Butler County Democratic Committee chairwoman Catherine Lalonde said she arrived at the group's booth at the Zelienople Country Fall Festival on Sunday to find it vandalized.

Members of the Butler County Democratic Committee returned to their tent at the Zelienople Country Fall Festival on Sunday morning to see a scene that resembled storm wreckage.

Catherine Lalonde, chairwoman of the committee, said at first she assumed the flipped table and ripped tent and signs were caused by natural events.

“The tent had been slashed, candidate signs are slashed, our papers were all thrown around,” Lalonde said. “I thought at first there was extensive storm damage, but I realized there wasn't much of a storm.”

Matthew Edwards, interim director of the festival, filed a report with the Zelienople Police Department, saying that the Democratic committee's tent had been vandalized overnight.

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