Severed goat head left outside Dem candidate's office RAW STORY

Published: Monday November 3, 2008





Print This Email This Campaign workers leaving Democratic House candidate Charlie Brown's northern California office over the weekend were greeted by a grisly scene. Someone left a bloody, severed goat's head on the office's doorstep.



"This could be the result of a Halloween prank, all the way up to something out of The Godfather," observers David Dayen, writing at local blog Calitics. "But the fact that it happened at the beginning of GOTV weekend is very curious."



The head was discovered outside the campaign office around 9:30 p.m. on Friday.



Calitics has posted photos of the head here. (WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES)



Police say they're not sure whether the head was meant to target Brown specifically.



"There's nothing in the report to indicate it was specific to that location," Sgt. Doug Hren of the Grass Valley Police Department, told PolitickerCA.



Brown is running for the state's 4th District House seat, which is currently held by Republican Rep. John Doolittle. Brown ran a close race in 2006 against Doolittle, who has been caught up in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal. Doolittle is retiring this year.











