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FirmhandKY -> Denver Dem HQ vandalized by Republican Health Care Protesters ... (8/26/2009 2:21:47 PM)
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'08 race worker held in damage to Colorado Democratic HQ
By Jessica Fender
The Denver Post
Posted: 08/26/2009 01:00:00 AM MDT
Police said that about 2:20 a.m., 24-year-old Maurice Schwenkler, now in custody, and an at-large accomplice took a hammer to the picture windows displaying posters touting President Barack Obama and his health care reform efforts.
Early Tuesday, Democratic Party chairwoman Pat Waak said the damage to her building in Denver's art district was a consequence of "an effort on the other side to stir up hate."
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"What I've been saying is there is a lot of rhetoric out there from both sides of the spectrum," Waak said. "That's what's been disturbing to me. People are saying a lot of things not appropriate for civil discourse."
For weeks, people on both sides of the health care debate have rallied across the country.
Schwenkler is charged with criminal mischief and is to make his first appearance in Denver County Court today.
He is accused of doing an estimated $11,000 in damage and could face a felony conviction.
Them damn Rethuglicans! Doing anything to stir up hate!
Oh ... wait ....
One of two people suspected of shattering 11 windows Tuesday morning at the state Democratic Party headquarters has an arrest record and a history of helping a Democratic political candidate, public records show.
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Schwenkler received $500 in November 2008 to walk door-to-door in support of Democrat Mollie Cullom, who lost her race to Republican state Rep. David Balmer of Centennial.
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Schwenkler was one of dozens of paid canvassers bankrolled by the Colorado Citizens' Coalition, a political 527 committee Schwenkler has worked for Democratic causes. (Denver Police Department ) funded by labor groups and well-known, wealthy liberal donors.
In those disclosures, Schwenkler's address is listed as Derailer Bicycle Cooperative, a free community bicycle collective that operates just around the corner from the Democratic headquarters. Multiple volunteers at the collective declined to discuss Schwenkler, though they said he was affiliated with the group.
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The Denver Post reported Wednesday that Schwenkler was also arrested in St. Paul, Minn., on the last day of the 2008 Republican convention on a charge of unlawful assembly. (AP)
I guess this sums up a lot:
Denver Police said they don't know what motivated the suspects. The headquarters was unoccupied at the time and there were no injuries reported.
But you and I know, don't we?
It obvious that those damn rich, astro-turfing republicans paid him to do this, to try to make the left look bad!
Schwenkler is obviously an agent provocateur of them right-wing, neo-con, rich Christian bastards!
Well, we won't be fooled! [:D]
Firm
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