Bloomberg campaign: Vandalism at Tennessee office 'echoes language from the Sanders campaign and its supporters'
Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg's presidential campaign called out Sen. Bernie Sanders's (I-Vt.) presidential campaign after its Knoxville, Tenn., office was vandalized, saying the incident was reminiscent of language used by Sanders and his supporters.
"This latest incident at our Knoxville campaign office is exactly what we've been warning about. We don't know who is responsible for this vandalism, but we do know it echoes language from the Sanders campaign and its supporters," Bloomberg campaign manager Kevin Sheekey said in a statement.
"We call on Bernie Sanders to immediately condemn these attacks and for his campaign to end the Trump-like rhetoric that is clearly encouraging his supporters to engage in behavior that has no place in our politics," he said.
The Hill has reached out to the Sanders campaign for comment.
The Bloomberg campaign's statement came after the front doors and the sides of the building were spray-painted with expletives and words such as "racist" and "oligarch."
Bloomberg's campaign said the latest incident follows a string of vandalizations at Bloomberg offices this month. The other incidents took place in Toledo, Ohio; Youngstown, Ohio; and Ann Arbor, Mich.
That's a lot of attacks, on a lot of offices. That matches Sanders' rhetoric, and really, the extreme intolerant rhetoric of pretty much the entire Democrat-Bolshevik party. Bernie Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez, Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Maxine Waters, take your pick. It's only
AFTER incidents like this that Democrats pull back a bit, just the tiniest bit, from their violently intolerant and Bolshevik revolution-style rhetoric.
