Vandals Strike GOP Official's Fairfield Home Days Before Election

FAIRFIELD, CT — Just days before the election, a Republican official’s Fairfield home was vandalized, with messages — some of which were profane and anti-police — spray-painted over campaign signs and written in shaving cream on the driveway.

Police were called about 9 a.m. Saturday to the Davis Road home of Board of Finance Vice Chair Chris DeWitt.

Outside the home, they found Republican campaign signs spray-painted with the acronyms “BLM” and “ACAB,” which stands for “all cops are bastards." The words “f--- Trump” were written on the driveway in shaving cream, images showed. Shaving cream also covered the mailbox and a vehicle parked in the driveway was egged, according to police.

“We felt like we were targeted,” DeWitt said Monday, noting the vandals left an anti-Trump message on his driveway even though the only political signs in his yard were for local candidates.

DeWitt was not home at the time of the vandalism, and the car that was damaged belonged to a friend who was house sitting, he said.

DeWitt’s son is president of the Warde Young Republicans Club, and DeWitt said he was impressed when the leaders of the high school’s Young Democrats Club reached out to both of his children and offered to help with the cleanup.

“They’re really promoting bipartisanship,” he said, noting he had not been contacted by anyone from the Fairfield Democratic Town Committee.

The committee published a Facebook post Saturday addressing the vandalism.

“Regardless of our political beliefs, we are all Fairfielders,” the post said. “We are one community and must behave as such. Let’s do better, Fairfield.”

The Democratic and Republican town committees said the vandalism was likely committed by juveniles.

“Our community deserves better and we ask parents to speak to their children about this type of behavior,” the Fairfield Republican Town Committee said in a Facebook post Saturday.

Police continue to investigate the vandalism.

“The Fairfield Police Department understands that this incident has caused concern to those living within our community,” Lt. Antonio Granata said in an email Sunday. “We are working diligently to identify the person(s) responsible for this incident.”

In the meantime, DeWitt said he has replaced the signs that were defaced with new ones.

“We’re undeterred by this vandalism,” he said. “We’re going to support our candidates, we’re going to do it up front and open, unlike the people who vandalized our property.”