Rand's NH Campaign Office Break In

[laurak]

[JK/SEA]

..just trump supporters doing their thing.

[luctor-et-emergo]

Ohkay... Is this suspicious ?

[squirl22]

Just Cruz supporter getting call lists so they can try to poach Rand's supporters

[TheNewYorker]

Vandalism or burglary?

[Patrick Henry]

I hope this was just vandalism.

[FriedChicken]

Very curious to hear the details of this.

[otherone]

Somebody trying to steal Rand's thunder?

[WTLaw]

If Rand were so inconsequential, why is this happening? Is someone desperate to get some sort of proprietary campaign info, such as addresses, ect? Who is threatened, and who gains?

[ds21089]

I hope somebody had some surveillance in place. If we can figure out who did it and see who they support, it might be some fuel to use against them. Though I'd highly doubt the police would even help Rand. They would probably just say they there's nothing they can do or the investigation yielded nothing.

[RabbitMan]

I hope somebody had some surveillance in place. If we can figure out who did it and see who they support, it might be some fuel to use against them. Though I'd highly doubt the police would even help Rand. They would probably just say they there's nothing they can do or the investigation yielded nothing.

Pretty sure nobody would break into a place with a "Cruz 2016" t-shirt on, lol

[ds21089]

Pretty sure nobody would break into a place with a "Cruz 2016" t-shirt on, lol

Haha. No I meant if we can get a name / face perhaps it can be searched online for them on facebook or whatever and look at their posts and what not. This is horrible. I wonder what they were after and if they were successful in getting it.

[dannno]

Probably just the kids of the Watergate burglers.

[andy2044]

I always thought Cruz had a resemblance to Nixon.

[ds21089]

More info on the break-in

http://truthinmedia.com/breaking-ran...puters-stolen/

Sen. Rand Paul’s presidential campaign office in New Hampshire was broken into sometime in the past 24 hours, robbed of computers with databases and campaign files, according to social media posts from one of the candidate’s top advisers.

Michael Biundo, serving as a National Senior Adviser for Senator Paul’s presidential campaign, posted to his Facebook and Twitter accounts this morning with the following update: “Getting ready to go to Iowa today for the final caucus push and now I am dealing with our New Hampshire for Rand Paul office being broken into. I needed more stress this morning. Thanks.”

[Patrick Henry]

Wow does that stink! I hope his campaign won't be hurt.

More info on the break-in

http://truthinmedia.com/breaking-ran...puters-stolen/

[erowe1]

Pretty sure nobody would break into a place with a "Cruz 2016" t-shirt on, lol

Sure people would do that. Just not people who actually supported Cruz.

[mit26chell]

They stole the campaigns databases!? Holy $#@!! This is clearly a rival campaign!

[ds21089]

Should Rand mention this at the debate? "I wasnt sure if I would get invited to this debate, seeing how I was left off of polls results posted on Fox, with somebody listed twice instead of my name, and another person having their picture above my name. Then just the other day my campaign office was broken into my computers with personal campaign databases on it were stolen. It's strange how these things only happen to me" something along those lines. If people see there's people ignoring him, being bias against him, and attacking him, they might rally behind him.

[65fastback2+2]

Should Rand mention this at the debate? "I wasnt sure if I would get invited to this debate, seeing how I was left off of polls results posted on Fox, with somebody listed twice instead of my name, and another person having their picture above my name. Then just the other day my campaign office was broken into my computers with personal campaign databases on it were stolen. It's strange how these things only happen to me" something along those lines. If people see there's people ignoring him, being bias against him, and attacking him, they might rally behind him.

I like it.

[squirl22]

Ted Cruz all over it.

[ChristianAnarchist]

They stole the campaigns databases!? Holy $#@!! This is clearly a rival campaign!

Hopefully they used encryption...

[WTLaw]

Would they have backups?

[staerker]

Should Rand mention this at the debate? "I wasnt sure if I would get invited to this debate, seeing how I was left off of polls results posted on Fox, with somebody listed twice instead of my name, and another person having their picture above my name. Then just the other day my campaign office was broken into my computers with personal campaign databases on it were stolen. It's strange how these things only happen to me" something along those lines. If people see there's people ignoring him, being bias against him, and attacking him, they might rally behind him.

If I were him, it would be my opening statement.

I would simply explain to the audience that a rival campaign broke into his office and stole his information. Then explicitly allocate the remainder of his time in silence, until someone stepped forward.

[EBounding]

I really hope they encrypted the files....I encrypted a voter list just for my precinct delegate race.

[hells_unicorn]

Don't take this as destructive criticism, but if I was running a campaign for president with stakes this high, I would have somebody sleeping at every single campaign headquarters in every state. Who didn't see this coming?

[ds21089]

Don't take this as destructive criticism, but if I was running a campaign for president with stakes this high, I would have somebody sleeping at every single campaign headquarters in every state. Who didn't see this coming?

I agree. If this is happening, I can only imagine there's nothing in place to help prevent the corrupt voting shenanigans that took place last time around.

[SilentBull]

$#@!ing $#@!s. I really hope they had backups of this. It would be very irresponsible to leave all that behind and not have any backups.

[r3volution 3.0]

This sucks, but we can make lemonade out of it.

Should Rand mention this at the debate? "I wasnt sure if I would get invited to this debate, seeing how I was left off of polls results posted on Fox, with somebody listed twice instead of my name, and another person having their picture above my name. Then just the other day my campaign office was broken into my computers with personal campaign databases on it were stolen. It's strange how these things only happen to me" something along those lines. If people see there's people ignoring him, being bias against him, and attacking him, they might rally behind him.

...also, if a suspect is IDed soon, and it turns out to be someone associated with another campaign, the resulting press would almost be worth them having done it.

[dancjm]

A thorough investigation could yield results. Perhaps there were not cameras actually in the office, however if you are in the business of stealing computers you are going to need a vehicle, you are going to need to park that vehicle and you are going to need to carry computers to it. I know nothing of what the campaign offices are like or where they are situated but I would like to think that these things mean that there is a decent chance of catching the perps on camera somewhere around the building.

Moreover these are the Presidential campaign offices of a sitting U.S. Senator, so I would also like to think that law enforcement will take this investigation pretty seriously, and if there is evidence to be found they will do their best to try to find it.

Most thefts of phones/tablets/laptops these days lead to the perp being photographed by the device they stole. I know these are probably desktop PC's but I also wonder if the use of any of the hardware or software could create a trail and lead investigators to the computers.

Maybe I am being overly optimistic, but if the perps can be identified, and if it can be demonstrated to be a political theft, that will makes some serious waves.