The office of the Lucas County Democratic Party was burglarized October 13. Clamor is in Lucas County and it’s a heavily democratic area in a battleground state.

The Toledo Blade reported: “At Democratic headquarters, officials stopped short of publicly blaming partisan politics, but at the same time, they all but ruled out run-of-the-mill criminals.

“Two other computers, holding less sensitive information, were untouched, as were a petty cash box that usually holds $80 to $100, televisions, portable radios, and other electronics. Moreover, other offices inside the building, 1817 Madison Ave., were not entered. Files, papers, and pamphlets remained in neat piles, and campaign signs leaned, apparently undisturbed, against a wall.

“‘They knew what they wanted,’ Mr. Chabler said, calling the incident a ‘third-rate burglary,’ a not-so-subtle reference to the break-in at National Democratic Committee offices in 1972 that began the Watergate scandal that eventually led to the President Nixon’s resignation.”

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