Hearing about a break-in at Democratic Party headquarters tends to conjure up certain memories, but this time, it’s not in DC, it’s in New Hampshire.
The break-in happened this past weekend, and initial press reporters were vague. The AP quoted Kathy Sullivan, the chairwoman of the state Democratic Party, saying, “Some things were taken, but I don’t really want to get into that right now.” It sounded like there might be a bigger problem, but Sullivan emphasized that donors’ “financial information, as far as we can tell, has been protected.”
Paul Kiel noted a disconcerting wrinkle today from the Concord Monitor.
The burglary over the weekend at the New Hampshire Democratic Party’s Concord headquarters came five weeks after a break-in at a Democratic Party office in Manchester.
The door to the Manchester Democratic Committee office was broken down sometime over the weekend of Jan. 20 to 21, according to party officials and the Manchester police. Raymond Buckley, chairman of the city Democrats and vice chairman of the state Democratic Party, said he doesn’t believe anything was taken from or vandalized in the Manchester office, and he dismissed any connection between that incident and the burglary of the party’s headquarters in Concord last weekend.
Several Democrats, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that laptops and other equipment had been taken from the [Concord] party headquarters, though they said it appears that any sensitive information was protected by passwords or stored on servers that were not taken from the building.
That’s odd, isn’t it? Burglars break into the Dems’ Manchester office, take nothing. Shortly thereafter, other burglars break into the Dems’ Concord office, and take computers.
We’ll see what happens over the course of the investigation, but let’s not forget that we’ve already seen the criminal lengths New Hampshire Republicans are willing to go.