Burglars hit Grimm’s campaign headquarters
Campaign staffers of U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm (R-Bay Ridge-Staten Island) are on edge in the wake of an attack on the lawmaker’s Staten Island re-election headquarters over the weekend.
Grimm, who is running for a second term in congress, maintains two campaign headquarters – one on each side of the Verrazano Bridge. On Sept. 23, members of his campaign staff arrived at the headquarters at 2582 Hylan Boulevard and discovered that the office had been vandalized and burglarized.
Two large chunks of cement and smaller rocks had been thrown through the windows, according to Grimm, who said the vandals broke three vertical window panes. Making matters worse, the vandals also entered the office and corrupted the computer files, erasing the hard-drive of the campaign computer server, which contained confidential campaign files and polling data, Grimm said.