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Robbers steal $350 from Knox campaign office

The two men who showed up at the Tom Knox campaign office in the Northeast Tuesday didn't seem out of place, what with their "Tom Knox for Philadelphia" T-shirts and all.

The two men who showed up at the Tom Knox campaign office in the Northeast Tuesday didn't seem out of place, what with their "Tom Knox for Philadelphia" T-shirts and all.

But it was larceny, not elections, that they had on their mind.

The pair followed a campaign worker carrying a cash bag to a back room at the office on Frankford Avenue near Cottman Avenue and stole the bag at gunpoint before running off, police said.

The bag contained $350, said Josh Morrow, Knox's campaign manager. The money was to be used for gas for get-out-the vote vans, officials said.

Police speculated the robbers may have been looking for a bigger haul: the thousands the campaign planned to dole out to primary workers for their labors on behalf of the multimillionaire businessman.