The Cleveland County Democratic Party headquarters was vandalized twice Saturday morning, and numerous windows were damaged.

“I was notified of it around 2 a.m.,” said Suzette McDowell, chairwoman of the Cleveland County Democratic Party. “I don’t know for sure when it actually happened. The police notified the party that this had happened.”

According to McDowell, Norman Police came to take a report on the damage and left the scene. When the police left, McDowell said vandals struck again while she was inside with her husband.

“You never assume you know people’s motives, because you don’t. One would assume that they don’t like Democrats. Well, a lot of people in Norman don’t like Democrats,” McDowell said. “Who’s out cruising around at 2 in the morning? I don’t know. Some nutcase. It’s going to be repaired right away, and we’ll go right on as usual. We’re not going to do anything differently than we’ve been doing. We really enjoy our space here, and so we’re annoyed we got messed up, but we are not discouraged or set back, so we will continue as usual.”

The four large windows on the front of the building have been boarded up, and a Norman Police car sat outside the building all day Saturday.

State Rep. Wallace Collings, D-Norman, told local media outlets health care reform signs were posted in the windows at the time of the vandalism.