Manure dumped at Democratic headquarters in Ohio

[Independent voter]

I don't remember stuff like this happening during previous elections. A couple of Republican offices have been defaced with swastikas too.






https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.d75d16a3aa4a



For those who think this election season can’t get crappier, we bring you to Warren County, Ohio, where a large truckload of manure was dumped in front of Warren County Democratic Party headquarters in Lebanon, about 35 miles northeast of Cincinnati.

A sheriff’s deputy was the first to notice the pile and alerted office leaders of it about 8 a.m. Saturday, local party officials told The Washington Post.

If any of this sounds or looks familiar, it may be because a similar dump occurred at the same offices in 2012. Nobody was ever caught after that incident.

“At the time, we did not have a camera system, because it kind of caught us by surprise,” Bethe Goldenfield, chairwoman of the Warren County Democratic Party, said of the 2012 dump. “We didn’t think something like that would happen.”

This time, the act was caught on surveillance video that the Warren County Sheriff’s Office is now reviewing, Goldenfield said. She did not want to elaborate on what the cameras captured because it was an open investigation, but she noted that it involved a dump truck.

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“And I’m not going to jump to the conclusion that it was the same person [as in 2012], but of course that crossed my mind,” Goldenfield said. “We just need to have a little more specifics, and then hopefully we’ll bring the perpetrators to be accountable.”

Jeff Monroe, chairman of the Warren County Republican Party, told Cincinnati.com that the GOP had nothing to do with the incident and offered to help clean up the manure.

The pile was about 15 to 20 feet wide and about 3 feet tall at its peak, Goldenfield estimated. Most of it was cleared early Saturday afternoon by volunteers and a contractor the office hired to haul away the manure, she said.

The pile was so high that it nearly covered up a sign on the entrance to the building that read, “Smile you’re on camera.” On Saturday morning, the only word visible from behind the peak of the manure was the word “smile.”

“We had offers from all over — people wanting to help clean it up — and a lot of Dems were asking if they could reuse it, to their credit,” said David Pepper, chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party, who tweeted after learning of the incident: “When they dump manure, we go high!”

“All kidding aside, obviously it’s sad to see people engage in that kind of behavior,” he said.

Warren County is a large and fast-growing county that encompasses much of the area between Cincinnati and Dayton. In has for many years been a Republican stronghold that has not elected a Democrat to even a county-level office since 1976.

In 2012, nearly 69 percent of Warren County residents voted for Republican candidate Mitt Romney, compared with about 30 percent for President Obama, according to the county’s Board of Elections.

“This is a very red county where Democrats have gotten very organized, and I think this is sort of frustration at that,” Pepper said. “If you’re a Republican [and] if you’re going to win Ohio, you need to win a place like Warren County. This is where you run up the margins to counteract what’s going to happen in Cincinnati and Cleveland and Columbus.”

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Voters in Ohio, a crucial battleground state, have picked the winning candidate in all election cycles since 1972. In 2012, Ohio voters elected Obama with 51 percent of the vote. Clinton and Trump are currently virtually tied in the state, both with nearly 47 percent of the votes, according to a compilation of dozens of polls by FiveThirtyEight.com.

Neither Goldenfield nor Pepper could think of anything specific that may have prompted the manure dump. Goldenfield said their Democratic office has some of the most active volunteers in the state, and although they do not expect to turn the county blue, “we’re focused on getting our people out to vote.”

“We’re quite organized. We’re quite motivated. That probably is something that they don’t like,” Goldenfield said, referring to whoever dumped the manure. “It did happen in ’12 so we can’t say that it’s just about Mr. Trump … but I do think Mr. Trump [and] his vitriol has infected the public domain.”

This year, early voting in Warren County began Oct. 12.

“This is not anything that will detract us from our goal, so it will just allow us to continue to work harder,” Goldenfield said. “In a county like this, we’re used to being in a minority, so we just take these things in stride and move on.”

[Orlong]

It was probably just an accident. Someone probably stopped by to get some Hillary pamphlets and accidentally bumped the dump lever with their knee as they got into the truck

[Xeones]

Saw this article earlier and laughed. Wonder if they will get the people with illegal dumping.

[Deleted]

American elections, a fucking shitshow, more and more literally each time.

[zenkai]

It was probably meant as a campaign contribution since Dems seem to love shoveling it around this election.

[Krigaren]

Someone had to drop off all the crap that comes out of Trump's mouth.

[GennGreymane]

Talk about a shitty situation.

[Twix]

Well, that's shitty.

[Auxora]

The terrorists that performed this WMD biological weapon attack should be tried as war criminals.

Sorry, that's what conservatives would say lol if the shoe were reversed. It's completely ridiculous to say and it was tongue in cheek, but some have been so programmed by radical media that they actually truly think like that. I'd say lol but it's not even funny.

[Forgettable]

Responses in this thread as as expected. I am not disappointed MMO-C!

[Ripster42]

I don't remember stuff like this happening during previous elections. A couple of Republican offices have been defaced with swastikas too.




If any of this sounds or looks familiar, it may be because a similar dump occurred at the same offices in 2012. Nobody was ever caught after that incident.

From your story.

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Now watch the (((media))) talk endlessly about this while the previous attacks on republican places went ignored...

[Deleted]

I honestly hope the next election will have at least some sexy girl in it. Much greater arguments than whatever political discussion that country could ever have imo.

[Deleted]

kinda funny, at least less dangerous than what happened at the republican office. sucks for the people who are gonna have to clean that up though.

[Garnier Fructis]

That is hilarious.

[Deleted]

If this is how you yanks warm up now then I wont have a big enough bowl of popcorn on 8th of November.

[Deleted]

If this is how you yanks warm up now then I wont have a big enough bowl of popcorn on 8th of November.

i dont know how it works, but they should make trump and clinton both be live on stage when the results are announced, should make for good viewing

[zenkai]

If this is how you yanks warm up now then I wont have a big enough bowl of popcorn on 8th of November.

I recommend Ranch Popcorn salt, or the tears of the party that loses.

[Sinyc]

From your story.

Dude, the OP did not read the source article. Come on now, you should know better than that...

[Deleted]

I recommend Ranch Popcorn salt, or the tears of the party that loses.

ew, no one wants soggy popcorn