Jan 22, 2008 11:47 pm US/Eastern
Anti-Semitic Symbol Etched In Cooper City Race
COOPER CITY (CBS4) ―
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"We came outside and saw the absolutely disgusting symbol of hate," said Green.
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A hate crime investigation is underway in Cooper City, where the mayor's campaign manager had her car vandalized with the symbol of a swastika over the weekend.
Mayor Debby Eisinger's campaign manager, Lori Green, said on Tuesday that over the weekend someone scratched her automobile with the anti-Semitic graffiti marking.
"We came outside and saw the absolutely disgusting symbol of hate," said Green.
The symbol has since been buffed off her car. But it's a hate crime she believes is aimed at Cooper City Mayor Debby Eisinger's campaign.
Her evidence was an anti-Semitic graffiti on an Internet blog in which someone took a photo of the mayor, doctoring it to represent Hitler.
Eisinger is running for a second term as mayor against Edward Wooley and Lisa Dodge in city elections on Jan. 29.
Wooley talked to CBS4's Ted Scouten about the incident, "We either have a deranged person in the city or we have an example of politics trying to engender sympathy for the mayor."
The mayor considered it a "deplorable work" of a handful of people she calls "disruptive and disrespectful."
Green calls it an ugly, hateful crime.
"This is totally a pre-meditated, disgusting sign of hatred," explained Green.
The mayor doesn't appear to be the only target. Commission candidate Neal De Jesus says he too was singled out. BSO deputies caught a teen defacing one of his campaign signs in the city. The suspect was scrawling a satanic message on the sign
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