Assembly candidate's office robbed

Ronnie Gail Caplane, a candidate to replace termed-out Assemblywoman Wilma Chan, D-Okaland, had her campaigfn headquarters vandalized yesterday. The AP has the story. A thief broke into the campaign headquarters of a state Assembly candidate Thursday morning and stole a computer hard drive with information on thousands of donors and supporters, the candidate said. Ronnie Gail Caplane said someone broke through a window of the office, tossed around papers and furniture and took the hard drive. "My breath is just taken away," she said. "It's just the insult of it all. Like it's not hard enough to run for office as it is." Caplane said she does not believe the burglary was politically motivated and said most of the database information was stored and can be recovered. She said the crime would not expose donors to identity theft.