Maurice Schwenkler, charged with vandalizing the state democratic HQ in Denver.
Yup, it’s true.
And no, that is not a picture of Elinor Donohue circa 1972. Believe it or not that’s a dude.
In the early morning hours of Tuesday 8/25/2009, 11 windows of the Colorado Democratic Party headquarters in Denver were smashed by a couple of vandals, one of whom was caught by police and arrested a short time later.
In the wake of the attack, State Democratic Party Chairwoman Pat Waak blamed - in a roundabout way- the attack on the right saying “We ought to be having a serious, conscientious debate about what’s best for the country.” “Clearly there’s been an effort on the other side to stir up hate. I think this is the consequence of it.”
Imagine Ms. Waak’s surprise when it was determined that the suspect apprehended by police, one Maurice Schwenkler, is actually a confirmed liberal - quite possibly a radical one at that, according to information that is still coming in.
From Coloradopols.com:
POLS UPDATE #2: Well, this just got a bit more interesting.
Name: COLORADO CITIZENS’ COALITION
SOS ID: 20085621714
Type: 527 POLITICAL ORGANIZATION
Reporting Period: 10/23/2008 - 11/30/2008 Â Â Due: 12/04/2008Date: 11/06/2008
Payee: MAURICE SCHWENKLER
1065 LIPAN
DENVER, CO 80204Expenditure Type: Electioneering
Original Amount Reported: $0.00
Actual Amount: $500.00
Purpose: COMMUNICATIONThat’s the one of two alleged perpetrators in custody. The address listed on Schwenkler’s Secretary of State payee filing from this Democratic-aligned 527 (for which, to be fair, he likely only worked for a few days just before the election) can be Googled back to:
Derailer Bicycle Collective, 1065 Lipan St, Denver CO 80204. Tel: 303-573-3896. Email: derailerbicyclecollective @yahoo.com *. Â Community-run, completely free bike shop with an all-volunteer staff.
The Derailer Bicycle Collective, as profiled by Westword a couple of years ago, has an interesting political history, by all accounts peaceful but slightly to the left of Mikhail Bakunin. You’ve probably never heard of Bakunin because, well, that’s how left these kids are. And most people wouldn’t exactly consider them friends of “bourgeois” Democrats–they’re closer to the “Recreate ‘68″ set.
There are currently two trains of thought on this - one is possibility the vandalism was a fake hate crime designed to cast suspicion on republicans - which it in fact did for a little while; the other is that Mr. Schwenkler may be upset with the democrat party for backing away from the public healthcare option.
Look, I could have told you this wasn’t the work of conservatives. Dark-of-night vandalism, defacements (ala the swastika at that Georgia congressman’s office last week, which I’ll bet my last dollar was done by a lib), bombings, arson, tree spiking, booby traps, etc…are almost the exclusive domain of the left.
As for the dem HQ, I sure hope they had insurance.
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-Cnation
The word in the blogosphere is that this dink is all upset because s/he isn’t being referred to as a “trans gender”. What the fuck is a trans-gender? Does it have male or female genitalia? Is a transgender just some clueless fucktard that wants to be something else but can’t get o’bamacare to pay for it? How completely and utterly useless can one fecal matter chewer be?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQyUd5Dhvn0&feature=player_embedded
The blogosphere would be correct for the most part. It’s not the suspect that’s getting upset, it’s his/her supporters. Check out the trackback above the first comment. It’s almost funny.
-Cnation
WTF???
They go to great lengths to make sure this twit is known as “transgendered” and someone provides a wikipedia link.
Short summary: It’s someone that dresses up like and acts like a member of the opposite sex. Sorry, in my book, that doesn’t qualify you as anything but a (in this case) cross dressing, effeminate male.
What a complete load of basket cases.