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Republican Club Vandalized Before Visit by Right-Wing Provocateur
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The Metropolitan Republican Club in Manhattan was vandalized either Thursday night or early Friday.CreditCreditJeenah Moon for The New York Times
By Shane Goldmacher
- Oct. 12, 2018
The defacement occurred either Thursday night or early Friday, according to Edward F. Cox, the chairman of the New York Republican Party. He said a police report had been filed.
“I cannot recall something like this” ever happening, Mr. Cox said.
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Cox didn't provide the note. “Whoever these people are, we don’t want to be part of getting their message out. They don’t deserve it,” he said.
Police were called last night by Deborah Coughlin, president of Metropolitan Republican Club, Cox said.
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A note left with the vandalism suggested that the damage to the building on the Upper East Side may have been related to the coming appearance by Mr. McInnes, the founder of the Proud Boys, an organization characterized as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The group has engaged in several battles with the left.
Facebook page called him “this Godfather of the Hipster Movement.” It also highlighted that he had been “banned from Twitter” and has “taken on and exposed the Deep State Socialists and stood up for Western Values.”
And in an Instagram post promoting the event, Mr. McInnes wrote that he would be “re-enacting” the “inspiring moment” when the head of Japan’s Socialist Party was assassinated by samurai sword.
The event drew attention of a group that calls itself the Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating Council, which urged the Metropolitan Republican Club to cancel it.
Twitter had removed Mr. McInnes and accounts associated with the Proud Boys in August, before a rally in Washington that was cast as a sequel to the 2017 gathering of white nationalists in Charlottesville that had turned violent.
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“We can confirm that these accounts have been suspended from Twitter and Periscope for violating our policy prohibiting violent extremist groups,” Twitter said at the time.
The note found at the club also warned that “our attack is merely a beginning.”
“We are not passive, we are not civil, and we will not apologize,” it read.
The note attacked both Democrats and Republicans, but opened by saying the vandals were putting the Republican Party “on notice.”
The Metropolitan Republican Club is the home to both the statewide New York Republican Party and the Manhattan Republican Party, which is led by Andrea Catsimatidis, the former daughter-in-law of Mr. Cox.
“It’s something that does not belong in politics and should be condemned by all Democratic candidates,” Mr. Cox said of the defacement of the building.
Marcus J. Molinaro, the Republican nominee for governor in New York, also called for Democrats to denounce the incident. “We must not revert to violence under any circumstances,” he said.
Democrats did just that. “New York Democrats have zero tolerance for violence in our political system and condemn this latest act of vandalism,” said Geoff Berman, the executive director of the state Democratic Party. “This type of divisiveness is repugnant to everything we believe as New Yorkers.”