Austin communists have vandalized the South Congress field office of Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg, just days ahead of the Super Tuesday primaries.
Campaign workers arriving at the office Wednesday morning said they found the office spray-painted with hammer-and-sickle symbols and anti-democracy slogans.
Six other Bloomberg offices elsewhere were vandalized over the past week, including in Chicago, Knoxville, Flint, Toledo, Youngstown, and Ann Arbor. In many of those instances the perpetrators spray-painted the word “oligarch.”
Bloomberg Campaign Manager Kevin Sheekey blamed socialist candidate Bernie Sanders for those instances of vandalism, saying, “While we do not know who is directly responsible, we do know Senator Bernie Sanders and his campaign have repeatedly invoked this language, and the word ‘oligarch’ specifically when discussing Mike Bloomberg.”
“Sen. Sanders’ refusal to denounce these illegal acts is a sign of his inability to lead, and his willingness to condone and promote Trump-like rhetoric has no place in our politics. Fortunately, no one has been injured. But this needs to end before someone gets hurt.”
On the other hand, a number of Austin leftists commenting on social media attributed the South Congress graffiti to the group Red Guards Austin.
That group tagged walls around Givens Park in January with the same slogans. The group differs from Sanders in that it does not support participation in democratic elections. Congressional candidate Heidi Sloan, a Democratic Socialist, blamed the Red Guards for throwing eggs at her after a campaign event in January held at Givens Park.
A spokesperson for Sloan told Honest Austin at the time that Sloan knew the identities of some of her assailants, but chose not to file a police report.
Sloan recently posted photos on social media of graffiti on Democrats’ campaign signs. “Looks like the same clowns who have been trying to suppress democracy in Austin are at it again,” she said. “Our signs have been stolen and many other signs were vandalized.”
Incendiary News Service, a website sympathetic to far-left causes, said that the Austin election boycott graffiti “is but one signal of a rebellion that puts the lapdogs of the bourgeoisie… into a panic.”
