Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: Mike Grimm's 'fairy tale' campaign HQ break-in

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' NY-11: You know you haven't passed the laugh test when the Daily News is headlining their story "Grimm Fairy Tale." So what's this all about? Well, GOP Rep. Mike Grimm is claiming his campaign headquarters were vandalized over the weekend, with cement blocks thrown through the windows (okay...) and computer hard drives erased (what?). The whole story is seriously cockamamie since a cat could barely squeeze through the holes made by the alleged miscreants (pics here), so how exactly were the computers accessed and the drives wiped? And who would even do such a thing? As one Democrat says, if your goal was to actually format some hard drives, why leave the evidence of a smashed storefront?

Oh, and also, the Grimm campaign is claiming that the NYPD itself discovered the computer malfeasance... but police are refusing to confirm, saying only that they "will investigate further any assertions that computers there were tampered with." I also loved Grimm's claim that "someone installed the Linux operating system on the office's computers"'what, radical open-source hacktivists who wanted to add breaking and entering to their resume? Turns out, it's all an even bigger pile of garbage than Windows Vista:

But a law enforcement official said on Monday night that police experts had examined the campaign's computer systems and concluded that nothing had been erased or tampered with.

But this part might have been best:

"In fact, one officer said to me today they see this as a crime against the government, because I am a sitting United States congressman and they take it very seriously. You know, especially in light of what happened with Gabby Giffords, we're not in the world today where we can shrug things off," Grimm said. "Violence is violence. Throwing large stones and concrete through the window is an act of violence, and we've got to take it seriously."

Yep, just like what happened to Gabby Giffords. Jackass.