Kerry Spot    [ jim geraghty reporting ]
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Via Drudge, we learn this from a Knoxville television station:

An unknown suspect fired several shots into the Bearden office of the Bush/Cheney re-election campaign Tuesday morning.

The headquarters are located at 4618 Kingston Pike, next to Noveau Classics and in the same shopping plaza as Long's Drugstore.

According to Knoxville Police Department officers on the scene Tuesday, it is believed that the two separate shots were fired from a car sometime between 6:30 am and 7:15 am. One shot shattered the glass in the front door and the other cracked the glass in another of the front doors.

There were no witnesses to the shooting. A customer at a nearby dry cleaning store noticed that shattered glass on the sidewalk in front of the headquarters and called police.

Volunteers and staffers at the campaign office say they have no clues as to who might have committed the crime. However, they add that the shooting makes them even more enthusiastic and energized about working for their candidates.

Hey, nothing like a shooting to get campaign staffers "enthusiastic and energized."

UPDATE: Kerry Spot reader Brad asks, "Ya think Kerry would vote for body armor for these campaign workers?"

[Posted 10/05 12:41 PM]