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Thursday, March 23, 2006
White House Directly Involved in the Tobin Phone Jamming Scandal?
Despite claiming that it is not a Republican scandal, the RNC has been paying the very expensive legal bills (for Williams & Connolly attorneys) racked up by former Bush-Cheney New England Campaign Head James Tobin, recently convicted of illegally jamming the phones of the NH Democratic Party's get out the vote drive on Election Day 2002. Since the bills have been upwards of several million dollars, the question has always been out there as to why the RNC, headed by Ken Mehlman, would pour money down that hole. We may have our answer.
The Union Leader in New Hampshire is reporting that:
In the days before and after the state Republican Party’s 2002 Election Day
phone-jamming scheme, the man who now chairs the Republican National Committee was the White House director of political affairs.
And a Democratic-affiliated advocacy group says that court records show Ken
Mehlman’s office received more than 75 telephone calls from now-convicted
phone-jam conspirator James Tobin from Sept. 30 to Nov. 22 of that year.
Hmmm. It's probably worth considering in tandem with this piece of information too, reported by the Union Leader on March 3:
Federal prosecutors reportedly intend to indict a fourth person in the
jamming of Democratic get-out-the-vote telephone lines in 2002.
WMUR-TV reported Wednesday that an indictment is expected at the end of
the month.
I can't wait to see where this one is going. And perhaps someone should ask Bill Frist, who headed the RSCC in 2002, whether he knew about the phone jamming plan as well.
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