m. Friday, Trump staffers reported a rock tossed through a window of the same headquarters. Television footage from the scene showed a hole slightly bigger than a softball in the window.

This isn't Denver's first case of political graffiti this election season. Earlier this year, a mural portraying Democrat Bernie Sanders in the city's Five Points neighborhood was marked with the words "loser," "sellout" and "traitor" after he endorsed Hillary Clinton.

The Trump campaign had no comment.

Later in the day, at a campaign event in Denver, former President Bill Clinton addressed the vitriol in the presidential race, asking Hillary Clinton supporters to take the high road with Trump supporters.

"What I want you to do is not to treat them the way they have treated Hillary," Bill Clinton said.

Really, Bill. Maybe a few of your brain-dead political groupies buy your "let's take the high road" rhetoric, but your plethora of dirty tricks are now known and legion. Vandalizing a few Trump offices ain't nothing compared to half the crap you've done.