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Community members -
We had a disturbing event take place at the Winona County DFL office early
this morning....
Someone threw three large granite rocks through the plate glass windows of
our office sometime between 1:00 and 2:30 am - just hours after Barack's
election.
As you can see from the first picture attached, one rock was thrown through
the front window, facing 5th St., where our candidate's signs were
displayed.
The last two pictures show the window facing Ewing Street, where Pres.-elect
Obama's "Hope" poster was displayed. You can see that two rocks were thrown
directly at that poster.
I will let people draw their own conclusions as to the message the vandal
(or vandals) intended to convey. How shall we treat this?
Anne Morse
Winona County DFL Chair
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I think it is good that people in Winona know what happened, but I think it
tells us that our job is not done.
We need to continue to do community service in Winona and show the
community that we are not just about elections but about service to all. I
have been proud of how the DFL does outreach through the Dakota Homecoming,
Earth Day and the United Way's Day of Caring.
We need to live our DFL platform- not just talk about it.--Ruth Charles
How shall we treat this?
Though property damage that is done with malicious intent is always costly,
disheartening, and sometimes frightning, it does not change what the DFL
office represents - a political party that is concerned with the greater
good and not just the good of the few, a hard working staff and group of
volunteers and the accomplishments that they have achieved, and the election
of a President who represents "Hope" like no other President for some time.
If the damage to the DFL office is not the thoughtless acts of one or more
ignorant people, perhaps it is simply the desperate acts of one or more
people who have associated themselves with a political party that no longer
represents the will of the majority. But the democracy lives on, and "Hope"
prevails in the end.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anne Morse" <morse@acegroup.cc>
To: <winona@forums.e-democracy.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 9:58 PM
Subject: [Winona] Damage to Winona DFL campaign office today
I'm dismayed, but not surprised.
The Bush administration and the political forces that supported it are pretty
amoral in their pursuit of power. Pushing Clinton into impeachment on a sex
scandal, using the filibuster like mad in minority, threatening to pull the
filibuster when they're in the majority, and getting back to using it like mad
now that they're in the minority again.
Some of those forces use hate and fear, and having these people all whipped up,
combined with being in the minority and using feelings of persecution to
obstruct their political opponents.
Historically this has happened frequently in times of economic distress --
after the Civil War, during the Depression.
It cannot be tolerated. If we allow this to be ignored or brushed under the rug
then we risk a serious weakening of our social compact.