The juvenile antics continue.
The Winnebago County Republican Headquarters was vandalized with sprawling spray paint of the words “rape” and “shame” all across the building at 515 N. Court St. downtown.
Rockford police officers at the building said the graffiti was spotted by an officer on patrol shortly before 10 a.m. Sunday.
“I hope whoever is responsible for this will be brought to justice,” state Rep. John Cabello, R-Machesney Park, wrote on his Facebook page. “You are a coward for doing it unless you come forward!”
Reached by phone, Cabello said, “We can have a good spirited debate, but the minute you start to damage other people’s property, you’ve crossed the line.”
The vandalism also included “9/27/18,” the date of a contentious Senate hearing over allegations of sexual assault against Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s nominee for Supreme Court Justice. Christine Blasey Ford, professor of psychology at Palo Alto University and a research psychologist at the Stanford University School of Medicine, accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her in 1982.
State Rep. Dave Syverson, R-Rockford, said of the graffiti: “I certainly hope they will find and prosecute the person who is responsible.”
He added, “I think in the end this will hurt the legitimacy of the #MeToo movement.”
The building is also the law office of Shiver, O’Neill and Thompson.
Attorney Jim Thompson, who is also chairman of the Winnebago County Republican Central Committee, held a news conference later in the afternoon outside the building.
“Hate has no place in the political process,” he said. “Violence has no place in the political process. … We do not seek to capitalize on victims’ lives or memories to advance a purely political agenda as seen in the past month by Sen. (Dianne) Feinstein and our own Sen. (Dick) Durbin.
HT: Marathon Pundit