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In reply to the discussion: Fearing for her life, Iowa Democrat abandons race to unseat GOP Rep. Steve King [View all]womanofthehills
(10,672 posts)32. Unfortunately this is also happenening to a DNC woman staffer - Alexandra Chapula(exposing Manifort)
This article is from January 2017.
About a month-and-a-half after Chalupa first started receiving hacking alerts, someone broke into her car outside the Northwest Washington home where she lives with her husband and three young daughters, she said. They rampaged it, basically, but didnt take anything valuable left money, sunglasses, $1,200 worth of golf clubs, she said, explaining she didnt file a police report after that incident because she didnt connect it to her research and the hacking.
But by the time a similar vehicle break-in occurred involving two family cars, she was convinced that it was a Russia-linked intimidation campaign. The police report on the latter break-in noted that both vehicles were unlocked by an unknown person and the interior was ransacked, with papers and the garage openers scattered throughout the cars. Nothing was taken from the vehicles.
Then, early in the morning on another day, a woman wearing white flowers in her hair tried to break into her familys home at 1:30 a.m., Chalupa said. Shulyar told Chalupa that the mysterious incident bore some of the hallmarks of intimidation campaigns used against foreigners in Russia, according to Chalupa.
This is something that they do to U.S. diplomats, they do it to Ukrainians. Like, this is how they operate. They break into peoples homes. They harass people. Theyre theatrical about it, Chalupa said. They must have seen when I was writing to the DNC staff, outlining who Manafort was, pulling articles, saying why it was significant, and painting the bigger picture.
Chalupa this month told Politico that, as her research and role in the election started becoming more public, she began receiving death threats, along with continued alerts of state-sp
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/ukraine-sabotage-trump-backfire-233446
and from NEWSWEEK - March 21, 2017
Yes, there had been an attempted home break-in last year, in her leafy, virtually crime-free neighborhood of northwest Washington, D.C., as Politicos Kenneth P. Vogel and David Stern reported in January. Her iPhone was hacked, too, and a death-metal track popular in Russia appeared on her playlist. Her car was broken into and trashed twice, with nothing stolen. The second time, the burglar left a red, traditional Ukrainian blouse draped across the back seat. She reported the incidents to the D.C. police and FBI, which by then had opened a counterintelligence investigation into Russian subversion. No arrests have been made.
More strange things have happened since, to her and some of her friends, that shes not ready to go public about
http://www.newsweek.com/trump-comey-russia-stranger-things-571349
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Fearing for her life, Iowa Democrat abandons race to unseat GOP Rep. Steve King [View all]
womanofthehills
Jun 2017
OP
With all the outrage over kathy griffin and bill maher, I wonder if at least as much outrage will
still_one
Jun 2017
#9
Your point regarding where is the DNC is a good question. I will qualilfy that by saying because
still_one
Jun 2017
#45
Okay, you go do that yourself, jazzcat23. Then tell us how it feels to have yourself & family....
Hekate
Jun 2017
#16
That is definitely the piece missing from this account: the police, legal accountability, protection
Hekate
Jun 2017
#23
The pigs in Iowa support the fascists. Only reliable protection will be community-based. - nt
KingCharlemagne
Jun 2017
#42
It really sucks that we live in a world where death threats are the new normal.
Initech
Jun 2017
#58
Apparently, she's not psychic, or she would have known that this run wouldn't work. nt
NCjack
Jun 2017
#43
Brilliant case of victim blaming. "She was far from ideal"--but SHE STEPPED UP ...
Hekate
Jun 2017
#57
Who ya got? Some rootin' tootin' open carry gun totin' NRA member who says he's a Democrat?
Hekate
Jun 2017
#61
Unfortunately this is also happenening to a DNC woman staffer - Alexandra Chapula(exposing Manifort)
womanofthehills
Jun 2017
#32
Kicking this in hopes that everyone in this thread reads it. We've been skillfully invaded...
Hekate
Jun 2017
#59
Great. Know candidates are going to succumb to death threats by deplorables of the right.
democratisphere
Jun 2017
#28
if threats is all it takes, every democratic candidate will get them,..so do we all run and hide?
beachbum bob
Jun 2017
#36
Has she been reporting this to local police, state police, her AG's office, and the feds?
LBM20
Jun 2017
#37
Steve King is literally a white nationalist. He makes no apologies about it.
Tommy_Carcetti
Jun 2017
#39