NH GOP Toadie Gets Prison For Jamming Phones [Repost]
[Update Aug 26, 2005 - this Yahoo story stating that the grand jury would reconvene on this case...others involved? And Ovide Lamontagne is a long-time NH GOP hack, for those that are uninformed...][Update Aug 11, 2005 - link to this Kos diary entry (thank you Wobblie) detailing from an AP article that the national GOP is bankrolling Jim Tobin's defense in this imbroglio. Even tho Ken Mehlman said that people would be fired for this kind of offense. And I found this update myself from the Union Leader after I tried to click my original link below and it took FOREVER to load up their website...but worth it - Links to Tobin's indictment papers and to Mehlman's "zero tolerance" statement earlier this week. And this quote from an RNC spokesperson:
Republican Party officials said they don’t ordinarily discuss specifics of their legal work, but confirmed to The Associated Press they had agreed to underwrite Tobin’s defense because he was a longtime supporter and that he assured them he had committed no crimes. “Jim is a longtime friend who has served as both an employee and an independent contractor for the RNC,” a spokeswoman for the RNC, Tracey Schmitt, said Wednesday. “This support is based on his assurance and our belief that Jim has not engaged in any wrongdoing.”Heh. "His assurance". His cronies have already turned states' evidence and pointed the finger at him - see the original post below. ]
Quoting the Union Leader article from today [Feb 9, 2005]:
A former Republican consultant was sentenced yesterday to five months in jail for jamming Democratic Party telephone lines in several New Hampshire cities during the 2002 general election.This is not Jim Tobin, who was the chair of the W2004 committee in New England is also embroiled in this affair from 2002. Mr. Tobin was indicted in December.
Allen Raymond, who was president of the Alexandria, Va.-based GOP Marketplace LLC at the time, did not comment as he left the U.S. District Court sentencing. He had pleaded guilty in June.
Good riddance to both. NH went for Kerry in 2004 and elected a dem governor (beating out insane skipjack former CEO of Cabletron Craig Benson). Hopefully more people realize up there that modern republicanism does not reflect their inherent small government, reasonable revenue generation, representative government, social libertarian views. More NH GOP heads could roll on this one.
posted by jimboses @ 4:00 PM
3 Comments:
Um...WTF? This has nothing to do with libs, dems, or anything else (invading??) besides some corrupt bastards that jammed several phone banks - and one was a firefighter's GOTV effort to get everybody out to vote. And the RNC has decided to bankroll Tobin's defense, even tho the deck is now stacked against him.
And, as an aside, NH has been a commuting area to the Boston area for years and years. My family all lives up there and they're all repubs - no-tax/libertarian stay-out-of-my-house types, not the Bush/Frist/Rummy/DeLay types. Remember, NH in 2000 gave McCain a resounding win (and I voted for him myself) over W and they had to pull the junk they did to help him win in SC.
And you friend who used to live in NH sure picked a blue state to live in now.
jimboses:
I didn't see the ad which turned up in your comment section that you referred to in one of your latest posts..but I "surf" blogs alot and I started noticing about ten days ago what I call "bot" (for robot) commenters in some of the more prolific commenting blogs advertising this or that. They usually have the combination of lower case letters and misplaced numbers in the commentators names. like (cz4btv or ran65mp etc). There also is an annoying appearance of the blogs they represent out there too.
Yeah, I had removed the offending junk last night after my wife had pointed it out.
Thanks for the tip, tho, jipzeecab. Hopefully google is looking into this.
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