"Kill Obama" Painted On Phoenix-Area Campaign Signs

PHOENIX, AZ -- "Kill Obama" was spray painted in purple on campaign signs at two locations in Cave Creek, a suburb of Phoenix, according to the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office (MCSO).

"This is a complete disgrace and gross act towards our president," said Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, "My deputies are looking into all avenues of the incident, and it is a top priority."

Neither campaign sign is connected to national politics. One supports a measure that would allow Walmart to open a location in Cave Creek. The other supports a school budget increase to lower class sizes for kindergarten through third grade.

According to MCSO, there are currently no known suspects or witnesses. Anyone with information is asked to call MCSO at 602-876-1011.

View a slideshow of the vandalized campaign signs here or here.

The Phoenix area has had a run of high-profile racist incidents recently. Last weekend, an interracial couple was gunned down while walking through a park last weekend after a stranger with a shaved head and tattoos asked the African-American man why he was "with a white woman." Residents of Fountain Hills, another Phoenix suburb, were terrorized recently by racist vandalism that included anti-Semitic and pro-KKK imagery.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which regularly tracks hate groups as part of its mission, says hate groups are growing in Arizona. Two national Nazi events are scheduled to be held in the Phoenix area in the coming weeks: a national Nazi festival in Tonopah in October and a national neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement rally in early November.And a national Neo-Nazi festival is scheduled to be held in Tonopah, another suburb of Phoenix, on October 24th.

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Comments

[hischagal]

What's going on in Arizona is shocking and should be condemned.

[KateinAZ]

Not all of us are like this!

[ETSpoon]

One of the reasons I think Arizona's the way it is, is because it is full of losers from the Midwest and California.

[Tulka2]

Hmmmm.... I have thought of this too. The west is crazier than the east and the eastern United States is crazier than Europe. People do not migrate if they have it good where they are, do they? The white folks in the whole of the Western Hemisphere and Australia are mostly the descendants of misfits if you look at it like that.

[Awakenedcitizen]

I moved to AZ from California in 1980 and found the state to be 15+ years behind in almost every way. You still have the mentality that they dont like strangers moving in, dont like people of different ethnicities, still think women are "girls"--hey, I have tried to help the state progress. ;->

[IDIOTA]

If the President gets shot then the Right will blame him for not being bullet-proof.

[maxwellpax]

The Cave Creek newspaper, The Sonoran News, has been leading the hate fest of Obama with constant negative attacks and even now claims he was born in Africa. This ignorance and lack of respect will not manifest in anything good. Why not let our elected leader do his job and support his efforts to fix the giant mess he inherited? The idea that killing him would leave our country in a better place is so incredibly wrong that I don't know where to begin to even rebut those who are against him. If you want democracy, vote against him in the next election, if you want chaos, go to Iran and see what it means to have your vote thrown away. Try to understand what it means in other parts of the world that we have freedom to disagree with each other without being killed or tortured. Our vote is a precious gift bought with the blood of true patriots. Obama has made me proud to be an American, those who oppose him have the right to do so, BY VOTING, not by lies, shouts, and violence. I still love Cava Creek, only a few nut cases are destroying the reputation of this wonderful small town.

[Write4U]

Dictionary:
Sedition; conduct or language inciting rebellion against the authority of a State.

At which point does Free Speech become Sedition?
Seems the Far Right are treading close, if not already over the line!

[maxwellpax]

This is a good point, hate sells for Glenn Beck and the Sonoran News, but it will lead to serious problems if Obama is killed by some unhinged follower of these entertainers with a political agenda.

[HitnMyths]

I suspect this is a few idiots with spray paint. And that's about all it is. Did they spell both words right?
Maybe someone wrote it down for them to copy, but it's hard to take very seriously. It is scary that the
idea occurs so immediately to these throwbacks.

[Poorsarah]

Misdirected/angry "protesters" carrying loaded firearms to town halls...according to the GOP, this is completely harmless...they lie so often that I wonder if they can see how habitual they are at not telling the truth.

[IDIOTA]

I have many friends in Arizona who are not like this, and they are tired of being characterized by the antics of a few lunatics.

[AnonymousDissenter]

My husband is from AZ, and he's told me stories about h.ate crimes there that were so awful that I doubt I could get them past the moderation here. He lives here with me in Texas now, and you know Arizona must have some hard-bitten rac!sts there if you move to Texas and think it's really progressive by comparison.

[DocSyracuse]

Bad stuff, but nothing we didn't see between 2000-2008. They even made a movie fantasy about W. being taken out.

[IDIOTA]

The current climate is particularly ugly, though. There was a lot of Bush animus, but it's far worse now. I wonder why?

[gs-425]

Worse.....I haven't heard of such a movie about President Obama.

[pghnappyrhino]

some people hated bush for what he did (condoned torture, wiretapped americans, invaded a country that had nothing to do with 9/11 under false pretenses, allowed the people actually behind 9/11 to have eight years to plot, plan and grow, et.al ) not for his skin colour

[gs-425]

meme

[cjk002]

Wait a minute - how can Obama be a new Hitler if the Neo-Nazi's dont' like him?

[bobo5]

Go ask a Communist Czar.

[IDIOTA]

But the Czars weren't communists.

[FoxyBrown]

Threats against Bush and Cheney were not fueled by racial hatred in addition to politics.

[DocSyracuse]

Still threats nonetheless.

[majii]

All of your comments are FOS.

[LoriKB]

Keeping it klassy, Arizona.

[Tom95134]

I have to trust that the Secret Service has taken a very high interest in this.

[DocSyracuse]

I'm sure they have. But would a really dangerous person do this kind of thing. Probably not.

[majii]

It's easy for some who have never been subjected to this kind of thing to pooh pooh these events. I'm glad you haven't lived the life I've had to live in America for over 50 years. You probably would not have lasted as long as I and a lot of other people have lasted under the same conditions.
Until you have lived like members of some of the targeted groups have lived, there is nothing you can say to convince me that these folks are not 100% serious in their intentions.
You have absolutely NO CLUE about what you are talking about because you've never experienced it.

[gs-425]

Good call Capt Obvious.