Vandals smashed doors and windows at Democratic offices in the days surrounding the US House health care reform vote

Vandals smashed doors and windows at four Democratic offices around the country in the days surrounding the landmark House health care vote Sunday night.

The Buffalo News reported early on the morning of March 19, someone threw a brick through the window of Rep. Louise Slaughter's office in Niagara Falls, New York, doing $350 of damage. Slaughter (D-NY) briefly attracted the ire of conservatives over the "Slaughter Solution," a procedural maneuver that was considered to pass health reform.

The Democrat and Chronicle reported that a brick was also thrown through the glass doors of the Monroe County Democratic Committee office in Rochester, NY over the weekend. A note attached to the brick included the quote "Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice” from the late Republican Senator Barry Goldwater.

In the early hours of the morning on Monday just after the House health care vote, someone smashed the glass front door of the Tucson office of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), the Arizona Daily Star reported.

On Friday night or Saturday morning, a brick bearing unspecified "anti-Obama and anti-health care messages" was thrown through a floor-to-ceiling window at the Sedgwick County Democratic Party headquarters in Wichita, Kansas, CNN and the Kansas City Start reported.

Alabama-based blogger Mike Vanderboegh posted the following note on his blog on Friday: "To all modern Sons of Liberty: THIS is your time. Break their windows. Break them NOW." The Kansas City Star identifies Vanderboegh as a former leader of the Alabama Constitutional Militia.