Alaska Democratic Party Headquarters Vandalized: Window Smashed

Political threats and violence appear to have reached Sarah Palin's home state.

Someone smashed a window at the headquarters for Alaska's Democratic Party in Anchorage this past weekend.

According to Alaska Dispatch, the police officer who inspected the damage called it a "smash and run." The first pane of a double-paned window that was situated on the front and center of the building was smashed, according to the Anchorage Daily News. The damage extended from the top to the bottom of the window and the metal frame was also damaged.

Statewide party officer Dave Metheny told the Daily News that there were no leads but that the office had fielded calls from angry people before and after Congress' vote on health care reform.

"People sometimes express their political discontent inappropriately," Anchorage police Lt. Dave Parker told the Daily News. "That could have been it. Or it could have just been somebody who decided they needed to break a window."

Patti Higgins, The state chair of the Alaska Democratic Party, told Alaska Dispatch that Palin's rhetoric contributed to a hostile atmosphere:

"There has become this inflammatory rhetoric, and Sarah Palin is leading the charge," Patti Higgins, state chair of the Alaska Democratic Party, said. "In the beginning I didn't think she knew what she was doing, but now I think she does"

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"It was a message," Higgins said. "Random acts of violence are a form of domestic terrorism and they need to knock it off."

Palin has denied any claims that she incited violence. CBS News reports that the former Alaska governor said that she just wanted to inspire people to get involved.

On Monday, a Philadelphia man was arrested for threatening to kill House Republican Whip Eric Cantor.

Comments

[madisonhack]

07:34 PM on 03/31/2010

I wonder if Palin's oldest son is home on leave - he's already been in court for vandalism once.

[engchina]

12:18 AM on 03/31/2010

The spin and comfort food from the Tea Bag group on this story will probably read as follows:
"Democrats attack their own party office in Anchorage AK.
After all the ever diligent Tea Bag group accused liberal demonstrators of spitting on democrat members of Congress during the all important healthcare vote.
The Tea Bag group has no shame...To the less educated amongst the Tea bag group,(and there are many) the word kristallnacht refers to a jewelry sale at Wal-Mart.
EngChina.

[Manata]

05:30 PM on 03/30/2010

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[bleeplander]

04:16 PM on 03/30/2010

Yeah, all that darn democratic complainin about violence....
http://kathygregg.wordpress.com/2010/03/30/sarah-palin-and-the-tea-partiers-mean-girls-in-menopause/

[akpetmom]

10:43 AM on 03/30/2010

When she quit her job she said she could better serve Alaskans without a title. Guess this is how she's "serving us", by stirring up the crazies!

[Golfer117]

08:05 AM on 03/30/2010

Where is the story about the left loon who was arrested for threating to kill Eric Cantor and his family, oh that's right it is only dems who matter, even if you have to make things up.

[USA Fan]

08:12 AM on 03/30/2010

Thank you!! This hasn't even been posted on the unbiased HP !! Big shock!!

[heidihaspaws]

08:48 AM on 03/30/2010

Was on the main page and now it's in politics. Been up for two days. Lazy, losers, do some research and educate yourselves.

[GaryNMaine]

08:30 AM on 03/30/2010

Maybe you haven't been paying attention, dude. The man who was arrested for threatening to kill Cantor was indeed a loon, but a loon who also threatened democrats and companies. Get over it, the Tea Bagger Party and the Republicans have been the ones fomenting violence, not the Democrats. Any violence can be put squarely on your heads.

[noudidnt]

07:52 AM on 03/30/2010

Mika B. just called James Clyburn and John Lewis liars.

[GaryNMaine]

08:31 AM on 03/30/2010

Mika is an imb3cile. What provoked you to even watch that ridiculous show?

[2lib4oh]

09:03 AM on 04/09/2010

I stopped watching because it makes me spew my coffee all over the tv.
Don't let them even near the subject of economics.They ask people like McCain's financial advisor to come on and talk about taxes.What a waste of time.

[ManuOB1]

07:07 AM on 03/30/2010

I blame the Bee Taggers GOPing on the Constitution.

[grf67]

05:52 AM on 03/30/2010

palin and her cowardly bunch of domestic terrorists should join the Army and fight for their country instead of destroying property. This, however, is not likely to happen because they are all cowards. When they are caught, they should be charged as terrorists and taken to Afghanistan and interrogated for a few months.

[Frederic]

06:58 AM on 03/30/2010

Will George W. now call for an attack on "terrist" USA? What with the group of "Christian" militants mirroring the Islamistic fanatics?

[progressivegreg]

09:47 AM on 03/30/2010

Most of her followers (the tea party folks) are collecting social security and medicare, they're too old for the army.

[pjn14]

05:32 AM on 03/30/2010

How is that hopey changy thing workin for ya?

[TimeToPunt]

06:27 AM on 03/30/2010

Very well. How's that livin' in yer mom's basement thing workin' out for ya?

[LatteLiberals]

06:55 AM on 03/30/2010

Sarah Palin slogan: No hope for change.

[pjn14]

05:31 AM on 03/30/2010

I would bet its a demoncratic operative doing it

[TimeToPunt]

06:31 AM on 03/30/2010

I would bet it's somebody a lot lower in the evolutionary order that did it, somebody that's still a fur-bearer.

[kamachanda]

06:36 AM on 03/30/2010

Better than that lowbrowy wingery thingy is working for you.

[ProChoiceGrandma]

03:47 AM on 03/30/2010

On Saturday, March 27, 2010, Sarah Palin gave a screech in Searchlight, Nevada. Curiously, she added a new line to her tired overused script, stating:
"That bumper sticker that maybe you'll see on the next Subaru driving by -- an Obama bumper sticker -- you should stop the driver and say, 'So how is that hopey, changey thing working out for ya?'"

It is not funny that she made this remark, especially considering that the political road rage incident in Nashville, Tennessee occurred two days earlier on Thursday, March 25 in which a nut rammed a man with his 10 year old daughter in the car because he had an Obama bumper sticker. Palin makes it pretty obvious that she had heard about the incident and found it amusing. And Sarah, just how do you suggest to stop a driver with an Obama bumper sticker? Ram them? Run them off the road? Or into oncoming traffic? - just so one of your unhinged acolytes can ask your cutseypie question????

So, Harry Weisiger, how is that felony reckless endangerment chargey thingy workin’ out for ya? Wink wink!

Keep up with all the low down on Sarah Palin at:
http://palingates.blogspot.com

[sdilmoak]

04:10 AM on 03/30/2010

Absolutely! For the daily report on all things Palin, Palingates is the very best! Read things you will not see anywhere else.

[Rasalom]

05:19 AM on 03/30/2010

Palin said that? I am very angry at that. My mom was a victim of a teabagger road rage incident last year over an Obama bumper sticker. It is not something you should encourage.

[madisonhack]

07:40 PM on 03/31/2010

I saw a bumper sticker yesterday that read Pray for Josh. There were also lots of fundie type stickers, anti-Obama stickers, and a support the troops ribbon on the same SUV.

I call that solo road rage.

[Free Spirited]

03:29 AM on 03/30/2010

The perpetrators most likely came from Wassilla, located fifty miles north of Anchorage...home of Sarah Palin....and home to Alaska's conservative right wing politics that leaves the rest of the rural Alaska to third world conditions with the highest cost of living in the nation.

[El Espectro]

02:28 AM on 03/30/2010

American Krystallnacht.

[TimeToPunt]

06:32 AM on 03/30/2010

I'm sure that reference is completely lost on 99.9% of the teabaggers.

[j0hnwi11iams]

01:53 AM on 03/30/2010

Sarah Palin delivers the one liners. I am being very serious when I tell you she is a joke.