Voting rights and the Democratic Party

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http://www.jsonline.com/watch/?watch=1&date=4/26/2006&id=5299

Any comments?

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Chuck McGee, the former executive director of the New Hampshire Republican Party, was convicted of conspiring to block Democratic GOTV efforts on election day in NH in 2002. McGee spent $15K to jam the telephone lines of a firefighters' union that was transporting voters to the polls in Manchester. Five Dem phone centers were also targeted. A phone company discovered the jamming and stopped it at about 11 a.m. on election day; the first reports about the episode were published a few days after the election.

McGee cooperated with federal prosecutors; James Tobin, then on contract as the NRSC's northeast regional political director, was found by the government to have been involved. He was recently convicted of telephone harassment and has appealed. And that's where the investigation of national Republican officials apparently stopped.

During the trial, prosecutors discovered that Tobin's phone logs showed he had numerous telephone contacts with the White House's Office of Political Affairs and the Republican National Committee.

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So Dems are tire slashers and Reps are more sophisticated.

You'd think that after Watergate they'd stay away from using the phones.

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New Orleans.

Anybody? Anybody? Beuhler?

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